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  • iPhone - Custom Application Upgrade = Data Loss?

    I don’t know if many people have reported this but upgrading your applications on the iPhone is a hit or miss procedure.  Sure it is easy from an iTunes or a AppStore icon on the device.  This isn’t the first time it has happened as some of the applications in question have had multiple updates.  The main problem(s) I have seen are as follows:   Loss of login information (FaceBook, NetNewsWire, Todo, WordPress) Loss of Data (Todo – I spent 30 minutes entering data and then noticed that an upgrade was available.  You get the picture…)   Now the one thing I would like to see out of Apple is a way of backing up each individual application’s data independently so I don’t lose all my data again.  At least with ToDo they sync with Toodledo so I can at least sync online so I was able to go back to a previous days entries. Anyone else seeing similar issues?
    Published 08-06-2008 10:00 AM by alex
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  • iPhone 3G

    Well it isn’t launch day but I have done it.  I have two black iPhone 3G 16GB phones in hand. Unlike last year, the lines were shorter, with good reason, the wait was much longer.  I would say there were about 100 people in front of me and it took an estimated 4 hours to finally walk out of the store with the phone in hand.  Last year I think there was at least 200-300 people in front of me and the wait was an hour less.  But with that aside, once I got to the store the process was pretty straight forward.  I was able to walk out of the store with a newly activated iPhone, and two unactivated iPhone 1.0s, unlike the ordeal I went through last year.  ;) One thing I though was pretty interesting was the psychology of people, me included, while waiting in line for something you really don’t know if you are going to get.  First we started in the line and an Apple employee came out and said, no more Black 16GB phones.  Then everyone around me in the line...
    Published 07-13-2008 6:05 AM by alex
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