iPhone apps S/D

Really into this game Boost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIufviYAUTI

whoa..

the battery killa!

4.0 is out

digging cyclemeter as a bike computer

4.0 is out

― stet, Monday, June 21, 2010 1:43 PM (36 minutes ago)

Not sure if I should install 4.0 on my iPhone 3G. Sounds like it will make it super-slow. Anyone try this yet?

Not sure how this applies to iPhone but in OS X major updates generally speed up old hardware.

i finally bought drop7.... but it doesn't work on the ifone4 betas i've been using /:

i really hope they update it soon!!!

anyone know what happens if you go to 4 on a jailbroken phone?

Not sure how this applies to iPhone but in OS X major updates generally speed up old hardware.

That is the wrongest thing I have ever read on the internet, and I just came from reading Armond White's Toy Story 3 review.

MAYBE this was a little bit true for Snow Leopard, but every other OS update from Apple just serves to slow down my old hardware.

Major, not minor, my experience has been that every major from 10.3-10.6 has bumped performance a little

Seems fine on my 3g fwiw.

It was massively true for 10.0 -> 10.1 -> 10.2 -> 10.3. Then 10.4 was on a par, and with Leopard you had to be on a recent machine to get improvements, but it holds in general: even if you don't get faster, you don't get worse.

It's not just fanboi "snappiness" either, shit was measurable.

How can you possibly believe this to be true? With each release, older hardware is abandoned because it cannot even RUN the new software - do you think that hardware just gets quicker and quicker with each software release, and then is abandoned? That has not been my experience in the 20 years that I have owned macs. New features require fancy video cards, and more RAM, and faster CPUs with more acceleration.

What Ed and stet say is correct (to a degree).

Every OS X update from 10.1 through 10.4 was faster than the iteration before it, provided you kept your RAM healthily upgraded. For me, 10.5 was a wash, though moving to Snow Leopard on my new (at the time) MBP was another small boost.

ANYWAY yeah, been running iOS4 on my 3G for a few days and it does seem to have made it a bit faster all round. Backing up/syncing has improved lots too. The only new features on the 3G are folders and unified inbox though.

OK, thanks.

provided you kept your RAM healthily upgraded

Come on...

schwantz, older computers get abandoned not because the OS gets too slow for them, but because they don't support some technologies that are now required (like the switch from PowerPC to Intel.)

New features require fancy video cards, and more RAM, and faster CPUs with more acceleration.
... and those new features don't run on machines that can't support them. Core Image needs a certain level of GPU, and so on. When it gets untenable to have a fallback, they retire that hardware from support. But the stuff that does run, often improves massively. Compositing and drawing especially get miles better between 10.0 and 10.3 so that the same machine got faster and faster. Snow Leopard also gained a lot from improvements they made to OS X for the OG iPhone, which was basically an iBook G3 in terms of power. Basically:

How can you possibly believe this to be true?
Because you can invent better algorithms and more efficient ways of doing the same thing.

ANYWAY: People are saying that the 3G is a chunk slower on iOS 4, so watch out.

ANYWAY steez was an xp.

i installed textie, it's fine, but I'm not sure it will work long-term....I cancelled sms on my iphone account but when I receive texts, they don't run through textie (unless they were a reply to a text i sent out of it), need to make sure att isn't going to screw me on charges for that; also, despite their loudly trumpeting that you can pay $1.99 to turn the ads off (which are really tiny an unobtrusive anyway), I can't seem to do that, it won't let me purchase the 'on/off' thing because it says I haven't purchased the app (which is, uh, odd). txts I sent out through textie apparently show up on other phones individually rather than threaded which I think is maybe annoying to other people but I don't really care.

All I know is that my iBook felt slower and slower with each OSX release, and it has been the same story with my MacBook. I heard that 10.6 was supposed to have focused on speed, but I don't think it will help my first-gen MacBook, since I just missed the 64-bit CPUs.

Because you can invent better algorithms and more efficient ways of doing the same thing

You CAN, but generally, the product marketing people who are prioritizing everyone's work put "make old hardware faster" down at the bottom of the list, well below "make this stupid genie animation when I minimize a window."

Stet may be an exception to this rule. Zing.app just gets better and better.

Am I not people?

Downloading 1 Item
iPhone Software Update (3 hours remaining)

Am I not people?
Yeah, sorry, I xp'd and didn't see your post was what I meant. Trust yr report more than Twitter bitching, too.

(tu schwantz!)

I'm gonna install it. If nothing else, the full wipe it does may clear out some cruft...

I have so many folders now. I really didn't know where to stop. Now I have almost everything in folders.

Running Pandora in background . . .

http://www.dynintel.com/pics/drooling-homer.gif

i don't think i like folders. i'll probably change my mind, but right now Swipe-See-Tap seems more intuitive then Remember-Tap-Tap.

Downloaded it for my 3G. Seems faster not slower so far. Got all my apps down to 9 folders. Much cleaner.

hey 3G owners, been hearing about excruciatingly long download/install times with the 3G, like 5 hours. Anybody had similar experience?

1.5 hours to download, 1 hour to install, going on 35 minutes trying to get my phone to recognize the music I've selected to sync onto my phone

ps: this sucks a gigantic amount of diseased pussy

New/updated spell check

The spell checking feature in iOS 4 has been refined—no longer does the device simply change your word to the word it thinks it should be unless you tell it otherwise. Now, it underlines your questionable words in red and, when you tap on them, it offers up possible suggestions

oh my, this is my #1 love/hate peeve about the iphone spellcheck...fixed

Not so much -- they fucked about with text boxes that don't have spellcheck, so that tapping a word with a suggestion now replaces the word (it used to keep it). Making loads of mistakes because of that.

took about 30 mins for my upgrade. so far no problems. only complaint is that the folder interface is just kinda ugly. still better to have all my apps in obvious places.

re: download/install time... mine took probably an hour start to finish. Probably would have been faster, but I stepped away and it sat on some prompt for awhile.

just notices that itunes keeps my playlist folder now.

3g is taking forever. Am removing the music first to see if that helps.

3g died during backup. Had to restore, back-up, and now I'm updated and syncing. About 2.5 hours in...

Wow, my 3GS took about 20 minutes.

Is anyone else having problems opening their applications after upgrading their OS? I currently can't open anything that didn't come with the phone.

Seriously, fuck this.

(3G btw)

try resynching the phone with itunes, i had the same problem.

My wife's 3GS also only took about 20 minutes... I guess nobody at Apple invented better algorithms and more efficient ways for their updater to work. ;)

Resyncing now, I got "oh btw I totally suck ass and had some unspecified error restoring stuff, so let me wipe your phone and try again!"

Really happy I moved away from a Windows Mobile phone for this bullshit.

^what happened to me

at least you were only 2.5 hours in and not FOUR

My theory is that iPhones (at least the 3G models) have some flash corruption issues that they don't talk about. My iPhone randomly tells me "Updating library" from time to time, and when it's "finished," all my music is gone, and I have to re-sync. Then this business with the upgrade. Smells of flash issues.

Done. Took about 3 hours...

so here we go on update #3

if my contacts are gone, I may kill someone