Comments on: Steve Speaks: Apple Will Fix App Crashes in September

By: tee

tee — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:37:20 +0000

safari crashes, contacts crashes regularly, camera is crazy slow and this is 2.1! I'd like to know when apple will make a useable phone. My imate jasjam was better than this. Fix the poor SMS interface, add predictive text, fix the backwards auto correction, allow me to copy and paste, allow complete deletion of SMS conversations, the creation of notes in the past & future... and that's just SMS, notes and email.

What about number to contact auto completion on the phone? (thought I should stop at one).

The list of fixed is endless. If you want me to UAT the fixes Steve, let me know.

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:42:13 +0000

Crash rate is about 70%. its not just the 3rd party apps either. Safari crashes on a regular basis. the Keyboard lag when text messaging is getting annoying as well. Also i dont know if anyone else is having this problem, but sometimes when i turn the phone off and back on to reset the memory(which usually fixes the keyboard lag)the set up screen will appear asking me to plug it into itunes to activate the phone as if it was brand new. the only way ive been able to fix it with out setting up the phone all over again is perform the hard reset by holding down the button you use to lock the phone and the button at the bottom you use to close applications at the same time for serveral seconds. that seemed to get it working again. when it came back on it advised me it “phone has now been activated” anyone else having this problem?

By: kat

kat — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:33:43 +0000

I have the iPhone 3g and so far the issues I have had are lagging keyboarding, short life of battery, and other little issues. I do really like this phone despite these issues.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:00:34 +0000

After owning a 3G iPhone for about a month now, I can confirm that the "home screen of death" is one of the main problems I experience. It's the worst when your are entering data when it happens. Sometimes the data is there after the crash, sometimes not.

The other problem I cannot stand is the lagging keyboard while texting. I don't even do a lot of texting and experience it.

Other than that, the phone works and I actually get great 3G service despite other's problems.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:51:47 +0000

For all its handsome appearance, the iPhone does not deliver what many cheaper phones do. I had a Sony E and loved it. Took very good pictures and video and allowed you to share these. I blithely assumed (though I should have checked) that the iPhone would have allow this too–after all it does have bluetooth. I have, however, accepted these shortcomings. With the App crashes however, the device is beginning to look like a lemon. I agree with Stephen here–Apple should be communicating with its customers and acknowledging that they know of this problem and promising that they will fix it SOON.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:57:13 +0000

"I’m beginning to not like the TONE i am seeing of all of you people complaining about Stability and crashes."

iPhoneMilk

Who cares if you're tired of it? None of us! We just want issues fixed that should never have been issues in the first place. It's not unreasonable to want your $300 phone to work. Some bugs are expected, yes. But Apple has not been communicating with us and we deserve some reassurance. Sorry if it bothers you. Idiot!

By: Ralph

Ralph — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:47:22 +0000

I assume Jobs has and uses an iPhone and he must be frustrated by its shortcomings.(That is if he downloads apps. If he doesn’t his knowledge would be second hand. I have the apps crash return to home screen problem ACRTHSP and iPod wipe out or iWipe (how are those things connected?). I hope we don’t have a hardware issue here! My general feelings about all of this is that these devices (almost all of them) are not yet “mature” and that all of us eager to have this technology are doing the usual beta testing at our own expense. With computers, it has always been thus. I don’t blame SJ in particular–the whole industry is flawed in this respect. Please get it fixed soon, however.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:45:30 +0000

contacts is Much slower than 30 year old computers!!!

The software engineers on this iPhone are horrible to put it nicely.

It is a bug ridden piece of garbage. They should be ashamedvof themselves!

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:33:38 +0000

Does it bother anyone that VPN cannot stay on after it enters sleep mode? After the 2.0.2 update, mine stayed on that night and through this next morning until I manually restarted the phone (my option). I do not think they can compete with BB until they get the VPN to auto reconnect. Thoughts?

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:41:01 +0000

Talking from a first gen iphone perspective. With firmware 1.1.1 – 1.1.4 everything just worked. I never had a single problem with slow contacts, texting etc. As soon as I loaded 2.0 the problems started. I head up an IT department that supports almost 400 people. Of course I tend to be the person people go to for computer/phone advise. I am no longer so quick to recommend the iphone.