Sure iOS7 is far better than the seemingly unfounded fears rampant through the development stage. Sure the icons and interfaces are flat but in a minimalistic way. Once again Apple has push us by giving us what we wanted before we knew it.
Unfortunately there is indeed a dark spot on this seemingly sunny day. Apple seriously has to rethink it’s deployment strategy. The new mobile OS was released yesterday and as of this morning it only had a 28% adoption rate. Droid fan boys and Microsoft will of course spin this as end user rejection however it truly has more to do with the ridiculous deployment scheme employed by Apple.
Consider a family with two or more iPhones on a less than optimal internet connection having to each individually download the binary update. I saw reports on twitter of 52+ hours to download. At one point my computer reported 84 hours and the number of times that iTunes froze during the download is utterly unbelievable. Each time you restart the process it begins all over again from the beginning. Saying that this experience is frustrating would be an infuriating understatement. This is incredible because the file is only 752MB, which makes me want to shout, ‘What the Frak?!?’ [Read more…] about iOS7 is good but…