Apple Store app updated for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus

John Gruber linked to a piece by Russell Ivanovic who argues that Apple needs to slow down their software releases so they can spend time building software that "just works". I agree. Gruber brought up an example of him changing the wallpaper on his iPhone 6 and the phone going into a continuous reboot to which he had to do a full restore from iTunes. MacRumors has a thread up about users having Bluetooth issues and not being able to pair with their vehicles. I've had similar issues when I connect to my Bluetooth speaker where I have to manually flip the connection from dock connector to the speaker. And Safari is just a hot mess. I have issues with selecting text, copy/paste, sometimes the keyboard freezes and Safari crashes, just not a good experience at all. And then of course issues with WiFi and the whole update that took away people's cellular connectivity and Touch ID. These are the kind of things that drive down customer sat in a hurry. Perhaps Apple has bitten off more than it can chew with the iOS 7 redesign and iOS 8 feature updates. They really need to spend time fixing the quality of their software. Right now iOS software doesn't ship when it's ready it ships when new iPhones are released. Gruber argues that Apple should decouple major OS releases from new hardware announcements. Whatever they do I sincerely hope we do not get iOS 9 and instead Apple spends time polishing iOS 8 into the quality software it should be. http://rustyshelf.org/2014/10/01/it-just-works/ [quote]Tim Cook keeps telling us that “Only Apple” could do the amazing things it does. I just wish that Apple would slow down their breakneck pace and spend the time required to build stable software that their hardware so desperately needs. The yearly release cycles of OS X, iOS, iPhone & iPad are resulting in too many things seeing the light of day that aren’t finished yet. Perhaps the world wouldn’t let them, perhaps the expectations are now too high, but I’d kill for Snow iOS 8 and Snow Yosemite next year. I’m fairly confident I’m not alone in that feeling.[/quote]

[quote name="Rogifan" url="/t/182625/apple-store-app-updated-for-iphone-6-and-6-plus#post_2611325"]John Gruber linked to a piece by Russell Ivanovic who argues that Apple needs to slow down their software releases so they can spend time building software that "just works". I agree. Gruber brought up an example of him changing the wallpaper on his iPhone 6 and the phone going into a continuous reboot to which he had to do a full restore from iTunes. MacRumors has a thread up about users having Bluetooth issues and not being able to pair with their vehicles. I've had similar issues when I connect to my Bluetooth speaker where I have to manually flip the connection from dock connector to the speaker. And Safari is just a hot mess. I have issues with selecting text, copy/paste, sometimes the keyboard freezes and Safari crashes, just not a good experience at all. And then of course issues with WiFi and the whole update that took away people's cellular connectivity and Touch ID. These are the kind of things that drive down customer sat in a hurry. Perhaps Apple has bitten off more than it can chew with the iOS 7 redesign and iOS 8 feature updates. They really need to spend time fixing the quality of their software. Right now iOS software doesn't ship when it's ready it ships when new iPhones are released. Gruber argues that Apple should decouple major OS releases from new hardware announcements. Whatever they do I sincerely hope we do not get iOS 9 and instead Apple spends time polishing iOS 8 into the quality software it should be. http://rustyshelf.org/2014/10/01/it-just-works/ [/quote] Wifi on my iPhone 6 has been buggy, sometimes it just won't connect period (and locks cellular into 1X on Verizon) and I have to reboot. Working out the kinks would be nice, 7.1.2 was also extremely buggy for most people I knew.

These are issues that get fixed in 6 months.

[quote name="TheWhiteFalcon" url="/t/182625/apple-store-app-updated-for-iphone-6-and-6-plus#post_2611329"] Wifi on my iPhone 6 has been buggy, sometimes it just won't connect period (and locks cellular into 1X on Verizon) and I have to reboot. Working out the kinks would be nice, 7.1.2 was also extremely buggy for most people I knew.[/quote] I have wifi issues too where I either have to close out of Safari, toggle wifi off and on or in some cases reboot my device. And just as I was typing this my keyboard froze and Safari crashed. Part of me is angry at Scott Forstall (and Steve Jobs) for allowing iOS to fall far enough behind the competition that Craig Federighi and team are scrambling to catch up. And anyone who says it wasn't behind....go watch WWDC 2013 and 2014 again and see the huge positive reaction from developers in the audience. I'm already using the 1password extension which is freaking awesome. Pretty much everything Apple has attempted to do in the last two years will ultimately be for the better. The ideas are great, the execution not so much. Is it just an issue of Apple moving too fast or is it a resource problem? I have no doubt the software engineers are working nights and weekends on this stuff. Is there just not enough of them?

[quote name="Curtis Hannah" url="/t/182625/apple-store-app-updated-for-iphone-6-and-6-plus#post_2611331"]These are issues that get fixed in 6 months.[/quote] So for 6 months us users have to live with buggy software? If that's the case then I wish Apple would let me downgrade back to the last version of iOS 7 and then I would know in the future to wait 6 months before installing new software.