iPhone 3G iOS 4 Upgrade Aftermath

June 22nd, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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Yesterday, like a good lem­ming I updated my iPhone 3G to the newly released and re-named iOS 4. For what­ever odd rea­son it seems that you peo­ple are inter­ested in my opin­ion on such things — which frankly is more than a lit­tle dis­turb­ing — so here are my ran­dom thoughts on the update process itself, as well as run­ning a nearly 2 year old phone with Apple’s newest oper­at­ing sys­tem. Note that this will not be any­thing approx­i­mat­ing a full review of iOS 4. If you want some­thing like that I highly sug­gest that you read the excel­lent review from Ars Technica.

The Update Process

First some notes on the update process itself. I’m happy to report that, unlike many who were upgrad­ing an iPhone 3G, my upgrade went rel­a­tively quickly. All told it was prob­a­bly an hour start-to-finish, but that doesn’t count time spent sit­ting idle wait­ing for my input while I bug­gered off for din­ner. That said, the iPhone upgrade process as man­aged though iTunes is fuck­ing inter­minable. I’m not yet one of those peo­ple who call for the split­ting of iTunes into mul­ti­ple seper­ate appli­ca­tions, but I’m get­ting there.

During the entire process, which consists

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WWDC 2010 Roundup

June 7th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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Well, there you have it. The WWDC 2010 Keynote has come and gone. The big news, of course, was the new iPhone 4. Additionally Steve Jobs talked about the newly renamed iOS 4 and minor updates to iBooks on the iPad. I’m not going to bother run­ning down the fea­tures of the new OS, Apple cov­ered that dur­ing the spe­cial event ear­lier this year. Nor am I going to go through a detailed list of the specs of the new iPhone. You can get a good run-down of that at Ars Technica. What I do want to talk about are my impres­sions of some of the announce­ments, and in par­tic­u­lar, the reac­tions to them.


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