The iPhone iOS 4 answers I have been looking for
I have never met David Szpunar but yesterday he made my day.
I had just about had it up to here with the iPhone iOS 4 upgrade. And while I had worked my way through most of the issues, two big ones still were nagging me. Namely:
1. Why was there no video available to walk me through each new feature in iOS 4?
2. How could I go back to having "Delete" be the default swipe feature in my email (it changed to Archive)?
As many of you have figured out, when I write a new blog post such as this one, it auto-posts to Twitter. That's where David comes in. Not too long after my blog post appeared on Twitter I saw these replies:
In just 3 simple tweets, David addressed and resolved both of my remaining issues. That's the power of social media people.
If you have an iPhone you owe it to yourself to check out TiPb, the web site David mentioned. It is chock full of good information regarding the iPhone and the new iOS 4 update.
And if you just want the fast track to all of the new iOS 4 features, this video does a great job of walking you through them.
If you can not see the embedded video player above please use the following link: iOS 4 in 10 minutes - TiPb video quick-start guide
5 comments for this blog post so far...
June 23, 2010 at 8:37 am
David Szpunar
Hi Patric,
Glad I could help! It’s thanks to John Fox actually, I happened to see him post this tweet and shot off a couple of quick replies that I’d already found. Sorry if my first tweet was a little down-putting or sarcastic, wasn’t my intention :-) Glad you’re up and running with iOS 4! I’m looking forward to running it on the iPhone 4 soon myself :-)
David
June 23, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Patric Welch
@David - Your first tweet wasn’t down-putting or sarcastic in any way. Don’t sweat it. Let me know how things go when you get your iPhone 4.
June 29, 2010 at 9:04 am
Kristifer Harvey
At least you guys get iOS 4. I still have an iPhone 2G, and can’t for the life of me come up with a good reason Apple didn’t upgrade older phones as well. AFAIK, all non cellular hardware is the same as a 3G.
July 02, 2010 at 10:27 am
Patric Welch
@Kristifer - I’m not sure that’s true. I think there is a difference in the hardware amongst the different generations of iPhones.
July 02, 2010 at 3:35 pm
David Szpunar
My guess is that Apple simply doesn’t want to put the time and effort into testing on the 2G any longer, and they’ve simply retired support and said upgrade or deal with it. It is an extremely outdated phone by technology standards. However, even the original 3G phone was being sold until the iPhone 4 release, so it had to be supported still (realistically), though the 3G didn’t get a lot of the new features (including multitasking) in iOS 4, likely due to it being too slow to handle it well.
No company supports old equipment or software forever. Microsoft is almost done killing Windows XP support and Windows 2000 is ancient history. Most cell phone carriers have new models out every few months, and old models are replaced with the latest if they break, rather than repaired. I wouldn’t count on much support past 2 years on almost any cell phone, and you’re probably lucky if you get that.
Also, a part of it is that Apple would very much like to encourage you to buy a new phone :-) It’s not like the 2G no longer does something it was advertised as doing. Not providing new updates and features is not something Apple is committed contractually to doing after a phone is released, though they nicely do so for a while after each phone comes out.
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