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A day in the life of an iPhone upgrader

bluenova

bluenova

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This is a Facebook conversation between a relative of mine and their friends. I declined to get involved and sat back in disbelief.

(names changed for anonymity)

Tes
Anybody else find their battery doesn't last anywhere near as long after updating to iOS7?

Rich
Mine does a lot better. Have you done a backup and reinstall on your computer?
Strip everything off and out it on again. Works a treat

Jake
Yes. It's a nightmare!

Tes
That sounds like a massive hassle but I will give it a go this weekend! I am yet to find anything good about this bloody update think I may look at other phones at my upgrade rather than just go for the next iPhone like I always do!

Rich
The plastic iPhone looks really good. My editor has one and it's cool

Tes
Really I thought it looked a bit naff may have to have a proper look at in person and see but I'm not happy with iOS 7 at the mo so I still might step away from apple for a bit and see if they can get their act together! Definitely not getting a samsung tho maybe Nokia lumia....

Rich
Bold.

Tes
i quite like them and my bro has one and he raves about it!

Sue
Just need to turn off all the background updating for apps and the Bluetooth and sees to run fine

Tes
mine keeps switching Bluetooth back on its really annoying I think I have turned off background updating but i'll double check! So much hassle!!

Meg
The new nokia lumia looks pretty good, especially if you want to take photos. My contract isn't up till March but I will be looking at nokias when the time comes
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I have found that the whole "It just works" thing to be false. I have had people at where I work complain about their iPhone, and that was before iOS7. Apple, just like any other company, is not immune to to having technical problems/glitches in its products.
 
Yup, my iPod touch on iOS6 is a steaming pile...it's laggy, glitchy, and absolutely unpleasant to use.
 
I find them to be generally reliable, just not as much fun as Android.

I just never saw battery life take a hit in iOS 7. In fact it has improved ten-fold for me. Performance, however has taken a hit with the iPad 3

Let's hope for Android's next update to improve my Nexus 10 battery life. It is only half the time I get on my iPad. Sucks, gets a max of five or six hours of use, while the iPad on 7 gets at least 10.
 
The first couple days of the iOS 7 release I browsed an iPhone forum and there was a surprising number of users having issues.

Upgrade errors, aborted downloads, apps not working, data/files deleted from the phone, etc.
 
Saw this status update on Facebook today, "Lost allllllll of my contacts whilst at the apple store, please message me on here your numbers!!!!!!! Cheers"

it just works
 
Omar Days said:
Saw this status update on Facebook today, "Lost allllllll of my contacts whilst at the apple store, please message me on here your numbers!!!!!!! Cheers"

it just works
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I see these statuses when people get new phones regardless of OS, a lot of average users still haven't learned to sync contacts.
 
Ever since IOS 7 initially came out I have seen repeated problems, the most common being SMS issues and a few freeze/powercycling issues, all on the sprint network. Sprint actually came up with ##clear# to type into an iphone to reset the network in a different way then a profile update would to try to fix this, and apple, true to form, rushed patches to 7.0.1 and 7.0.2 to try to fix this. Last night something happened on the sprint network with iPhones, still not clear whether it was apple or sprint, but every iPhone 5, s and c both, stopped working. I mean every single one. Talk about chaos xD

I have a general policy with new things. Don't get them until they're not new anymore or take the risk of an undiscovered and unfixed issue.
 
OptimusL said:
I see these statuses when people get new phones regardless of OS, a lot of average users still haven't learned to sync contacts.
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True. I've seen status updates saying they've lost all their contacts when I know for a fact they own android devices and I'm like :confused:

But I thought that particular status was funny because it happened at an Apple store :D
 
My friend is, as I type, at Verizon to get a new phone because she hates the iOS update. She did say it's a battery killer and lags/freezes a lot but she mostly doesn't like the look. She may get a new iPhone. Yup. I tried to tell her it may work better (no lag etc.) but it will still LOOK THE SAME!
She's going to look at the Moto X and SG4 too.
These iPhone people! :rofl:
 
Wow, that's pretty funny that they suggested "the plastic one" as if that would have been any better. Oh well.

I talked to a coworker who just upgraded to the 5s from the iPhone 4. "Aside from the fingerprint scanner, it's not much different."

I didn't get into the whole fingerprint argument, that's a whole other issue. But man, I wish Apple would have done NFC instead. Much more secure way of unlocking your phone.
 
Nobody really likes iOS 7. Its a mistake. Only the die hard Apple fanboys like it. They don't know they have something bad.
 
Sad thing is, it will all blow over just like the critical reaction when Facebook changes its look and nothing will change. I swear if you put a photo of an iOS 7 screencap next to one of iOS 6, iOS 6 looks like the upgrade just like how Windows 98 looked when it went from 256 color support to 16-bit high color support. I'm just not sold on this whole flat ui concept. What's the point of an HD resolution screen when the UI devolves to the 1990s era of GUI? Everywhere I look, flat UI is becoming a disturbing trend. The devolution of technology. Before long we will weild a stylus and use a monochrome LCD because it 'improves battery life and performance' all to satisfy some old dinosaurs who refuse to update and adapt to the future. They are holding us all back.
 
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