Hello. :)
My circumstances weren’t any of the dumb or worst case scenarios you mention. Still, those are good to know. Thank you.
To response & answer your question about what any of that has to do with WPS: Initially, it didn’t.
But, when a forum member began basically saying the flawed nature of the WPS specification was the reason for not implementing it into the iPhone product, I spoke more generally that {a} that’s not a legitimate reason to obstruct the desires and expectations of a customer base (although I’m paraphrasing and not fully developing the more muted aspects of complex generally accepted product development decisions as they may occur) and {b} there is much objective evidence that Apple has “incomplete” &or “rudimentary” implementations of several features & feature components in its current production products — never mind Beta. Production iOS and iPhone hardware has deficits, where I’m defining deficits as “software components &or specific features are absent; incomplete ; or comparatively rudimentary.”
So, I rather attribute Apple having not implemented WPS [or other features I won’t cite right now] as a function of they having too much on their plate to fund or add into a production cycle (where I’m giving Apple that benefit if in doubt) instead of my incorrectly blurting out “Apple doesn’t have the capability to do it.” I know saying Apple can’t do it is plainly incorrectly. Apple has shown it’s a very technically excellent company and possesses many of the very brightest and most intelligent minds in the known universe!
So I’m not saying it can’t. That’s wrong and would be ignorant.
I was saying Apple has too much on its plate. Which I do believe is correct.
Whereas, suggesting Apple diaapponted customers and made connecting to a work more difficult (ie lacks WPS) because WPS ***** ... didn’t wash with me.
But, I was mixing topics.
I mentioned Beta iOS 11 because I specifically loaded iOS 11 on an iPhone in advance of its general release because I wanted to see whether the customization capcilty of the “Control Center” would be vastly improved over iOS 10 because the former wasn’t meeting my expectations (but does on Android). In Beta iOS 11 it didn’t either. To my disappointment. And didn’t in the production iOS 11 either.
At the time my primary phone was an Android, so no the iPhone running Beta iOS 11 wasn’t my primary phone. It was loaded for a sneak preview.
However, I want to restate (repeat) I LOVE APPLE COMPUTERS. and the company.
SPECIFICALLY, I chose a very joyous, happy, fulfilling, and at times arduous career in computing sciences, and other related scientific & technological pursuits BECAUSE I WAS IMPRINTED UPON APPLE, and learned fully why Apple products in 1980 and onward were indeed superior to whatever was available a that time. Apple was the greatest! :)
And, in the decades between then and today, Apple has repeatedly shone its greatness and lead the field and delivered superior products, and is deserving of many praises!
So, I’m not bashing Apple for the sake of disrespecting it.
Rather, I went to Android about three years ago because I couldn’t afford a new iPhone. And, I vowed my next phone would be a return to Apple and iOS , because I disliked Android for many technical and philosophical reasons that I won’t bore you with here. But, I began to like some aspects of it: especially many applications. But, my love is iOS and Apple. And I wanted to return to a product provided by a company I admire.
YET! When I did return to an iOS based phone after approx. three years, I’ve been deeply disappointed by the lack of progress iOS has made relative to Apple’s trajectory at the time I took a pause from using their products!
And, I’ve been deeply disappointed by the lack of iOS service capabilities provided to application developers in comparison to what Apple could have done (when I use my knowledge and my informed imagination ) relative to where I imagined Apple could have already been during the past three years.
I won’t detail it all. This isn’t intended to be a blog! LMAO.
So, I’ll say simply : I loaded iOS 11 Beta on an iPhone to personally assess the maturity level of several other aspects and feature capabilities (including Accessibility, and elsewhere) of the iPhone in areas (not only the Control Center) that I know technically Apple can implement particular features. (As I say I’m not getting into it all here).
Suffice it to say, Apple has several “rudimentary”, “incomplete” and/or “not fully realized” feature sets.
And that disappoints greatly.
And, that’s why the above and an iceberg of other analysis and evaluation I did of what Apple iOS offers now in comparison to what iOS offered three years ago didn’t live up to its full potential !
So, sure I didn’t expound upon any of the above when I yipped begrudgingly about iOS 11 Beta.
But, Nevertheless, what I see in iOS 11 Production and what I saw in iOS 11 Beta in comparison to the potential I saw when I last looked an iPhone three years ago Does Affirm My Assertion That Apple hasn’t lived up to its full potential in the between time.
And, instead of writing a book, I initially simply stated “Apple has too much on its plate.”
And, I didn’t support the positional statement that Apple doesn’t offer WPS because the public specification is insecure and “bad” because it seemed an attempt to deflect attention from and an examination of what Apple could have done these past three years.
And, of course no one wants to utter one syllable of objection , because otherwise someone is opposed to Apple. I know.
But, I’m not bashing Apple.
And I’m not being disparaging for the sake of trolling or for being pro Android. I’m not. I rather the whole world ran iOS.
I’M SIMPLY SAYING I KNOW BETTER THAN TO BUY INTO AN EXCUSE, whenever there is an actual reason.
I’ll say nothing more until 2018, and maybe not even in January! LMAO.
Merry Christmas, Everyone.
Peace Be With Each of You. Peace.
