08-27-2014, 05:47 PM | #31 | |
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I'm also not going to ding Apple for failure to achieve 100% perfection, which is what you seem to expect. If someone pushes code which works fine for the vast majority of users, then the odds are it's not broken software. Seriously, how many people had their iPhones brinked out of the some 650 million that are out there? Most of the reports that I've seen seem to point to network issues during the download and it seems to be a small handful. Certainly not enough to trigger reports of wide spread issues, which would indicate broken software. |
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08-27-2014, 08:25 PM | #32 | ||
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Broken software is software not tested stringently enough to account for minority issues. Broken software is not robust enough to account for or self-fix things as basic as an erratic network. Broken software does not mean software that breaks everything it touches -- it is quite sufficient for it to break anything it shouldn't. |
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08-28-2014, 07:13 AM | #33 | |
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I see. Hum, I'm forced to conclude that you have never done low level network programming if you think that someone can 100% accurate handle data corruption issues caused by bad network connections. Apple is better than most, shown by the exceptionally low percentage of issues that occur when 100's of millions of devices all try to update in a short period of time, but no one achieves the level of perfection you seem to insist on. Even checksums aren't 100% accurate. |
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08-29-2014, 06:00 PM | #34 | |
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Every update OTA does this to someone, somewhere, and every OTA update that does it has people saying its Apple's fault. Its not. Shit happens. end of. |
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Oh, how I wish that I could convince everyone I know to be a bit sensible... |
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08-29-2014, 07:22 PM | #36 |
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Ha! The friend I mentioned earlier... off to Greece for 5 weeks on Thursday next. Has not backed up her ipad. Probably won't back up her ipad. Is going travelling only with her ipad. I'll send her a reminder email, but I don't think it will make a lot of difference. And, when things stop working, I get to fix them. Still, she usually takes me out for lunch or breakfast when I have to do that, no so bad
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09-09-2014, 12:40 PM | #37 |
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I don't see how people don't back up their ipads. It seems like it is risky. I also back up my PC. Mac people have time machine that is practically stupid proof. Users need more training. We've been bricking things for over a decade - I remember the compaq ipaqs that got bricked in trying to do a bios upgrade. Tons of them, mostly user error.
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