Hi, David. You write > When the device is downloading the update in the background, it does not > necessarily download in one massive spirt. Instead, it breaks up the > download in to small bits and can take up to days to complete the download. > As I understand, the upgrade download also only occurs when the iDevice is > plugged in, locked, and on a wifi network.
That doesn't, with respect, change anything about what I said in the message below yours, unless I'm missing something. All the reasons I give for this being an unfortunate move for the user are still present with staggered downloading, downloading only over wireless, etc, and downloading when the device is plugged in and locked. These precautions are enough to avoid legal action, I think, if people got a $10-20 cellular phone bill, or if their battery was suddenly very low, the problems might bring enough attention to cause either public relations or legal trouble, but the precautions are not enough to prevent this being an imposition on the user. Obviously, if there was a way to turn this off, there would be no problem. Aman On 9/26/13, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote: > When the device is downloading the update in the background, it does not > necessarily download in one massive spirt. Instead, it breaks up the > download in to small bits and can take up to days to complete the download. > As I understand, the upgrade download also only occurs when the iDevice is > plugged in, locked, and on a wifi network. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: [email protected] > Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 27 Sep 2013, at 5:12, Aman Singer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, Chris and all. >> I would, Chris, respectfully disagree with what you say below. I >> neither like nor dislike change, but like change for the better and >> dislike change for the worse. I have upgraded to iOS 7 because it has >> one absolutely earthshaking feature which makes my use allot easier >> than it was. If that feature weren't there, I would not have updated. >> I have heard of very few things more foolish than Apple's downloading >> the update to the devices. People could want to avoid the program >> because of the bugs. They could be in a place with a satellite or >> other expensive connection and not want to download such a large file. >> This would be particularly nasty if the connection charged by the >> megabyte. They could have their disk nearly full and need to keep >> space open. They could have an older device which they don't want to >> upgrade though Apple says it can be upgraded. They could have an >> unstable network which may not like having large files downloaded over >> it. They could have a network which is constantly in use and is, >> therefore, very slow for downloads of large files. They could be >> avoiding the update because they like jailbroken devices. They may >> have applications which don't work, or don't work properly, on iOS 7. >> I could go on. There are tons of reasons not to upgrade, many of which >> are excellent. >> Aman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
