Friday, July 11, 2008

Update Day

I updated my iPhone with the 2.0 Software Update.  Relatively slow going (more or less a total factory reset and reload of all music, audiobooks, and videos) that took about 1/2 hour to complete but no issues at all.

Immediately downloaded Sega's Super Monkey Ball from the AppStore and handed it to the little boy to play while I activated a new MobileMe account.  Initial reaction was overwhelmingly positive - I had to promise to let him play again as soon as he wakes up tomorrow morning in order to get him to bed on time. "No, Dear, I am not buying the kid his own iPhone."

And I thought that the iPhone upgrade was slow!  Apple is having severe performance issues with iPhone activations that appear to also be impacting MobileMe's debut.  Some of the features aren't even working - I couldn't even get to the Account preferences page on my account.  Curiously, it seemed to perform much faster on Firefox 3.0 than on Safari 3.1.2 - makes me wonder if there's dependency on WebKit's SquirrelFish update to the JavaScript engine that isn't yet baked-in to Safari.

So far my experience, not unlike some of the quirkiness in the initial OS X Leopard release last fall, feels more like a beta than a fully-baked product.  I have every confidence that things will get better but it pains me to see Apple behaving badly.

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