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From: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se> To: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster@mykolab.com>
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Paul Ferguson wrote:
Can someone please explain to a non-Apple person what the hell happened that started generating so much traffic? Perhaps I missed it in this thread, but I would be curious to know what iOS 7 implemented that caused this...
The IOS7 upgrade is ~750 megabyte download for the phones/pods, and ~950 megabytes for ipad. There are quite a few devices out there times these amounts to download...
It wasn't sinister, Ferg, it was *stupid*. *They announced the release date and time*. Everyone's phone has a "check for release now" button, and yet they believed that only *push notifying* phones in waves would be enough to prevent what happened. See also: screwed the pooch. This went out, what, last Weds and Thu? I had half a dozen people from all different environments ask me "why's the Internet broke today?" on release day. There was a consumer-visible impact from this absolutely asinine release engineering project on Apple's part. You don't announce the exact release time, and you don't even *make the release visible to all devices at the same time* since Twitter. This is apparently their first rodeo. We should take pains to make it their last. As an anti-Apple guy, I resent having my stuff screwed up because of it. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274