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ah, good to know. that would have been the reason for me to try the update. i wonder how many people are out there waiting for their cck connected equipment to work with ios8.
My Air2 updated from 8.1.2 to 8.1.3 . Seems good. I'm going to update my iPhone 4s later today
If there is no performance boost or audio related bugfixes why updating?
Now that I have once again access to my computer with iTunes on it iTunes offered me to do an 'update' previously when the 'Connect to iTunes was prompted the only option were to do a complete factory reset (and then restore from a backup). My latest backup is from 2014-12-30 so i'm keeping my finger crossed the update works...
Update on my iPhone 5 worked flawlessly.
My iPhone is on 7.1.2 and the Holderness bundle need ios8
I'm happy again
iTunes managed to update my iPad Mini to iOS8.1.3 that was left in recovery mode after a failed update.
There was no need to do a complete restore and I learned a lesson that i already knew, never do OS-updates without doing a proper backup first...
Are all of you updating OTA?
Because it keeps you closer to where the developers will be focusing. New apps will almost all be only latest or last couple of versions at most. It's too hard for developers to maintain multiple versions. Updating quickly also means that you can find the bugs in your favorite apps ASAP and help the developers fix them while they are focused on fixing bugs in the new version. You wait until iOS 9 is out and start wanting iOS8 bugs fixed and the developers will be focused elsewhere.
When you ask a developer to support older versions it means they need to stop adding new features and fixing bugs to make sure that what they do have works in all versions and it can greatly increase the effort to add new features and to fix bugs. Just supporting three versions triples the testing time. Normally testing and fixing the bugs found is at least 1/3 of the development effort if done completely, I doubt many iOS devs have the time or resources to do this. Its also a fact of coding that every new line of code increase the probably of adding a new bug, adding new code to support multiple versions will always create more bugs that also need to be fixed.
The easiest thing for a dev to do when adding new features and complex bug fixes is to only add them in the latest version as well. Sometimes a lack of resources forces this.
If you are a pro and your livelihood depends on certain apps, you simply can't upgrade until you KNOW that all of those apps work in the new os version. Even serious amateurs will have this same issue. Personally as a professional software user and developer we usually had production boxes in older OS versions and program versions and test boxes in the latest OS version were we installed the latest everything for testing. It would take months if not years to upgrade to a new version. I even do this, keep multiple OS versions on my MacBook Pro using VMware now for windows and linux, just out of habit. I can understand why so many people are afraid to upgrade if they depend on only a few apps.
Personally I like Audiobus a ton and usually start there, but with IAA i could even get by without AB. Everything else I use on an iPad I have at least 3, usually more like 5 app that are close enough that I can get by. Auria is probably the one exception to this. So far II've never been in a position, even though I always update ASAP, usually the day the update is available, were there were not enough working apps to do the things I normally do on my iPad. Fav app not working, learn the three others that do the same thing while I'm waiting, maybe by the time my old fav is working, I have a new fav.
I am a guitar player and primarily make guitar songs and backing tracks to practice against. I use the amp and effects apps a lot. The "beats" bug has started to byte since I started hanging around here, but I am as simpleton as it gets there even though I play with Gadget a lot iMPC before that. I also use Logic Pro X on my MacBook Pro so I have that to fall back on, but I really prefer the variety I have on my iPad, even if it it is a pain to chain things together and climb through 3 totally different version of the "perfect user interface" to record one track.
I'm disabled so I have a ton of time to futz around with old versions, but that quit being fun about 20 years ago. If I upgrade and something I really like doesn't work I'll report the bugs in detail and let the dev know I am available to help, for apps I am less interested in I just dump them until there is an upgrade and then test them again. Staying on the latest OS I just upgrade all apps every day or two and keep going. So far the majority of stuff I really care about has worked within a couple of weeks of my iOS 8 upgrade. I've never been hooked on specific apps, been too disappointed over the years when they disappear, get updated to a more modern version, dissolve in a bug storm as the company mores on to more profitable apps, get purchased by Apple, Oracle, IBM, etc.
Everybody needs to determine whether upgrading makes sense for them based on their individual usage of their device, this post is simply to explain whats best for me. Whats best for me may certainly not be optimal for everyone else. Just make sure that your needs are similar to the needs of the people that are running around posting every other post that they are still running 7.?.?.
I meant why upgrade from ios 8.x to a minor update version. iOS 7 to 8 is a different story.
