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New Claim of iOS 4.2 Launch on November 24th as Revised iPad Build Surfaces

rwilliams said:
Better to delay it and ensure that it works than unleash it and face the wrath of millions of angry customers. Of course, I'm speaking as an iPhone 4/iPod Touch owner that will get little out of 4.2 to begin with. The iPad owners must be steamed.
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Whats to be "steamed" about? Apples official public release states "coming in November". All of these dates being tossed around are all RUMOR and SPECULATION.
 
ctdonath said:
Those intensely focused on a new product settle into patterns of use and thinking which preclude considerations outside that box. Nobody outside the team handles the product until very late in testing, thus common behaviors which are not "inside the development box" are not encountered until just before release (or right after). Certain limiting presumptions must be made about design & testing, and both must be done within certain constraints, else they'll never finish it.
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My first job out of college was developing software, and my boss was a guy who would come up with the most ridiculous and unlikely scenarios for using the product, and without fail, he would find bugs in the software and tell us to go back and fix them. When we protested, saying that no one in their right mind would ever use the software in that way, he'd always say, "if I can come up with something this absurd, you can be sure that someone else will think of it too." That's stuck with me to this day.

tevans333 said:
Whats to be "steamed" about? Apples official public release states "coming in November". All of these dates being tossed around are all RUMOR and SPECULATION.
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Those folks have been waiting for folders, "multitasking", and all of the other iOS 4 features for a while now. I'm sure they're anxious to get their hands on it.
 
deviant said:
omg apple omg.
about wifi - depends on your router. some worked fine for me, some didn't.
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Mine works great when it sees a full signal, when I move further away at the far end of the house is when I have issue. I never have wifi problems at work where the signal is strong everywhere. It seems it is signal strength dependent and would explain why some have issue and some don't.
 
When iOS 4.2 comes out and I update my iPhone and iPad, will I lose all my photos and videos and apps and folders? Will I need to copy the apps to the device and organize them again?
 
rwilliams said:
My first job out of college was developing software, and my boss was a guy who would come up with the most ridiculous and unlikely scenarios for using the product, and without fail, he would find bugs in the software and tell us to go back and fix them. When we protested, saying that no one in their right mind would ever use the software in that way, he'd always say, "if I can come up with something this absurd, you can be sure that someone else will think of it too." That's stuck with me to this day.
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Yessirree. If you make something idiot-proof, someone will make a better idiot. :D

On topic, I haven't had WiFi issues with the previously released iPad 4.2 GM.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-gb) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)

I just want to wake up on time. If I have to wait another two weeks I might go crazy.
 
ThunderSkunk said:
WTF, are there six people writing 4.2 for iPad?

50Billion dollars in the bank!

HIRE SOME PEOPLE.


ARRRRRGGGHHGHHH
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More likely every engineer can only use Apple WiFi routers during testing. Us uncouth users of DLink, Linksys or other routers get to pound sand until these issues get uncovered after wider releases. :D
 
hey, 6.5 came out a day after a build release, I don't see why they would have to wait two more weeks if this tweak is all they needed to fix.
 
rwilliams said:
Those folks have been waiting for folders, "multitasking", and all of the other iOS 4 features for a while now. I'm sure they're anxious to get their hands on it.
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Yeah, I'm one of those people. And it is very hard switching between iPhone4 with 4.1 to ipad 3.2.2 all day, but it seems so many people are flaming Apple lately over so called delays. It'd be nice if people would keep their heads on straight and remember a delay would only mean release AFTER November.
 
Oh yeah.... Download a huge iOS update the day before Thanksgiving weekend when Apple won't be open again until the following Monday and if my iPhone gets bricked due to an iOS glitch I'm out of a cell all holiday weekend while I travel over the river and through the woods to families houses?

I'll wait until all the early adopters have had no issues or Apple releases iOS 4.2.1 the following Wednesday... ;)
 
As long as they fix the interminable backup bug so that I can actually update the darn thing I'll be happy. I'm not hopeful though. :mad:
 
probably they will going to release the GM 2 today. then 4.2 will be end of Nov.
 
ThunderSkunk said:
WTF, are there six people writing 4.2 for iPad?

50+ Billion dollars in the bank!

HIRE SOME PEOPLE.


ARRRRRGGGHHGHHH
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Shut up. Apple NEVER said it would be released today. They said November.

Nobody gives a damn if you are an impatient gimp. If you REALLY want it, buy a developer license for $99/year and you get early access.

I've been using 4.2 on my iPad for a couple of days, and on a standard household router (a netgear in my case) it does have a very annoying issue, just like 3.2 does. WiFi dropouts in areas where there are say 5-10 routers overlapping.

You'd bitch like hell if Apple released it and it was buggy.
 
PBG4 Dude said:
More likely every engineer can only use Apple WiFi routers during testing. Us uncouth users of DLink, Linksys or other routers get to pound sand until these issues get uncovered after wider releases. :D
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I think that it's more likely that the bug just didn't show up in in-house testing. If the bug occurs in 1% of iPads, then it's quite plausible, regardless of the testing situations and methods used, that the iPads used simply didn't have the bug. Now, go out to the general public and you'll see tens of thousands of users with the bug. In the development community, maybe there are dozens.

In any event, as an iPad owner, while it is true that I'm looking forward to getting the iOS 4 functionality, I would rather stick with 3.2 for a few more days / weeks to have wrinkles ironed out of 4.2. I'm not at all steamed about any extra delay, and certainly not as steamed as I'd be if I installed 4.2 only to discover that I had major wifi problems.
 
New release date again! (caution: satire)

In Apple's yet newest press release by none other than the man Steve Jobs himself, Apple announced they will release the much anticipated iOS4.2 on November 31st 2010 without doubt.

Recent rumors indicate an earlier release with source claiming either Nov 16th or Nov 24th. However and issue within the iOS code relating to the calendar application displaying wrong number of days in the month has pushed back the highly touted iOS release.

Steve could not be reached for further comment.
 
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