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No going back to iOS 6 = no more Apple purchases! I'm starting a movement

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Wow, what a reaction. I waited, read, and even went to a store and tried it out after the release. I liked it and pressed the install button.

You should always test drive a car before purchase. Apple gave you that chance but you made a mistake. Be mad at yourself, not Apple.
 
rider96 said:
It was not that way when I purchased it
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Yes, but at the same time...

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rider96 said:
Right...let's go paint your car fluorescent green purple and pink overnight ... You just have to live with it, no need catering to your likes and dislikes
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More like "HEY! Do you want me to paint your car?!" And you blindly say "Yeah, sure" without even asking anything about how I'm painting it. You could have said "No." You could have researched it first. Which, since you even came here, implies that you know that this site exists, which implies that you follow Apple enough to come here at least once in a while. Which, if you had come by any time in the past 3 months, you would have seen.

Anyway, if you're not a troll, then you have serious entitlement issues. Either way, I'm done engaging you. Your lack of proper research does not constitute an emergency on my part. (Or Apple's.)
 
If you've been an apple enthusiast for so long like you claim, you should know the drill by now. New software is announced at WWCC, it's released a few months later, and users can usually downgrade the first couple days after it's released. Oh well, enjoy Android.
 
The whole point is the enforcement of the "can't ever go back" policy in light of a major change to the OS Even Microsoft allowed for consumers to reverse the process in a windows upgrade. How can you not see how wrong this is from the consumer's perspective???

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dannyyankou said:
If you've been an apple enthusiast for so long like you claim, you should know the drill by now. New software is announced at WWCC, it's released a few months later, and users can usually downgrade the first couple days after it's released. Oh well, enjoy Android.
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And it is exactly this smug attitude that will cause consumers to turn away from Apple!
 
rider96 said:
Right...let's go paint your car fluorescent green purple and pink overnight ... You just have to live with it, no need catering to your likes and dislikes.... Oh, and sorry it won't start, the battery is drained :)
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this is irrelevant. if you want to make it a direct comparison to ios 7, then my car painting isnt going to occur for another 3 months. in those three months i have PLENTY of time to review the changes of what my car is gonna look like and even try it if i want with the option of stripping the paint back to the original within minutes if i dont like it.

you dont like it, we get it. but you had all the opportunities in the world to look it over. i like to go through life being informed before making decisions on the most basic things, to the most important. if you want to make blind decisions like the rest of the clueless world, thats on you. just dont come here ranting and raving when it doesnt work out for you.
 
So one last OMG how can you not see how wrong it is to not let people who paid hundreds of dollars on a product to revert back to the previous operating system.? Is that so hard to understand????
 
rider96 said:
The whole point is the enforcement of the "can't ever go back" policy in light of a major change to the OS Even Microsoft allowed for consumers to reverse the process in a windows upgrade. How can you not see how wrong this is from the consumer's perspective???

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And it is exactly this smug attitude that will cause consumers to turn away from Apple!
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you mean the customers that collectively purchased over 9 million new iPhones running this new software over the weekend? Apple has always worked this way..and always will.....i have yet to see consumers turned off by their "smug attitude" of not allowing rollbacks.
If you are indeed a longtime Apple enthusiast, you should have known how Apple works and what iOS 7 was all about...the very fact you didn't even look into iOS 7 before installing tells me you are not the "Apple enthusiast" you say you are....but I get it, you are pissed off and don't like it.
my advice? move to WP or Android....Android phones are easy to root which gives you the ability to flash whatever ROM/OS you want....but seriously, how could you have possibly not known about iOS 7 and it's massive changes? It was covered by every major news site. Even my local newspaper had an article about it.
 
rider96 said:
So one last OMG how can you not see how wrong it is to not let people who paid hundreds of dollars on a product to revert back to the previous operating system.? Is that so hard to understand????
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we get it. i agree that its stupid we cant roll back to a previous OS. but as i stated, its natural software progression. things are designed to go forward, not back. and you arent going to win any arguments here, you made your point already.
 
