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

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Tyler23 said:
You don't need to follow tech news or be a member of tech forums to see - in the update description, right above where you press download and install - that it says there is a significant change to the user interface, and to go to apple.com to see the iOS 7 info link on the front page of their website.
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And it says what? There is a beautiful new design? OK, fair enough... I don't think that it is beautiful, but I checked before I updated, didn't like it, didn't update...
But that's me and you... A friend of mine, who didn't check, as she never does, because until now there wasn't a need to check, updated and now I just get phone calls asking me... "What is this, where is that thing that used to be there..."
And that is the way most users update... We, here, on the Macrumors forums are a minority, we talk and discuss about changes months before they happen...
But, that's just us...
All I'm saying... If the change is so big, and it is, just leave an option to go back for a while longer...
 
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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You realize you are only depriving/hurting yourself with your "movement" right?

What's next? are you going to boycott Microsoft as well when they force XP users to upgrade in April 2014 because they will no longer support XP and Office 2003?
 
borostef said:
And it says what? There is a beautiful new design? OK, fair enough... I don't think that it is beautiful, but I checked before I updated, didn't like it, didn't update...
But that's me and you... A friend of mine, who didn't check, as she never does, because until now there wasn't a need to check, updated and now I just get phone calls asking me... "What is this, where is that thing that used to be there..."
And that is the way most users update... We, here, on the Macrumors forums are a minority, we talk and discuss about changes months before they happen...
But, that's just us...
All I'm saying... If the change is so big, and it is, just leave an option to go back for a while longer...
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If someone isn't willing to read even 4 sentences about the update when updating - then anything after is their fault. Apple gives you the information, it's the user's responsibility to look into these things.
 
I have buy all iphones since the first one and I could say that I was bored with the old ios.

All people that I know that have installed ios 7 love it.ñ

It is simply the best OS out there.

You could downgrade to ios 6 but it is like having going to the past, anyway you can do it.

And please don't cry like a kid, there is always a solution for almost everything.

Sooner or later you will end loving ios 7
 
lke said:
I have buy all iphones since the first one and I could say that I was bored with the old ios.

All people that I know that have installed ios 7 love it.ñ

It is simply the best OS out there.

You could downgrade to ios 6 but it is like having going to the past, anyway you can do it.

And please don't cry like a kid, there is always a solution for almost everything.

Sooner or later you will end loving ios 7
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You can't downgrade unless you're on an iPhone 4 or earlier, and even then only if you have blobs saved.
 
sunking101 said:
Yes and every time a clean install, not updating from backup and switching off some power hungry settings fixes it. I know that, I'm a longtime iPhone owner. Only this time those steps haven't cured the problem on my iPhone 5. Fact.
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Clean install and switching off a couple of settings has made my battery last longer that on iOS 6 . Fact .
 
dictoresno said:
there were 3 months of betas, with numerous reports and videos that showed it off. as an informed member of an apple related forum, where we have the ability to understand and know things your average person doesnt have a clue about, how could you possibly be surprised about the "drastic change". do you live under a rock? its your own fault.

and on a side note, i love ios 7. looks much better than 6.
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This. Anyone who is an Apple enthusiast and didn't know iOS 7 was coming is clearly living in a cave with no internet connection or TV. It's not ignorant to say that, it's true. How can you be such an Apple 'fan' and not have a clue about iOS 7 before release? Heck, some of my friends who only have an iPhone and never check Apple news still knew what it was they just were unsure when they could get it - they turned to me for answers. The point is, they still knew it was coming and they weren't necessarily even fans.
 
Tyler23 said:
If someone isn't willing to read even 4 sentences about the update when updating - then anything after is their fault. Apple gives you the information, it's the user's responsibility to look into these things.
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Absolutely !
 
Even my my 70 year old mother knew about the IOS7 update, seriously stop moaning & go by an android phone in future. I am sure they will let you run your phones on morse code :D
 
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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*facepalm* I waited in line for an iPhone 4 also. It was only an hour because I wanted it badly. I went to Best Buy, and only 6 or 8 people were in front of me at 8 am. There were only one or two phones for a different carrier for new accounts. I got mine later on the phone. It is your job to see all the reviews or previews of what iOS 7 looks like and decide for yourself if you want it. If you don't want it, you could have stayed back on iOS 6. It's your fault for not reading about it.
 
