Back when I worked at IBM in the 80s, and IBM was the "evil empire", customers got that "Working as designed" answer and called it "Broken as designed."
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Bug in iOS 8's 'Reset All Settings' Option Also Erases iCloud Drive Documents
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Back when I worked at IBM in the 80s, and IBM was the "evil empire", customers got that "Working as designed" answer and called it "Broken as designed."
Come on guys. this is clearly a feature!
You wipe your phone, your iCloud gets wiped too. It's called Jennifer-Lawrenced!!!
You wipe your phone, your iCloud gets wiped too. It's called Jennifer-Lawrenced!!!
Oh no. This won't help the perception that Apple can't do services right. 3 years into iCloud and it's still sort of a confusing mystery at times why things sync sometimes and not others. Starting to think the doubters may be right.
That makes no sense. You can't design sweeping new systems that integrate various hardware devices with a constant, rapid drip of releases. Apple is not Google.
It's starting to look like Apple is spending all their time worrying about the fashion world with the 
Watch and letting others things slide. Like quality control and testing. This iOS 8 roll out has been pathetic.
Watch and letting others things slide. Like quality control and testing. This iOS 8 roll out has been pathetic.You clearly were not around when Jagwar had the mother of all bugs. Your home folder just vanished. Forever. That led to way more wailing and gnashing of teeth than just losing your iWork documents.
True. Apple stuff used to be so cheap before Tim took over.
Actually, these days, I think IBM could do a lot to help fix what's wrong with Apple's cloud services. Apple has always struggled with web services.
You know when I think things at Apple started to go to pieces? It's the day that "they" decided "Save" and "Save As..." were too complicated. Think back about it.
It's starting to look like Apple is spending all their time worrying about the fashion world with the
THIS week, they're retailing NOT detailing. They got the BLING out in full force, in Paris.
I'm seriously getting sick and tired of this *****.
Serious bugs, software features being added and then removed only a short time later (photo stream becoming iCloud Photo Library), shoddy implementations ala iCloud Drive.
Apple isn't the company it once was.
I used a surface for the first time today and it looks so much better and more coherent than iOS does at the moment.
Serious bugs, software features being added and then removed only a short time later (photo stream becoming iCloud Photo Library), shoddy implementations ala iCloud Drive.
Apple isn't the company it once was.
I used a surface for the first time today and it looks so much better and more coherent than iOS does at the moment.
More and broader user testing.
I really don't understand how something as basic as WiFi can be as messed up as it is. How could they not see this? All I can assume is that there's something different about the networks I use than what Apple tested on. Broader testing is the key.
There's also an argument for more frequent releases rather than rolling Apple Pay, Apple Watch, Health Kit and iCloud updates all into one release along with core OS improvements, making Safari and Messages prettier and support for new hardware.
There's no need for a big splash. Release the new OS, a month later hold a press conference about Health Kit, a month later Apple Pay, a month later show iPhone 6, etc. Pipeline the releases so your test team can focus on one set of new features at a time.
Honestly, I think people would get jazzed about their devices upgrading month by month. Sure there's still interop issues, but even those are easier to handle when you look at them one set at a time.