:-) Having worked as a programmer for many years I'd agree - the things that users can do in a few minutes is often something to behold!
As to the upgrade. Yea, but, no but, yea but. That's the thing - you are talking about a Mac there. There is no change of screen resolution, or Devonthink running in the background, or a background auto-updater on an iPhone. Everything in the background is under Apple's control - until iOS4 anyway. So what causes such wide ranging experiences of an upgrade? I suppose we'll never know... he said philosophically. Stephen On 24 Jun 2010, at 11:56, Jason Davies wrote: > [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! "The costs are such that my department is not so much the department of energy and climate change, as the department of nuclear legacy and bits of other things," - Chris Hune, June 2010 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
