Rotten Apple iOS 7 fury: Glitchy audio or is today's music really that bad? Fanbois and developers have hit out at Apple after the launch of iOS 7 was dogged by problems.
Punters complained downloads of the latest version of the operating system stumbled to a halt as people hammered the update servers. Meanwhile, some software makers warned people to steer clear of the build until bugs caused by incompatibilities between their apps and iOS 7 are squashed. Version seven of the iPad and iPhone OS mostly does away with skeumorphism and introduces the sort of colour scheme last seen in an episode of Teletubbies. But fans of the new flat design claim it turns iThings into an entirely new product. A device must have at least 3GB of storage space available to fetch and install iOS 7 - although the actual download weighs in at about 800MB, which is slightly larger than previous versions.
Here's what mild-mannered people on Twitter were saying about the iOS upgrade: iOS 7 won't download on my iPhone THIS IS THE WORST DAY EVER — NYC Blonde (@NYC_Blonde) September 19, 2013. iOS 7, thoroughly reviewed. When we reviewed iOS 6 a year ago, we called it a "spit-and-polish" release and we stand by that assessment today.
Between the new Notification Center, iCloud, and iMessage, iOS 5 felt like a big, substantial release in ways that its immediate successor did not. A lack of impressive new features (the useful-but-minor Do Not Disturb, the niche Passbook, the busted Maps) and a visual design that was just past its fifth birthday both contributed to a feeling of inertia in iOS 6. There was a sense it was time for a change. Boy, did we get one. iOS 6 had barely been out for a month before Scott Forstall, the exec who led the iOS team for as long as there had been an iOS team, left (or was ejected from) the company.
Craig Federighi and Jony Ive, the Apple senior vice presidents in charge of OS X and hardware design, respectively, stepped in to fill his shoes. In one sense, iOS 7 changes nearly everything about iOS. Supported devices and feature fragmentation Installation and setup. A Little-Heralded New iOS 7 Feature: Multipath TCP. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it ... Win Phone 8? No, it's APPLE'S iOS 7. Review Apple's iOS 7 has come some way since its initial preview release and public unveiling back in June at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference.
Back then the focus was inevitably on the operating system’s new visual styling, and Apple does seem to have taken on board the early criticism of the new look. The ultra-spindly font Apple design chief Jony Ive had selected was replaced with a more beefy typeface in an early beta, and over time the rougher edges of the tweaked user interface have been polished smooth. Do You Plan to Use the Per App VPN Feature in iOS 7? Despite the rise of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) movement in recent years, Apple’s popular iPhone and iPad haven’t really been geared toward making the lives of enterprise IT administrators any easier.
However, with several new business-centric features now included in iOS 7, that could all be about to change. Apple is billing the new iPhone 5S as the “most secure mobile phone ever.” Whether that proves true or not remains to be seen, but so far, the iOS 7 updates are a bit more interesting. Chief among them is the new per app VPN feature. According to Apple’s website, “Apps can now be configured to automatically connect to VPN when they are launched. With reports that 76 percent of enterprises are now formally supporting BYOD, IT administrators are sure to welcome such granular control. But, perhaps the most important thing to remember is that enterprises cannot afford to become complacent when it comes to remote access policies and best practices. Apple’s iOS 64-bit iUpgrade: Don't expect a 2x performance leap. High performance access to file storage What are the implications of Apple’s 64-bit ARM A7 processor for the iPhone user who upgrades to the new 5S?
Not as many as you might think. Apple has said the chip is compatible with all the iOS software out there that is still 32-bit. For the moment, at least, that is all third-party programs. Apple hasn’t said how much RAM the 5S contains, but it’s not going to be of the order that the new 64-bit chip makes possible. As it stands, software running on the 32-bit ARM processor family used by Apple can access up to 4GB of virtual memory, and the chip can potentially access up to 1TB of physical memory (thanks to a 40-bit physical address width).
But there’s no sign iPhones will gain that much RAM in the near future and certainly not the 256TB of physical memory the new A7 can address: although pointers into virtual memory can be 64-bit wide on that new processor, the chip's architecture defines a 48-bit physical address system [PDF]. And not just RAM. 1,500 iOS apps are vulnerable to an HTTPS-crippling bug.