Posted on 09/20/2014 6:04:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
iOS 8 upgrade problems have reared their ugly heads, bang on cue. Early-adopting iMagicMirror owners are finding their devices suffering some seriously poisoned Apple.
Here we go again. Every major iOS update causes suspicious slowdowns in older iPhone and iPad types. It's as if Apple wants you to upgrade to the latest shiny. As if.
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Gregg Keizer takes a beautiful new Queen:
The initial uptake for Apple's iOS 8 has been less than half of...iOS 7.
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In the 24 hours since its mid-day Wednesday launch, iOS 8 powered just 7.3% of all iOS devices that accessed Chitika's ad network. ... "iOS 8 adoption has been remarkably slower than either iOS 7 or iOS 6," said Andrew Waber [who] compared the 7.3% of iOS 8 against last year's iOS 7, which collected an 18.2% share [and] iOS 6's share was 14.8%. MORE
Some say slow uptake is down to the 5GB free-space requirement. Jonny Evans has great tips:
Some iOS 8 upgraders have complained it is necessary to delete content from their devices...to install the new OS. That's true if you upgrade in isolation, but far less of a problem...if you upgrade using iTunes [when you] need just under 1GB of space.
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
Yes, it reminds me of all the anti-PC, "what kind of idiot would use anything but an Apple product" attitude. Well, that and the spectacle of people waiting in line for several days to be the first to buy a new product.
Wife and daughter avoided that upgrade by spending $500 on two new phones, and obligating themselves to new two year contract.
Wiley women.
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I’ve never been able to understand this strange phenomenon.
Really??? try making the statement "Apple makes a nice product but its not particularly better or worse than any other type of computer system...and it's true that many of Apples features were actually copied other computer systems.:
I’ve never been able to understand this strange phenomenon.
Really??? try making the statement "Apple makes a nice product but its not particularly better or worse than any other type of computer system...and it's true that many of Apples features were actually copied from other computer systems"
Same here. Updated both mine and my wife's phones last night as well as the kids' iPads.
Not happy at all with this new iOS. Cluttered and slow. Seems they have a lot of bugs to work out.
Updated my MacBook to Yosemite Beta as well and I really don't like this! Seems Apple is trying to turn my laptops and iMacs into a big iPhone. Now I'm going to have to do a clean-reinstall back to Maverick.
I've been a Apple guy since 2007 but some of the post-Jobs "upgrades" have left me concerned for the future of the company.
This being said, I couldn't be more pleased to see Apple give their middle finger to government requests to unblock customers' devices with their new security features.
Like a moth to the light.
Chevy vs Ford....
Further back....
Rock vs stick
Mine is better, faster, stronger, shinier mentality has been around since Adam and Eve....
For some it is a make work scheme. They stand in line for someone else and get paid. In a local news report some looked like the homeless. You might call it the occupy apple movement.
Never purchase a first model of anything. Never install the first version of new software. Haven’t we learned anything? Wait for the first service pack, or even the second one. Sometime next month, Apple will have fixed most of the bugs. Then I will install it.
And lest we forget, only by every other edition of Microsoft windows.
my iphone goes to 11
” certain MacAfee update”
Any time is a good time to delete MacAfee.
My IPhone speaks binary...
101001100011100110101
Compounded by the fact that they then whine about being picked on when their articles of faith of perfection and infallibility are questioned with a more realistic view of their product of worship
Apple people need to get off there high horse.. it's a computer or phone ... no greater than any other brand computer or phone with the same bugs and flaws.
you come to a thread about bugs in OS 8 and insanely silly long lines at 1 a.m. in the morning up to get the newest Apple crap and you then whine about all the Apple haters?
I've had an Apple product it was nice.... but I've had better....for way cheaper....and that's heresy to the cult of Apple types any the company that promotes it.
Apple is a study in 21st century marketing hype over substance.
Obama is a proud mimic of this hype over substance marketing model
Apple bots and Obama bots are equally boring and pretentious
Wow!! Definitely like a moth to the light.
Perhaps ADS (Apple Derangement Syndrome) is incurable.
I think the problem is that number 8.....
Did not work out for Microsoft either.
iOS9 will fix everything.
Dunno. I pre ordered mine online at 9am or so EST. Delivered to my door yesterday. No fuss no muss.
Why do people wait in line for tickets to some event? Or drive all the way across the country to attend an event in DC?
They want to be a part of something? Just like hanging with people? The experience?
Who knows.
Me, I just ordered online and had the nice man in the brown uniform bring it to me.
I like it. No issues with iOS 8 on the new device or the old.
I’ll tell you this though: the touchID is worth the price of admission alone. I don’t like walking around with an unprotected device, and given the growing prevelance of cameras everywhere; punching in an unlock code every time you need to gets annoying.
I have been apple since my mac plus. I didn’t buy the first model because I wanted to wait and see if any bugs etc. Many apple fanatics have been somewhat fanatical. I used to see it a lot at the user groups I attended.
The NEED for a new phone or tablet etc is generated by those percentage of apple fanatics. You’ve seen people sleep on the sidewalk for days to be first for a new Star Wars etc. movie. Same same.
Apple does a pretty good job of stoking the flames. Their releases have been rest marketing events. Jobs was great at that stuff. Now apple doesn’t have a new face and neither do the others.
Apple started this in the late 80s with MacExpos and there became and expectation that they would make a big announcement every year to coincide with the expo.
Waiting to see who might emerge.
Samsung does very well. Their commercials are good, but no face to front the new product announcements.
It's a personal service, not a make work scheme. It's a free market phenomenon.
A make work scheme, on the other hand, is the sort of cockamamie scheme the occutards would invent to fix the economy they've wrecked.
RE: Why do people wait in line for tickets to some event? Or drive all the way across the country to attend an event in DC?
Because the event is only ONCE.
Apply iPhones are available all the time after they announce their product is on sale.
Plus, if you buy a little later, any bugs could be ironed out and you have chances of buying a more stable, reliable product.
It the incessant over-the-top hype from their fanboys and the fact Apple itself seem to believe their own hype that they've invented everything on the planet having to do anything with computers that is so annoying
That the main problem I had when I try going to an Apple Macbook Air 11 for my pc.. it was geting past the inane bullshit from the fanboys to get to and real technical meat on the product.
After 35 year in IT dealing just about every different products and vendors in the computer industry... I have zero patience for vendor marketing smoking and bullshit.
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Apple and its fanboys are the king of marketing smoke and hype... it just so much noise to wade through when you need to get down to the business of really doing something..
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