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iOS 6.1 Leads To Battery Life Drain, Overheating For iPhone Users
An anonymous reader writes "We have started seeing an increase in iPhone issues related to battery life and overheating. All of them seem to be related to users upgrading their devices to iOS 6.1. Furthermore, Vodafone UK today began sending out text messages to iPhone 4S owners on its network, warning them not to upgrade to iOS 6.1 due to issues with 3G performance. The text reads, 'If you've not already downloaded iOS 6.1 for your iPhone 4s, please hold off for the next version while Apple fixes 3G performance issues. Thanks.'"
Presumably by using an iPhone 4S at all, I'm "owning it wrong". My deepest apologies to the hallowed memory of Jobs. I shall drop everything this instant and run out and purchase an iPhone 5.
Coming from the Microsoft world I have been very surprised at how little attention Apple pays to legacy compatibility. It's only recently become impossible to run 16 bit Windows apps in the latest Microsoft OS. Compare that to the constant forced churn in Apple desktop software. And just to pick another example still raw in my memory as a developer, see the change on iOS to CocoaTouch/UIViewController auto rotation handing methods, with pretty much zero attention paid to "helping old stuff still work", leading to really ugly breakage all across the App Store. That was not an accident, that was basically a premeditated Three Stooges eye-poke on third party developers.
Conclusion: Apple doesn't care about yesterday's customers, they keep their eyes fixed only on future dollars. When Apple goes down (as all behemoth tech companies eventually do) I shall do a little iDance on their grave, perform an Xpectoration on their development tools, and will be sure to Pee Different(r) on anything else I see lying around.