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iOS 5 Update Available
tekgoblin writes "Apple has released the iOS 5 update. To update to iOS 5 just open iTunes with your iDevice connected to your computer and press update. I recommend doing a manual backup of your iDevice and make sure all your apps are transferred."
"Already years ahead of everything else"? I'm guessing that's why they're adding features that catch up to Android and even some from WP7. But, hey.. if you're a fan, it doesn't mean you need to know about other devices around you, as long as it's shiny and made by Apple, it will suffice.. and if it doesn't, they'll make sure that you think it does.
"Please, shut up. Just when I think you can't say anything more stupid, you speak again." -Archie Bunker.
Slashdot should demand 30% from Apple for these advertorials.
But Time Machine just rolls it all up to work perfectly with no learning curve.
...except when it doesn't work, ditches your backup volume, and requires a complete new backup. Please stop pretending that Apple technology is more than it is.
by Mike Buddha -- Someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will.
Because iOS 4 doesn't have OTA updates. Don't you Slashdot people know how to read?
so are OTA updates a way to kill off jailbreaking for good.
once an exploit is out in the open, congrats you've been upgraded to 5.1 while you were sleeping enjoy.
Savor your walled garden, secure in the knowledge that because you're not trusted enough to meddle with it, nothing can go wrong. This is, after all, what users want.
iOS 4 runs so craptastically on my 3G that it probably shouldn't have been available for that phone in the first place. There was absolutely no surprise whatsoever that it is only available on the 3GS and better.
What, you think there won't be an article when Android ICS comes out? That's the equivalent....
"goodbye and hello, as always" ~Prince Corwin, from Zelazny's Amber series
Are you trolling? I don't think anything at all you've said in your posts is right?
1) A brand new full iTunes download is 103mb, not 700 as you claimed.
2) I've never ever had to do anything remotely like you claim about removing kernel extensions and rebooting 3 times with iTunes, and in the past month I have bounced forwards and backwards between several beta versions. (b8 -> b9 -> b7 -> 10.5 all worked flawlessly). Just download a new version of iTunes and the installer will upgrade it anyway.
3) I just dragged iTunes to the trash. OSX asked for my password. I entered it. It deleted.
4) If you're not comfortable with GUI instructions and are at all competent with a bash/csh commandline, just fire up terminal and using su or sudo delete to your heart's contact. kextstat / kextunload / kextload can be used to view, load, and unload kernel extensions, but I've only ever had to use those commands when I was developing one. sudo rm -fr /Applications/iTunes.app/ etc
5) Absolutely false what you claimed about Apple expecting a crashed iPhone to just drain off the battery.
I'm afraid I've only fed into your ego honey pot, but whatever...
Thanks Apple. It just works- until it doesn't, and then you're fucked because there's no obvious way to fix anything since it's all locked away in the shiny box.
"Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!"
It's Apple. It just works. Right?
Sarcasm above of course. I hate people telling me how great Apple products are when all I've ever had with them is trouble. Thankfully the only 2 things I've bought for myself (and wife) in the last decade or so are iPods and I regret that purchase. Unfortunately on occassion at a different job I had to do things on a Mac. Only upside was dealing with a hard disk failure on an eBook taught me to stay the hell away from CrApple.
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