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Jobs: Fix for iPhone Apps Crashing in September

Tuesday August 19, 2008 4:58 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
According to another email purportedly addressed from Steve Jobs, Jobs acknowledged an ongoing issue for many iPhone users that result in 3rd party applications repeatedly crashing:

Many report the iPhone 2.0 firmware suddenly failing to load non-default apps regardless of their nature, briefly loading them before abruptly jumping back to the home screen.

The bug occurs both with freshly downloaded software and with updates, but is reported as never having a definite fix; although some report successfully deleting and re-downloading apps to regain access, others find the solution either having no effect or gradually decaying over time to where the apps again fail to run. Restoring the iPhone also seldom works.

The one line response states "This is a known iPhone bug that is being fixed in the next software update in September."

Steve Jobs (or someone acting on his behalf) has been known to respond to emails.
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Rybold
Posted: 46 months ago
"This is a known iPhone bug that is being fixed in the next software update in September," reads the one-line message from the Apple co-founder.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/08/19/steve_jobs_vows_iphone_app_crash_fix_for_september.html


September 1st or September 30th ??? :eek:

We know that every executive in Apple's corporate office, and every software engineer that works for Apple has an iPhone 3G. They are experiencing all of the same problems that we are experiencing. The iPhone3G was released on July11,2008 (almost 6 weeks ago), and yet none of these obvious flaws have been fixed. This is completely unacceptable. In my job, if I design something and it doesn't work, and I don't fix it, I would lose my job! When something you design doesn't work, FIX IT !!!
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johnnyjibbs
Posted: 46 months ago
great. This is something that HAS bugged me about the iPhone. Steve seems to be acknowledging a lot of bugs relating to the iPhone recently.
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bradl
Posted: 46 months ago

September 1st or September 30th ???


Definitely not Sept. 1st.

BL.
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Peace
Posted: 46 months ago
One would think Steve has more important things to do than answer email all the time but this is a good sign ( if true ) he's finally got so ticked off he's taking things very serious now.


Perhaps he reads MR too !


Hey Steve !!
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compuguy1088
Posted: 46 months ago
Sounds like that the next update, 2.1 will fix this issue, and more?
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bacaramac
Posted: 46 months ago
Between this email response, the one from yesterday and Apple admitting a battery issue with the Gen1 iPod Nano's, I would say I respect Apple for taking action and not keeping quite.

Go Steve!!
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IEatApples
Posted: 46 months ago
Well, if they fix the crashing & 3G reception I'd be quite happy with my iPhone… :)

+ maybe longer battery life? … Steve? ;)
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bradl
Posted: 46 months ago

Well, if they fix the crashing & 3G reception I'd be quite happy with my iPhone… :)

+ maybe longer battery life? … Steve? ;)


Well.. 3G reception is reported to work well in 2.1 Beta 4:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=545951

Could be at the expense of push, though. All remains to be seen.. but so far, so good as far as 3G goes.

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zombitronic
Posted: 46 months ago

We know that every executive in Apple's corporate office, and every software engineer that works for Apple has an iPhone 3G. They are experiencing all of the same problems that we are experiencing. The iPhone3G was released on July11,2008 (almost 6 weeks ago), and yet none of these obvious flaws have been fixed. This is completely unacceptable. In my job, if I design something and it doesn't work, and I don't fix it, I would lose my job! When something you design doesn't work, FIX IT !!!


I know! When the personal computer first debuted it was perfect within 6 weeks and it still is! God!!
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Bubba Satori
Posted: 46 months ago

Between this email response, the one from yesterday and Apple admitting a battery issue with the Gen1 iPod Nano's, I would say I respect Apple for taking action and not keeping quite.

Go Steve!!


Whatever happened to "it just works"? :rolleyes:
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