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iOS 5 - glad it was free, wish I could uninstall most of it.
14 years ago
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I've just installed iOS-5 on my brand new 4th Gen ipod touch.
So, Here's a rundown on those 200 new features that Apple's been touting. All six of them.
1) Wireless Sync: Very nice. Years too late, but it's finally here, so (slow clap)
2) Twitter app. Not using it. I don't twitter. Doesn't seem to have installed anyway. Oh wait, there it is. In the system settings. What the hell? There's no app icon but there's a system setting?
3) iCloud: Not using it. I'll keep my files to myself, thanks. Gave me an option to not use it. I like that. They've embedded "Find My Ipod" service into it so I have to activate it just for that, which I don't like. (activates it, sets everything to OFF but "Find My Ipod")
4) Newsstand: Not using it. if I want to read something vaguely resembling a magazine, there's this thing called a "web browser," which connects to a vast global information source that is actually kept up-to-date on a moment-by-moment basis, and which features "articles" on subjects so numerous I can't begin to list them here. (You may have heard someone mention it once around the office water cooler, since it's been part of the bundled software package on these devices, since before the iOS name was invented, let alone slapped into place on the system software.) Didn't give me an option to not install it. Also refuses to go into my JUNK folder, where I keep all of Apple's useless junk apps. (Like the "game center" *shudder*) Not happy at all. Stuck it way out on the last page of icons where it will hopefully waste away and die of loneliness.
5) Messages: Not using it. An instant messenger app, that can't actually connect to anything but another iOS-5 device? Especially not either of the IM services that I already use, and upon which are the people I like to talk to? Really? That's your idea? And you admit it? And you're proud of that? How many fingers am I holding up? Also cannot be uninstalled. Can be tossed in the JUNK folder though. There it goes. I will never look at it again.
6) Reminders. I may actually use this.
X) The fancy-shmancy new "speak to your iOS device in English and make it do stuff" whiz-bang neatorama gadget that they recently hyped only works on the iPhone 4S, so it's hereby eliminated from the list of features. It's not a feature of the OS, if it's only available on one specific device.
I have this dreadful feeling that now that Jobs is gone, and from here on out we're going to just get more bloat and less innovation. Things seemed to start going bad, right around the time that the rumors began circling that his health was deteriorating. Could be that without him around to kick the right asses, things are going to continue to go downhill. iOS-5 seems to be pointing in that direction. I would uninstall most of it, if it was only possible to.
This is not a triumph.
So, Here's a rundown on those 200 new features that Apple's been touting. All six of them.
1) Wireless Sync: Very nice. Years too late, but it's finally here, so (slow clap)
2) Twitter app. Not using it. I don't twitter. Doesn't seem to have installed anyway. Oh wait, there it is. In the system settings. What the hell? There's no app icon but there's a system setting?
3) iCloud: Not using it. I'll keep my files to myself, thanks. Gave me an option to not use it. I like that. They've embedded "Find My Ipod" service into it so I have to activate it just for that, which I don't like. (activates it, sets everything to OFF but "Find My Ipod")
4) Newsstand: Not using it. if I want to read something vaguely resembling a magazine, there's this thing called a "web browser," which connects to a vast global information source that is actually kept up-to-date on a moment-by-moment basis, and which features "articles" on subjects so numerous I can't begin to list them here. (You may have heard someone mention it once around the office water cooler, since it's been part of the bundled software package on these devices, since before the iOS name was invented, let alone slapped into place on the system software.) Didn't give me an option to not install it. Also refuses to go into my JUNK folder, where I keep all of Apple's useless junk apps. (Like the "game center" *shudder*) Not happy at all. Stuck it way out on the last page of icons where it will hopefully waste away and die of loneliness.
5) Messages: Not using it. An instant messenger app, that can't actually connect to anything but another iOS-5 device? Especially not either of the IM services that I already use, and upon which are the people I like to talk to? Really? That's your idea? And you admit it? And you're proud of that? How many fingers am I holding up? Also cannot be uninstalled. Can be tossed in the JUNK folder though. There it goes. I will never look at it again.
6) Reminders. I may actually use this.
