The iPhone's hardware may be closed, but iOS is more open than ever
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This is actually pretty cool. One of my gripes with iOS of recent years is how they seemed to be closing off parts of the OS... Like when they took away the WiFi analysis apps that IT folks were using to do heat maps, and signal strength testing and such.
This sounds like they may be going back and undoing a lot of that, which will be good for the general public as well as us IT peeps.
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I don't know if I'd call that opening more of iOS, than redefining some functional elements of the UI.
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@aidan_walsh said in The iPhone's hardware may be closed, but iOS is more open than ever:
I don't know if I'd call that opening more of iOS, than redefining some functional elements of the UI.
"...more open than ever" is a very relative statement
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One of the security features of iOS is also why it lacks some of the features android has... in iOS everything is sandboxed from each other. No option for the user to disable this on app by app case. No shared storage as such, no option of downloading music outside of itunes, unless you play it within it's own app.
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@Jason said in The iPhone's hardware may be closed, but iOS is more open than ever:
One of the security features of iOS is also why it lacks some of the features android has... in iOS everything is sandboxed from each other. No option for the user to disable this on app by app case. No shared storage as such, no option of downloading music outside of itunes, unless you play it within it's own app.
While it's true that a normal user can't do these things, it's been shown that the applications themselves can. Undocumented APIs have been found and are used by hackers all the time.
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Finally got around to seeing this. iOS seems to be doing lots of good stuff.
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Now we are calling adding smileys and integration with yelp, and uber as being more open than ever?
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@IRJ said in The iPhone's hardware may be closed, but iOS is more open than ever:
Now we are calling adding smileys and integration with yelp, and uber as being more open than ever?
Apparently, yes. But it is true technically as well. Does not mean it is very open compared to FOSS software, but in context it is true.
