{"id":9560,"date":"2011-10-13T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/ios_5_update_steve_jobs_rolling_over_already.html"},"modified":"2011-10-13T14:00:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T14:00:17","slug":"ios-5-update-steve-jobs-rolling-over-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/ios-5-update-steve-jobs-rolling-over-already.html","title":{"rendered":"iOS 5 Update: Steve Jobs Rolling Over Already?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I understand the title of this post may be insensitive and nothing could be further from the goal of this piece. In fact, if anything, I admire Steve Jobs so much that I feel this entry needed to be made in order to honor his memory.<\/p>\n

The question which our industry is asking today is how could Apple screw up the iOS 5 update so badly – literally a week or so after the death of Steve Jobs? I realize of course the two incidents aren’t related but one has to wonder if all those devices that Steve keeps in his office wouldn’t have have had a hiccup or two – causing him to sound the alarm bells that this upgrade was not ready.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned<\/a> earlier today – I went into the upgrade cautiously and an iPhone 4 was upgraded without a hitch but an iPad 2 crashed, giving me the error message below. I sent an email to my IT team and they suggested rebooting and retrying – apparently there are cases where an upgrade had to be performed four times to get it to work.<\/p>\n

\"ipad-upgrade-fail-ios-5.png\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I was lucky. I turned the iPad off and on and then tried again and it worked.<\/p>\n

But I am now left with no programs on my devices. I had to subsequently go to my PC and redecide which programs to sync – and to make matters worse I now have hours of program reorganizing to do. About 150 programs are scattered individually – seemingly randomly on various screens. Decisions, decisions – does Skype go in a VoIP folder or is it part of social? <\/p>\n

We all know Apple is uniquely positioned in the world of tech and we also know that Amazon is coming on strong with its Kindle Fire and now Asus has a Zenbook <\/a>ultrabook designed exclusively to take on the MacBook Air. And of course Google isn’t letting up with its Android attacks.<\/p>\n

The point here is Apple still has a halo around it – but the world of tech is unforgiving. Just look at RIM, Nokia or H-P to see what I mean. Or just look at Apple about 15 years ago.<\/p>\n

The company needs to be aggressive and forward-looking but also has to keep in mind we are used to a certain level of perfection from Cupertino. Lose the perfection… Lose the leading-edge style. Lose the passion and you may as well be any other company in tech. And once that happens, we may be entering a new phase of the market where the world gravitates towards Asus or Samsung or who knows what new company?<\/p>\n

Consumers are fickle. You need to win them over and keep winning them over. Steve Jobs knew this and held his company to a very high standard. Now is the time for Apple employees to ensure they keep the company up to his<\/strong> standards.<\/p>\n

Let’s hope this is the last hiccup for a while.<\/p>\n

Disclosure: I own Apple shares<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I understand the title of this post may be insensitive and nothing could be further from the goal of this piece. In fact, if anything, I admire Steve Jobs so much that I feel this entry needed to be made in order to honor his memory. The question which our industry is asking today is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,158,159,172,196,163,199,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}