I posted the following to Facebook, and thought perhaps Apple might take note of how poor I think of the downward trend of their last two operating systems for devices:
Mike, here are a number of things that begin to go really wrong after iOS six, where iOS 7 became very problematic and inefficient.
It was very fascinating to find that with iOS 7 installed, every app when popping back and forth would:
1) auto refresh. Really? That would take all sorts of extra time, which is exasperating. I didn't need all that refreshing, and I was told it was a new feature that could be turned off, and turned off I did. When turned off, I discovered most disappointingly, it made no difference, hopping from one app to another, they would all auto refresh.
If posting something to Facebook in Safari, and I popped over to Youtube to grab a URL, then popped back, Facebook would refresh as would my half composed composition---it would be lost. This was new, and had not been a problem in iOS 6. This still seems to be one of the greatest and most offensive aspects of the newer operating systems since version 6. Why refresh every app when popping back and forth between them? How come mine won't turn off? Please, give me back iOS 6, where this never happened, that I recall.
2) Selecting text in an article became very problematic and hard to do, with the "select all" option in Safari having disappeared. I would read on forums of other people having the same complaint, being frustrated that "select all" from articles now was a great problem, not simple like it had been. I have an app, Speech Magnet, which will read to me text copied from the clipboard. I would love to copy articles, then pop over to Speech Magnet, to have it read back to me as I work, ever busy with my eyes and hands doing other things. To sit and try and select the text of an article, with no "select all" option available anymore seemed insane. Who made the choice to have that removed in browsers?
3) of course the copy and paste is the issue that came forth in IOS 8. It seems absolutely unreal to me. I am at my wits end that there is no correction to subsequent releases to the operating system, and there is total silence from Apple from what I can find in searches of forums.
4) the interface of the keyboard is a very big disappointment, as it used to have contrast with colors, you could tell when shift was engaged with a blue shift key, now half the time you can't tell if shift is engauged or not, everything laid out in black and white looks the same.
5) Slow. Everything now goes so slow. All of that stupid "auto refresh" takes forever, and I can't opt out of it or turn it off, for when I do, it is as if no change has been made.
6) Safari now brilliantly pops up a message with the jist of it, from memory, being akin to: "Something on this page didn't load right and the page will be reloaded" Well oops, that doesn't help, then you have pages in an endless loop of error that never will load, cause they are constantly reloading because they have an error on the page. What a joke.
There are a half dozen more problems I could speak to. I've spoken about them before, but right now can't make a good list of them as I'm too tired and they deserve some better explanation than I feel to give right now.
The bottom line is that, my efficiency with this little mini computer called an iPhone has been deplorable since iOS 7 and iOS 8 came along, reversing an upward trend in efficiency with 6, then in a serious slide downward since, a very serious undermining of my capacity to take in information in an efficient manner, as well as publish and share the same.
Perhaps Al Gore can be blamed in all of this? Ha! Or maybe the Rothschild/Rockefeller complex of moneychanger power who hate those capacitated to publish against them? Surely, I jest...or do I? Almost, I do joke, but given the supposed Telecommunications Act of 1996, almost mandating built-in backdoor access of government to these devices and the subsequent onslaught of government surveillance with vast criminality of government such as the FBI's "Project Magic Lantern," who is to know what's going on behind the scenes? (Project Magic Lantern was implemented circa, or at least first reported on, in 2003, but then disappeared from news, and it was the FBI's assertion that under the Patriot Act they could not inject any computer they wanted with a virus or a trojan keylogging every stroke ever made, recording it all, none of this with judicial oversight or a warrant).
I had some college professors who believed the government was integrating surveillance at the chip level of computers and computing, all subversive, tyrannical and under the radar of the populace knowing anything about it. Perhaps we need an Edward Snowden of the computer chip manufacturing industry to chime in and become the newest and latest enemy of the state.
I, along with some others, remember when headline news began to threaten that Steve Jobs was to be tried by the SEC for insider trading. When I first saw that news, I said to myself "blackmail, they are going to compromise his company and its products with blackmail."
I don't have proof, but I believe Steve Jobs was blackmailed, made to sell out to the feds demands, and I don't know what intricacy is behind it all but there is a compromise that took place. Al Gore being put on the Board of Directors certainly doesn't help matters of trust in that regard, as he's another Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) lackey, out to implement the agenda of the elite bankers. Apple is going down hill at least in my user experience, and I lament the awful problems cited here since iOS 7, which has me disliking this company and those designing its software. At minimum, let me go back to iOS 6 where I could obtain efficiency once again and optimal speed for my device. I feel extorted and used, almost expected to run out and buy new hardware since the software releases screwed up my existing hardware. Naw, I am not a fan of that kind of marketing, and loyalty is certainly not something Apple computer is showing me with these glitches and problems, and I have little sentiment of loyalty to this brand given these trends.
