40 posts tagged iOS
Certainly a valid point of view. Carriers have a love and hate relationship with Apple. Someone else would have given what they wanted in order to get market share an compete against Apple.
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97% of iOS users can use Google Now (iOS 5.0+). 25% of Android users can use Google Now (Jelly Bean+).
Fragmentation not a big deal?
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I think Apple’s strengths are twofold: brand loyalty and the ecosystem. Both combined creates a powerful juggernaut that isn’t easy to compete against. Having great hardware alone isn’t enough (Samsung), having services isn’t enough (Google), having loyal users alone doesn’t cut it.
Apple has both and listening to Tim Cook’s comments on the last conference call, I’m sure Apple has some plans to build on top of this in order to offer powerful new offerings to Apple customers.
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“If you think people are getting bored with iOS shinny design, wait a few more months and see how people will be bored on flat designs like Windows Phone 8.”
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I was surprised by this GarageBand update that introduced support for a third party app like Audiobus. Is this a first?
Regarding Podcasts 1.2 update getting rid of the Tape deck player: I think Apple is fixing things up following users complains about it.
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“If iOS Is Five Years Old, Then BlackBerry 10 Is Five Years Late”
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In the new this week in the smartphone industry, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins thinks the iOS and the iPhone are passé things. Samsung has an opinion on Windows 8 success and prefers to sell plastic devices with a “soul” while Apple is trying hard to revive itself according to the respected BGR.com.
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Rene Ritchie of iMore:
The “iPhone 5S” problem is the idea that Apple has become predictable coupled with the perception that the next big thing might just come from somewhere else.
Agreed. But it’s also important to remember that the lack of huge, sweeping changes every year is a strength in some ways as well. Ritchie hits on the economies of scale aspect. Another: consumers (and to some extent, developers) already know and understand what they’re going to get with the iPhone. With some of these other new devices, it’s a total crapshoot. It’s “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” versus “new”.
Of course, not changing things or adapting is a recipe for disaster long term. But it’s not really that Apple isn’t changing things, they’re just doing so methodically and sweating out the details as ticks lead to tocks.
I do definitely agree that it hurts Apple in some ways to be too predictable with release cycles. But I also think it would be a mistake to get too cute there. Release things when they’re done. Not too soon, not too late. Product perfection will always trumps timing.
This is only one side of the medal. iOS is another story. They have to move faster because that have to, because they can too.
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The simple and well known fact that Android fragmentation is such a big deal for developers and OEMs, it didn’t prevent Samsung and a few others to move forward, and fast. Android is improving at such a pace that many think Android is more innovative than iOS. This is unbearable to me. Here is why.
How can Apple, with its homogeneous iOS ecosystem and device lines coupled with the ability to push iOS updates over the air, can start to look so bad and fall behind Android? They have the lever to bring us forward at unprecedented speed but they don’t use it. They choose to keep a one per year update for iOS. What a waste of power.
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The Mac vs PC ads were very effective clips telling what makes the Mac so different and better than a PC. I wonder if Apple could try the same with iOS and Androïd. Here it goes.
“Hello, I’m an iPhone!”
“And I’m a Robot.”
“So, what’s up Robot? You seems a bit depressed right now, why is that?”
“Well, I’ve been told that people aren’t satisfied with me because I’m not very keen for optimized apps on tablets”
“Oh, I see. You mean some people buy a tablet only to find out that apps aren’t taking advantage of the large display, something like that?”
“Yeah, something like that. I feel a bit depressed by this. I don’t know how I could fix this.”
“Well, you could ask your creator to help you and try to improve things.”
“I doubt that this would make a difference. He doesn’t care too much about this kind of issue. He prefers wasting his time at showing at parties with some ads.”
“Oh, that is really bad.”
You get the idea.
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