Of course there is. Why won’t they censor stuff they might not like? It’s a private website of a private entity monetising all of us. The more you post here, the more value you create for them. So they try to balance here, but since there’s no moderation log, things can be hid on a whim.
On top of that, personally, I saw plenty of evidence for a clearly biased approach, even despite them claiming otherwise. Why won’t they claim it, after all?
I’m not buying their devices after Nexus 5X and 6P disaster. Even despite my own devices did not boot loop. I mean buying them new and using them as my primary phone. Buying a used Pixel for $50, yeah, I might. So if it’ll face some weird hardware issue, I’m not going to be disappointed. I had zero issues (hardware-wise) with so many years of iPhones.
These days all that looks very depressing. The new redesign from Apple, and now this. I was actually thinking about maybe I’d like to give Pixels another chance. If buying used, I can play that lottery after all. But having no custom ROM option basically leaves me as miserable as with Apple: either take it as it is or leave.
Okay, am I the only one who didn’t know that (apparently) the next iOS version is going to be 26, not 19?
I assume, they’ll start following a year of release both for macOS and iOS, so it would be easier to know for non-techies. But my first reaction was ‘em, 8 years into the future? Looks weird, isn’t it? Maybe that’s some kind of a joke.’
To be fair, the news didn't get a ton of interest here last week:
Apple is reportedly going to rename all of its operating systems (theverge.com)
13 points by thesuperbigfrog 7 days ago | 7 comments
> Instead of just notching up the version number, Apple will instead mark them by year. However, the numbers will apparently align with the year after the one the update is actually released in, similar to cars. That means that the next big iOS update will be iOS 26 instead of iOS 19.
It will continue to be yearly but now all the OS numbers will be the same (the most important part) and require little inside knowledge to know if it's new or old (only a geek would know that iOS 15 was released in 2024 for instance, the new method will be more like car model years).
Nobody knows yet, it's just a rumour. But year-based versioning makes sense as these products continue to develop and the version numbers get higher. Even as an iOS developer, I've lost track of the phone versions at this point. Year-based versioning would be so much easier. Saying that I hope it's "iOS '26" and not "iOS 26".
We had Windows 2000 :) I look forward to Window 95 (v2) in 70 years. Number versioning is fine until you are releasing a new OS every year. Same with the phones. It's just too hard to keep track of at a certain point for consumers. yyyy.mm.dd style versioning is much better when you're releasing at the rate companies do these days imo.
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