Apple Racing to Fix Endemic iPhone 3G, MobileMe Problems

WindowsITPro ^ | 8/20/08 | Paul Thurrott news editor, thurrott@windowsitpro.com

[TomServo]

/chortle....

[CyberSpartacus]

You can always find an Apple user. Their the ones with their eyes closed.

[TomServo]

Any moment now they’ll be showing up here and blaming Microsoft.

/snicker....

[HAL9000]

Apple on Tuesday issued what appeared to be a minor update to its iPhone 3G smart phone, noting in its terse support documentation only that the release "fixes bugs." But the size of the iPhone 2.0.2 update, as it's called--a massive 250 MB--belied Apple's attempts at passing this off as a minor update.

It sounds like a full update of the application framework. It doesn't necessarily indicate how many bugs existed in the previous release. The size of the update is a non-issue for most users.

[utherdoul]

MICROSOFT DID IT!! They sabataged the network and reverse engineered the software on every iphone simultaniously withotu anyone noticing it. Apple is God, Apple doesn’t make mistakes.

Mac users are almost as bad as Obamites in their devotion. The sad thing is we have so many on this board.

[lonestar67]

I think this is more Apple envy hype.

I continue to think of my original iPhone as one of the best technological purchases I have ever made.

I think other phones are rather weak by comparison.

[aft_lizard]

I don’t know but alot of pro Apple sites I peruse seem to have a whole lot of stories about the iPhone 3G’s issues from MobileMe to kill switches and faulty plastic and stuff.

[Swordmaker]

Apple's problems with iPhone 3G issues and Mobile Me. PING!

Apple Oops Ping!

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

[Swordmaker]

Despite months of delays and dropped features, reliability and stability problems bedeviled early buyers of the latest version of Apple's OS for Mac computers, Mac OS X Leopard, when it was released late last year.

What "dropped" features were those? Most early buyers of Leopard did not have "reliability" or "stability" problems. There were a vocal minority that did have problems... but there is on every upgrade. When I upgraded my G5 Tower, it failed to finish rebooting. That was a problem with an old installation of a third party haxie called APE from Unsanity software. Removing APE solved the problem for me. My G5 has been rock solid since. I had absolutely no problems upgrading to Leopard on my MacBook Pro. We are now on version 4 of Leopard and it is pretty solid.

[Terpfen]

But the size of the iPhone 2.0.2 update, as it's called--a massive 250 MB--belied Apple's attempts at passing this off as a minor update.

Ignorance of the competition on display. Every update is around 250MB. You aren't downloading incremental patches, you're downloading the entire core firmware with the fixes embedded. Efficient? Not really. But that's how it is.

I'm not surprised a rag like this would try to claim that a single patch for a mobile phone weighs 250MB.

[Terpfen]

Mac users are almost as bad as Obamites in their devotion. The sad thing is we have so many on this board.

Did you seriously compare conservatives who use a different brand of computer than yours to Obamessiah worshippers?

Wow.

[Terpfen]

On further review, I see that the article is written by Paul Thurott. Mystery solved.

[martin_fierro]

I’ve been having mouse (Wacom tablet) & scanner issues since installing an OS X upgrade the other night.

[Swordmaker]

I’ve been having mouse (Wacom tablet) & scanner issues since installing an OS X upgrade the other night.

Which update?

[6SJ7]

Mac users are almost as bad as Obamites in their devotion. The sad thing is we have so many on this board.

Looking for a little 'cultural purification, are we?

[justlurking]

t sounds like a full update of the application framework. It doesn't necessarily indicate how many bugs existed in the previous release. The size of the update is a non-issue for most users.

I read that and immediately discounted the rest of the article as BS.

Every update is 250MB, because Apple updates the entire device, rather than doing a partial patch. It's a much more reliable (and less error-prone) method.

[vrwc1]

My iPhone 3G doesn't drop calls, but email and Safari lock up and crash regularly...very annoying.

After the 2.0.2 update I've noticed that I get worse 3G coverage than before the update, i.e. some places where I used to have 3G access now only have Edge access.

[HAL9000]

The kill switch is a good thing. It should be mandatory for Windows.

[HAL9000]

Mac users are almost as bad as Obamites in their devotion.

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Ho ho.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Their the ones with their eyes closed.

Did you mean they're (they are) or did you type this with your eyes closed?

:-)