“What Apple did on 10 September was to release the first operational 64-bit hardware and software ever seen in a mobile device,” John Naughton writes for The Guardian.
“Most of the media coverage of iOS 7 focused on the radically different ‘look and feel’ of the user interface, the sparseness and minimality of which was widely attributed to Jony Ive, who is now in overall charge of both hardware and software design at Apple,” Naughton writes. “This is fair enough: after all, for most people, the most important aspect of a device is its user interface. Is the thing easier to use after the latest “upgrade”? The answer for iOS 7 seems to be a qualified ‘yes.'”
Naughton writes, “But for geeks, two things about iOS 7 stand out. One is the fact that Apple could completely rewrite a complex operating system for a 64-bit environment – and ship it in a relatively bug-free state, on time. The other is the way iOS 7 solves a problem that has been bugging internet engineers for years – how to ensure that if one mode of connecting to the network fails, your device can seamlessly switch to another mode. The solution is called multi-path TCP and – guess what? – iOS 7 has it. But you’d have to read a lot of media coverage of the iPhone launch to learn that. Those who think that Apple has peaked ought to think again.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple leads. The rest follow. As usual.
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Wow, the responses.. This guy or girl, funnier if a girl, really got you peeps all riled up. My official laughter for the day. Thank you to all who played poke the beehive with a blunt stick.. Haha
Looks like Samsung/Google are truly down to the dregs now as even those with one brain cell have clearly been picked off. One beneficial effect however is that it makes you so glad you never became one of them.
Nice at least that the Guardian can still occasionally publish objective thoughtful technological comment in a way that the BBC sadly lost a good while ago.
«One is the fact that Apple could completely rewrite a complex operating system for a 64-bit environment – and ship it in a relatively bug-free state, on time.»
It is not a complete rewrite of the iOS, just a significant refresh/update/evolution of the face which presented to the user.
This has to be the best feedback page ever, I haven’t stopped laughing since the android. Hahahahahah
One more writer who doesn’t know what he’s talking about. iOS 7 is not a “rewrite”. The core OS has been running on 32- and 64-bit architectures for a very long time. iOS 7 was *recompiled* for a 64-bit ARM processor. Supporting this new processor was a fair bit of work, but not nearly the herculean task that the author seems to think it was.
-jcr
Your comment is not relevant, but I been wanting to point out that Apple does not *want* the hoards of Android people to cross sides. Apple’s ecosystem would be flooded and could be brought to its knees if everyone and their mother was part of it.
I presume Apple knows that people who buy apps and pay for services rendered are the 1/3rd of the populace that matters, and that is who they want.
It is not a mystery, that market share mantra, just a short-sighted, simplistic “us-or-them” view. You think Apple doesn’t know what market segment they want to court? Think again.
I’m rather surprised the smartphone industry would attack Apple because they moved to a 64-bit processor. They could say it doesn’t mean much but it should still be considered a technological advance. People going out of their way to say it’s a waste doesn’t make any sense at all. The A7 could just be considered a stepping stone for Apple towards the future and it doesn’t have to mean much right now.
Apple definitely shouldn’t be getting negative press for moving to a 64-bit processor. Supposedly, Apple is building a large tablet and maybe that could come equipped with more than 4 GB of flash memory. Or it’s possible Apple is going to put an A7 processor in upcoming MacBook Airs. So, for the tech industry to say that the A7 architecture is a waste of time is stupid since they don’t know what products Apple has in the pipeline that could take full use of 64-bit processing. I’m willing to bet as soon as Apple can increase production, iPads will certainly be getting A7 or A7X chips. That could really give iPads an edge in performance over most Android tablets when it comes to playing games.
It could take a fair amount of time for most Android devices to move to 64-bit processors. I wonder if it will be cost effective for most Android manufacturers. I’m guessing only the highest-end Android devices will move to 64-bit processors due to the added costs.
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Just a thought here guys, do these idiots (like TMFST) get paid by the number of posts they make or (and) the number of replies they generate?
If so we just made this idiot a lot of nickels
Gally, nobody here is going to give you the pleasure of sucking on your tits or anything else. We might however shove a corn cob up your culo for being so breathlessly stupid.