Oh nooo free updates, what a disaster!!!!!! Apple is evil!!!!11111
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Apple Releases iOS 11.2.6 With Fix for Telugu Character Bug That Causes iOS Devices to Crash
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Unless you’re speaking of the promised compatibility with Fusion drives, I’m not sure what you mean by “the” APFS bug.
Edit: I scrolled down further and found the article I think you're referencing. Thankfully I only make HFS+ disk images
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I think I just heard the sound of the world's tiniest violin playing. Half an hour isn't forever.
Just because it's ostensibly a "simple update" you have absolutely no idea what is going on under the hood. Maybe you have a ton of messages that need scanning and fixing. Maybe it takes time to protect your system in the event of a failed update. Maybe it's Charlie Chaplin's birthday. Who cares. 25 minutes of largely unattended install never killed anyone.
Should Apple contact you to see if an update release meets your time schedule first, or should they release updates when needed to the iOS community, and you update at your leisure, as it has always been?
Yeah...So much so... I have to install the Apple TV developer profile to prevent update ever send to my devices. I have more than 10 iOS devices in my household. Install them one by one constantly is pain in the neck.
What i have learned over the years is that new iOS update screws something up and slows down my devices. I will take my chances and not updating at all.
Gboard, and Messages, and any single application that is capable of displaying Telugu text. Which is about every single app.
look I see a lot of comments about how bad it is that apple has to have lots of updates, the truth is Apple are not god they are still human like all of us and mistakes will always happen im proud that a company I love fix things with updates I would rather have loads of updates than once every year, no company is perfect and trust me apple has its problems and im the first to talk about them, but just be grateful apple fixes things even if it takes a while, rant over
But is it really free!?!. Say someone violated your house every night at 8pm, and left a big brown one on your floor. All free of charge of course. That’s pretty much comparable IMO.
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Don’t get the trend people are having that updates are bad. Android and all other systems updates are dependent on whether you have the newest device to run it. I remember with one tablet we had we couldn’t even get an update as Verizon had signed to exclusively get the update for their devices. That doesn’t happen with Apple , and I would rather they fix as they go rather than go two to three years between real updates as they try to perfect it, which a perfect one have yet to see in any operating system.
There's a very good reason it takes so long.
iOS has a separate read-only partition for the operating system. In order to update, the OS needs to make a new copy of the operating system in a temporary location, then merge the downloaded update with this temporary copy. After this is done, the system will then verify the updated operating system to make sure it is free of corruption. This takes a while as it is a few GB worth of data that needs to be checksummed on a slow (relative to a desktop computer) mobile CPU.
When all this is complete, the update process will swap the now updated and verified OS partition into place as the new OS to boot (an atomic operation), and restart the device.
Basically, the cost of a botched update is a semi-bricked phone that requires a computer with iTunes to bring back to life. This is a really annoying situation for anyone it happens to, so the update process spends a lot of time verifying the new OS partition to make sure it has no problems.
Most people don't force updates anyway; they just get an update notification and tell it to update overnight, so they aren't inconvenienced at all. Us nerds who must update immediately have to wait, though!
Unless you’re speaking of the promised compatibility with Fusion drives, I’m not sure what you mean by “the” APFS bug.
Edit: I scrolled down further and found the article I think you're referencing. Thankfully I only make HFS+ disk images
No no, I agree with you, there are other things aside from this bug, I think optimization for the Fusion Drives and machanical hard drives is very important too. But I don't expect major changes until 10.14
The iOS 6 and earlier forums were filled with nothing but threads about how amazing and wonderful things are.
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Come on, that's just the past and doesn't matter since it's all in the past.
Because Android’s problems are actually serious.
I know Android a lot better than most. I used only Android since the first Galaxy. It’s garbage. My Note 4 was on the same OS for nearly 3 years and had tons of features that simply didn’t work, particularly S Pen functionality.
It boot looped constantly app crashing was about a once an hour occurrence. I restored my Note twice, got new batteries, even a new device...just garbage. The earlier Androids were even worse. No support from Samsung. None.
I recently threw the Note in the trash.
iOS >>>>>>> Android
It isn’t close. iOS 11runs perfectly on my X. Maybe you need a battery swap or you have other issues. I have 3 6s devices in my family and they run great.
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Too much porn or slow internet? Mine installed on both my iPad and X in less than 5 minutes.
I've never seen so much bitching going on about a 20 minute iOS update. Mellow out life is good.
You had the Note 4 and that it is? LOL.... I am rocking Huawei Mate 10, P10, Xiaomi and all these phones in my signatures. None of them have any problems. My mate 10 runs perfectly fine without issue.
You know what is the last phone I toss to trush? It was iPhone 6. This phone is garbage at the best. Worst battery life, low amount RAM cause app refresh lot and iOS 11 just ruined the phone.
With regarding my iPhone 6S and SE. No thanks. I won't want spend 40 dollars for battery swap that I won't even touch. iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S were just pure garbage phones riddled with battery problems, especially with iPhone 6. Pure garbage.
I played around my friends iPhone X. I found absolute nothing attractive and my Android phone can do so much more than iOS.
iOS 11 has serious issues, otherwise, Apple would take 11 update within 4 months. iOS 11 is pure garbage. My second generation iPad, Safari just crashes without any warning. Sometimes video will just stop playing leaving me black screen. On 9.7 inch iPad, animation is choppy at best.
Even after 11th iteration, Apple still cannot figure out good notification system. Even afte 11th iteration, you cannot download files directly to a folder you like. Even after 11th iteration, you still cannot run stuff on the background without getting killed by the system. List goes on and on.
On phone side, Android >>>>>>>>>>> iOS by long shot. On tablet side, iOS>>>>Windows>>> Android. I would touch any Android tablet and there is no attractive Android tablet. If there is, Android tablet app still suck and most of them just phone app made fit to large screen.
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You can almost say that. I still have 2 first gen iPad mini. Compare iOS 7 with iOS 6 on these two devices, you notice that iOS 7 runs lot worse than iOS 6. I wouldn't mind swaps back to iOS on all my A5 devices (I have 2 iPad Mini and 2 iPod Touch). If anything, iOS stability went down hill after each update.
Sounds like user error and Android fanboism.
No matter what Android offers, it’s Useless bc it’s not stable enough. I had an S8 and a Note 7 (lol) too.
3 pages of comments for a “quick fix” update? Damn!
... just how often are you making sparse disk images with nearly full flash-based drive?
Especially considering you can update it at your convenience. Not sure why folks don't hit install now on the update just before they go to bed?
(After reading here that the update is safe of course)
