ios8

[caine]

What do you think ?

From my own limited experiences so far, putting it onto my ipad air; its struggling with getting/keeping its wifi connection going.
However my iPhone 5 on ios7 is rock solid. I only purchased the Air last week in Dallas while passing through on holiday.

[rcjordan]

>getting/keeping its wifi connection going

That's in the press as a problem. Also battery draining fast.  But if the wifi is polling constantly then that might be the root of the battery problem as well.

[Brad]

It is working fine on my old iPad 2, but I have iCloud and messenging turned off.  Only problems are from me learning to jump through hoops The Apple Way rather than the OS adapting to the way I like things.

[rcjordan]

>It is working fine on my old iPad 2, but I have iCloud and messenging turned off.

Just loaded it on this IP2.  In addition to above, I also nuked location services.

[rcjordan]

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-09-23/apple-s-ios-8-software-update-causing-apps-to-crash-more

[Brad]

>location services

Ya, ditched that. I'll let my phone blab to the world where I'm at.

I'm not thrilled with the new tabs in Safari but I do like that I can set DuckDuckGo as a default.  Most of the time I use Mercury Browser which does tabs the way I like them anyway.

[littleman]

My daughter updated her iphone and it forced her to delete a bunch of things to make room.  It seems to be a general rule that old hardware Mac stuff with updated OSs tend to perform worse.

[Rumbas]

>forced her to delete a bunch of things to make room.

Same here - both in the family ipads and my 5. Didn't do it on the 5 yet as I dont want to delete 5 gig of photos.

[Torben]

If you haven't 5 GB available you can just update it from iTunes on your computer, which will only require 1GB.

[rcjordan]

Apple Pulls iOS 8.0.1 Update

http://recode.net/2014/09/24/apple-pulls-back-ios-8-0-1-update-amid-reports-of-problems/

[rcjordan]

How to fix your iPhone 6 or 6 Plus after the iOS 8.0.1 update

http://bgr.com/2014/09/24/ios-8-0-1-bug-fix-how-to/

[Brad]

They totally screwed up tabs on Safari with iOS 8.  I'm using Mercury browser more.  I think all browser apps in iOS use the safari rendering engine, except maybe Opera.

[rcjordan]

Chrome added Drive app and some others --don't know exactly when.  You can run bookmarklets, too, but from the omnibar.  No bookmarks bar, no quickstarter splash page, though, so I won't likely use it.  I may be forced to, though, as more and more pages load all kinds of crap via ajax they crash icab regularly.

[Brad]

Things I like about Mercury:

1. Traditional tabs, I don't have to open a sidebar to get to them or press a tab button to see them.
2. Let's me set my own default search engine.
3. Has speed dial
4. Is not given out by one of the SE companies.
5. Is stable
7. Full featured right out of the box so I don't have to add tones of third party addons right away.
8. Has addons but I can't be bothered to check them out.
9. Fairly stable.

[rcjordan]

I assume Merc has a tradition bookmarks toolbar?

Can you pick your browser agent to spoof?