Editor's Guide: At present, Android and iOS are the two main forces in the mobile device operating system market, although many people think that the iOS system is smoother, but there are also people who refute its bugs too much. The author of this article analyzes some of the problems that exist in the iOS system and hopes to help you.
Needless to say, in the current mobile device operating system market, Android and iOS, as two camps, are constantly evolving while competing with each other. However, open source Android has attracted countless mobile phone manufacturers to pour into it, bringing a hundred flowers to its ecology, but compared with the mysterious and closed source iOS system, many netizens still said that whether it is from the design, performance, or fluency, etc., always feel that the iOS system is better than Android.
But in fact, iOS is not as perfect as we think, and its number of bugs is not less than we imagined, for example, a forum netizen recently posted that his iPhone had a rather magical BUG: after replacing a new SIM card, the iPhone 13 mini, which was originally hot and caton, seemed to be reborn.
Some netizens said that this BUG is likely to occur because the SIM wear is too serious and needs to frequently search for signals, resulting in fever and caton, which should have little to do with the iPhone itself.
This year, if iOS does not have some BUGs, it is simply not an update, and it can always come up with some "new version of the ship" that you have never seen before. Next, I will briefly take stock of what outrageous bugs have appeared in iOS in recent years and seriously affect the user experience.
First, BugOS is worthy of the name
iOS 7 can be said to be the largest version of iOS history, and its flat UI style also provides inspiration for many mobile phone manufacturers. But the bigger the change, the greater the hidden danger behind it, the most famous of which is the problem of fingerprint recognition failure after the iPhone 5S upgrade, which is that there is a great chance that the phone cannot be unlocked with a fingerprint anyway, and can only be unlocked with a password. The existence of this BUG can be said to make the biggest selling point of the iPhone 5S into scrap.
In addition, at that time, many users reported that after upgrading their old models to iOS 7, the mobile phone has not been connected to the network, whether it is restarting, reseating the card, or restoring the network settings can not be solved.
In the iOS 8 era, the iPhone has another bug that makes people feel strange, that is, the classic Arabic string bomber incident. At that time, as long as there were iPhone users who were subjected to such an inexplicable string of Arabic characters, and clicking on the text would make thousands of iPhones bought become "disabled": the light text message flashed back, the heavy crash became brick, and the only way to go to Apple's official after-sales service was to solve the problem.
For many iPhone 6 users, the advent of iOS 9 can be described as a heartbreak, because Apple has forced the performance release of the iPhone 6 in this version, so that the iPhone in the hands of many users has become stuck, and they have to replace it with the latest iPhone, which is a bug officially made by Apple.
In 2017, Apple in order to adapt to the full-screen design of the iPhone X, brought a degree of change comparable to iOS 7 iOS 11, but it is iOS 11 that made Apple bear the reputation of "BUG OS". To give a few examples, in iOS 11, many users have reported that their iPad has received a system update push, but there is no response after clicking into it, even if it is restarted, it cannot remove this "little red dot", which is simply torture for many users with upgrade obsessive-compulsive disorder.
In addition, although iOS 11 is a version tailored for the iPhone X, the fact is that users say that the display of the two ends of the iPhone X's bangs often has problems, and it is difficult to say whether this is a problem with iOS 11 itself or the software developers have not adapted in time. But all in all, the iPhone X, Apple's first full-screen phone, turned over a big car at the most important selling point.
The most incomprehensible thing is that on iOS 11, there are still many old bugs that have not been solved, such as: Live Photo live function can not be turned off, automatic rotation failure, horizontal screen display vertical screen, fingerprint recognition occasionally fails, can not completely turn off Bluetooth and Wi-Fi...It can really be said that iOS 11 is the source of "BUG OS", since this generation, Apple has begun a variety of BUG era.
As for the back of iOS 12, 13, 14, 15 due to the length of the problem is not here to expand one by one, although the overall number of BUGs and impact is much better than before, but like what to take pictures ghost, take off the AirPods after the video will not automatically pause, frequent killing background and other situations will still affect the actual experience of users.
Xiao Lei himself has also encountered many times in the WeChat call out of the keyboard at the moment the mobile phone is directly stuck, only by killing the WeChat background re-entry can return to normal, so in terms of the number of BUGs and experience, Apple and Android can only be said to be "Wolong Phoenix", no one loses anyone.
Second, how to solve the problem is the focus
In fact, a simple thought can also be understood, after all, with the increase in the number of models and functions, the underlying code of the system is becoming more and more complex, a foreign Android developer has publicly stated on the forum that today's Android underlying code is a garbage heap, and if you want to add new functions, you must ensure that this garbage heap will not collapse. As for iOS, although the overall code level is much stronger than Android, developers will inevitably have all kinds of strange bugs in the face of such complicated code.
Quite fatally, whether it is Android or iOS, after experiencing a cross-major version of the upgrade, then the user is likely to face an embarrassing situation that cannot be rolled back, then it can only wait for the official patch or the adaptation of third-party applications. In terms of adaptation, some large software companies may be faster, while some small developers and studios, and even individual developers, may not be able to complete the adaptation of most software by 2023.
Somehow, Xiao Lei suddenly thought of MIUI 12, which once had a good reputation but quickly became a "people to see people fighting" in the past year, which is also a bunch of BUGs, such as heat, frequency reduction, brightness reduction, Caton crash, etc., so that Xiao Lei once thought that the top flagship he spent six or seven thousand to buy was actually a "semi-finished product".
That is to say, one of the reasons why the number of bugs for iOS and Android today is that there are many features, short development cycles, limited testing time, and some details are difficult to take care of. Many design vulnerabilities can only allow Apple to collect feedback after the player breaks the bug, so the appearance of bugs must be earlier than the developer's awareness. As the hottest technology manufacturer on the market, Apple will naturally be noticed by more consumers, and more and more people will think that the number of bugs on the iPhone is increasing.
As ordinary consumers, we naturally can't influence the ideas and practices of these mobile phone manufacturers, in the face of a variety of strange BUGS, we can only correct our own mentality, less to toss their own mobile phones, and do not easily try to forward, copy, download a variety of strange characters / emoji / pictures, otherwise it is likely to say goodbye to the data on their love machine.
Third, we want stability, not bells and whistles
But for mobile phone manufacturers, in this era of highly homogeneous hardware, the operating system has become a priority point for some consumers when purchasing a machine, the system is highly valued as a strategy equal to the hardware, only by exerting its own strengths, enriching manpower and material resources, and making progress with the better UI system on the market, while clarifying the direction, no longer bothered by noisy user opinions can more users be attracted by your products.
Therefore, whether it is for Apple or Xiaomi OV, they may need to reorganize the demand priority and prescribe the right medicine. For mass users, some cool interfaces that do not affect daily use, the functions are behind, all the energy is focused on stability and power balance, lay a good foundation for the daily use of the system, and then focus on improving some of the icing on the cake special effects.
At the end of the article, Xiao Lei still reminds everyone that if you think that the current system version is no problem to use, there is no need to choose to upgrade your mobile phone at the first time, it is best to judge whether you need this new system and new features after reading other people's experience reports.
But all of this must be based on the premise that the credibility of the manufacturer still exists, to ensure that the new features after the upgrade of the system have reached the set goals, to ensure that the stability is as reliable as before the upgrade. If the premise can be met, then there will be many users willing to upgrade the device in their hands, after all, people always like to try new things.
But if the new system is credited, then it is not to blame the user for not loving the upgrade and not wanting to upgrade, even the most basic normal use can not be achieved, how to talk about the new features after the upgrade?
Author: Lei Technology Digital 3C Group, WeChat public account: Lei Technology
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