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@funjunkie27 - I wouldn't count on that happening, unfortunately. I think Apple views iCloud as the external storage option from here on out.
@PaulB - I was referring to the reluctance to update to iOS 7 compared to iOS 6. It's not just musicians who are hesitating to update, which is being reflected in the adoption rate stats that have been suggested around the web lately.
As musicians we have pretty specific reasons to be cautious with major OS updates because we rely on them for more "serious" needs from hobbyist to professionals, so hesitation to update for some users is to be expected. In this sense, from here forward every iOS update will now be like OS X updates, with half the media telling you it's a disaster and don't update for 6 months while the other says it's fine. Neither is necessarily right or wrong as it depends on the specific requirements of the musician vs. the desire to explore new tech.
In my experience after the first 1-2 updates to a new version of OS X, any major audio related bugs that may have been introduced in a major revision have been fixed by Apple within the first few weeks. Time will tell if this also happens with iOS going forward. Some of the responsibility is on developers as well to update their apps for compatibility within a reasonable timeframe.
I could be wrong, but I think the majority of the more "typical" users are hesitant with iOS 7 simply because of the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality. The majority of my friends, many of whom are musicians, do not update their OS and apps very often at all. Often times they don't update until they have no choice. This is the driving factor behind Apple's push for automatic updates, at least that's how I see it. Older people as Sebastian mentioned tend to be more in this mindset, they don't care as much about new features, and it can be understandably intimidating to learn a new operating system if they are still relatively new to using computers/tech in general. I have taught several older people how to use Macs in the past, and intimidation is the number one problem I've run into with teaching them. Once you can get people past the intimidation they learn much quicker and retain more information.
This is why Apple should have an option to delete the unwanted download or at the least should have provided an option like they have in OS X so you can simply uncheck automatic downloads for updates.
@Holdernessmedia - Thanks for a very insightful take on this issue. There is no going back to iOS 6. Apple doesn't want fragmentation of the android style on its platform. If anything the folks on iOS 6 will ensure some sort of fragmentation starts appearing. Yes users have a right to how they use their iDevices but come on apart from all the funny jibes about iOS 7 being for girls and backward thinking, iOS 7 is much better in all aspects than iOS 6. I have owned an iPhone since the iPhone 3 so I welcome this new OS. For good or for better, nothing remains the same. There is always the JB route anyway.
@FrankieJay - Yes, the fragmentation issue is something they want to avoid at all costs, I agree with Apple there but I don't always agree with their methods of achieving it. It's always a difficult thing to manage, if they weren't pushing for fast adoption rate and keeping users on the latest OS then the fragmentation issue rears it's head and the problems from that cause backlash as well.
Of course in many ways it would be ideal if all users were always running the latest OS and updated to major revisions near instantly, but that for that to go smoothly requires a metric shit ton of tight coordination between Apple and developers. This is an area where Apple's communication with us as developers could stand to improve tenfold. All things considered they obviously run a tight ship and I'm certainly not saying I could do better myself, I've yet to see anyone present any solid alternative solutions either but pretty much any dev will tell you their communication needs to be improved.
I'm with you though on iOS 7, I really like it and don't understand the "backwards thinking" comments. I could go on and on here but I've got way too much to do right now and probably shouldn't have spent this much time already as I've been gorging myself with falafels from Mamoun's while typing, haha. Back to work!
This 'only when forced to upgrade' thing was literally holding back the web. You'd code something but had to have 15 different cases for some parts because of the insane browser fragmentation. No one had that kind of money (to pay devs to write the same thing 15 times) so everything was dumbed down more often than not. It's why browsers automatically update now.
^ Word.
The Apple conference is currently under way. I got a big kick out of these bragged comments: