All I want is a polished, fast, and stable IOS release. We don't need things overhauled each year. In my perfect universe, Apple would stick to IOS releases on a 2-4 year cadence. If they knocked out all the bugs/performance issues by year 1 we'd enjoy a great IOS experience for up to 3 more years.
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iOS 18 Rumored to 'Overhaul' Notes, Mail, Photos, and Fitness Apps
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I used to do this often. But you know what, never made any difference. Apple only responds to public criticism. So I now only post public criticism.
Yep, let's get the shiny parts working well and just bandaid over the bugs in functionality. Sounds like the perfect Apple user.
Xcode is so buggy, that I don't think any amount of AI will help.
And no, I don't have enough time in the day to enumerate all of the bugs.
Anyone that uses Xcode for anything but toy sample code, knows major issues have remained unaddressed for years.
If the remove first-party apps from the OS updates, then the OS updates will be entirely updates to Emojis then
Blame the Unicode consortium for that one.
But this might actually let them work on core OS fixes and improvements.
They’re focused on all the wrong things right now. I’m hopeful that after canceling car and launching Vision they are taking a step back and rethinking their approach.
They just overhauled the Music app by taking iTunes and stripping it way down until much of the functionality was gone.
I don't understand why, in this day and age, you can't have a shared set of Contacts the way you can with Photos. This would be incredibly handy with Family Sharing.
Biggest problem with Mimestream is that your email is on Google's servers. Yuck.
I like the idea that Mimestream lets users adjust their filters and other settings in app without having to go to the web. Apple should be able to do that, they should make it so.
I do understand the tightrope they walk though. If they make the mail application too good they get accused of Sherlocking and unfair competition. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
I like the idea that Mimestream lets users adjust their filters and other settings in app without having to go to the web. Apple should be able to do that, they should make it so.
I do understand the tightrope they walk though. If they make the mail application too good they get accused of Sherlocking and unfair competition. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Mimestream supports PUSH on macOS using its own systems. It has nothing to do with PUSH service provided on iOS/macOS platform (based on Apples own architecture). They don’t provide mobile apps yet. We’ll see.
I need the fitness app to shock me when I eat ice cream.
I was talking about the Gmail API. It supports push: https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/push
I assumed that's how Mimestream handles push, since they use the Gmail API. But yes, apps built with the Gmail API can support true push notifications.
Right, there should be an easy to identify, intuitive slider to remove unsightly photos in our library. Would be a huge win, and an easy way to go back and clean junk files
At least SourceKit doesn't crash anymore. (Code coloring would suddenly disappear)
It's been an issue for years.
But yes - I still experiment a lot of issues with Xcode. You're totally right.
An overhaul sounds good if it means the iPad & Mac versions will finally be essentially the same functionality (as others have mentioned, there are no SmartAlbums on iPad Photos app, etc.).
But if the Music app is redone, does that mean it won't support your own music library? Will it be subscription-only? This concerns me more & more, as we see more examples (not just Apple) of music/movies/media that you purchased but then a licensing agreement expires and suddenly you can't access that media anymore (did you ever really "own" it?).
This is the year I decide whether to stick with $$monthly iCloud services/syncing or buy a $49 Raspberry Pi 5 & get NextCloud running
But if the Music app is redone, does that mean it won't support your own music library? Will it be subscription-only? This concerns me more & more, as we see more examples (not just Apple) of music/movies/media that you purchased but then a licensing agreement expires and suddenly you can't access that media anymore (did you ever really "own" it?).
This is the year I decide whether to stick with $$monthly iCloud services/syncing or buy a $49 Raspberry Pi 5 & get NextCloud running
Gmail API is a RESTful app targetting web applications. My understanding is that Mimestream server can receive push notifications from Gmail through Gmail API and propagate it to its iOS app (when it's available) through standard APNs push service provided by Apple. That's easy (used it in my app sometime ago).
For Mail app Apple would have to do the same - propagate push notifications through server registered to Gmail API servers. Implementing RESTful based push service directly in iOS is not possible... I might be wrong though.
Anyway - Gooogle Cloud is very expensive. No way Apple will implement it in iOS/Mail.
Isn’t it fixed already? I do recall having sync issues in the distant past, but in recent years Notes syncs perfectly for me.
I’m a fairly heavy user of the Notes app on both platforms, and often rely on notes created on one device being instantly available on the other. So I’d definitely notice if there was a problem here. And sometimes I go months between reboots of my Mac…
North America is perhaps the only market where it’s really needed. In other markets, people already have cross-platform chat because other apps like WhatsApp, WeChat, Line, etc, are dominant.
Competitive advantage.
Being forced to support RCS in Europe is not a big deal for Apple in Europe, everybody was already using Whatsapp (or Viber/Messenger in some countries) as the main default messaging app, so the platform didn't matter to begin with
Meh. That's not really good evidence to support your contention about North America.
Why do I have to choose between features and bug fixes with a 2.7 trillion dollar company?