iPhone 3.1=Fail
Note: I've emailed a copy of this post to Steve Jobs in hopes Apple would address this issue and support Apple's loyal user base.Over the past few days I've had the experience of restoring\erasing data and or updating my iPhone at least 8 times.
Why? To simply put it: because I'm paying the early adopters- Apple tax. (Yeah now there's more than just one kind of Apple tax). So what basically happened is that after installing the 3.1 update which was suppose to bring many bug fixes and features such as:
Well yeah I admit I am an early adopter, gotta have the latest bleeding edge stuff as its out, but in the past few months Apple has really disappointed me, these kinds of screw ups are the kind I'd expect from the big folks at Redmond. What's even worst is that Apple stopped signing any updates but the newly 3.1 so iTunes wouldn't let me downgrade,(Officially, without Jailbreaking) hell I've tried like 3 times. I've heard of people who have Jailbroken their iPhones to downgrade just to discover their iPhone is still very much WiFi-less even with OS 3.0. I think the reason that this is so frustrating to me on a personal level is because I love the iPhone so much, I want to love it just as most people who ever used one.
The iPhone is a superior device, with amazing applications that can do just about anything. (Well almost anything that is within Apple's closed system restrictions) But What's really amazing here is that most iPhone owners and people who are passionate about their iPhones would suffer and keep up with any of these issues for their iPhones, I can't think of many others devices users are willing to put out with such glitches and would still love it and has such passion for it. -Apple you have to fix such issues, I know that for many people the update was smooth and fixed a lot of earlier 3.x bugs but there are many users like myself who got stuck with a terrible WiFi less device after this update. (Just do a twitter search for: 3.1+WiFi)
Hell there's even one guy who returned his iPhone to the Apple store for that issue alone, got his iPhone replaced only to find that his newly received iPhone has that exact same issue!!The point is that Apple shouldn't ignore these things as it has done before, with many issues caused by the 3.0 update and others. I think it should address these and FIX them ASAP.
Apple's users (Often called Fanboys) let it be Mac, iPhone, iPod whatever are truly passionate about their products and have lots of love both for the Apple brand, for high end products and most importantly for the experiences around these amazing products. I think it would really be foolish for Apple to just ignore the issues and sell out their brand and loyal customers for short time profits. Even if these issues effects only 4% of the total iPhone user base.. (I bet it's more)
Note: If you are running an earlier version of iPhone OS do yourself a favor and DO NOT update to 3.1, hopefully Apple will issue a fix soon.
Why? To simply put it: because I'm paying the early adopters- Apple tax. (Yeah now there's more than just one kind of Apple tax). So what basically happened is that after installing the 3.1 update which was suppose to bring many bug fixes and features such as:
Improved syncing, Saving video from Mail and MMS into Camera Roll, Better iPhone 3G Wi-Fi performance when Bluetooth is turned on, Genius Mixes and more.The update completely messed up my Wifi, it doesn't recognize any wireless networks what so ever.. No matter what I do, restore, update, complete data wipe and settings, still the issues continue. Now I know many folks would say: "Oh come on you're an early adopter why did you had to grab that update as it went out" ?
Well yeah I admit I am an early adopter, gotta have the latest bleeding edge stuff as its out, but in the past few months Apple has really disappointed me, these kinds of screw ups are the kind I'd expect from the big folks at Redmond. What's even worst is that Apple stopped signing any updates but the newly 3.1 so iTunes wouldn't let me downgrade,(Officially, without Jailbreaking) hell I've tried like 3 times. I've heard of people who have Jailbroken their iPhones to downgrade just to discover their iPhone is still very much WiFi-less even with OS 3.0. I think the reason that this is so frustrating to me on a personal level is because I love the iPhone so much, I want to love it just as most people who ever used one.
The iPhone is a superior device, with amazing applications that can do just about anything. (Well almost anything that is within Apple's closed system restrictions) But What's really amazing here is that most iPhone owners and people who are passionate about their iPhones would suffer and keep up with any of these issues for their iPhones, I can't think of many others devices users are willing to put out with such glitches and would still love it and has such passion for it. -Apple you have to fix such issues, I know that for many people the update was smooth and fixed a lot of earlier 3.x bugs but there are many users like myself who got stuck with a terrible WiFi less device after this update. (Just do a twitter search for: 3.1+WiFi)
Hell there's even one guy who returned his iPhone to the Apple store for that issue alone, got his iPhone replaced only to find that his newly received iPhone has that exact same issue!!The point is that Apple shouldn't ignore these things as it has done before, with many issues caused by the 3.0 update and others. I think it should address these and FIX them ASAP.
Apple's users (Often called Fanboys) let it be Mac, iPhone, iPod whatever are truly passionate about their products and have lots of love both for the Apple brand, for high end products and most importantly for the experiences around these amazing products. I think it would really be foolish for Apple to just ignore the issues and sell out their brand and loyal customers for short time profits. Even if these issues effects only 4% of the total iPhone user base.. (I bet it's more)
Note: If you are running an earlier version of iPhone OS do yourself a favor and DO NOT update to 3.1, hopefully Apple will issue a fix soon.
