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Apple Confirms Fix is Coming Next Week for Malicious Link That Freezes Messages App
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That can also depend on where the actual issue is and where the actual fix for it is.
Only to the extent that myself and my 5-7 friends that care about iOS development cycles all experience it but ymmv
Ironically my messages app crashed on my iPhone X this morning. This problem not related. I was about to text a co worker and the app just crashed on its own.
He only posted it after Apple responded to his emails saying that it was a non-issue.
I'm sure there's an internal reason, probably a consolidation of patches triggered by a delay in 11.2.2, resulting in changes that were expected to be 11.2.3 or 11.2.4 being rolled into it. It's a hell of a lot easier to not have to say things like "this was patched for 11.2.4, but we ended up shipping it in 11.2.2" and "this was patched in 11.2.3, I mean the second version of 11.2.3 not the one we burned" But from our perspective? 1.2.5 is greater than 1.2.2. Great!
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Huh, I've never seen Messages crash before. iBooks? All the time.
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There are two ways to handle bugs:
1. Don't fix them, beyond the first round of most urgent bugs and maybe one release every few months after that. (This has been Apple in the past.)
2. Fix them and release them in a timely fashion. (Apple lately.)
Amazing how people can whine about anything. Sorry. Frequent updates is a good thing.
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Because 11.2.5 is a bigger step. (It may include AirPlay 2.)
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Yup. Presumably, they don’t fix Messages, but rather improve text rendering altogether. Plus side: all apps benefit.
iOS devices update automatically at night. All you have to do is enter the passcode in the evening, then again after the reboot the next morning.
I don’t see the issue.
Quick, sue Apple because they didn't release notification/acknowledgement or an update soon enough! Hurry, we're not responsible for our actions and someone has to pay!
No different than any other time. There have always been people hacking ALL systems to try to find weakness and the vendor patching those hacks. This has been the case for every operating system since the earliest computers. Has noting to do with "Apple" or "these days - it's every computer vendor from forever.
Honest question: what happened to 11.2.3 and 11.2.4? My iPhone 7 is “up to date” running 11.2.2.
My point, I buy Apple products to use them, they just work, and willing to pay a significant premium, so I am using rather then fixing. If I want to continue spending about 25 hours, so far on IOS 11, might as well buy something that will save me thousands of dollars and be happy frequently updating. I expect more from Apple, willing to pay more, and when I buy premium products I have higher expectations. That my friend is Not whining.
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Lots of reasons that I want to control the time when my IOS device bricks. Waking up in the morning to a bricked iPhone, even once, not a good start. Just one example. Additionally, all the problems that one finds after the upgrades, very time consuming. IOS11, so many little annoying things that worked, then do not, then work again. As noted earlier, I pay a premium for Apple products, as such my expectations are set higher. If Apple no different then let’s say Android Devices, why should anyone pay a premium, was my point.
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Nothing really happened to those. At some point Apple had some fixes/changes they wanted to be in an upcoming bug fix release that they wanted to test with developer and public betas so they designated that release as iOS 11.2.5 leaving some room for potential bug fix releases that might need to be released prior to that (due to some security issues or something else important/sensitive that can't really wait).
Easy enough. Go buy something you like. I have no idea why it takes you so long to start an update. But, hey. Maybe Android will "just work" for you. Good luck. I'll stick with great software that is updated regularly.
Yesterday and today I was talking to a potential client and my iPhone crashed both times. I kind of deserved it though; I neglected to use the SE running 10.3.3 that I bought for performing critical tasks, naively thinking I could depend on my iPhone X. I’d take a trip down to the Genius Bar to try and rectify this, but Apple has decided that Today at Apple is more critical to the long term success of the company than maintaining its formerly legendary attention to detail and customer service.
I expect they’ll re-architect things so they can update preinstalled apps independent of the OS before too much longer. I think they realize the problem they are having maintaining the monolithic release schedule and quality.
It's quite possible something like that would happen. That said, even with that, if there are some issues here or there some of them might still require an OS level update rather than an app level one.
He followed the recognised protocol - find bug, notify developer, give them time to fix it, go public if they don't.