{"id":3580,"date":"2010-07-28T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/28\/iphone-4-0-update-is-slow-do-not-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2010-07-30T11:28:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T18:28:25","slug":"iphone-4-0-update-is-slow-do-not-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/28\/iphone-4-0-update-is-slow-do-not-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 4.0 update is slow. Do not upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got off the phone with Apple support who said, &#8220;You installed the 4.0.1 upgrade for your iPhone 3G? Ha! Sucker! You are so screwed and there is no unscrewing that pooch!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the upgrade, my iPhone does everything much slower. The rep told me, &#8220;yes, it&#8217;s much slower&#8230; It was an optional update so we&#8217;re not responsible&#8230; If you try to downgrade, you&#8217;ll brick your phone.&#8221; I embellished that first quote but the second one is pretty much word for word.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an iPhone 3G like me, DO NOT get the 4.0 update. It offers no improvements, only a huge performance hit. For example, it now take 8-14 seconds to start my calendar app, making it MUCH less useful than the previous 4 second startup time.<\/p>\n<p>I will call Apple a few more times and if it keeps looking like Apple really has pulled the trigger on a planned obsolescence program for this 1.5 year old device, I will dump Apple for another platform. Eff you right back Steve Jobs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got off the phone with Apple support who said, &#8220;You installed the 4.0.1 upgrade for your iPhone 3G? Ha! Sucker! You are so screwed and there is no unscrewing that pooch!&#8221; After the upgrade, my iPhone does everything much slower. The rep told me, &#8220;yes, it&#8217;s much slower&#8230; It was an optional update [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poor-design-workshop","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}