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Apple Yanks iOS 8 Update
alphadogg writes Within hours of releasing an iOS 8 update to address assorted bugs in the new iPhone and iPad operating system Apple has been forced to pull the patch, which itself was causing iPhone 6 and 6 Plus users grief. Reports filled Apple support forums that the iOS 8 update was cutting off users' cell service and making Touch ID inoperable. The Wall Street Journal received this statement from Apple: "We have received reports of an issue with the iOS 8.0.1 update. We are actively investigating these reports and will provide information as quickly as we can. In the meantime we have pulled back the iOS 8.0.1 update."
Direct link if you want to try to fix an iPhone 6 through iTunes. http://appldnld.apple.com/iOS8...
Here is for the 6+ http://appldnld.apple.com/iOS8...
Then don't make your phone from that metal.
People put phones in pockets. People sit on phones. People drop phones.
I know, because I've done all the above. My phone basically lives in my pocket, sitting or standing, or running around. And I've never bent one yet.
Maybe it's just fashion-over-functionality, like most Apple products, but I'd prefer a very expensive phone not to bend because it's in your pocket.
P.S. My keys are metal. They don't bend. Car keyfobs don't bend, even the larger ones. You can make excuses all you like - other models and manufacturers DO NOT have this problem, to anywhere near the same extent. Seriously, one week after release - it's not a "repeated and prolonged" stress - it's you forgetting it's in your pocket ONCE and then bending a very expensive device.
P.S. My keys are metal. They don't bend.
Some people have bent their iPhones, some people have bent their keys. Looking at the video of someone bending an iPhone 6 Plus deliberately in their hands, the pressure needed is about the same as it would take to bend a key.
I'd actually say there are very few people who've never bent a key. It doesn't happen often but it does happen. And it's a precursor to the key snapping in the lock, which plenty of people have also experienced.
You can make excuses all you like - other models and manufacturers DO NOT have this problem, to anywhere near the same extent.
You don't know what the extent is. You just have a small number of examples, and this being Apple anything that happens is news. Other phones do bend, and if they don't bend, they break.
http://www.cultofmac.com/29740...
Samsung phones don't get the same news coverage that Apple phones do. A new iPhone and any surrounding issues make it onto mainstream news sites and chat shows.
All large, thin phones bend. A plastic one is more likely to bend back than an aluminium one. But it depends also on the internals and how flexible or brittle they are.
Yeah, um, Apple products have always been plagued with blatant oversights (like the antennas years back). Seems every new generation of iPhone has something wrong with it at the start. A lot of it is extreme attention. The other thing is to never be the first to buy a new product or download a major update.
In case of a phone, let the crowd rush in for a couple months and pick up the one with small hardware revisions in November or January. Same with downloads.