[email protected] wrote:
I had decided to upgrade my iPod touch 2G the day I saw iOS 4 was released (I'm
like that!). I clicked the update button, clicked on my 'Caffeine' menu bar
item to stop my Mac going to sleep and just left them both to get on with it.
One or two hours later I returned and all was done and dusted and I've been
using it since just fine. If I had read the experiences relayed here over the
last few days I would probably have waited until 4.1 was released! How can the
experience be so different - it's not as though it's the Mac with extensions,
plug-ins, strange login processes, background utility applications and more
running on the device being upgraded?
It's definitely more sluggish than iPhone OS 3.1.3 but not consistently so.
Sometimes it's just as fast as 3.1.3 and then slower when doing the same thing
again. Odd. I haven't spotted any pattern yet, but I really appreciate the
folders but a shame about missing even a bit of simple multitasking for a few
things (not that I'd ever missed it) and changing the wallpaper. Apart from the
rearrangement of Settings I haven't noticed big differences yet. I'll be better
placed to know what subtleties I might find when I read the User Guide ...
it can be so many things though -- a combination of different settings
that clash, routers that have slight variations on DHCP leases, etc etc.
I used to beta-test for a very respected Mac company and in every cycle
there would be something you just didn't expect (like me switching
monitor resolutions to a particular setting, from a particular setting)
that would throw up a weird bug. And beta-testers are sometimes the
worst people because they often have good kit and know what they're
doing. I hadsomeone the other day say "oh, I can't use Macs, they're so
difficult' when presented with my laptop. I said, don't worry, it's not
difficult.
Within three seconds she had accidentally activated Expose, then
Dashboard. Then, when I got them out of the way, she tried to scroll but
hit the almost invisible Devonthink drag tab on the side of the screen
which led to confusing results. Before she gave up (about ten seconds
into the experiment) Microsoft auto-updater had sprung into life and
taken over the screen.
Newbies/non-geeks just attract these things. And theyare not usually
beta-testers!
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