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iPhone 2.1 Software Update Now Available

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What's amazing about this update is that Apple has included a what's new.

FINALLY!

Previously they probably didn't want to promise something that might not work. With all the recent high-profile problems they probably feel they finally have to.

I agree, about time!

Hey, you know what's a radical new idea? Shipping production-quality software when you make a new release! Just imagine for a sec... company releases a new product and instead of a POS beta-quality software, you get a decently-working software.

I have OS 2.0 right now and yes, despite what Apple may say it IS beta software and it is embarrassingly slow and laggy.

The other extreme is to ship production-quality software and call it beta. (Ahem.. gmail)

I'd rather see more of Google's strategy. At least it actually works...

Whatever happened to "release early, release often?" Or does that only apply to startups?

hrm. I'd personally prefer a phone that actually worked.

Agreed.

But, it is tough in some markets where it's very difficult to test many of the customer configurations that can mess things up. Like anything on Windows that's sensitive to DLLs.

On mac os, there's little excuse.

On a hardware platform you built yourself, and have full control over, there isn't an excuse. Just failure.

It's hardly a failure. Just because the phone has bugs doesn't mean it isn't useful. It's very handy to have a mobile phonebook with maps, for example.

The reality is that software doesn't have to be bug-free to be successful. That's not to say bugs shouldn't be fixed. However, features are more important than fixing every bug. Perfectionism has claimed the life of more software projects than we know; we just don't hear about the fate of the true failures.

Yes, this upgrade is the reason I upgraded iTunes to 8.0, as the installer said I had to in order to get the iPhone upgrade. Sadly, as noted elsewhere, my itunes install is now borked. Thanks, Apple!

Thank goodness they fixed the dropped call problem, I was seriously considering to return the phone because my calls got dropped so much.

And I would love it if they could somehow amplify the speakerphone functionality too... it's got to be the quietest speakerphone I have ever used

Wow i can finally browse my contacts without having to wait a minute for the damn thing to load.

Please, please tell me that is true. As it is, it's embarrassing..."let me just add you to my address book... just a second. ok hang on... erm. got a pen?"

Yeah... that was a great improvement in 2.0 to 2.02... instead of contacts pausing for a minute when it displayed, it paused for a minute before it displayed. Great.

2.1 seems much better so far.

In related news..

""Apple has responded quickly to reports that its initial release of iTunes 8 caused STOP errors on some Windows machines"

Anyone else find that statement gloriously ironic?

Yeah. Now if they would fix my macbook's itunes crash... Off to the "Genius bar", I suppose.

FYI you need iTunes 8 to see the iPhone 2.1 software update.

....yeah.

I got it on Wednesday for my iPod Touch. I like how there's more information like duration, album in the song lists, podcasts, etc.

I have been waiting for this for a long time. 2.0.2 drops calls like that was its intent.

I tried to do this in the morning, it hung for about 30mins.

The biggest problem - no push notification.

umm..it is still showing 2.02

Update your iTunes.

I'm just glad someone finally used the correct capitalization for iPhone.

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