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This is rule #1 of any tech gift. Install all updates before Christmas morning. Initial setup on computers, game consoles, and phones is always time consuming
by ogre_codes 6y ago
This is rule #1 of any tech gift.
Install all updates before Christmas morning.
Initial setup on computers, game consoles, and phones is always time consuming and error prone. Add in the massive updating DDOS which we call Christmas and millions of kids are deprived of hours of gaming on Christmas Day when their parents buy them a console and fail to follow this simple rule.
Apple screwed up here... but if you'd just followed rule #1 of tech gifting, you'd have been in the clear.
- xyst 6y agoSo much for it "just works". I think Jobs would be appalled at what Apple has become.
- ogre_codes 6y agoThis isn't just Apple. And it was an issue while Jobs was around too. Or did you think iPods came pre-loaded with 500 songs? When you bought an iPhone 10 years ago when Jobs was around, did it come pre-activated? A poster in this thread is complaining about buying a Mac with an old version of MacOS and needing to upgrade it. Apple can't update software on a computer while it's sitting on the shelf at Best Buy. Or did Apple forget the magic "Update while in the box" technology which was around when Jobs was alive? Nobody in your family spend Christmas Day waiting for their Playstation to install its first update? Hell, a small fraction of electronics fails to boot up every year. Just verifying that the new toy you bought a loved one boots is a good idea before you have a disappointing holiday.
- matwood 6y agoI agree. Though I wonder if Christmas is a bigger iOS activation day than iPhone release day each year? I haven't had a problem activating a new iPhone on release day in years.