Apple pulls iOS update after widespread reports of disabled phones

CNBC ^ | 09/24/2014 | CNBCstaff.com

[Chgogal]

The iOS 8.0.1 update is no longer available after multiple users earlier reported serious issues with the new version of the operating system, one that was expected to fix a glitch with the highly anticipated HealthKit apps.

[papertyger]

Then the Samsung’s Knox feature came along.. so cool.. just set up in my personal phone the secondary VM smartphone “sandbox” with my corporate email and calendar inside it and give them full admin rights to that vm phone while keeping there paws and eyes out of my personal phone.

That IS cool ;o)

[KoRn]

"I always wait at least a month before updating to a new IOS on my Apple devices. All the beta testing in the world can’t compare with releasing something on the public."

That's a great practice. NEVER install '*.0' versions of anything, and let any updates go for awhile out in the wild before installing, unless it involves something CRITICAL.

[a fool in paradise]

It’s not a bug it’s a feature!

[GeronL]

So was Attack of the Giant Ants! a feature film not a bug

[rdb3]

If having a cell-phone was not a job requirement I would not have one.

I was just like that when I worked for Nokia.

That cellphone was a leash!

Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t going to resign.

[kevkrom]

For the record, this was 8.0.1 - frankly, the only trouble I had with 8.0.0 was with misbehaving apps that weren’t updated for the new OS version and some iffiness with WiFi that was fixed by tweaking a setting.

The 8.0.1 patch was out for... what, less than 2 hours? Problems were reported and the patch was pulled. Embarrassing, but most users weren’t affected.

[Grampa Dave]

You are one of the few, who knows what their monthly rate is to use their I phones. My wife and I for years have asked the owners this specific question, what is you basic monthly bill?

People don’t answer. They either don’t know, don’t care or are in denial.

Re AT&T’s excuse for the increase. For years/decades, they did nothing to upgrade their land lines besides raising their monthly bills. My wife and I had two AT&T lines with separate numbers. Most of the time only one number might work. If my wife called my line on her phone line in our house, we often didn’t have a good connection. AT&T never replaced the decades old Pac Tel lines to our house, their box and lines to our two phones. The lines were so old they would break if you touched them. Our monthly bills had gone up to close to $100 per month for the two lines. Then, we discontinued the lines and went to another provider.

[Grampa Dave]

This probably explains the lack of emails sent by friends/relatives with I phones.

We were out of town for 4 days and had few if any emails from those who send emails via their I Phones over the four days after we got back.

[Enlightened1]

I guess most people just pay their bill, and don't look at it?

I called AT&T back today to reconfirm I heard everything correctly. AT&T did confirm it. However..., they said I can keep my current rate at $115 a month for the next 24 months, by pass the $40 Activation fee and not have to pay $300 up front (iPhone 6 64gbs smaller version) if I pay $31.25 extra for the phone per month for the next 24 months.

When I did the math and that's 31.25 x 24 = $750. After 24 months the phone is paid for and then I just go back to my current rate of $115 a month. Plus 18 months I can even upgrade my wireless phone too.

Anyhow, I'm now looking at $750 extra over 24 months (2yrs at $31.25 a month) vs. $1,040 over 24 months (2yrs). More over AT&T is willing to give me $200 credit for my iPhone 5 32gbs. I can probably get more on Craig's List if I sell it myself.

So now it does not look as bad since I would not have to pay the $299 (for the iPhone 6) + $40 (activation fee). They will just sent me the phone add $31.25 a month to my current bill for the next 24 months to pay the bill.

I'll think about it.

[Swordmaker]

Sorry, I was up to my eyeballs in alligators. The proverbial fan hit the excrement at work when we had to change accountants in mid-stream with three major or more deadlines facing us due to the reason we are having to change accountants and I’m having to redo work I’ve already done that originally took months in the space of a few days. Been literally burning the midnight oil so our new NEW accountant can catch up. . .

[Swordmaker]

This is a first. . . DON'T UPGRADE PING! BUT YOU CAN'T ANYWAY, APPLE PULLED IOS 8.0.1 upgrade due to problems.

Apple iOS Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Ronin]

Bugs in the apple!

[Ronin]

I always wait for a new phone to come out before upgrading — same reason. I’ll be switching my 4 for a 5 shortly, and I’ll do it cheap because there will be scads of perfectly good 5s out there. Then I’ll kick back and watch people beta-test the 6 and OS 8 for a few months before upgrading the OS.

[Swordmaker]

To my knowledge (apart from the bash terminal that you can get to once you're already logged in), Apple has not had a text "shell" since the days of the Apple ][, the last time the company had anything "open". They chose the "closed" route, and the onus therefore lies entirely on them to fix the problems their user base is too non-technical to tackle.

