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Apple Releases iPhone Software 2.0.1

Monday, August 4th, 2008 at 7:20 PM - by

Apple released the highly anticipated iPhone Software 2.0.1 update late on Monday evening. While the potential list of fixes included in the update is long, the description of what it actually does include is the stunningly terse "Bug fixes."


iPhone Software 2.0.1: Bug fixes!

The iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod touch have been plagued with stability and performance problems ever since iPhone and iPod touch Software 2.0 was released. Considering the types of issues users have been experiencing -- ranging from application crashes to sluggish text entry to full-on system crashes -- most users would probably consider additional information about what the update addresses most welcome.

iPhone and iPod touch Software Update 2.0.1 will appear in iTunes as part of the application's weekly update check when your handheld is connected to your computer. To force the update to download and install immediately, connect your iPhone or iPod touch to your computer and click Update in the iTunes Summary tab.

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MOSiX Man said:

member since 20 Jun 2001 with 558 posts, unranked, send him a message or view his profile

Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:50 pm

Hmmm... What's more important - that they fix the problems or that they document everything that they fixed?

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Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:15 pm

"What's more important... they fix the problems or that they document...?"

Neither is more important than the other.

There's been some talk about position the iPhone for Enterprise users, and I personally would love to see more sophisticated applications developed. After all, I'm capable of calculating tips in my head, I don't need 20 different tip calculators.

The problem is, if you're developing iPhone applications now, you're likely programming work-arounds to some of the existing bugs. If Apple corrects those bugs, then your work-arounds no longer work properly and should be classified as application bugs. For the end user, a bug is a bug regardless of whether it's in the operating system or your application.

At the very least, if Apple says they fixed feature X, you can quickly determine if your application involves feature X and needs to be retested and recoded. But if Apple doesn't tell you what they've fixed, you're stuck retesting your entire application from scratch just to figure out what's changed. For smaller developers, that's a significant amount of time wasted, that should be better spent on new features. Ironically, the bug fix is just as bad as the lack of documentation.

I can only hope that the SDK at least suggests what those changes are.

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A guest said: (hide)

Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:53 pm

Apple needs to get a clue on this. Documenting the specific changes made is the best way to reassure clients that the company is actually listening to what customers are reporting.

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A guest said: (hide)

Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:27 pm

Its very frustrating to know what is not fixed. How do we know if they didn't introduce new problems. If we dont know what to look for we cant let them know what is wrong when it happens... seems preety silly to not say !

At any rate I am downloading it now and hope to see if it changes things for the better!

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Dirt Road said:

member since 24 Oct 2002 with 1239 posts, unranked, send him a message or view his profile

Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:01 pm

I guess I'm lucky. I updated to 2.0 for my new touch right away & didn't see any problems. It acted like it took two restarts/syncs at the time, but I've seen the same thing happen with system updates on my Macs.

Or maybe 2.0.1 will make it jump up & dance. Who knows?

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A guest said: (hide)

Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:43 pm

Well It didn't work for me! The two big problems I had was the lagging keyboard (7 - 8 times a day), and Ring volume automatically adjusting to whatever the iPod volume was when you last listened two it. All the other problems seem to have been solved including the Contacts icon ( Still slightly slower than phone/contacts)

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A guest said: (hide)

Sun Aug 17, 2008 6:04 pm

MOSiX Man, that's called a logical fallacy. You imply that there is a dilemma because only one of the options is possible, when in fact they're not mutually exclusive.

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