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Apple's iPhone 2.0 is a disaster: read on
The iPhone 2.0 software has a serious bug that renders all iphones useless. Apple has released 2 updates since the release of 2.0 software and this issue has not been solved. This is a serious problem. The iPhone right now as it is.... is a waste of money. Do not buy it. Read on. Apple refuses to describe the bugs it fixes, so we dont know what they're doing with these updates, and they have not acknowledged this issuse. Many iPhone users are left in the dark.
http://www.macworld.com/article/134923/2008/08/iphonedebug.html#commentsjump
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1600894&tstart=25&start=500
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Re:Disabled Apps
Try installing a new app and the old ones should work automagically. Not a fix I have tried, merely one from before - mine has been completely ok.
http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/08/18/iphone-os-202-fix-for-apps-crashing-not-launching-and-missing-music/ Has a much more involved solution, though there is a shoter version in the comments.
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Re:Apple ignores serious iPhone bugs...
More for your reading enjoyment.
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Re:Really?
Last time you checked, you failed too.
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Re:Pertinent word...I guess you don't read the news very much.
You must have a strange definition of "computer phone" if the N95 doesn't qualify. Nokia doesn't even sell it as a "phone" they call it a multimedia computer. It costs about twice what the iPhone does, and has sold about twice as many units. As of the beginning of last month, 7 million N95s vs. the iPhone's 4 million. The N95 did beat the iPhone to market by about two months (Another feather in Nokia's cap), but it's selling faster and generating more revenue than the iPhone, no matter how you look at it.... So.. wow... I guess you ought to consider actually looking up the numbers next time before telling someone else they don't do much reading.
Apple dictates that nobody will be allowed to negatively affect the experience of the customer who BUY their devices.It appears to me that they are trying to make the experience so miserable themselves that nobody WANTS to buy the device.
Can you imagine yourself at the side of the road with your phone and its battery is dead, even though you charged it just hours ago and did not use it?I'm not the one who bought a defective phone with no battery door. Besides, I've read much more realistic iPhone disaster scenarios in the news that I don't read. You see, what happened is some background task kept running and drained its owner's bank account of $4800. That wouldn't have happened if the iPhone wasn't locked to the American AT&T network. The owner could have just popped in a new SIM card for that locale and everything would have been peachy. But hey, it just one of many fine experiences brought to you under Apple's control. Others include, Look! I shattered my iPhone, Damn it! Why won't my headphones work? and everyone's favorite, I've been visited by the brick fairy!
Enjoy your app-less iPhone though. I'm sure you'll be kickin' it with that drug database in no time.
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iPhone unlockers killed 3rd party development?Gearlog quoted Apple VP Greg Joswiak as saying that
Apple doesn't oppose native application development...Rather, Apple takes a neutral stance - they're not going to stop anyone from writing apps, and they're not going to maliciously design software updates to break the native apps, but they're not going to care if their software updates accidentally break the native apps either.
So it doesn't sound like Apple is opposed to 3rd party development per se. On the other hand, Apple has stated definitively that they will take steps to stop "unlocking" of the iPhone from the AT&T service (which they are probably obligated to do by their contract with AT&T). So it is probably the unlockers who spoiled the party for those who merely wanted to install 3rd party applications. At least one of the unlocking methods worked by exploiting a buffer overflow. Clearly, allowing users to run arbitrary code on the iPhone opens up huge opportunities for supporting such vulnerabilities. So to live up to their contract with AT&T, Apple probably will have to exercise some control over what applications are installed on the iPhone.
This of course leaves open the possibility that Apple might, at some point in the future, provide some mechanism for "approved" 3rd party applications to install on the iPhone. But 3rd party applications are clearly not a big part of Apple's business model for the iPhone, so it's probably not a big priority. Moreover, any such mechanism would have to be consistent with the security requirements of Apple's deal with AT&T, so it won't be a simple matter.
I'm not holding my breath. -
Re:iPhone is old tech
Magic Apple iPhone glass never breaks.
$250 is an expensive repair job. It's half the price of the 4GB phone. Plus another $30 for a loaner. Break it twice and you've bought a new phone. AT&T isn't dumb enough to be offering insurance on the thing either. If it were a rare occurrence, I'm sure AT&T would be happy to take your $5 a month. As it is, you break it, you're f#cked.
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Re:Account Suspended
Interestingly, so does iPhoneAtlas. Same author? Don't know. [Nearly] same text? Yup.
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Re:A few other notesBTW: According to the iPhone Atlas notes on the activation video (which I can't watch until after work):
- If you are already an AT&T customer, you can either replace your current cell phone line with the iPhone, or add the iPhone as a new line
- If you are an existing AT&T customer, you keep your original voice plan and just need to "add the iPhone data plan"
So you shouldn't need to shell out more cash to move over to an iPhone plan. - If you are already an AT&T customer, you can either replace your current cell phone line with the iPhone, or add the iPhone as a new line
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Re: iPhone User agent stringhttp://www.iphoneatlas.com/2007/05/ says
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A538a Safari/419.3
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Re:I don't see what all the fuss is about.
I want an SSH client, for example, and that just can't be done in AJAX.
Fairly sure, yep. Atlas is a project to "assess the feasibility of such an app"; I'll be pretty surprised if it turns out to be feasible.
There are various hacks you could do with AJAX, requiring server-side support, which could simulate having an SSH client on your phone. Essentially, have the phone present the UI of an SSH client, but just send AJAX queries to a web server, which would in turn operate a real SSH session on your behalf. This would be better than nothing, but it's not the same as being able to run an SSH client on the iPhone.
I would like to be surprised, though. -
Re:I don't see what all the fuss is about.
I want an SSH client, for example, and that just can't be done in AJAX.