Comments on: Hey Apple! Pull your head out of your…. http://isource.com/2008/08/05/hey-apple-pull-your-head-out-of-your/ #1 Source for iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac and AppleTV Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:32:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.6 By: Ragart http://isource.com/2008/08/05/hey-apple-pull-your-head-out-of-your/#comment-3189 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:32:13 +0000 http://isource.com/?p=4191#comment-3189 2.0.1 feels a bit faster — or at least that’s what I like to tell myself for the five hours spent frigging upgrading to it. Contacts does feel faster though. Calendar and SMS can still take 2-3 seconds to load up, though.

]]> By: astrosmash http://isource.com/2008/08/05/hey-apple-pull-your-head-out-of-your/#comment-2634 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:26:33 +0000 http://isource.com/?p=4191#comment-2634 Software is hard; platform development is orders of magnitude more difficult, and iPhone-OS is an extremely new and immature platform. For perspective, it took Microsoft roughly 12 years (89-2001) to turn Windows NT into a consumer-ready platform; 15 years (88-2003) for NEXTSTEP/OS X (depending on when you think OS X was ready for consumers). iPhone OS barely a year old. Sure, it’s based on OS X, but is software development stack is brand new and in a seemingly constant state of flux. Not to mention that iPhone-OS a essentially a desktop OS crammed into a very non-desktop environment, with very little memory and resources (no virtual memory, which is unheard-of for a modern desktop OS like OS X/iPhone OS)

Furthermore, Apple has little history or experience in providing the infrastructure required for a service like MobileMe, and it shows. Sure, iTMS serves a ton of bandwidth, but it’s all static content.

Unlike virtually all consumer electronics manufacturers, Apple is very good at software, but it seems to me that underlying problems with iPhone-OS and MobileMe are classic technical problems that simply demand a lot of time to resolve, so I think the problems we’re seeing with the iPhone and MobileMe will be with us for a while.

]]> By: LondonLad http://isource.com/2008/08/05/hey-apple-pull-your-head-out-of-your/#comment-2632 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:36:28 +0000 http://isource.com/?p=4191#comment-2632 I totally agree on all aspects except I must be the only person in the universe who had a very smooth transition from .mac to Mobile Me….. No problems at all.. bit slow for the first day or so but that was it!!…

]]> By: nazbatag http://isource.com/2008/08/05/hey-apple-pull-your-head-out-of-your/#comment-2631 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:36:57 +0000 http://isource.com/?p=4191#comment-2631 you’re damn right ! Updating is failing

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