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For the love of God, bring back Scott Forstall.
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Well, I can understand some level of frustration when there are issues. But relearning to use your Mac seems a bit exaggerated. I'm a recent convert but have used OSX in previous forms many times and I did not have any big learning curve issues from previous versions. In fact, I've fallen in love with Automator.
I've been much happier with my phone since Apple decided they needed to modernize it's features. Fun stuff? I don't find widgets, extensions, control center, slomo video, etc. necessarily as fun( okay, maybe slomo ), but quite practical and useful. My phone is much easier to use and useful. It's not perfect by ANY means, but what is?
I guess its not for everyone but the good thing is - there's other options available. Why isn't Blackberry an option? By all accounts, the software seems pretty good. I was quiet fond of my old Blackberry.
Why do you think he was fired? The real reason. Maps was just a bullet for the gun.
Heck, Ive could't create a simple large phone without ugly lines on back (he was good on MBA and others).
Forstall created whole HARDWARE and SOFTWARE divisions and oversaw their design, which has been best in its class (actually better than these cartoonish iOS7).
Good luck with back to the future. IOS 6 is like taking a horse and buggy on the Nurburgring compared to a modern race car.
IOS 8 is pretty much polished. I'm running 8.0.1 and it basically fixed most of the glitches of the GM and the battery life is way better than it ever was on IOS 7.
How do you know anything about this man, what his contributions were, and what his faults were? There is no way of knowing what he did or didn't do with Apple. He is probably neither a genius nor an arrogant jerk. He's gone. Complaining here isn't going to bring him back or make any difference.
Oh no... Please tell me you don't actually think that... Have you ever coded? If yes, let me ask this; have you ever done something that broke an already working method or class? If you haven't you are either a lier OR the best programmer in the world.
Great point. The one thing Apple has going for it is that the competition isn't better. Until Samsung, HTC, Motorola, etc make a better phone Apple will still be on top even if the products aren't as good as they used to be.
If you read through all the posts from the members talking about detailedinner workings of Apple and it's top brass, you could imagine yourself sitting in the boardroom at Cupertino.....
Also a lot of them know Steve jobs personally, as they seem to know what Steve would OR would not have allowed to be released.....
I think in terms of abrasiveness, but also in terms of quality control, vision and leadership (as demonstrated by his great achievements in creating Apple mobile phone and tablet divisions) Forstall was closest thing to Steve Jobs among the whole Apple clique. And they removed him because as CEO he would definitely fire Ive for his design misses and Cook for launch misses.
Thank you! Personal preference.
I don't have the temperament and disposition for all of the new "features". The 8.0.1 issue is not something I could tolerate well. If no service appeared on my phone I would have been at the Apple store yesterday returning for refund.
It's just a matter of what the purchaser wants.
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Agreed. I hope Apple get back on track. So far they seem to be about making excuses.
No I use my phone for phone calls, e-mails, whatsapp, kakaotalk, line, e-mail. newsppaer apps, youtube, calendar, passbook apps, flight apps, Making photos, sharing stuff, showing my keynote presentations through the new iCloud, etc etc. Like I said, normal user that does normal things that everybody else does. And no - i do not press keys relentlessly if i am not supposed to do that.
If I wanted to make just phone calls I would de-mothball my old Nokia.
The apple 8.0.1 issue? You are either running a 4, 4s, or 5 with security holes as big as a crater. It's of course your preference to not update your O/S, but there is a fine line between preference and security in this digital age. IOS 7.1.2 has it all over IOS 6, but as you said it's your right, so enjoy.
Just putting it out there.
Someone doesn't remember iOS 5.
I've been using betas since iOS 5, and the iOS 5 release (for me personally) was the buggiest.
Maybe it's cause I've been using every beta since iOS 5, or maybe I just have really high tolerance, but I haven't found any critical bugs in iOS 8 for myself. I'm not denying they exist, I'm just saying I haven't encountered any (major ones, i've encountered some tiny ones that usually fix themselves almost immediately).
Maybe without Jobs over his shoulder, he never had the touch.
The iPhone 6 design is OK, but not much different than the better Androids, like HTC.
iOS is falling further behind Android in user experience and it's unfortunately considerably buggier than KitKat.
With Android L around the corner, if the Android manufacturers improve their hardware design, Apple may find itself in real trouble.
Holy guacamole! You used the correct term! Kudos. All I hear in the forum is that folks are OCD about their phones. They're not. They're anal (retentive). From zee Google: "describes a person who pays such attention to detail that the obsession becomes an annoyance to others, potentially to the detriment of the anal-retentive person."
I still think it's a bad thing when I hear that the development team with X was pulled off to help complete other product Y. At Apple that's iOS and OS X.
They have the money to staff appropriate and keep people in their expertise.Out of curiosity have you ever read any of Jane Jacobs, William Whyte, or even Tom Wolfe's analysis of Bauhaus design and how it holds up over the long term? Every 20-25 years it seems we go through a phase of Bauhaus revival as each generation of architects, designers, and artists falls in love with it and don't bother to research why it went out of favor after the last revival. Bauhaus tends to look really cool for the first six months but have its dysfunctionality exposed thereafter.
No I havent, but design philosophy whether it's tech or fashion tends to come in waves and repeat itself. Nothing stays static. As the saying goes everything old is new again and in a few short years we will be back to where it started, cartoonish skeumorphism. So enjoy the clean look it while it lasts.
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Not going to post the positive reviews you can find them yourself. But the phrase opinions are like ..... Comes to mind. Not everybody has to like the iPhone 6, that it sold 10 million the first few days is astounding. Maybe it would have sold 12 million without that negative Zdnet review.
I agree that Apple has slipped QA quite a bit since iOS 7 with their bugs; however that doesn't mean that forstall needs to come back. Many users actually like iOS 7. I thought iOS 6 was boring and sucked (although was very stable). I'm liking the direction Apple is headed. It's either you grow and move forward or get left behind.
Don't make statements without back up then.... The only glowing reviews are from dedicated Apple sites.
The fact is, this is Apple's poorest hardware design since the iPhone 3.
And iOS 8 is a mess.
You can go find them. the software company that makes it possible is Google. And, you are entitled to your opinion but the universe disagrees with you.