Those people installing new OS on day one are my heroes. I applaud them for their heroic effort to find all bugs, so I can install it few months later and have good experience.
I've already fallen in love with the tighter privacy permissions. For example, I no longer have to give apps an all-or-nothing access to my pics. This is a gamechanger because I bet a bunch of apps scrape the geodata from pics to harvest your location history, and now I only have to give them the ones I want to give them.
As a concrete example, I've been running the iOS 14 beta for the last week and a bit, Facebook Messenger previously had full access to my photos, and when using it for the first time I got a message from the OS explaining that I no longer needed to grant it carte-blanche access and whether I'd like to deny it access, pick the photos I'd specifically like to give it access to, or let it continue having full access.
What iOS apps (that you've given access to your photos) can you have any confidence don't do this?
https://www.engadget.com/2011-01-09-the-gpl-the-app-store-an...
Many apps including Discord repeatedly snoop the clipboard/pasteboard even when I don't paste anything, and wouldn't know about if iOS 14 didn't alert me.
Then there's the major apps secretly accessing the camera and microphone, exposed by the green/orange indicator light in iOS 14:
https://www.macrumors.com/2020/07/25/instagram-unexpectedly-...
Surprise, these are the people fighting against Apple.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-21/apple-ios...
Probably also has a bit to do with Apple actually making efforts to improve, whereas others seem to make efforts only to copy Apple. Which doesn't help the situation. For consumers, the ideal, in my opinion, is competition on innovation, not really competition on who can be more "Apple-like".
https://web.archive.org/web/20090414133729/http://tomkarpik....
With premium prices come premium expectations. If I buy a $3,000 MacBook Pro, I do not expect the colossal screwup that was the butterfly keyboard design defect. That's a hardware issue of course, but in general Apple's software quality has gone down, down down.
Edit: if you're down voting my statement could you please elaborate why? Thanks.
At some point maybe I'll stop paying the Apple premium if all things are equally buggy.
Of course business doesn't care, all they see is cost centers. Who cares if the bug count is 10,000 or 200, right?
In a way, it's a result of the "agile" approach, to "release early, ship often". And the larger the userbase, the more effective they are at finding and reporting bugs and edge cases. It also cuts down on the cost by reducing the time/effort spent on testing new features thoroughly.
What grinds my gears is when a company doesn't have a centralized bug database where the users can contribute and see the progress being made. If I recall correctly, Apple's support forums are like a blackhole of issue reports. Most of the time it's a bunch of users with the same problem, trying to solve it on their own; no input from an employee/developer; no way to know if they're aware or working on the bug; and no clear path to a solution.
Of course, iOS was nototorious for not alarming on January 1st because Steve wanted to sleep in (actually I don't know why, but I think it happened at least 2 years in a row, and maybe three)
The amish have the right idea.
Every OTHER time something has come out like this, I waited -- at least 30 days, sometimes 60 or 90. Let other people risk productivity and annoyance!
This time, though, I updated both my iPad and my phone last night, on release day. Why?
Well, first, because hey, COVID era. My mobile phone isn't my business line (I have VOIP for that), and I'm obviously not traveling, so the risk was lower.
But the REAL driver was this: iOS14 allows you to "pin" text conversations to the top of the list so you can get back to them quickly. This sounds trivial, but holy hell it really isn't. And in quarantine, I'm texting with people a LOT more than I used to.