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iOS 7
« on: February 25, 2014, 07:51:34 pm »
So I finally had to upgrade to iOS 7 on my iPhones. I fucking hate it, but can't stand in the way of change (notice I didn't say "progress").  Jobs is rolling over in his grave over this one.
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Re: iOS 7
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2014, 09:24:46 pm »
Funny, I didn't have to do that on my Samsung... just saying...
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Re: iOS 7
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2014, 10:02:59 pm »
Quote from: Nate in IA on February 25, 2014, 09:24:46 pm
Funny, I didn't have to do that on my Samsung... just saying...

I carry two phones - business and personal.  It's completely unnecessary and arbitrary, but some nights I like to be able to turn work off and maintain connectivity.  Due to i07 I've had to upgrade both of my phones and I really, really wanted to switch at least one to an Android phone.  But all of my Apple products sync so well and I didn't feel like relearning something for no real reason.

Have you ever used an iPhone?  Is Android really better?  Genuinely curious.
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Re: iOS 7
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2014, 10:43:37 pm »
Quote from: Nate in IA on February 25, 2014, 09:24:46 pm
Funny, I didn't have to do that on my Samsung... just saying...

Probably because your Samsung isn't an Apple product. It has an operating system, though, and it has gone through upgrades as well.
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Re: iOS 7
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2014, 08:21:22 am »
I don't like iOS.  That said, I think iOS 7 was a good change overall (the old iOS was looking pretty dated on newer iPhones/iPads) but they went a little overboard on some of the design elements.
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Re: iOS 7
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2014, 08:23:00 am »
Quote from: Waldo on February 26, 2014, 08:21:22 am
I don't like iOS.  That said, I think iOS 7 was a good change overall (the old iOS was looking pretty dated on newer iPhones/iPads) but they went a little overboard on some of the design elements.

I don't remember what it was like before the change.  I do remember going through and turning a bunch of stuff off so that my battery didn't drain, and I still think it drains faster than it used to.
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Re: iOS 7
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2014, 08:46:06 am »
Quote from: HudsonHawk on February 25, 2014, 07:51:34 pm
So I finally had to upgrade to iOS 7 on my iPhones. I fucking hate it, but can't stand in the way of change (notice I didn't say "progress").  Jobs is rolling over in his grave over this one.

They went berserk on the minimalist look, to the point that it's almost transparent.  They also moved a lot of the buttons around for no good reason, a la Windows.  You get used to it, but that doesn't mean you like it...also a la Windows.

Hey Apple!  Microsoft's consumer rapport model is not the one to follow.
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Re: iOS 7
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2014, 08:52:02 am »
Quote from: Waldo on February 26, 2014, 08:21:22 am
I don't like iOS.  That said, I think iOS 7 was a good change overall (the old iOS was looking pretty dated on newer iPhones/iPads) but they went a little overboard on some of the design elements.

The design looks cartoonish. The graphics are flat and monochromatic looking. The font looks like a typewriter. In short, it looks like it was designed on a Commodore 64 and printed on a dot matrix. The new Apple brass say this is a good thing because realistic 3d graphics are only for newbies just starting out on computers, so the primitive look is a sign of a more mature and savvy user. I say it looks like shit.
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Re: iOS 7
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2014, 09:10:14 am »
My Commodore 64 was my favorite computer ever.
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Re: iOS 7
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2014, 09:40:09 am »
DOS, motherfucker! Do you speak it?
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Re: iOS 7
« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2014, 10:07:59 am »
Quote from: subnuclear on February 26, 2014, 09:10:14 am
My Commodore 64 was my favorite computer ever.

+1.

I played Uridium for hours days months.

The C64 was also my first introduction to baseball; I remember playing Hardball and trying to load the bases and take a walk to see if it forced in a run.  I had no idea how to use the pitchers / pitches though.

There was also a platform game where you had to collect pieces of a puzzle and put it all together to kill the bad guy...but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called.  It had synthesized speech, which was pretty awesome at the time.  I can still remember the sounds the little robots made as they rolled back and forth waiting to zap you.

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Re: iOS 7
« Reply #11 on: February 26, 2014, 11:00:56 am »
Quote from: Ron Brand on February 26, 2014, 09:40:09 am
DOS, motherfucker! Do you speak it?

I have some software at work I have to run from a DOS command prompt. They should really have a built-in option to use UNIX commands once you type in 'ls' for 'dir' the twelfth time.
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Re: iOS 7
« Reply #12 on: February 26, 2014, 11:12:23 am »
Hardball and Impossble Mission were extremely excellent as far as I can remember. I don't think I understood what the various pitches did either.

Aside from the 126 games I had for the C64, I had a Radio Shack robot connected through a home-built adapter. I used it for various fun, but not particularly scientific science-fair projects. I wrote a pretty fun hockey game even though I didn't know the rules of hockey. I once spent several months trying to re-write various games I found in magazines into C64 Forth. I got about half-way into building a radio telescope my senior year in high-school until I figured out that I couldn't afford the amplifier.
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Re: iOS 7
« Reply #13 on: February 26, 2014, 11:14:11 am »
Quote from: subnuclear on February 26, 2014, 11:12:23 am
Hardball and Impossble Mission were extremely excellent as far as I can remember. I don't think I understood what the various pitches did either.

Aside from the 126 games I had for the C64, I had a Radio Shack robot connected through a home-built adapter. I used it for various fun, but not particularly scientific science-fair projects. I wrote a pretty fun hockey game even though I didn't know the rules of hockey. I once spent several months trying to re-write various games I found in magazines into C64 Forth. I got about half-way into building a radio telescope my senior year in high-school until I figured out that I couldn't afford the amplifier.

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Re: iOS 7
« Reply #14 on: February 26, 2014, 11:16:54 am »
Quote from: subnuclear on February 26, 2014, 11:12:23 am
Hardball and Impossble Mission were extremely excellent as far as I can remember. I don't think I understood what the various pitches did either.

Aside from the 126 games I had for the C64, I had a Radio Shack robot connected through a home-built adapter. I used it for various fun, but not particularly scientific science-fair projects. I wrote a pretty fun hockey game even though I didn't know the rules of hockey. I once spent several months trying to re-write various games I found in magazines into C64 Forth. I got about half-way into building a radio telescope my senior year in high-school until I figured out that I couldn't afford the amplifier.

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Re: iOS 7
« Reply #15 on: February 26, 2014, 11:43:38 am »
Anyway, my only point was no one cared about stupid crap like fonts and semi-transparent icons back when computers were fun.
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Re: iOS 7
« Reply #16 on: February 26, 2014, 12:22:19 pm »
Quote from: subnuclear on February 26, 2014, 11:43:38 am
Anyway, my only point was no one cared about stupid crap like fonts and semi-transparent icons back when computers were fun.

My school had, for the time, quite a sophisticated computer lab.  I was never at the point of being able to program in binary, but I could program the shit out of BASIC.  I created programs for simple games, so that stuff would occur during class (like messages flashing up on the screen) and also one monster that did a big chunk of my maths homework and served as my project for Computer Science.  (Got an "A" in CS, "B" in Maths)

A part of me actually misses the early days of DOS-based Windows, where a new computer or new OS update meant getting under the hood and "fixing" all the idiot and nanny features that choked performance.  There's something about the "boot and use" simplicity of modern systems that leaves a little hole in my soul.

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