'Blue Screen of Death' haunts iPhone 5S users
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iOS 7 is a complete and utter embarrassment for Apple. It was nowhere near ready to ship, and it's become apparent that Apple's hardware release schedule dictated the iOS 7 ship date, and compelled Apple to release iOS 7 prematurely.
Although I've long been a fan of the iPhone due to its superior app ecosystem, I simply can't take my chances with another Apple mobile product. Apple has forced me into a situation whereby I can either elect to continue using a phone that does not turn on and off and crashes perpetually, or use a functional Android device with an inferior ecosystem. Basically any sane person would chose the latter.
iOS 7 was in no way ready to ship, and is still a major regression from iOS 6 even after several subsequent minor releases. The fact that Apple released such an incomplete OS to millions of users really makes me question their judgement.
The more likely explanation is that there are issues with the 64-bit transition e.g. drivers or kernel bugs.
Other aspects of iOS aside, I would say there are many sane people who would consider the Android app ecosystem superior.
I think that's what has the biggest potential to hurt. I personally know couple friends who jumped ship after the iOS 4 update made their iPhone unusable and they've stuck with Android ever after. My iPad 3 was a stellar device until iOS 7 when it became very unpleasant to use. Luckily I was able to roll back to 6.1.x on the day when they were still allowing it. That's unnecessary pain inflicted on users - and people remember that kind of thing for a long time.
The phone restarts and the browser tries to reload all the tabs but the session is lost.
It bugs me even if this is once a week event. iPhone has been around for 6+ years and by now it should be mature enough to not go kaput when a piece of code misbehaves. Android (nexus 4) doesn't do that. They support hundreds of devices. Apple had only a handful and that too with much less diversity.
Anecdotal, I know - just like your Samsung experience.
Btw, I wonder if the heavy customisation that Samsung does could lower the reliability of the system?
Changing the wallpaper takes a good 10 seconds. The "set home screen" button has no visual feedback so you keep on wondering if it's busy changing the wallpaper or you didn't hit the button correctly. Granted that you don't change wallpapers everyday, but the delay in wallpaper change coupled with no visual feedback makes it an unwelcome experience.
HW sensor issues are strange, but understandable in a new product. Also, it's a pretty small impact.
The damning thing in your statement is your conversation with apple engineers...but you don't provide any information from that conversation.
Two minor quibbles with the new phone, and a secret, don't really add up to a reason for us to doubt Apple. Can you elucidate your claims, or do you just have 'a bad feeling about this'?
If it's just me, then I'm an anomaly and I should be soundly ignored. Time will tell.
That said, I flirt with dumping Android for IOS every time my contract comes up for renewal. Given the reports of 5S performance relative to everything else out there, I was enthusiastically looking forward to getting one. Now, not so much, and I'm considering sticking with the devil I know yet again.
Yes, both these first world problems will be addressed - I spent many years doing driver work so I know that's a given - but it seems like a real step down given that IOS 7 was in the hands of testers for at least 7 months prior to release (according to friends who revealed themselves as such post-release).
That Apple didn't catch such flaming obvious usability issues blows my mind, but whatever floats your boat. They shipped Apple maps so I guess I shouldn't be surprised by anything anymore.
Since we have no idea what the root cause of these bugs is, I would not immediately conclude HW until it is proven so (because usually it's not). And even then, I doubt they will admit it's HW if there's a SW fix for them (which there usually is).
What I am saying is that the majority of testing would have been done with iOS7 on shipping devices which have had no issues. The issues seen are specific to 5S which clearly indicates driver or kernel problems.
I'm not very fond of iOS 7, the "fuck Scott Forstall" release. The management on the software side is acting like teenagers, trying to rid his contributions without giving a shit about the customer in the process (c.f. the new Calendar app...).
Tim Cook should have kept Forstall and fired the other SVPs who supposedly couldn't get along with him, especially Craig Federighi. My god that was a bad decision, and iOS 7 is just the beginning.
Firing Forstall reminds me of firing Jobs back in the 80s, and I fully expect him to be Apple's CEO in the next 10-15 years. In the meantime, my expectations on the software side are low. They simply have no one qualified to steer the ship at this point.
(My phone has rebooted a couple of times - iOS7 clearly has bugs, but I've never seen a blue screen or a pause)
iOS 7 is buggy, get over it [I'm a developer, I've been on iOS 7 since the Betas, it's still buggy]. Hopefully 7.1 (and please, Apple, 7.2 and 7.3) will fix a lot of these issues.
This is extremely likely to be a paid piece placed by a competitor.
Moreover, even Windows has not shown me the blue screen in a long while ( since Windows 7, now on 8.1 ), but still people call the restarts BSOD. Get over it.
Anyway, it's official, it's on Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death#iPhone_5S :)
http://www.imore.com/ios-7-blue-screen-death-caught-video-wi...
> This is extremely likely to be a paid piece placed by a competitor.
Oh, the way that statement can be interpreted.