Wow. So much for testing...
Just killed my girlfriend's phone and mine. Going back to iBooks.
How so, are you rebuying all your content on iBooks?
Wow. So much for testing...
Just killed my girlfriend's phone and mine. Going back to iBooks.
Repeat, did not lose notes or bookmarks.
Many people do not purchase all their books through Amazon (i.e. Amazon is not aware of all the ebooks I have).
Not to mention you will have lost your place plus bookmarks plus any notes you made.
Don't you keep copies of those somewhere other than your ios devices?
Apple should always keep the previous version of an app available to revert to in case there's problems with an update.
This would be TRIVIAL to implement. Why the hell don't they?
Also, keeping previous versions of an app available when the app obsoletes a class of devices would be good too. I know of people using iPhone 3G who have lost some apps because they can't install newer versions after their device was wiped.
True, although Amazon shares blame for what is clearly a sloppy release with a glaring and significant bug.
Nice one Amazon!
Luckily for me, I updated all my apps on the weekend and missed this I think (I usually only update once a month or so).
This doesn't exactly fill me with confidence in the Amazon ecosystem.
Apple should support a "retract update" capability that would allow developers to instantly pull an update and revert to the previous version. This would be good for customers when developers royally screw up like this.
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It seems possible -- very likely actually -- that the deletion occurs when you first launch. So try to avoid launching until the next update is available.
In the future you guys should really send your mobi books directly to the document archive on Amazon, either by using your kindle email or the Send to Kindle application. There isn't a lot of point in keeping them locally on your device when Amazon give you 5 GB of storage for free.
That means the books will be available and synced on all your devices as well.
Thats a web browser not an OS, same thing happens with Android and Win8 Phones when you update an app. Thats what I was referring to.
Or your custom folders or any books you didn't buy from Amazon, like eBooks, documents, free samples etc.Yep....but I'm guessing you don't get your bookmarks and other info such as that back.