When iOS 10 comes out next year, they're going to tell you how iOS 9.X.X was so much better and then have a video that shows a couple regressions and tell you everything is like that. Because the last release is always better than this one.
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The difference between LAG & STUTTER and why it matters!
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When iOS 10 comes out next year, they're going to tell you how iOS 9.X.X was so much better and then have a video that shows a couple regressions and tell you everything is like that. Because the last release is always better than this one.
Who is complaining about Safari? Why do you like to go offtopic every single time? Every one knows it is about metal animations and how they stutter and feel like Android 2.1.
Stop trolling us with your offtopic comments. I am also waiting for your 60 fps smooth stutter free animations video where you were going to prove all of us wrong.
Air 2 running 8.1 out of its retail box was smoother than 9.2 beta 4.
You misunderstood me. My posts was arguing against a general pattern of planned obsolescence. At least for me El Cap improved my older machines. It is a day and night difference on the rMBP with the new Metal based animations. Therefore i suspect a lack of polishing for iOS, which even affects new products. Imo another reason could be that the iOS team was too busy with all those new products. If my memory serves me right there was a report of Apple employees, who described the Watch project as a black hole for resources. On top of that they have been working on 6S, iPP and ATV4. Animation performance, especially on older devices, certainly had a very low priority. Just a possible explanation, not an excuse.
I'm glad you enjoy your butter smoothness, but you fell in the same trap as a lot of other posters: broad generalizations. And why are you implying a user error? Is it really so hard to imagine that after clean installs (and a hardware exchange) someone could get the idea that maybe Apple is responsible?
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I own a MBA 2014 and El Capitan still has animation stutters compared to Yosemite.Try the three finger swipe to the app list.Runs at 20 fps thanks to Metal whereas it was running fluid 60fps on Yosemite with OpenGL
There are a crap ton of iOS 9 lag videos all over the Internet.How many should I post?
This guy is only about Safari. Who the hell cares about Safari? iOS is a lot more than Safari.
As it is similarly more than control center and notification center where quite a bit of the whole stutter discussion ends up going.
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Exactly, stutters are all over the place. The reason you are hearing a lot about the Control Center is because it because the issue is very apparent there and it also easy to test. No need to have the last word all the time. Try writing something down that is not an open door next time.
Safari isn't the only thing that's better with the whole OS being more stable overall. You made a comment and I made one. Does that mean you need to have the first word all the time? Seriously now. Why don't people try sticking to the topic instead of the users next time. Is it because they don't have anything to actually say but need to say something nonetheless so they turn to saying something about other users?
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What do you like more about the 6P compared to iPhone? Animations aside... Thanks
You always start a debate when someone says they are experiencing lag and/or stutter. It's annoying. Especially with these super useless "other people have other experiences" posts you're making 90% of the time.
Whatever personal feelings and emotions might be, these threads and forums are still not the places to discuss users.
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Hear me out fully before shooting the messenger......
This is the new Apple , we saw it with iOS 9, Apple Watch, Apple Music, iPad Pro.......they tell the public one thing and EVENTUALLY deliver. After two keynotes they could barely articulate how the watch will make our lives better and why we NEED one (something Steve Jobs could actually do, yes I said it......because its true). iOS 9 was said to have major performance improvements and animations smoothness. Apple Music explanation was a disaster. And iPad Pro is well( you tell us what you want to do with it and then maybe we'll adapt but for now its a giant iPad).
All of these devices and services have the potential to be amazing, simply stunning. Its painfully obvious. But Apple has now become a company of releasing products and services that are really good and mostly work better than the competition.......but are not "OMG I gotta have it" (Apple music, Apple watch, iPad Pro).
iOS 9 is a very solid release as far as stability, aside from one thing they promised us on stage which was smoother scrolling and animations. Lets save everyone a lot of grief here. YES there are animation stutters, NO not everyone notices it (I apparently have been cursed with good eyes, and I do video production so I'm more sensitive to it) So lets quite with the BS excuses. Even the iPad pro has stuttering all over the UI with a 2.2Ghz processor and 4GB of RAM. So its obviously iOS 9.1 which made things horribly worse. They made a huge deal about METAL for iOS 8 and 9 yet we see NONE of those advantages in comparison to iOS6 or 7.....games still look the same (because developers have to code for 1-4 year old hardware) and animations even on the newest devices like iPhone 6S Plus(3D touch frame drops galore) and iPad Pro are a joke. They should have ZERO animation hiccups with this hardware. So the whole point of METAL right now seems........pointless.
Apple Music......has so much damn potential but is riddled with silly bugs and inconsistencies. Especially on iPad.
Apple Watch is cool, somewhat fashionable for a smart watch and also has tons of potential
iPad Pro is really breakthrough for professionals but unless they want to sell more than a couple million, the app store needs a major overhaul to allow developers to give trials of expensive high end software. Let face the facts here, it took tweetbot over 2 years to get an updated twitter app out and other developers still have some trouble utilizing iPads, especially for gaming. The ecosystem is has become very broken in the past few years in every category on iPads. What is going to make developers pay better attention to iPad NOW????? Apple has to foster the environment. They said themselves they're pissed about all the free to play garbage and made a dedicated "pay once and play" section. SO FIX IT! You have $200 billion in the bank, start allowing demos and trials! Or buy a freaking company that knows how to do it.
The only factual improvements in iOS 9 are Safari,the Camera and the Notes app.So yeah it's one of the limited improvements
Don't forget the increase of app response time when pressing on it! That's a feature. When iOS goes too fast, I get confused and scared.
Now i know for sure my devices; 5s, 6, 6s and iPad 2 are lag and stutter free.
Add mine to the list.
On every of my iDevices iOS 9 runs better than iOS 8.
I hope Apple focus on important matters like new features instead of wasting time listening to whiners ... And I bet they are doing that.
On every single device Im using, an iPad Air, an iPhone 5s and and iPhone 6, iOS 9 better than iOS 8.What's worse is being called liar or idiot (not In so many words) because your phone performs differently than other. iOS 9 seems to run better on some devices than others. But you are clearly making sure nothing is swept under the rug.
Just better.
I don't really give a crap about a 1 fps drop as far as Apple is providing for a better, more stable, more powerful iOS....
And again: who cares about the frame rate ?
what a drama mate ! LOL
Was iOS 8 really an unstable mess? I've had my air 2 since last November, I really do not recall it crashing or being unstable on any of the versions of iOS 8. The Air 2 was a beast of a performer out of the gate. I've spent about 10 months using it with an iOS 8 version and now about 2 months using it with a version of iOS 9. Its crashed about same number of times now, zilch.