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.

[Enlightened1]

AT&T is raising EVERYONE’s data rate. I just found this out.

For instance, if you are paying $115 a month for 10GBs of Data and unlimited texts and phone calls in all 50 states.

If you upgrade your iPhone 6, and you want the 2 year plan (where you pay $199 or $299) upfront for the iPhone 6 plus the $40 activation fee. This part is nothing new. It’s been that way for a long time. However......,

your monthly rate of $115 will go up to $140 a month or an extra $25 a month or $350 a year.

I asked AT&T why and they said because they no longer receive a subsidy from the feds for their land lines. Therefore, in order to make it up they are throwing it on everyone’s wireless bill.

Once word gets out on the street I bet they will lose many current customers like myself. I was a customer since 2002. Think I will be looking at T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon.

Ridiculous and I will be leaving them soon.

[InterceptPoint]

Just ordered an i6 for me and an i6+ for the wifey. Replacing an i4 and an i5.

If the rumored new iPad ever shows up I’m going to grab one of those as well. My iPad 1 S/N 0000001 has become very forgetful of late - memory shortage I suppose. iPad brain cells are apparently not immortal.

[csmusaret]

My ipod touch out performs my wife’s Samsung all day long. And I can make phone calls on it too.

[Nervous Tick]

>> All the beta testing in the world can’t compare with releasing something on the public.

Yeah, and Apple’s rushed, inadequate, minimal testing fares even WORSE...

[HamiltonJay]

I hope you are being sarcastic...

Forgotten MAPS and Antennagate already...

[AnAmericanInEngland]

$115 a month? Hell, for that much here in the UK you’d get unlimited calls, texts and data and a partial refund. Damn, cell phone plans are even more ridiculous in the States than when I left in ‘11.

I pay £45 a month for my Galaxy Note 3, which is about £20/month installment on the phone, and £25/month for 1 gig of data, 500 outgoing minutes (incoming calls aren’t charged for here) and 500 outgoing texts (again, incoming texts aren’t charged for)

[livius]

Prices are ridiculous here. Of course, a large part of the total price is actually in federal taxes slapped on practically every aspect of the service.

[Enlightened1]

Yep.. well when enough people reject it, then they will be forced to lower their prices.

I like the phone, but not that much. $115 a month is the max I will for unlimited text, calls in 50 States and 10GBs of data.

AT&T is smoking crack if they really think the majority of people paying on 10GB plan will go up $25 a month to $140 a month before taxes. That's simply way too much money.

[roadcat]

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

Back in the 90s we got a new manager on our crew. All of us were on 24/7 support, equipped with cellphones. New manager thought he would do some cost-savings, and ordered most of us to give up our cellphones. In the meeting, we all looked at each other smiling, and gladly tossed our cellphones to him. He thought it was a perk for us having these fancy cellphones with walkie-talkie features. For us, it was a pain, constantly getting called for every little problem. That lasted about two weeks and he was begging us to take back the cellphones.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

You can get much better monthly plans on most of the MVNO prepaid carriers.

[matt04]

Exactly. It’s a shame he refused proper treatment.

[Lexinom]

Apple's systems as a whole are so closed that it's nearly impossible to remediate botched installs. On Linux at least I can hit ctrl-alt-F1 to get into a text shell.

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.

[VanDeKoik]

Won’t some die-hard Apple fan please tell us how this is a hoax, and that Apple is not at fault!!!?!

[Cato in PA]

It just works! Magical! Thin! Lightweight! What, marketing verbiage didn’t fix the problem?

The reality distortion field continues to dissipate now that Steve Jobs is gone.

[Borges]

I’ve found iPhones highly reliable. Androids tend to lock up.

[Lexinom]

Did he opt for some strange new-agey treatment?

[morphing libertarian]

I don’t understand people who turn off their phones unless they have an important call to make. What if your family has an important call to make to you?

[Cato in PA]

$140 per month? Absolutely ridiculous. I pay $58 per month for unlimited everything plus all the frills on T-Mobile. If they have good coverage in your area, I advise you to look at them or one of their MVNOs first.

Sprint has some plans as well if you live in an area where their network isn’t congested. I was on Virgin Mobile when I first switched over to a smartphone.

Verizon and AT&T are two sides of the same coin: like Republican and Democrat.

[Enlightened1]

Thanks for the tip! Although I wonder about their coverage?

[italianquaker]

Updated the iPhone 5,and iPad without a hitch