X) The fancy-shmancy new "speak to your iOS device in English and make it do stuff" whiz-bang neatorama gadget that they recently hyped only works on the iPhone 4S, so it's hereby eliminated from the list of features. It's not a feature of the OS, if it's only available on one specific device.
I have this dreadful feeling that now that Jobs is gone, and from here on out we're going to just get more bloat and less innovation. Things seemed to start going bad, right around the time that the rumors began circling that his health was deteriorating. Could be that without him around to kick the right asses, things are going to continue to go downhill. iOS-5 seems to be pointing in that direction. I would uninstall most of it, if it was only possible to.
This is not a triumph.
(Sorry, I think I should have thought more about that, but it's too late in the evening and I'm way too sleepy to think straight.)
i jail broke my ipod touch and installed a modded os which has NO bloatware and its size is a LOT less than he offical OS.
my htc desire HD i rooted and formated the memory and installed a custom OS, heres a quick list of things that are changed (this is the list from the revolution HD smartphone rom which i use :D )
•Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread) - official HTC RUU 3.06.405.1 with official HTC Sense 3.0 for HTC Desire HD
•This is improved version of stock ROM - no visual changes!
•New kernel: 2.6.35.14 (under-volted & tweaked). Details below:
•CPU up to 2.0 GHz (1.15 GHz by default) - controlled automatically by built it O/C Daemon. How to use O/C Daemon?
•If you want to control CPU manually, you would need SetCPU from here: SetCPU
•In SetCPU remember to check "Set on Boot", but using O/C Daemon gives much better performance and battery life
•Many CPU governors (SmartAss, Ondemand, Performance, Conservative, UserSpace)
•GPU+ patch (Improved 2D & 3D Graphics performance)
•V® I/O as default scheduler
•SLQB Memory Management
•CIFS, TUN & UTF8 support
•LZMA compression
•Wi-Fi module improved drivers
•Possibility to change VDD levels dynamically
•Code cleaned up with custom voltages, tweaks & many more!
•ROOT (SU + SuperUser Permissions)
•Fully optimized and tweaked
•Unsecured boot.img
•Full official HTC Sense 3.0 interface
•Newest BusyBox
•RAM optimizations
•Speed optimizations
•2-way recording patch
•Enabled GPU UI rendering
•SD Card speed tweak
•Battery auto-calibration
•Data partition special speed tweak
•Very fast, clean & stable!
•Battery auto-calibration script (Thanks to seo)
•Bloatware applications removed (Amazon MP3, SoundHound, etc.)
•All system applications updated to latest available
•Improved camera performance
•Multilanguage (WWE)
•Advanced Power Menu and CRT Animation as extra add-ons
•Full Arabic and Hebrew languages support! (see the second post)
•Zipaligned (Improved RAM management)
•Zipalign on boot (for user applications on data partition)
•Fully de-odexed
•init.d scripts (BusyBox run-parts) support
•sysro/sysrw commands support
•Excellent battery life!
•Device partitions mounted & formatted as fast EXT4 file system instead of EXT3
•SD card EXT4 partition support
•A lot of themes
•You can replace HTC boot animation with any custom boot animation.
any mobile device ( smartphone, any mobile apple devices, cell phones ) from any company is filled with usless garbage. the only usfull things i find on these are the GPS, and media players and the browsers when i'm NOT at home or traveling somewhere.
my smartphone WAS locked to the Orange mobilephone company and was filled to the gills with bloatware, the onboard memory was 1GIG but AFTER the bloatware OS from orange was installed that left me a hole 142meg, AFTER i rooted, formated and installed the new OS rom i am now left with a HUGE 648meg of space it just goes to show you that there is so much shit put into OS for mobile devices.
so yep i know how you feel cobalt san and someday in the future ALL mobile device companys (smart phones, tablets, laptops) will all stop stuffing shit onto them.
also how is your comics coming along :-D
One small correction on information - Android was developed in California and is owned by Google, not HTC. HTC is a Taiwanese company that started out using Windows Mobile almost exclusively before shifting to Android in 2009 and beginning to make some Windows Phone OS devices in 2010.
the ONLY google things i have on my phone is lattitude and maps, the rest is gone bye bye :P