OP has a point. There are A LOT of people that don't go to macrumors, apples website, yet have iPhones. They think "update" means fixing bugs. Adding more time to roll back should be an option that Apple leaves on the table. What they left it open for like 2 days?
 
It was well documented online, in the news and on Apple's own website that iOS7 was different, plus the notes within the update described it as a change over iOS6. Keep at it, it'll probably grow on you...
 
rider96 said:
As someone who waited on line overnight for the iphone 4, who purchased one for my gf, who purchased an ipad, who purchased an iphone 5.... I hate io7... It is very different than the product and operating systems that I paid my money for... The audacity to be told by apple that I MUST accept the new system like it or not! that there is no way back.... My response is very simple... I WILL NOT EVER purchase another apple product.... I will encourage my friends not to... How dare a company make such an extreme change to a product and not give its customers the opportunity to get back to the product that they Paid hundreds, thousands of dollars for....
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Hehehe - love these posts, there is always one lurking on every forum who says the same thing every year about every change.

Good for you buddy, most people don't care as much as you do obviously.
 
I have only had an iPhone since July, and it's my first Apple product.

One reason why I updated to iOS 7 only two days after it became available is that I figured it would be easier to move if I wasn't that used to iOS 6, and that proved to be the case. Had I waited two years to installed the new OS, I'd be very accustomed to the old one, and I'd be stressed moving to the new one (although I don't know if I'd swear off Apple products just for that—I think my iPhone is great so far). As it is, with only 60 days' exposure to iOS 6, I've already forgotten what it looked like, and now I'm used to iOS 7.

Design-wise, iOS 7 is neither better nor worse objectively, just different. Lots of new features, though. I suppose for people who have been using iOS 6 since it was first released, iOS 7 is a jarring change.
 
rider96 said:
There was no warning of such a drastic change. Like most unsuspecting consumers, I got a message on my equipment about an upgrade and I upgraded. Luckily I have warned others who have no idea that the product that they purchased is about to be altered in a huge way
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Other than a huge press conference to announce, months of betas, and another huge press conference at launch? Yeah, no warning at all *rolls eyes*

Seriously, they didn't force you to upgrade you were offered a choice and said yes.
 
rider96 said:
So one last OMG how can you not see how wrong it is to not let people who paid hundreds of dollars on a product to revert back to the previous operating system.? Is that so hard to understand????
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I agree with you, we should be able to use the iOS version we prefer. On the other hand, I understand why we're not. And you're being childish as all hell for reacting this way over having made an uninformed decision.
 
Who gave authorisation to change all the street lights to electric? I liked the gas ones. They were fine as they were. I pay my council tax and I demand they are reinstated!

Who changed all the trains to electric? I pay my damn yearly travel card. I wasn't consulted. I demand a steam powered train or I'm going to write a letter to my MP!

Are some outraged statements that have probably been yelled over the last century.

Seriously, slap a tacky wood effect wallpaper on it and get over it. Within a week you won't know the difference.
 
So you joined this website back in 2010, are posting on the forums, and didn't know what to expect with iOS 7?

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Anonymous Freak said:
What I'm curious about is how many of these completely-uninformed people even knew there was an update?

My wife didn't know there was an update. My son didn't know there was an update. My mom didn't know there was an update.

People who don't pay attention don't even notice that there's an update. (My son was still on 6.0, IIRC.) I demoed it to my wife and son, and they chose to upgrade. My dad demoed it to my mom, and she hasn't decided yet.
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What world do you live in. You plug your phone in Itunes to update music or something and it tells you there is an update.
 
rider96 said:
The ability to rollback or not is the key. I am - or was - a long time apple enthusiast not some"troll"
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I share your opinion about Apple. I've been an enthusiast since 2001, but not anymore.

I expressed my opinion on a thread, someone called me a troll. Then bad moderation temporarily suspended my account for a few days claiming I was trolling and linking to the comment where I had been called a troll.

People, pls be careful calling others things like troll.
 
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