Morning Discussion

Every year or two, my interest in playing video games wanes and I find myself looking elsewhere for entertainment. Right now, I'm slipping into one of those periods. While I have a stack of new games I'm pretty certain I'll enjoy, after a day of reading and writing about video games I'm turning to books and magazines or heading out to see a film.

The way the cycle usually works is that my passion is re-ignited by a game with really solid mechanics or a multiplayer mode worth getting properly stuck into but for now, I'm drifting away a little. I think this is good, though. After some time spent deep in other mediums and doing other things, I come back reminded of what makes video games so unique and promising to me. Perhaps I'll say more on that when I have time to spare.

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    September 2, 2010 5:16 AM

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      September 2, 2010 5:17 AM

      attn: tinfoilhatter

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      September 2, 2010 5:22 AM

      Well we all can hate on Apple or decide that they are doing stuff like most other companies. Creating incompatabilities, holding back technology for newer devices, no downgrading etc.

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      September 2, 2010 5:25 AM

      Is it officially out yet? My 3G has been getting graped for awhile. Thought the update was next week.

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          September 2, 2010 5:36 AM

          Neat but i'll just wait a week.

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            September 2, 2010 5:37 AM

            why? it's the exact same thing

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              September 2, 2010 5:39 AM

              I'm just not that eager, odds are I probably won't even update it when it's officially out right away. I don't use my phone all that much I suppose. I don't like gaming on the iphone, touch based gaming isn't for me, and while some of the other functions are definitely great, I'm not a power user by any means.

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              September 2, 2010 5:44 AM

              Going with the 4.0 GM last time screwed me over a bit. Jailbreak utilities (once they came out) wouldn't work on it, and iTunes wouldn't update it to 4.0 final. Had to Restore to 4.0 final to get the JB.

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        September 2, 2010 5:43 AM

        Only as a gold master for developers. Don't need to be a developer to actually download it, though.

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      September 2, 2010 5:31 AM

      is 4.1 out?

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        September 2, 2010 5:51 AM

        Seeding to devs but there are links for it.

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      September 2, 2010 5:32 AM

      so it is faster or slower than 3.1.3 ? or just about the same?

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      September 2, 2010 5:44 AM

      I think it's more that Apple doesn't care about the people sticking with "old" hardware.

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        September 2, 2010 5:53 AM

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          September 2, 2010 5:53 AM

          They care as far as bad publicity goes.

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            September 2, 2010 6:07 AM

            My theory is that Apple is just not equipped to be a mass market popular electronics company yet, and so they're going through some growing pains.

            The Macintosh has always been a niche product (albeit, they're selling an increasing number of them) and the iPod was very simple compared to the iPhone. You're probably right in that they took the attitude that people who have a 3G just need to upgrade, but they're finding out the hard way that you can't take that stance with the iPhone. They had their little cult of Mac users who were eager to upgrade every three years because otherwise you start getting cut off from stuff - now they're discovering you can't pull that with a mass market phone. Not with Android out there anyway.

            Really it was probably that iOS 4 has to be out in July no matter what and they just didn't dare delay it for the 3G issues.

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      September 2, 2010 5:53 AM

      Not to be a downer, but my 3G was fast with 4.0... at first. I hope 4.1 holds up

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      September 2, 2010 5:55 AM

      So 4.1 will be released soon and 4.2 will be released in November? Or is 4.2 only for the iPad?

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        September 2, 2010 6:03 AM

        4.2 will probably bring unification, so it will probably be for both

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          September 2, 2010 6:40 AM

          Well we saw how it ended when Romulans and Vulcans tried to reunify...

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        September 2, 2010 6:03 AM

        4.2 is for everything, but it'll be the first iOS 4.x to support the iPad.

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      September 2, 2010 6:21 AM

      Apparently iTunes 9.2.1 is the current version still.

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        September 2, 2010 6:22 AM

        At least according to the built in updater.

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          September 2, 2010 6:39 AM

          OMG why does iTunes 10 take 8 minutes (and counting) to install?

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            September 2, 2010 7:07 AM

            It has to analyze your library to create the hybrid view, or so I gather.

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              September 2, 2010 7:09 AM

              The only thing in my library is podcasts. I don't think the genius thing works with them.

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      September 2, 2010 6:41 AM

      just updated and yah... iOS4.1 is a TON faster on my 3GS. Very happy!

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      September 2, 2010 7:23 AM

      Gotta wait on 2 things:

      1) jailbreak
      2) media monkey support

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