Newsletter Issue #780: iOS 8 and Apple’s Big Mistake
November 10th, 2014Taking advantage of lower prices for flash storage, buying iPhones and iPads with more space to put your stuff has become cheaper. So it costs $100 extra to increase capacity from 16GB to 64GB, and another $100 to go to 128GB. In passing, I eagerly await the time when Apple offers larger solid state drives on new Macs for prices that come closer to that of a mechanical hard drive.
So clearly Apple is delighted if you have plenty of extra space. Unlike Microsoft and Samsung, Apple actually doesn’t reserve a huge portion of storage space for its own needs on an iPhone or an iPad. But it still may not be enough for iOS 8.
Now there have been loads of questions as to why the iOS 8 upgrade pace continues to lag behind iOS 7, and even iOS 6. Give it time some suggest, while others talk about rampant bugs. The 8.0.1 update, which killed cellular service and Touch ID on an iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, is cited as a key example. But Apple withdraw the update within a little over an hour, not enough time for many people to be impacted. In all, some 40,000 devices were affected, and Apple provided easy instructions to restore those devices. The next day, iOS 8.0.2 arrived, which fixed the problem that was allegedly due to a problem with the update’s “wrapper,” according to Apple.
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Good comment.
We have various iOS devices that can take iOS 8, but we’re not upgrading them. We are concerned about battery hits and responsiveness problems.
We’ll likely upgrade the Mini RD and the Air at some point, once it’s really clear that things are OK, but not our older iPhones or original Mini.
I can well understand a slower adoption rate!
@Good Comment, It appears responsiveness is most obvious on an iPhone 4s and an iPad 2. Otherwise, it should be fine, especially on recent gear.
Peace,
Gene