Two brilliant moves that helped create the Apple iOS powerhouse

Re:Two brilliant moves that helped create the Apple iOS powe... by justinschuh on Sunday May 06, 2012 @10:38AM (#3935206)

I strongly disagree. I bought a discounted iPhone 3 when the 3gs was first released. Within a year my phone was pretty worthless, because the iOS 4 updates made it so interminably slow that I stopped using it as anything other than a dumb phone (which it was never great at anyway). And, of course, I still had a full year left on a two-year contract at that point, so I was not a happy customer. Maybe the situation is better from the 3gs onward, but it sucked for me.

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Re:Two brilliant moves that helped create the Apple iOS powe... by oemera on Sunday May 06, 2012 @11:09AM (#3935283)

I have to admit that this is true and it was a very disappointing for the user-base to see that their phone got a unacceptable performance after the update. However Apple learned from it's lessons and the same thing didn't happen with 3 GS and the iPhone 4S.

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Re:Two brilliant moves that helped create the Apple iOS powe... by astrodust on Sunday May 06, 2012 @11:26PM (#3937450)

At least you got updates. Many people on the Android platform never, ever see them.

Yes, iOS 4 was slow on the iPhone 3 hardware, I used that phone for years while waiting for an upgrade, but it was never worthless. It worked.

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