{"id":17981,"date":"2013-03-11T12:02:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T16:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17981"},"modified":"2013-03-11T12:02:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T16:02:17","slug":"dear-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17981","title":{"rendered":"Dear Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given:<\/p>\n

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  1. When an iPhone is being used as a WiFi hotspot, there's a good chance that it's the only connection available<\/strong> to the internet (why use it as a hotspot, otherwise?)\n
  2. When a user upgrades the OS, the iPhone is rendered completely and utterly non-functional during the upgrade process.\n
  3. While the iPhone is in this non-functional state during an OS upgrade, iTunes (which conducts the upgrade) requires an internet connection to complete further stages of the upgrade.\n
  4. Without this connection, the upgrade can not be completed, nor can it be rolled-back.\n<\/ol>\n

    So, it's entirely possible (and likely) that a user will start the upgrade process while their iPhone is acting as a hotspot. iTunes will happily wipe the existing OS from the iPhone and then try to contact Apple to continue the OS installation only to find that the internet connection is down. And then the iPhone is completely non-functional<\/i> until iTunes can find some other internet connection. <\/p>\n

    So, a proposal: if an iPhone is being used as a hotspot, you should not allow the user to initiate an OS upgrade on that iPhone.<\/p>\n

    Just a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Given: When an iPhone is being used as a WiFi hotspot, there's a good chance that it's the only connection available to the internet (why use it as a hotspot, otherwise?) When a user upgrades the OS, the iPhone is rendered completely and utterly non-functional during the upgrade process. While the iPhone is in this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}