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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1442521" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>I'd be lying if I said that every iOS update was exciting. Aesthetically, it hasn't changed...well, at all really. In terms of functionality it's certainly grown but there's little in each release that gets me truly excited about new updates. On the same token however, I don't ask for much out of a mobile operating system - I just need it to be stable, light and stay out of my way. For the most part, iOS does a very good job at meeting those criteria. It's relatively light (especially when compared to Android ROMs that have stuff layered on top), it's stable and it lets me do what I want with little interference (except for the low battery warning which appears at 20%, then reappears three seconds later when iOS calculates the remaining battery at 20.1% which then drops back to 20%).</p><p></p><p>Companies generally fall into one of two camps when it comes to updating a product. Some go for broke and shift the paradigm in a drastic way. An excellent example of this is Windows 8 or, for my Unix friends, GNOME 2 to 3. The other group, which includes Mozilla, Google and Apple, tend to go for more incremental updates. Even some of Apple's larger updates such as Lion weren't really all that revolutionary. I tend to favour the evolutionary (latter) model and I think this is where Apple has decided to put iOS because, for them, it's proving to be quite financially lucrative and technologically sound. Why fix something that isn't broken?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1442521, member: 71075"] I'd be lying if I said that every iOS update was exciting. Aesthetically, it hasn't changed...well, at all really. In terms of functionality it's certainly grown but there's little in each release that gets me truly excited about new updates. On the same token however, I don't ask for much out of a mobile operating system - I just need it to be stable, light and stay out of my way. For the most part, iOS does a very good job at meeting those criteria. It's relatively light (especially when compared to Android ROMs that have stuff layered on top), it's stable and it lets me do what I want with little interference (except for the low battery warning which appears at 20%, then reappears three seconds later when iOS calculates the remaining battery at 20.1% which then drops back to 20%). Companies generally fall into one of two camps when it comes to updating a product. Some go for broke and shift the paradigm in a drastic way. An excellent example of this is Windows 8 or, for my Unix friends, GNOME 2 to 3. The other group, which includes Mozilla, Google and Apple, tend to go for more incremental updates. Even some of Apple's larger updates such as Lion weren't really all that revolutionary. I tend to favour the evolutionary (latter) model and I think this is where Apple has decided to put iOS because, for them, it's proving to be quite financially lucrative and technologically sound. Why fix something that isn't broken? [/QUOTE]
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