Apple Watch Owners Asked To Return Devices For Repair After Update Glitch (bbc.com) 48
Apple has pulled an update for its smartwatches after some owners complained the software -- watchOS 5.1 -- had caused their devices to stop working. From a report: The problem appears to have baffled the firm's repair staff, and there appears to be no way at present for owners to restore the products themselves. Several have said they have been told they need to send in the devices for a fix. Apple said it intended to release a revised update soon. Those affected reported that their watches had become stuck in a state showing the Apple logo -- but nothing else -- on their screens. One owner of a newly released Series 4 model said he had been told it would take the firm's repair staff up to a week to decide whether his device needed to be repaired or replaced.
Poor managerial oversight at Apple? (Score:2)
HUGE competition to see who can be worst? (Score:2)
Microsoft pauses Windows 10 update after files disappear. [bbc.com]
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Are Apple and Microsoft competing to see who can be the most incompetent?
What are you talking about?
Microsoft definitely messed up. One of the purposes of their OS is to manage your files. It clearly failed at that.
Apple barely did anything wrong. The main purpose of the Apple watch seems be ostentatiously displaying the Apple Logo. According to the article, that's what the affected devices do. Mission accomplished!
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So please tell me the best managed technology company out there?
In general all of them suck, because we can't get our idea of what technology should be like, and there is always those features that seems to had slipped pass QC.
Now my beef with Apple is they have been leading the charge for decades to remove ports, plugs, and doors. Which allow us to fix our problems ourselves.
Gone are the days where I hosed my OS, so let me boot from the CD/DVD/Floppy Disk and rebuild the OS. If you are lucky you have a US
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They have been a hard driving "success" at any cost type of shop for a while. The result is that they have a lot of staff who are sleep deprived and frayed at the edges. There is hug pressure to appear perfect from the outside, which also results in the drive to hit deadlines no matter what. In that environment people make mistakes, and some of those mistakes slip through the cracks.
in general these overly complex OS's are damn hard to fully QA. M$ just had to have a do-over on a release that deleted fo
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https://web.archive.org/web/20... [archive.org]
Re: Poor managerial oversight at Apple? (Score:2)
How is it mandatory? The user chooses when to install. Don't want it? Don't install it.
Did Apple Fuck up? You bet. But people that install massive updates on day 1 are asking for it. The bleeding edge can cut you.
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The up-time of such a device wouldn't meet modern service level objectives. The Sun Dial seems to have under 50% up time. It doesn't work at night, and often has problems on overcast days.
It is actually quite sad, how synchronized we are a society we are with Cell Phones and their clock all hooked up to a highly regulated atomic clocks. If I have meeting in 2 minutes I am like, I have plenty of time, to fill my coffee, check some emails, fix a line of code. Then dial in and still be early because I had 1
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"Back 20 years ago, most people were 10 minutes early to a meeting, and the meeting didn't start until 5 minutes after the scheduled time. Because peoples clocks could be considered up to 5 minutes off"
Nonsense. Cheap, reliable, accurate watches have been widely available since Timex started stamping them out back around 1960.
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How do you fuck up a watch? You might be surprised.
I knew a guy in a digital design class who produced a beautiful digital clock, based on 7400-tier chips. It would count up to 12:59, and then the hour counter would reset to zero. Fortunately someone pointed out that this would give him a 26-hour day.
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shit we've perfected time telling technology since like 100 years in the paleolithic
bullshit.
like cave dudes had a triangle that axed the sun what time it was
Which only works during the daytime and requires a scale whose location relative to compass directions is surveyed.
how do you fuck up a watch
An apple watch isn't just a watch, just like a smartphone isn't just a phone. It's a complex multifunction cellular-connected device, that means much more opertunity for bugs and a desire for the manufactuerer to add features over time. That means firmware updates.
Sometimes firmware updates go wrong, vendors can reduce the probability and impact with internal testing and with staged ro
I don't get it (Score:5, Funny)
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upscale geek squad (Score:2)
We rip you in the back and the front.
Hipster Douche Problems. (Score:1)
"I Have and Apple Watch and NEVER talk to Android Owners"
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Funny, I never speak to anyone who has a smart watch, because it's just one more vector for them to be obsessed with their fucking phone.
Oh, gee, you got a Facebook notification and need to look at your watch.
No thanks.
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Funny. My use case for a smart watch would be 2FA notifications and authing SO I do not have to look at my "fucking phone". ;)
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Maybe you need to talk to an English teacher to get a book on grammar and writing. You can then dis on folks in public without fear of looking like a moron.
become stuck in a state showing the Apple logo (Score:1)
so..
similar to windows 10 after any major update.
why doesn't microsoft offer to fix for free all the computers they fuck up on a semi-annual basis?
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Because that would reduce them to a 10 person shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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I don't see the problem here (Score:2)
That's a good half of what you paid for, already.
Maybe 90% if you still use your phone to tell the time.
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Puzzling issue for so few devices (Score:2)