It's not that it's not even show-stopping, it's not even a regular level of severity issue, it's minor at best, and trivial more realistically. It certainly doesn't make anything even half-way close to obsolete, let alone actually obsolete. It's that kind of hyperbole that skewes it all out of proportion unnecessarily.
I cannot wait to be complaining about iOS 10. Apple knew iOS 9 was super laggy when they released it — they deserve this criticism. It's like they didn't even try to improve performance. They knew the majority of users would only care about battery life so they reduced animation performance to gain an hour.
If even iOS devices stutter as well than what's the point of buying an iDevice
Compared to Android phones this lag is nothing. But for Apple, it is totally unexpected. I love using their devices, and I expect them to be as close to perfect as possible.
Funnily enough the stutter I get in the control centre is eerily similar to the way Widgets lag on Android.
That's simply not the case if you look at tons of complaint threads from the 7.0 and 8.0. That's simply not true.
Control center on the home screen is the worst. And, on an unrelated side note, have you seen how ugly it is in landscape? With the brightness bar in a rectangle and AirDrop in rounded rectangle.
How is this unexpected given what iOS 7.0 and 8.0 were like? This is actually better than those releases. Nothing unexpected at all except perhaps from those who don't recall or don't know what the previous releases were like, in which case there isn't anything to base the expectations on anyway.
This isn't worse than iOS 7.0 (which convinced me to upgrade to a 5s because it ruined my 4s) or 8.0, but to pick up an Apple device and experience stuttering animations is just unexpected. I know it will get better — but I'll whine about it until it does.
Most of those kind of things dealing with animations and lag (in addition to wise stability, performance, and functional) issues were there for more people in 7.0 and 8.0 days.
Still, those were major feature updates. iOS 9 was supposed to be a performance update. And with a public beta program and many months of development they still ended up with a similarly laggy .0 release. I do have to say, though, it is much more stable than usual.
There you go, it's much more stable with fewer bigger issues. But still has some minor ones like some generally small animation lag here and ther for some (more for a few, less for most).
You're kinda right. With reduce transparency control center and app switcher are super smooth.
Your blind faith in Apple is the problem. iOS 9 was announced 4 months ago. Lag is still there. App launch delay is still there. Stutters are still there. You actually think in 4 months from now everything will be fine and dandy?
See, now you've exposed your true self. Apparently you don't buy any of the claims of the countless of people who complain about their lagfest experience with iOS 9. We're not complaining because we want to complain, we're complaining because iOS 9 is worse than iOS 8 (not necessarily 8.4.1, also 8.0 was 10x smoother than 9.0). If iOS 10 is better in all aspects than iOS 9 I'll be the first one to praise the release.
Honestly, who are you to judge whether an issue is minor or major for someone else? The smoothness and fluidity of the OS is one of the main reasons I buy the most expensive phone in the world instead of an Android phone that literally is half the price. Are you the same guy who accused someone else of being arrogant? Weird stuff.
2.5 years old Galaxy S4 is smoother than iPhone 6. See, Android 5.0 made the S4 actually faster and smoother, iOS 9 made the iPhone 6 worse.
The things you are talking about aren't there for most people. And, yes, look at what iOS 7.0 or 8.0 were like during beta and when they were released and compare them to their final versions. iOS 8.0 wasn't smoother even 1x compared to iOS 9 and had even more stability and performance issues in general, to imply otherwise is to ignore reality and many more complaints from practically endless 8.0 threads (same goes for 7.0).
