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iphone dev site is down (again)
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People, the Dev-Team blog is hosted by Tumblr. Any downtime is entirely due to Tumblr maintenance, not to anything the Dev-Team is doing. Besides, posting a release would not require ANY downtime; all it would be is a new blog post, which would appear instantly.
Yes, sadly those without any knowledge of HTML seem to think a site must be taken offline to be updated. Every time Tumblr goes down, a large portion of readers assume a new release is immanent.
why are you on 4.0.2? dev team isn't planning on making anything for that firmware. you may as well switch to 4.1.
No. This is very bad advice. The Dev Team has very explicitly said that people on 4.0.1 or 4.0.2 should not update to 4.1 until everything is known about the final release tools. It remains possible, however unlikely, that it might be very important not to have already updated.
Not to mention that updating the Apple site likely requires packaging files from a staging server and moving it to the live server. A delicate procedure that requires files not to be in use so they can be replaced. This means the site has to go down.
Any blog-type site never needs to go down to update. A blog is a simple content management system that has a set framework to contain new posts. The dev-team simply needs to update with a new blog post and it will immediately be visible to the public.
Exactly. Blogs only go down when there is actual server maintenance, not for a routine update. They don't have to take down their home page to update their blog anymore than MacRumors has to take down its site every time it posts a new story on the front page.
my mistake. i didn't take the sim unlock into consideration since i'm on the att network.
It is dangerous to give advice based on incomplete knowledge or assumptions, especially when it can render people's $600 phones useless.
