Comments on: Why big change may be coming to iOS this year http://gigaom.com/2013/02/13/why-big-change-may-be-coming-to-ios-this-year/ Sun, 19 May 2013 00:13:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: adrian http://gigaom.com/2013/02/13/why-big-change-may-be-coming-to-ios-this-year/#comment-1313259 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:29:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=610517#comment-1313259 If there’s one thing I’d like to see on ios it’s android style widgets. Having an app run on the home screen can be useful – regularly updated share prices for example.

]]> By: Frank George http://gigaom.com/2013/02/13/why-big-change-may-be-coming-to-ios-this-year/#comment-1313068 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:33:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=610517#comment-1313068 Consistently there is a failure to realise how far behind iOS has fallen.

No real multi-tasking, background running and generally poor battery management.

Plus, if you switch off your data connection, it quickly becomes apparent how much iOS and almost 95% of apps rely upon a data connection.

In a new brave world of contextual sensing, iOS is shown up. QNX or BB10 has sandboxing and is designed with multi-core OSs, Android has since 2.0 managed background running and multi-tasking. Even WP8 can run up 4 apps.

Not iOS.

]]> By: Rage Against Fraudy http://gigaom.com/2013/02/13/why-big-change-may-be-coming-to-ios-this-year/#comment-1312890 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:38:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=610517#comment-1312890 Based on the age of Windows you’d think they could get a new version out that works.

]]> By: Brennan Stehling http://gigaom.com/2013/02/13/why-big-change-may-be-coming-to-ios-this-year/#comment-1311789 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:34:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=610517#comment-1311789 I hope that was sarcasm, though I often hear advice offered to Apple from an outside perspective which fails to understand Apple. If they wanted to be Dell or HP they would have changed years ago.

]]> By: Brennan Stehling http://gigaom.com/2013/02/13/why-big-change-may-be-coming-to-ios-this-year/#comment-1311787 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:33:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=610517#comment-1311787 Agreed.

]]> By: Brennan Stehling http://gigaom.com/2013/02/13/why-big-change-may-be-coming-to-ios-this-year/#comment-1311786 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:32:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=610517#comment-1311786 I agree about GCD. There is support for multiple cores and that code is meant to work identical on iOS and Mac hardware without any change and still get the benefits concurrency. Where it appears to have trouble is deep inside the beast which Apple is likely working hard on fixing. I doubt this article meant any of that when it mentions major changes to iOS for multiple cores and does not even address GCD. I have experienced strange problems on my Mac and sometimes with iOS where it seems like GCD code is having trouble. I did not think to look at the crash logs for evidence but that would make sense. I also see problems with the filesystem. That needs to be fixed. My new MBP with Retina had a hard failure within the first few weeks and I am now very paranoid about it. It seemed to start having issues with Lion and did not get any better with Mountain Lion.

]]> By: Rob http://gigaom.com/2013/02/13/why-big-change-may-be-coming-to-ios-this-year/#comment-1311754 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:08:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=610517#comment-1311754 Assuming the changes would be announced around WWDC, doesn’t it seem a little soon to expect drastic changes this year? Forstall wasn’t let go too long ago.

]]> By: ICanBeAnInsiderToo http://gigaom.com/2013/02/13/why-big-change-may-be-coming-to-ios-this-year/#comment-1311686 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:13:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=610517#comment-1311686 Peter Misek, ALMOST ALWAYS WRONG:

http://www.cultofmac.com/215736/a-history-of-horrible-apple-predictions-from-peter-misek/

]]> By: Antagonia http://gigaom.com/2013/02/13/why-big-change-may-be-coming-to-ios-this-year/#comment-1311678 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:51:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=610517#comment-1311678 When you got nothing better to do nor have a clue about technology just write an article like this…

]]> By: Eddie http://gigaom.com/2013/02/13/why-big-change-may-be-coming-to-ios-this-year/#comment-1311469 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:15:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=610517#comment-1311469 The analyst has a point, but he kind of misses something important. Witness Apple has a multi-core problem with Grand Central Dispatch not working all that well as first evidenced in Mac OS X Lion and continuing somewhat with Mountain Lion, as well as iOS. Case in point, when’s the last time anyone looked at their iOS crash logs (after syncing an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with their Mac)? Take a close look at those logs (and also the logs immediately after a Mac OS X or OS X app has crashed), and don’t be surprised to find a segmentation fault (SIGSEGV etc.) The proliferation of apps crashing due to segfaults has been linked to old code inherited from the period prior to multi-core (for example some of the code integrated from NeXTSTEP into early days of OS X was from a single core world). What Apple needs to do is not focus too much on cosmetic UI changes but get back to focusing on a stable system (Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard had gone a long way toward stability then Apple broke it with the “Back to the Mac” concept bringing iOS concepts into Mac OS X 10.7 Lion). I believe Apple wants to forget about Lion because it was very awkward. Time to clean up the old single core cobwebs Apple and make both OS X and iOS stable in the multi-core world of today.

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