[TomServo]

/chortle....

[CyberSpartacus]

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

[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.

[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.

[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]

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

[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.

[big'ol_freeper]

Looks like Apple screwed the pooch here, which is a rarity but not unheard of. Although, I keep checking MobileMe to see what’s broken and it just keeps working fine for me. Can’t say anything about the iPhone since I’m a Verizon customer.