iMessage to Apple: iPhone OS 2.0 sucks

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:38

Your IT - Mobility

Hi Apple! I love the iPhone, but you’ve seriously screwed things up with iPhone OS 2.0 – an operating system that is reminding me of the original OS X 10.0 and the new 10.5.x in its bugginess, an OS that desperately needs updating to a more stable version. Can we hurry it up, please?

<rant> Oh My God. The world’s coolest digital device and techno toy has been lumbered with the world’s worst operating system in terms of stability and reliability. At this point I’m even thinking that maybe Windows Mobile is more stable.

Yeah, yeah, I know. It’s been less than two weeks since the iPhone OS 2.0 and the iPhone 3G came out. And yeah, I know. It’s well known that the new OS is buggy as all hell, whether you’re using it on the iPhone 2G or the iPod Touch.

It's also a two.point.ZERO release, something you can never really have confidence in, because a point.ONE release will come to the rescue. Then a point.TWO.

Because honestly, OS 2.0 sucks. My “App Store” icon told me I had three updates, one for Cro-Mag, that cool little car racing game, one for Evernote, and one for Urban Spoon.

I was connected to my Wi-Fi access point, and rather than downloading the app updates through iTunes, I decided to do it on the iPhone itself.

Big mistake. It started downloading the Cro-Mag update, and then after a few minutes... BOOM! My iPhone re-starts.

No biggie, I thought. It’ll just start up again and I can try downloading the updates again. But horror of horrors... the iPhone is stuck at the Apple logo. Stuck, stuck, stuck.

I try re-starting it by holding down the ‘home’ button and the button at the top of the iPhone. It re-starts. And I’m back in Apple logo won’t-go-away-hell.

I try a couple more times for good measure. I plug it into the USB cable. I try to see if iTunes can talk to it.

No dice. So, it’s a-restorin’ we go – you hold down the home key and the top button, and keep on holding for a couple of minutes (or longer) until you see the iTunes logo and the USB plug.

This tells the iPhone – either model (and the iPod Touch) – that you are putting it into Restore Mode. You can then connect your iDevice to iTunes and have it restore from your firmware.

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