Let me not be the first to say that this makes absolutely no sense. You're going to lose money because you can't wait a couple months for a free upgrade?
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No OS 4.2 until November? iPad is going back
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Let me not be the first to say that this makes absolutely no sense. You're going to lose money because you can't wait a couple months for a free upgrade?
Another example of this is the iPhone 4 antenna problem. Apple could start making new models of iPhone 4 which don't have problem. Then everyone would bring their handset back and demand the new one.
Result= happy customers but apple lose $$$$
Which option do u think they picked today?
I think the opening poster should freeze themselves, until iOS 4.2 comes out.
Just make sure you have a reliable friend to thaw you out or else you might awaken in a future with talking otters, float screens, and no cable to hook your antique iPad up with...
Just make sure you have a reliable friend to thaw you out or else you might awaken in a future with talking otters, float screens, and no cable to hook your antique iPad up with...
buying an ipad right now is pointless. might as well wait for the next update where they'll most likely have much better hardware to support multitasking and the new features.
Well English is my language. I typed in short hand be causing I am typing on a software iPad keyboard so I'm not exactly anti-apple.
Yes. If u need it spelt out. The software will be free but it will only be available once there are the new features to make money in iOS not when the free features like backgrounding is coded.
Obviouslyapple care about $$$ not end users experience unless they are in conflict.
I have no idea what you are saying. Apple is adding the iOS 4 features to the iPad plus printing for free, in November (the fall) exactly like they said. How on earth is this going for $$$ instead of users?
I guess you must think you are making sense, but I think you're just jibberish.
They could have at least given us an interim update with folders. Managing all the applications without folders is just one mess.
This is what I'm frustrated about. It's most likely going to be a LATE November release for iOS 4.2, might as well wait a few more months to get the latest iPad. I'm sure they'll be upgrading the screen, adding facetime capabilities, that in itself will be worth the wait. The iPad has been out since what, was it April or May? I forget, anywho, that's like 6 months wait for a decent software update. Especially when all these other devices have iOS 4 or are going to have it. They might as well have held back on releasing the iPad another year. Don't get me wrong, I love my iPad, but it feels crippled. Same as knowing they will upgrade the ram, screen, and add a camera, couldn't hey have done that in the first GEN? yes, but chose not to. So I understand why a few folks are upset about the November release time, just feels like they released the iPad just to get it out there.
I have no idea what you are saying. Apple is adding the iOS 4 features to the iPad plus printing for free, in November (the fall) exactly like they said. How on earth is this going for $$$ instead of users?
I guess you must think you are making sense, but I think you're just jibberish.
I cannot put in plainer English. Obviously your fanboy radar is working as per Steve Jobs wants when you refuse to see the obvious.
With all the work going into 4.1 and 4.2 for the iphone, ipod touch do you not think they could have coded the simple features like backgrounding back at even the launch of the ipad?
No, they had bigger $$ to make else where and so priorites were assigned and the backgrounding like features were put on the long finger.
Hence as I have said the lack of a new iPhone 4 revision. I'm not saying apploe r evil or anything they make new useful products that earn heaps of $$ but endusers. They couldn't give a damn unless you had money.
If you click here to see the threads that XciteMe has started on MacRumors, I think you'll be able to answer that question quite easily.
I mean, the one he started 10 minutes before this thread is:
My jeans ruined my canvas messenger bag, do I have a right to complain to Guess?
You are exactly correct. Of course, the fanboys will say that qualifies as "fall" so we have no right to complain about it.
Wow, so you're saying Apple's employing a for-profit business model? Unlike say, Dell, HP or Toshiba? And now my iPad is a big load of crap and useless?
Thanks for clearing that up.
No problem for clearing that up. Obviously you might already get that but some people on these forums seem to think Apple are doing us favors. In fact we are paying them lots and getting pushed down at the same time.
*sniff*
Here I was actually enjoying my iPad. I guess I'm doing it wrong. The OS is crippled and won't be updated in like forevah, the resolution is crap, I can't take pictures with something the size of a book... if I didn't read these messageboards I wouldn't realize just how much I hate my iPad!!
Here I was actually enjoying my iPad. I guess I'm doing it wrong. The OS is crippled and won't be updated in like forevah, the resolution is crap, I can't take pictures with something the size of a book... if I didn't read these messageboards I wouldn't realize just how much I hate my iPad!!
Not really getting pushed down. They managed expectations from the get-go saying the iOS4 update would not be available "until fall" - which is a 3-month window. So nobody got "screwed" until the high-schoolers on this site starting amping up expectations based on a complete lack of knowledge of how life works.
Exactly my point. So many people are on here expecting apple to "keep them in their thoughts after spending a good part of income" on a software crippled device which until competition opens they don't have to fix.
I mean the iPhone 4 can't make calls and the iPad can't even set an alarm clock to go off unless you remember to close all your data.
Get real fanboys - your $ are lighting Steve and buddies cigars.
I agree, but maybe it's not the release date, but the simple "copy and paste in giant" from iPhone iOS version that upset some users.
How about a nice chunck of cheese to go with that whine?
I may sell mine too, but not because of any need for a newer OS. I had my doubts about joining the "Apple Community", but it's worse than I had feared. Most of the forums i'm apart of consist of older well rounded people, but this forum seems littered with young teenagers, and fashion hipsters. Some of you guys really creep me out!
This is the first iPad, how many iPod and iPhone generations are there. It is easy to update products that have had teams dedicated to them for years. The iPad is new and still developing.
Remember how long the updates were for the original iPhone?
Things don't happen overnight.
I don't question the people who have reported dropped iPhone calls but I'm not one of them. The iPhone 4 is better in every respect than my previous iPhone.
The first day of winter is December 21, so yes, any date in November is going to be in the fall.
So you went from wanting to marry your iPad to wanting to get rid of it in a few days?
Drama much?