Apple isn’t having too much of a good week. A major security flaw hit MacOS just a few days ago, and now there’s a new bug on the iPhone which causes devices to crash due to an iOS 11 bug. The bug can cause your iPhone to crash because of local recurring notifications which are being used by some apps in the App Store.
Cupertino has rushed to fix the issue on iOS 11 earlier this morning with the public release of iOS 11.2. The company only released the iOS 11.2 beta 6 on Friday, which means it was rolled out to the public only a few hours later. In addition to the fix for the crashing issue, iOS 11.2 brings a major new feature for iMessage users: Apple Pay Cash.
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With Apple Pay Cash, iMessage users in the United States can send money to their friends or request money from others via Apple Pay. The feature is available as an iMessage app, but you can also use Siri to send and request money.
iOS 11.2 also brings some features specific to the iPhone X and the iPhone 8. For both the iPhone X and the iPhone 8, Apple now allows for 7.5W wireless charging, which will allow you to speed up the wireless charging speeds of your iPhone, as long as your wireless charger is also capable of supplying the required power.
And for the iPhone X, Apple is adding three new live wallpapers and an indicator for the Control Center on the lock screen to help new users who could find it difficult to discover the new Control Center gesture on the iPhone X. The indicator doesn’t go away once you open the Control Center for the first time, so it might be a bit distracting for existing iPhone X users.
skane2600
<p>"Fail Fast, Fail Early". The disease of software development in the 21st century.</p>
Locust Infested Orchard Inc.
<p><em>Quote by Mehedi Hassan: "Apple Rushes iOS 11.2 Release As New iPhone Crashing Bug Emerges"</em></p><p><br></p><p>With the imminent arrival of Windows Core OS on ARM, 6"+ debutante devices shall once-and-for-all ensure that the ten years of successive growth of the iPhone shall come crashing. The bug that initiates this crashing cascade can however not be simply patched or fixed, for the archnemesis of Orchard Inc will have taken its last bite of its logo, resulting in its eventual decline, placing it firmly where it once was twenty years ago (mid 1997). This time around though, Bill ain't gonna come to the rescue.</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#223684"><em>In reply to Locust Infested Orchard Inc.:</em></a></blockquote><p>Wow. You're wildly optimistic on MS and wildly pessimistic on Apple. Windows Core OS is inside baseball that means nothing to users. Windows on ARM isn't going to be the holy grail that some people would like to believe. </p><p><br></p><p>Apple has had serious bugs before without it sinking the ship. Apple's problem in 1997 wasn't due to software bugs, but to a lack of new products and the fact that MS won the Windows vs Mac contest. With the introduction of the cute iMac and more importantly the iPod and finally the iPhone, Apple got back on it's feet and became the most valuable company. </p><p><br></p><p>I'm a Windows guy, but reality, right? </p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#223694"><em>In reply to alissa914g:</em></a></blockquote><p>They kind of raised each other from the ashes given the failure of Next. I think Apple culture required a charismatic leader to be effective. As you suggest, perhaps they still do. </p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#224118"><em>In reply to Jeffsters:</em></a></blockquote><p>I think you're inventing your own version of history. They made Bill Gates into a Borg. There was nothing equivalent done to Jobs. Of course as a high-profile CEO he was naturally the focus of both Apple's successes and its failures. </p>
Stooks
<blockquote><a href="#223684"><em>In reply to Locust Infested Orchard Inc.:</em></a></blockquote><p>"With the imminent arrival of Windows Core OS on ARM"</p><p><br></p><p>The great thing about the Internet is that when you are completely wrong we can invite you to the Claim Chowder party where you get a hot bowl of Claim Chowder with a slice of Humble pie for desert.</p><p><br></p><p>Windows Core OS on ARM. The third attempt at Windows on ARM (Windows Phone and RT).</p><p><br></p><p>Will it be third times a charm or strike three and your out? Who exactly is asking for this or wants it? Why would anyone want this? </p><p><br></p><p>To run win32, non-touch apps in emulation mode on a small screen?? Sounds like a fantastic experience! Or I know to run all those native ARM based UWP apps in the store that made RT and Windows Phone a huge success!!!</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#223812"><em>In reply to James_Wilson:</em></a></blockquote><p>So Samsung had a battery problem on one of their phones and recalled them. Other than that what smartphone bugs were more serious than we see now with Apple?</p><p><br></p><p>Quality means releasing a product that is as bug-free as possible, not just a willingness to quickly fix bugs that should have been caught before release. I'm reminded of US car companies who tried to compete with Japanese cars by giving longer warranties. It didn't work because customers wanted reliable cars, not just free repairs of lower quality vehicles. </p><p><br></p><p>Anyway, I agree that this won't sink apple because their fan base is too loyal.</p>