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Apple's IPhone 3G Firmware Update Bombs
JagsLive writes "After lots of complaints about iPhone 3G connection issues, Apple released a firmware update Monday with hopes it would fix the issues. But early reports suggest it didn't work as planned.
Complaints have included dropped calls, abrupt network switches, poor reception, and service interruptions.
Apple declined to offer details about its iPhone 2.0.1 update, other than saying it included 'bug fixes.' However, comments in Apple's support forum say plenty about the latest attempt to rectify poor user experiences. In fact, the update seems to be causing new issues, apparently interfering with the GPS function, among others."
First it's a kill switch, and then when that didn't work, they made the iPhones into bombs. What next? iPhones that leak chemical/nuclear/biological weapons?
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From: steve.jobs@apple.com
To: daniel@roughlydrafted.com
Subj: Hello
Daniel,
Looks like we're in a bit of bind right now. QA signed off on the 3G 2.0.1 update despite not testing it fully. (The guilty parties are being punished as we speak.) For the time being, could you write another pro-iPhone article? Be sure to mention how it is "substantially less buggy" than competitors phones, and how beautiful it is. Also, be sure to make a jab at Zune (the Internet always eats that stuff up.) It'd also be great if you could work chair throwing in there as well. Thankfully, the masses eat up tired memes without even realizing it. One article should buy us enough time and mindshare to fix these issues.
Sincerely,
Steve
Stop mocking Apple d00d...
I'm posting this from my updated iPhone, and obviou
Windows XP: it Just Works(tm).
OS-X: it Just Costs(tm)
Linux: it Just Works In Text-only Mode(tm)
"I buy Apple products. It just makes me feel special."
http://cache.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/iProduct.gif
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Makes me want to whack some crazy Apple fanboy with a one-button mouse while they're down.
Similes are like metaphors
It Just Lurks (tm).
Vista: It Just Works (on tomorrow's hardware)
We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it
No way man, you're forgetting how Macs are like, TOTALLY the gold standard in interface design unless you want to do something crazy like look up stuff in the help feature or add titles to a video or change the box sizes for titles in iMovie or close a rules window in Mail without having to hide your dock or extract stills in iMovie without adding the still to the video or have it wait until you're finished recording multiple videos before it makes you wait for it to break them up or upload a picture to photobucket that iPhoto has kidnapped or actually have a fucking clue what your emails to others will look like when you embed pictures in the text or want to see at a glance which email address you're sending to or use Adobe Acrobat without annoying update warnings that require good reflexes to turn off or charge your iPod without having good enough reflexes to keep it from deleting everything when you don't want to sync or move the iPod library on one computer to another or ...
Oh, I'm sorry, was it hard for you read all of that in one sentence? Now, pretend I told you that that style was the gold standard in writing, and now you know what it's like to use a Mac.
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.
Apple legal representative here - Sorry, that's factually wrong information. We would like to inform all the parties here that the trademark mentioned above is already owned by apple for iphone. If you have any problems with that, please feel free to contact us.
They've come down in price that much? I mught buy one once they get out of beta.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Steve Jobs likes to provide his UIs the way Henry Ford liked to provide his cars. Any color you want, so long as it's black.
Doesn't defective by design imply a DRM story?
Actually, it implies a Microsoft, DRM, or anything we don't like story. Which is why there is a defectivebydesign tag on this story ;-)
Unfortunately that joke doesn't apply to the web. The only way to tell the joke properly is to not post the joke at all. For all those who didn't post anything. Good show!
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.