“When Apple first released the iPhone 6, we were struck by the surprisingly persistent and numerous bugs in iOS 8,” Christina Bonnington reports for Wired. “Almost all review units (from any company, not just Apple) are thoroughly tested, vetted, and hand-selected as being the best representation of that product. You don’t want a reviewer accidentally ending up with a blemished, defective phone. Bad publicity. So using an iPhone that rebooted itself and got hung up on the keyboard was surprising indeed.”
“We weren’t alone in that sentiment. WIRED saw similar bugs on the iPhone 6 Plus. Other reviewers pronounced it Apple’s buggiest release yet, and Apple pundit John Gruber wrote ‘it seems like Apple’s software teams can’t keep up with the pace of the hardware teams’ before talking more about getting stuck in an endless reboot cycle,” Bonnington reports. “Turns out it wasn’t just in our heads: Data from app performance monitor Crittercism showed iOS 8’s crash rate was 60 percent higher than iOS 7 during their respective first months on handsets.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: For some perspective (and something curiously not mentioned in WIRED’s report): According to Crittercism, iOS 8’s crash rate is under 3.5% and has never exceeded 4% since release.
I’ll have to agree and it continues after downloading Apple’s latest release last night my phone no longer works and I get a constant spinning on the Wi-Fi. Apple was getting too big. Continuing to release garbage
Apple is now a SLOPPY SHIP, sorry. fanboys.
The aura of “it just works” sorry to say is no longer true. More like BUGGY and UGLY.
Forget the gay parades and all the other far left horse hockey distractions until Apple battens down the hatches and gets their house in order for chrissake!!!
Based on my experience of using iPads since they came out, I wish I never installed iOS 8. On iPad 3 it resulted in the worst crash I’ve ever had, resulting in “recovery mode” (have to connect to iTunes to restore from backup). Everything slowed down and I have to be very careful not to use too many apps or Safari tabs due to risk of constant window refresh. Keyboard shortcuts, predictive text etc flake out everyday and have to be reset. WiFi is unreliable. iOS 8.1 update restored camera roll but it is unusable as it stutters, lags, freezes for a very long time. 8.1.1 hasn’t fixed anything of these issues.
Yes, it’s the buggiest OS of very buggy OSes. WiFi is slow if it doesn’t drop you altogether.
I’m starting to think that if Tim Cook can’t fix the crappy bug issue across ALL of the current OSes (Lion, Mountain Lion, Maverick, Yosemite) then Apple needs to replace him with someone who can.
Who gives a $&?! How nice the hardware looks if it doesn’t work right.
As is fairly usual, the only problems, for me at least, come from apps which haven’t caught up with 8 yet, if they ever will, that is. I’ve had to abandon a few because they just won’t work. But, every Apple app works. 8.1.1 on a 5.