Personally I look to trade asap my new ipad mini2 (8.x) to Air 1 but running the 7.1.2 iOS vesrion . Too many bugs . I recall updating from 6 to 7 and in few months I was glad I did.( even running on 'old' ipad3) . Unfortunately my mini2 came with ios8 can't say I enjoy it better...
I find that staying on the 'latest and greatest' doesn't work for me. I prefer to use my software as if it were hardware. I've spent months if not years figuring out what works for me and I'm going to stick with it until the time is right. My biggest gripe at the mo is that loopy and samplr sync is not great and there's a slight loop sync situation within loopy. I've contacted Michael about this and he was kind enought to get me the beta of loopy to sort the latter issue. It worked for my original bug but made Samplr sync even worse. End of the tale is that I went back to my original set up and learned to appreciate the shortcomings and try to find simple workarounds.
It really looks to me like it's gonna take ages before things start working for those with specific set ups involving audiobus. For now I have my GF's iPad mini IOS8 that I use as a testing device but I'm not eager to test it every update comes out. I feel for most part Apple are happy with the way things are. They're earning shedloads from what the newsreel says. So for them it probably is: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I'm by and large in the @BigDawgsByte camp especially in terms of everybody needing to determine what will work best for them. The major updates from 6-7 and 7-8 are where I will be more conservative. I'm not so dependent upon syncing apps as some people so that means I have less at risk. I make no money from my iPad music activities and given the history of how things have developed in iOS to date I wouldn't be comfortable relying upon it being stable enough to depend upon for that purpose. In general I'm happy things have been working as well as they have and how many apps continue to be supported and still work for me especially given the economics of app development. There is definitely room for improvement on the part of Apple and this primarily revolves around their ratcheting iOS strategy. Flight test being limited to iOS 8 is an example of trying to push things forward and dropping support for previous versions of iOS. Given that Apple pushes out new devices every year I don't think a device will be viable for more than a couple of years with the latest iOS and apps. Given how relatively small a portion of their market musicians/music apps are, I don't anticipate great improvements in this area anytime soon. Until the capabilities of iOS devices level off, my prediction is that the bleeding edge will continue to do so.
Luckily (?) that won't be happening for me for quite a while. I think my next computer related purchase will be a tablet. As in stone. Perhaps after the new roof that keeps getting put off.
If there would be no"scrollview"bug that i described elsewere i would be absolutely in love with the Air 2 and yes...even with iOS8.At this point I really don't have more problems with it than i had with iOS7.Which are only a few minor issues.I mentioned it a couple of times but i just (very)rarely use ausiobus.Only IAA here and there.My wait for the perfect solution is nearly over because Auria Pro is finally waiting arround the corner and i definitely prefer an all in one solution.I can see myself buying only apps in the future that have a native Auria version (like some Sugarbytes stuff) or that will be released as an Auria plugin.With an all-in-one solution combined with the fantastic Auria support i'm not afraid of even iOS9
IF there wasn't this stupid scrollview bug
This scrollview bug is ruining my life! Well, that might be overstating it, but at the very least its pissing me off. I don't think we'll see any of this fixed soon. If this is a hardware issue, it will be because of the direct input layer apple did to make it thinner, but you'd think they would have nailed it since they had been doing it on iPhones for a couple years by this point.
Also, I wouldn't expect dual versions for iOS apps within Auria as it seems all apps within auria are not iOS native, so any developer would essentially have to make both an iOS version and a desktop version, and I believe that overhead would be significant for most devs. Sugar bytes is easy to confuse since they had desktop versions first, and remade them for iOS. The iOS version Turnado is not exactly the same as the desktop version plug-in within Auria. The desktop version is in Auria.
So keep in mind that if you require your apps to exist in both, you might very well significantly limit your options. if Auria uses some type of desktop wrapper to run Audio Units, it is possible we'll see more desktop apps at least somehow available on iOS, but don't let that stop you from acquiring unique music apps on iOS that can't really be done on desktop, as they'll never be ported to desktop, and never be able to easily take advantage of that AU wrapper.
There are a lot of assumptions I'm making here, but I think this is the most realistic view of that situation.
No probs here. In fact more responsive now.
My ipad 3 went into recovery mode when I updated ios 7 to 7 point something so I get a bit clenched when updates land, only time it went wrong for me, but reading a few comments seems like apple has made ios 8 more like osx, where you can just reinstall the os, which is handy. Looked at the security bug fixes and it seems like they have patched quite a few things, was going to hold off, but might give it a go, here's a link to the security patches.
http://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204245
Wow, thanks for the link man. I will be upgrading.
Hope it goes smooth for you Musikman4Christ.