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59 pointsdavidbarker13 comments

I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad thing, but a lot of these new features seem like they have been borrowed straight from android. Health looks similar to S Health, and the new keyboard features remind me of the Android keyboard quite a bit. Also, the quick respond notifications feature has been available to jailbroken device users for a while.

Good ideas tend to get adapted to many places. I also like how things started adapting the flatter minimalist UI. I have loved the way that looked forever, but only recently has it really taken off.

Knowing apple though they will probably later on say that they created all of these things. Or at least apple fans will claim that apple created all these things.

"a lot of these new features seem like they have been borrowed straight from android" - Not all features! Give some credit to Windows Phone / Win 8 / Metro as well.

I think we're in kind of a tick-tock iOS-Android cycle now. One OS will push forward, the other will refine for a cycle, then swap for the next one. I'd be happier if both here pushing forward, but there's a logic to letting your competitor do the user R&D work and market testing for you.

Buried as a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7834779.

Funnily, I've just re-watched this video again today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZakKwQ-gFM

Will the users be able to disable remote Spotlight searches?

Still no flux…iOS is too bright!

What do you mean? The screen brightness auto-adjusts by default already, what would f.lux give you?

Changes the color temperature.

f.lux doesn't reduce overall brightness, it reduces the blue end of the spectrum. This makes the screen warmer, and is supposed to be good later at night since blue light specifically is what triggers production of the chemicals that keep you awake.

Easy on the eyes when it gets dark. iOS is blinding when I turn it on past, say, 9pm, especially since I have flux on my computer. That transition is jarring.

Having flux might improve my sleep cycle, certainly hasn't hurt :)

f.lux main benefit is that it gets 'warmer' in color as well, as the blue light is harsh and can affect your sleep (or so I've heard).

no words about WebGL on iOS 8 :/

(it will be on OSX.X)

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