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Why? Because they had a world wide launch of their best selling product set for a certain date. That's why. I use to be a senior product manager at one of the top 10 software developers and you make trade-off's to hit launch dates. I'm sure they knew they were going out crippled... but also knew since it's software they can fix it quickly and cheaply. Stopping the iPhone launch by even a day would have cost Apple and their partners millions of dollars a day. That is why they did it.

And wear the pain being described here (by predominantly Apple-obsessed consumers)? Failing from launch is supposed to be a Microsoft skill - not Apple. I readily admit that I have no experience in the industry, and I certainly respect yours, however is it not possible to prepare in advance, and (like other firms frequently do) push back a launch date? Apple appears to be so desperate to emulate the hype built up around it that it can't bear to appear normal. Everything has to be 'beautiful, magical and revolutionary'. Choosing design over function so obviously (antenna), failing to provide a reasonable product at launch (upgraded the software on a 3G lately? Remember the launch of MobileMe? Did you buy a 3G when it was first released and enjoy watching every - EVERY - app crash within 2 minutes? Enjoy the dead pixels? Whoops! Don't put you phone near your face! FFS) and patronising actual and prospective customers (again; hold another phone like this, with your middle finger on top of your head and your third toe doing the hokey pokey & you might drop a call) are the reasons I am seriously not getting another iPhone. I'm posting this to give people who come to this forum another side of the story.

By the way, for what it's worth, I went and looked at an iPhone 4 today and could not think of a good reason to shell out more cash for it over a cheaper phone - I've been addicted to iPhones but literally this month I've had it.
 
Yes!

Hahaha I love it!

I have been experiencing ridiculous slow downs like this. Makes me actually not want to use the phone.

My plan was to get an iPhone 4 (releases this Friday where I am) and give my 3G to my gf. But after iOS 4.0 I'm just going to get her an iPhone 4 as well. Yes, your plan worked Apple!
 
The video is not a parody, it is real. My 3G is at least as slow as the one in the video.


Been there too and I agree. This is not a parody but the sad reality. I'm an Apple fanboy but I'm not impressed when I see that kind of news saying that Apple is investigating the issue. No way IMO that they were not aware of it right off the bat. And the main new features made available in IOS 4 for 3G user are folders, unified mailbox and...I can't find anything else. Nothing that explains the poor performance of the iPhone 3G with IOS 4.

Fortunately, I found a downgrade method by googling ''downgrade IOS 4 to 3.1.3 iPhone 3G). Even though I always been a fanboy, that move would deserve that I jailbreak my phone and get free apps instead of still encouraging Apple and the apps store.
 
LOL - what total fanboy BS. I assume you're discounting the inherent design flaw included with every single one of them?

Given the release of all the new products the other day, this has continued to be an appalling month for Apple.



Not all have issues mine runs great in either hand!!
 
You guys buying a Droid complaining about Apple's "planned obsolescence" are killing me. Droid has even worse backwards compatibility with upgrades, I've heard Froyo might not work with the original Droid, it just came out! At least Apple is still supporting the 2 year old phone. They are phones, most people replace them yearly or every two years. My wife's 3G is working much better after a cold boot, I suggest people give it a shot! She's holding out for a white 4 so we've got to make due for a while yet :(
 
4.0 made my phone very unresponsive with lots of lags and freezes. The later 4.01 fixed it or at least whatever process was hanging stopped. Now it's working OK
 
It's funny because it's true...

Sad to say but iOS4 completely gimped my 64GB iPod Touch. I had to do the clean restore thing to get functionality and battery life back to 75% of normal, and thus more acceptable, but the whole 'walk your dog while waiting for the next screen to load' aspect is still there. Extremely disappointing.
 
My 3G was almost unusable after upgrading to OS4. Luckily I was able to downgrade. However, Apple doesn't make the downgrade process very easy. I don't think that everyone would nexable to do it themselves.

I really don't think that they should have upgraded the 3G to OS4 but that's just my opinion!

I upgraded to a brand new 3GS and it is MUCH faster than the 3G.

I also wonder if Apple was trying to push people into upgrading to the iP4?

Downgrade back to 3.1.3 if you can!

Cheers.
 