You are wrong. Apple OSX is trademarked UNIX. CLICK on the Go Menu/Utilities/Terminal and you have the full power of UNIX at your command. Easier, . . Click on the magnifying glass icon in the upper right, type T and Return. . . You are in terminal.

And, of course, being UNIX, Lexinom, you do have to be logged in, otherwise you cannot do anything. iOS is a subset of UNIX and has the same protection built in.

In case you're unaware, the Mac is the computer of choice of most aerospace engineers and computer engineers.

Curiosity Mars Rover Command Team chose Apple Macs

And they were running Apple OSX


The "War Room, "Curiosity's Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) and staff. On the night of Aug. 5, 2012 PDT (early morning Aug. 6 EDT), 34 engineers gathered in this room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., to support the landing. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

How about computer programers? Hackers, or programers, for example. At the 2011 TechCrunch conference in Hells Kitchen in New York, 500 "hackers," some of the top computer programers in the US, converged to compete in creating new software in a competition.

"For those keeping track, my colleague, TechCrunch engineer Rob Saurini, said that, of the hackers he observed with his keen hacker sight, about 90 percent were using Macs."

Why? Because Macs can run every operating system that counts, OSX, UNIX, every version of Windows. . . and every type of software.

So much for your "non-technical" user-base slur. Rocket Scientists, computer engineers, and programers choose Macs, Lexinom.

[Swordmaker]

I’ve gone through 6 iPhones, trying to get the new Wave Charging to work. What gives???

There is no new wave charging. The iPhones charge as they have always charged. . . by plugging them in. The Microwave iPhone charging is a hoax. Any attempts at doing such a thing will destroy your phone. . . and may destroy your microwave.

This hoax was created by the same people who put up a YouTube when iOS 7 was released that claimed a software update made all iPhones waterproof! Some low information voters believed it, and tried going swimming or bathing with their iPhones.

[Swordmaker]

.. its outstanding .....can iphone do anything like that visualize a second smart-phone inside the primary smart-phone os?

It doesn't need to. The Enterprise has accepted iOS the way it is. It is already 128 bit encrypted. . . and secure, HIPAA compliant. Android is inherently insecure. Even Apple cannot decrypt an iPhone without the owners pass key. Not so with an Android even with Knox.

[Swordmaker]

I didn’t update my 4s to the iOS 8 cause I didn’t have enough memory to add it. Oh, because I’ve ordered a 6+ and by the time it arrives all this update stuff will be fixed and it’ll be ready to go!

Connect to iTunes on your computer and do it that way. The space you need is much less. The amount of additional memory used by iOS 8 on the iPhone is only 740MB more than 7 after installation. It is the processing of the install without extra memory availability that requires swap space. . . being hooked to a computer provides the swap space.

[Lexinom]

Click on the magnifying glass icon...

That doesn't sound like text to me... I had a problem logging into Linux the other day and was able to ctrl-alt-F1 into the terminal - without being logged in - and log in from there. I may be wrong, but I'm aware of no analog for the Macintosh.

I've been using Apple products since 1979. With the Mac I always felt trapped - there's no way to get out of graphics and into the core of the thing. You're trapped there... The guts are proprietary - they used to have this set of libraries called the Toolbox, and a graphical library called QuickDraw. The Mac is a well-built straitjacket that appeals to a certain personality type.

Yes, some intelligent people use Macs. Some do not. Gaussian curves are everywhere.

[Swordmaker]

As I recall the cancer he had was not usually fatal if treated promptly with conventional methods. He chose several new-agey methods for 6-8 months before seeking tradational treatment. By then it was too late.

No, Pancreatic Cancer has a 94% mortality rate at five years, and usually 100% at seven. . . and Steve was able to stave it of longer than normal, lasting almost 9 years from diagnosis. Some say he could have been more aggressive earlier. It was thought he had beat it, but not with his new-agey methods. He had a liver/pancreas transplant in Kentucky several years ago in 2009. . . but the rejection and anti-rejection drugs were killing him. Then the cancer came back and finished the job.

[Swordmaker]

If your IT im sure your run VM’s on your PC and servers you know how useful it is to sandbox a virtual machine inside a real machine runing as hypervisor.

What is hilarious is that I know someone who works for a company that has their Windows network VPN so locked down they have an expensive digital key requirement to log on that is synced to a specific digital clock that generates a random matching access code. if the key is not entered in a specified time, the user has to log off the Windows computer and start over. The digital key changes every minute. However, I can log on with any Apple Mac and get access to everything. Hilarious. No digital key necessary. . . Just the user name and password. . . but at least it DOES require those. Their IT department doesn't seem to have a clue. The Mac just set up the VPN and voile, connected!