Afbar1114 said:
this is long:

i really didnt read every thread but i did read the OP's first one and everything on the front page. but alot of people aready said there was months of warnings and seeing that you have signed up in 2010 just dont know how active you are. you would have been almost no correct that...100% have seen mention of iOS 7 and the changes. I came to iOS when i got the iPad 3 which had iOS 5.

the only change i see is graphical. yes there may be more settings and other behind the scene changes but its much faster to me at least and more smother. time changes everything and sometimes companies either must adapt, change everything or be left in the dust. look at black berry. once the most popular smartphone now going on there way out. they did not adapt, they did not change or make changes but bet on because they were the most poplar smartphone they didnt need change but loyalty would have won them over...well they lost and by the end of the year i think we will see black berry out of business with patents being sold to either android or apple.

people like change if your not one of those people that need to adapt in an ever so fast paced world then good for you. but i would also suspect to seem some of the iOS 7 graphical changes in the new os x update with "flat" looking. apple needed to change the way iOS 7 looked because it was the same old looking ios for about 6 years. it was a much needed refresh and sales and downloads showed that. to have iOS 7 on over 200 million devices in the first couple of days was fast and to sell over 9 million phones in 3 days was on heard of. apple has and always will be a market disrupter, although they take there time to make sure there stuff works before pushing it out. it works end of story.

apple updates there products once a year and people still buy them. they arent the biggest company in the world (in terms of market cap) for nothing. people still and always will buy there products.

but you are entitled to your opinion but dont come on here thinking every one feels the same and not to buy apple again because of one change. sorry for the rant.
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Have you never heard of capital letters, punctuation and the difference between there and their?

Sorry for the rant.
 
wow--that is quite a reaction to what I consider not really a big deal. I updated and really nothing has changed as far as how I use my iPhone--still intuitive enough for me to do everything I want--don't really get why the OP is making such a big deal of it--oh well--life goes on....
 
I agree that people should have known what they were getting into with the dramatic ui change, but they did not know what kind of bugs and choppy performance they were going to get out of the update...

I feel that there should be an ability to go back in the beginning of every major release... How is the average user going to know of the issues that await them on ios from the mere description of the update? Its a bit smug of you guys to act like we should have anticipated all the problems before clicking update.

And to those comparing this to a paint job on your car, are you kidding me? We are talking about an operating system update, this is rewritable code, not stripping off paint, sanding and polishing and repainting, this is nothing even close to relative.
 
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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You're a long term Apple enthusiast but you claim you had "no warning of such drastic change". Seriously?

I agree Apple should allow users to roll back to previous versions if they wish, but you contradict yourself a little within two posts.
 
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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How was there no warning of a drastic change despite that being all they talked about all summer - including having an entire page dedicated to it on apple.com after WWDC?
 
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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The upgrade notes said there was a completely new design. On reading that information, why did you not go and look at the new design on a search engine before upgrading?

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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.... Oh, and sorry it won't start, the battery is drained :)
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What you'd have to do is post a note through his letterbox saying,

"Please contact us if you want us to paint your car."

Given that the update notes did mention the complete redesign and you had the choice of not upgrading.

Painting someone's car without asking them isn't even close to the same thing.
 
matttye said:
The upgrade notes said there was a completely new design. On reading that information, why did you not go and look at the new design on a search engine before upgrading?

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What you'd have to do is post a note through his letterbox saying,

"Please contact us if you want us to paint your car."

Given that the update notes did mention the complete redesign and you had the choice of not upgrading.

Painting someone's car without asking them isn't even close to the same thing.
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Logic doesn't play into ranters. Don't even try.
 
If this doesn't scream "DRASTIC CHANGE !", I don't know what will.

ios7screenupdate.jpg
 
dictoresno said:
there were 3 months of betas, with numerous reports and videos that showed it off. As an informed member of an apple related forum, where we have the ability to understand and know things your average person doesnt have a clue about, how could you possibly be surprised about the "drastic change". Do you live under a rock? Its your own fault.

And on a side note, i love ios 7. Looks much better than 6.
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this.
 
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