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Apple Error Leaves iPhone Developers In the Lurch
canadacow writes "iPhone developers enrolled and active in the iPhone OS 2.0 beta program got a nasty surprise today when Apple inadvertently 'expired' the recently released version. While for a beta program this typically would not be an issue, Apple has yet to release a new deployment of the iPhone OS. So developers like myself who use their iPhone for both actual phone and iPod use are bricked. Of note, this particular expired build is just 11 days old."
Yeah, it has all the suck of BSD, and all the hubris of Windows. Remember kids, using an OS that is easier for non-tech savvy people to use doesn't make you more tech savvy or smarter, it just means you're completely full of shit.
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
No thanks, Apple. iDON'T.
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
Yes, and the reason you hear about Cube microcracks and palm rests on the white iBooks that discolored are because Apple slights are newsworthy.
I managed the rollout of several dozen MacBooks at a company where we also supported Dell, HP and Sony laptops. I didn't notice hardware problems with the MBs, but the Sony Vaios all fell apart, the Dells were flimsy plastic cases that didn't hold up well, and the HP machines not only discolored, but couldn't accommodate an HD upgrade to 80 GB (they shipped with 60!).
None of those problems are discussed. Who would care? Apple users have multiple web sites where they can moan and cry about things. I didn't say Apple's hardware was perfectly flawless, I said Mac user's expectations are unreasonable.
Same thing with the iPod: nobody complained that other MP3 players come with batteries that wear out, or hard drives that die due to being bounced around for a couple years.
The software that expired hours before Beta 3 was released, and had a temporary, solvable solution for the issue that affected certain developers? I think you're overreaching.
And how many HD MP3 players have you seen or heard of that weren't iPods? I've seen one Zune in the wild, and a friend had an early Creative Nomad (I think) that used a huge 2.5" drive and was super ugly. Most iPod alternatives end up in a sock drawer long before their parts have the chance to fail.
But we're talking about a mobile hard drive unit, which is fated to live for two or three years. Saying iPods crash is ridiculous. In five years of ownership and supporting lots of users, I've seen models occasionally need a reset after a couple months of use. It's not like Windows Mobile devices that crash 3 times a day.
I'm not gonna feed your trolling anymore, so you can say whatever you like in the last word.
Well clearly you must be puzzled at why Linux has gone nowhere in desktop PCs if it offers the same ease of use as OS X. Even counting the millions of EEE PC toys that will quickly find their way to various junk drawers, Linux remains insignificant on the desktop. That's not to say that nobody uses it productively or that people shouldn't have a choice, but realistically, Linux isn't doing anything for the desktop and there's a huge reason why: usability.
The "freedom" of having a handful of window managers and dozens of window styles isn't freedom, its a burden for anyone trying to develop desktop software that works consistently. Linux isn't growing out of the server arena where it is uniquely valuable, because it simply isn't very valuable on the desktop, even when its free. If it were, it would be selling Linux PCs and there wouldn't be Windows.
Now look at Vista: it's so unusable that Microsoft can't even sell it as the exclusive product to its monopolized partners. That's like McDonalds having such a shitty new burger that it can't manage to sell it to its obese shit eating clients.
Now explain to me why some shit for brains who can't even spell "neurosurgeon" with an inline spell checker... oh wait, maybe because you don't have OS X, you can't fucking spell check your insults.
That might also explain why your myopic world view, which holds that OS X has no particular significance, is so at odds with the reality that Apple is selling Macs and iPhones using that OS so fast it can hardly keep them in stock, and is making billions of dollars doing so. At a time when Linux can't fucking ship for free in any significant way on the desktop or on mobile phones (outside of locked Chinese Motorola phones that aren't open), and at a time when Microsoft can't retail its shitty new "6 year in the making" Vista and has similarly failed spectacularly after a decade of WinCE explosions.
Yes, it must all be explained by your incapacity to figure out the Mac after a few minutes of derisively poking at its keyboard. And yes, the only rational explanation is that Mac users are a bamboozled cult ready to commit mass suicide, rather than customers who like getting a product that actually works as they expect it to and doesn't need the constant configuration you love so much.
You're the asshat with the ignorantly religious fervor here, denying the fucking obvious reality in the market and blaming everything you don't want to be happening upon the people paying a premium not to deal with lame shit thrown together without any regard for usability.