Bad Apple memory management

I believe this has everything to do with memory management. My performance gets worst over time and then when I reboot (clear the memory) the iPhone performs well again. I don't use many other 3rd party apps (except the kindle app that works wonderfully). But I notice that Apple apps just eat up all the memory and don't release it. I also noticed that when I delete all my recent calls. All voice messages and text messages the phone will immediately get better. I just know that the apple core iPhone apps are to blame. Apple needs to do (as they stress to developers) more memory management of their apps. https://forums.macrumors.com/images/smilies/mad.gif
 
Huh, wasn't aware there was any other option other than Restore. I too am always for the clean install option.




Well aren't you quite the troll.

Oh? You mean holding Apple accountable to actually putting out products that works is trolling? Don't make me laugh. Please, you're wasting my time here, skippy.

"How dare you insult my fanboy company. Stomps foot and walks out." :rolleyes:
 
I believe this has everything to do with memory management. My performance gets worst over time and then when I reboot (clear the memory) the iPhone performs well again. I don't use many other 3rd party apps (except the kindle app that works wonderfully). But I notice that Apple apps just eat up all the memory and don't release it. I also noticed that when I delete all my recent calls. All voice messages and text messages the phone will immediately get better. I just know that the apple core iPhone apps are to blame. Apple needs to do (as they stress to developers) more memory management of their apps. https://forums.macrumors.com/images/smilies/mad.gif

I agree with most of this. Keep it cleaned up, clear your history, cache, cookies, voice mail and recent calls regularly, then do a hard boot frequently. This keeps it running smoothly. I don't blame the Apple native apps though, they seem fine to me. I did the spotlight unchecked too. All these things keep it running pretty well.

I'm also confident that a software fix will make it even better soon. For the most part I'm satisfied.
 
Disabling Spotlight Search does help

So disabling the Spotlight Search does in fact help. Most apps load at almost normal speed now, and there is less laginess, though the camera and iPod are still slow to load, and it definitely doesn't get it all the way back to what it was. Go to Settings > General > Home Button > Spotlight Search and just uncheck everything. You probably want to restart your phone after that, too. Kinda sucks because I really like Spotlight Search, especially for quickly finding a song.

IMO, this is a MUCH bigger issue than the iPhone 4 antenna problem ever was. The antenna thing didn't affect that many people, and even those people could usually get around it by being careful about how they held it. It's just that the media blew it out of proportion because of the hype surrounding the phone. This issue, however, pretty much wrecked everyone's iPhone 3G.
 
My 3G is _really_ that slow!

Some may call the You Tube video a parody but it is exactly how slow everything is on my iPhone 3G 16GB. It takes sometimes 20-30 seconds to get the camera working, and 15 seconds for some apps to quit or switch screens. Deleting the Safari cookies, prefs., etc., helped a little the first time but now it doesn't help.

Apple, you took away all the cool features on my 3G so it wouldn't be "overtaxed", but I have nearly the same features as on OS 3.x but 5x slower. This is progress?
 
Who cares if the 3G runs slow after iOS4, It's a freakin 3g, it's two generations old now, move on, move up.;)
 
LOL - what total fanboy BS. I assume you're discounting the inherent design flaw included with every single one of them?

Given the release of all the new products the other day, this has continued to be an appalling month for Apple.

Look at this -- a troll calling an Apple fan a fanboy. There is no inherent design flaw. Just got my iPhone 4 today and the first thing I tried to do was kill it with the death grip. 4+ minutes and nothing. Go ahead. Call me a liar. That's what the Droid/Bb/WinMo fanboys call Apple users who claim their products don't have flaws.
 
You guys buying a Droid complaining about Apple's "planned obsolescence" are killing me. Droid has even worse backwards compatibility with upgrades, I've heard Froyo might not work with the original Droid, it just came out! At least Apple is still supporting the 2 year old phone. They are phones, most people replace them yearly or every two years. My wife's 3G is working much better after a cold boot, I suggest people give it a shot! She's holding out for a white 4 so we've got to make due for a while yet :(

Bitter much?? Hmmm??

Geez, trolls are everywhere today! :rolleyes:
 
Not JUST iPhone 3G...

iPod touch 2G also suffers battery drain. I fully charged my iPod Touch one day and unplugged it after it fully charged, I found that the next day, my iPod wouldn't turn on. When I tried turning it on, it says battery critical and then turn itself off. Yes, it also got hot when I try using it as well... after it's fully charged again, of course.
 
I don't know if i said it in this thread or another one, but I followed the advice of turning spotlight off on the 3G I have, and it has made a markable difference in performance in 4.x
 
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