iOS4 on a 3G
Jul 14, 2010 Technology
I had a semi-long post written up about about running iOS4 on an iPhone 3G, talking about the new features that are both present and missing from the 3G model and other performance related issues. However, after spending a few weeks running it I think it’s safe to save myself all the effort and you all the reading and just say that it sucks.
If Apple removes certain features for performance related reasons, I totally believe and support them in doing so because everyone knows they are all about the user experience. If adding a wallpaper to the home screen placed so much of a strain on the hardware that the feature was removed (which is was) then my opinion is that the OS itself is probably too much for the hardware to handle. I have to say that my personal experience confirms this. I’ve loved my 3G from the beginning, but the last few weeks since the upgrade have been nothing but frustration. Everything has a delay, sometimes a LONG delay like 30 seconds or more. Sometimes it just seems to freeze up completely. You thought Notes was bad before? Trying to tweet when you get interrupted by a text message pop-up? Good luck with that. As I said earlier, Apple is all about user experience, and I’m honestly surprised that they approved iOS4 for the 3G because it’s just terrible. I imagine they did it just to avoid the backlash from the angry masses if they hadn’t.
My official conclusion is that I cannot recommend iOS4 in it’s current state (v4.0) for 3G hardware. I think the OS looks great and has tons of welcome new features, but 3G just doesn’t have the guts to run it. I know that the 3G is hardly the target device for iOS4, but hopefully one of the next iterations will include some performance enhancements that will help improve the experience on the 3G.
Tags: iPhone
DragAMouse
Jun 19, 2010 Code, Technology
DragAMouse is my second iPhone App and it went on sale yesterday in the App Store. I got the idea for this app from my 2 year old daughter who could operate the ‘slide to unlock’ function on my phone. She wanted to play the games that the older kids were playing but those games were to complicated for her age. She had fun anyway, but I thought it would be nice if there was a game more on her level. Something that was simple to operate and didn’t involve complex logic or strategy.
This game is intended for toddlers and very young children. I don’t expect that there would be any entertainment value whatsoever for older children or adults, it was just a simple concept designed only to entertain and occupy the little ones.
Aug 18, 2009 Technology
I was going to write this whole big post about how I never liked or understood Twitter and how I only checked it out because I felt it was part of my responsibility as a web developer to keep on top of the trends of what is currently popular on the Internet and blah blah blah…
I won’t bore you with any of that. The short version is, I didn’t understand it then but now I’m a fan, simply because a lot of the time I don’t have enough to say to fill up a whole blog post anyway. Since a Twitter post is limited to 140 characters, it forces everyone to just get to the point and I like that. I really like that. I added my Twitter feed to this site a while ago for those of you that don’t have a Twitter account. For those of you that do, follow me here: http://twitter.com/rminnick
Tags: Twitter