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Apple Will Not Release watchOS 2 Today Due to Significant Bug

Porco said:
Upon reading this story I was reminded of a certain character from literature so I decided to post an illustration of him, but then got told off for it being a frivolous post, because it was only one image (my bad!).
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Even though they say 'a picture can paint a thousand words', in case anyone else thinks it's purely frivolous I thought I had better explain my thinking behind the posting of the image above if I was going to re-post it in any context.

It is of course the White Rabbit from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a character who in various editions and adaptations famously carries a watch, crying 'I'm late!"

On one level it was visual joke, yet still directly relevant. On another level it was making a point - that the White Rabbit carried a watch, and yet was late. It spoke, in direct relevance to the thread, to the irony of software for a timepiece being delayed. I realise to some, this may seem obvious, but I accept others may not have immediately understood, or even have knowledge of, the character illustrated or the possible reasons for me posting the image.

More than that, the White Rabbit of course went down the rabbit-hole. There is something a little surreal about a modern re-invention of technology that leads to complications (if you'll excuse the watch-related pun!) over the traditional technology it is to some degree emulating and improving upon.

Philosophically one might ask whether Carroll's White Rabbit would have been late had he had an Apple Watch instead of a traditional clockwork pocket-watch. He could have set a reminder on his Apple Watch of course, but then if he was waiting upon the Watch OS 2 update, he'd still have been late, and therein lies some more timepiece-based irony.

Of course many other comments in this thread are highly relevant and perfectly reasonable. It is good the software release is slightly delayed if it has a significant bug. I could have just said that as well, but I wanted to post something that I felt summed up a variety of on-topic issues in a creative manner that didn't clutter up the thread with repetitive phraseology or an unnecessary long-winded piece of text (arguably a little bit like this one I suppose!). Anyway, I hope some feel that this post, whether by image or by text, contributed to the thread in some way, and certainly wasn't too frivolous, and I hope the apple Watch OS 2 software is released as soon as it's considered ready for it by Apple.
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I'll have what you're smoking.
 
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excellent, push it back 2 weeks and i can buy my appel watch while in canada, otherwise it would be a problem as watchos2 will not talk to ios 8.3
 
This would have never happened if Steve Jobs was alive. Speaking of which, isn't the Gods deathday coming up soon? Need to prepare my memorial for the great lord Steve Jobs.
 
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It won't be quick. If you're going to pull a launch you make very sure that there aren't problems when it does show its face. It won't be rushed.
 
It will be worth waiting, rather than have a dead watch, or just have to update again in a day when they finally fix it.
 
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I think all those complaining should think of one thing: If they rushed a broken watchOS to you and your Watch got stuck while updating how furious would it be? With the Watch you cannot simply restore. So it's a good thing they fix every major issue before letting us update our watches :)
 
This pissed on my fireworks a bit today, no update mania for me today, but I am glad they did it this way rather than releasing software with a serious bug. I was really excited, but better safe than sorry.
 
I'm thinking the bug has to do with 3rd party apps that are using Complications. I installed the new Weather Network app - the only one that has Complications, and it doesn't even load.

Apple wouldn't have been able to see how all these 3rd party apps work until super recently...
 
whatever happened to the facebook messenger for apple watch they announced last week? there was an update yesterday for facebook messenger but no watch support?
 
mattburley7 said:
whatever happened to the facebook messenger for apple watch they announced last week? there was an update yesterday for facebook messenger but no watch support?
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Do you have watchOS 2 GM installed ? Because you need watchOS 2 to have facebook messenger
 
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This would have never happened if Steve Jobs was alive. Speaking of which, isn't the Gods deathday coming up soon? Need to prepare my memorial for the great lord Steve Jobs.
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Such an asinine remark. I'm going to assume it is drenched in sarcasm.
 
palmerized said:
I'm thinking the bug has to do with 3rd party apps that are using Complications. I installed the new Weather Network app - the only one that has Complications, and it doesn't even load.

Apple wouldn't have been able to see how all these 3rd party apps work until super recently...
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I just installed the Weather Network app, and the complication shows up in the Apple Watch App > Complications and on my watch face. Interesting...

Edit: I'm running iOS 9.1 Beta and watchOS 2 GM
 
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