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Apple Watch Owners Asked To Return Devices For Repair After Update Glitch (bbc.com)
Apple has pulled an update for its smartwatches after some owners complained the software -- watchOS 5.1 -- had caused their devices to stop working. From a report: The problem appears to have baffled the firm's repair staff, and there appears to be no way at present for owners to restore the products themselves. Several have said they have been told they need to send in the devices for a fix. Apple said it intended to release a revised update soon. Those affected reported that their watches had become stuck in a state showing the Apple logo -- but nothing else -- on their screens. One owner of a newly released Series 4 model said he had been told it would take the firm's repair staff up to a week to decide whether his device needed to be repaired or replaced.
Apple is no longer a well-managed company?
I don't understand. It is stuck showing the Apple logo and nothing else. Isn't that the purpose of the Apple watch?
Are Apple and Microsoft competing to see who can be the most incompetent?
Microsoft pauses Windows 10 update after files disappear.
so..
similar to windows 10 after any major update.
why doesn't microsoft offer to fix for free all the computers they fuck up on a semi-annual basis?
We rip you in the back and the front.
The up-time of such a device wouldn't meet modern service level objectives. The Sun Dial seems to have under 50% up time. It doesn't work at night, and often has problems on overcast days.
It is actually quite sad, how synchronized we are a society we are with Cell Phones and their clock all hooked up to a highly regulated atomic clocks. If I have meeting in 2 minutes I am like, I have plenty of time, to fill my coffee, check some emails, fix a line of code. Then dial in and still be early because I had 10 seconds to spare. Then everyone else is all connected in within 30 seconds after that.
Back 20 years ago, most people were 10 minutes early to a meeting, and the meeting didn't start until 5 minutes after the scheduled time. Because peoples clocks could be considered up to 5 minutes off.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Funny, I never speak to anyone who has a smart watch, because it's just one more vector for them to be obsessed with their fucking phone.
Oh, gee, you got a Facebook notification and need to look at your watch.
No thanks.
shit we've perfected time telling technology since like 100 years in the paleolithic
bullshit.
like cave dudes had a triangle that axed the sun what time it was
Which only works during the daytime and requires a scale whose location relative to compass directions is surveyed.
how do you fuck up a watch
An apple watch isn't just a watch, just like a smartphone isn't just a phone. It's a complex multifunction cellular-connected device, that means much more opertunity for bugs and a desire for the manufactuerer to add features over time. That means firmware updates.
Sometimes firmware updates go wrong, vendors can reduce the probability and impact with internal testing and with staged rollouts but on a sufficiently large and varied userbase the occasional fuckup due to a combination of factors not covered in testing is pretty much inevitable.
note: i'm known as plugwash most places but i screwd up registering that here somehow in the past and now can't register
Maybe you need to talk to an English teacher to get a book on grammar and writing. You can then dis on folks in public without fear of looking like a moron.
Tell me what you believe...I'll tell you what you should see.
Funny. My use case for a smart watch would be 2FA notifications and authing SO I do not have to look at my "fucking phone". ;)
Tell me what you believe...I'll tell you what you should see.
That's a good half of what you paid for, already.
Maybe 90% if you still use your phone to tell the time.
"Back 20 years ago, most people were 10 minutes early to a meeting, and the meeting didn't start until 5 minutes after the scheduled time. Because peoples clocks could be considered up to 5 minutes off"
Nonsense. Cheap, reliable, accurate watches have been widely available since Timex started stamping them out back around 1960.
You can't see ANYTHING from a car, You've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk...Edward Abbey
How do you fuck up a watch? You might be surprised.
I knew a guy in a digital design class who produced a beautiful digital clock, based on 7400-tier chips. It would count up to 12:59, and then the hour counter would reset to zero. Fortunately someone pointed out that this would give him a 26-hour day.
I find it puzzling that such a big bug can happen - it is not a WearOS implementation that can in theory run on hundreds of very different configurations. There are only a handful of different Apple watch models. So how does this happen? I assume that Apple uses normal QA processes. Would it perhaps be an obscure interaction with a pre-installed 3rd party app?