God help me, I'm replying to another one of these (/$;$()
threads...
Ok, OP, let's take the arguments posited here one at a time, starting with the easiest:
1. iCloud was NOT hacked. Some targeted celebrity accounts were compromised because of weak passwords and some were compromised because of easy-to-guess security questions. This isn't so tough to believe with celebrities, now, is it? After all, "mother's maiden name" isn't much of a secret for a celeb when Google and Wikipedia are around, is it? And, if you read carefully, you'll discover that a number of the leaked celeb nudes were taken by ANDROID phones, which pretty much eliminates iCloud as the source. No one "hacked" iCloud - which to this IT security guy means that no one was freely wandering around any accounts they chose, copying all the data at will. "Hacked" would be more like Target, Home Depot, TJ Maxx, and (just yesterday we heard about) Jimmy John's.
2. ANYTHING will bend or break when enough pressure is applied to it. Look at the most viral video showing the 6 Plus being bent - the guy's hands are SHAKING from all the pressure he is applying to bend it. The real question is if it will bend if it is simply placed in your pocket, and that answer is - at best - a subjective "maybe". if you place something large enough in a pocket (front or back) and sitting causes enough pressure to be exerted on it, then yes, things can break, and I don't care WHO made them. What I would like to know is how many owners or similarly sized phablets - say the Galaxy Note - keep them in their pockets in the first place. I can't recall seeing anyone doing so - most have them in portfolio cases and keep them in purses, jacket pockets, etc. That, of course, is merely my observation. I keep my phone in a horizontal belt pouch, and anyone who does the same, keeps it in a purse, or something besides their pocket are pretty much guaranteed not to have them bend. Again, this applies to every manufacturer.
Your phone is a piece of precision electronics. If you subject it to enough force/stress/torque or a sufficient enough impact, bad things are simply gonna happen. When the iPhone 6 was first announced, lots of people were asking if they would be able to put it in their pockets. Why ask that question? Because they were apparently concerned that it would impact their ability to sit. The very act if impeding your ability to sit is the definition of impacting force on the impeding object.
Now, if the iPhone - or any phone - had such an issue under normal use circumstances, I could possibly agree that it was a bad design. But I can't do that - not with the iPhone nor the Note. They are each a differently sized product that requires different care. If you had a pocket large enough to hold an iPad, would you keep it there?
3. iOS 8 does have its issues. Third-party keyboards have some minor bugs, Handoff and Continuity aren't ready to go, iCloud Drive doesn't sync pictures as fast (for me, anyway), and there are probably a few other things I'm not thinking about at the moment. However, all are minor, and the nice part of owning an Apple product is knowing that they will get fixed in short order and that fix will get to me immediately, not whenever the manufacturer or carrier deem me worthy.
Not only that, but iOS 8 brings a number of welcome features as well, and, again, I wasn't left wondering when I might be deemed worthy to get KitKat.
4. Yes, the rollout of 8.0.1 was borked. However, let's keep this in perspective too. The loss of cellular connectivity affected a relatively small number of iOS devices: iPhone 6 and 6 Plus on (mostly?) AT&T. It didn't affect iPad or earlier iPhones at all. Next, it was partially due to the carrier(s) involved not pushing the updated carrier settings that the upgrade apparently required in time.
Now, the TouchID failing... I'm at a loss here. I can't imagine that it would even be possible for even a completely incompetent QA team to miss something that obvious, but I am at a loss to explain how it could possibly be tied to some set of circumstances that only exist "in the wild". At any rate, it took me 30 minutes to completely undo it and get on with my life. Apple quickly pulled the update, to their credit, and will release 8.0.2 soon - presumably with little fanfare or notice.
Incidentally, that is the first update - EVER - that caused me a moment's worth of grief.
So, in summary, here are 4 issues that I believe:
1. Are completely overblown in scope and impact
2. Are being trumped by the media only because Apple is so watched and admired because they do, generally, make excellent products
3. Is largely hater-bait that doesn't actually impact owners of the products as much as the haters would like to believe
4. Serve only to clog up this and other forums and TV time, and to whip people up into a frenzy for no valid reason.
But then, perhaps we have become such a polarized society of haters that this is the new normal... Apple is the new Obama?
Let's also remember that the iPhone "became an industry joke" before it was first released (recall the comments of Ballmer, for example), after the App Store was debuted, when the iPhone 4 had antenna "issues" (that I never experienced, personally), and when the 5 was not a phablet. However, they had and continue to have mass appeal and phenomenal sales that every other manufacturer would kill to have - Samsung has admitted as much.
Meanwhile, I remain a happy, paying customer who maintains his perspective. This is largely due to the fact that I make up my own damned mind.
Good day.
