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Overall I'm very pleased with my Nexus 4 after two years of use. I've also used Apple devices and I've had my share of issues, some of which I consider far wors
by reedlaw 12y ago
Overall I'm very pleased with my Nexus 4 after two years of use. I've also used Apple devices and I've had my share of issues, some of which I consider far worse. Here are some problems I've encountered with the iPad Air:
* Alarm failed to go off leading to a missed international flight. After scouring support it turned out the alarm mute button is independent of the system volume control. [1]
* Failed iOS upgrade lead to loss of all personal data. At the time I wasn't using iCloud for privacy reasons. And I never backed up with iTunes because I run Linux. We lost about a half year of photos. Since then I've started booting up a separate Windows partition in order to make backups.
Some more minor issues:
* Dragging and dropping mp3s to copy them to the iPad via iTunes did not have any noticeable feedback so I tried again resulting in double copies of dozens of songs. After manually deleting the dupes from iTunes, I had to do it again on the iPad.
* No way to delete purchased songs. The best I could do is hide them.
* Overall I find iTunes to be very unintuitive and often surprising in its behavior.
I haven't had nearly as many issues with the Nexus or Android. I can easily root my device and do just about anything with it.
1. https://discussions.apple.com/message/25329458?ac_cid=op123456#25329458 https://discussions.apple.com/message/25329458?ac_cid=op1234...
- greedo 12y agoWhy would you attempt to upgrade any computer without having a backup? I can understand Joe Six-Pack not knowing that backups are important, but you're posting on HN...
- crististm 12y agoActually, OS upgrades should not result in loss of data. It's not like your data is part of the OS in any way. If anybody says otherwise he is full of it.
- greedo 12y agoSo you normally perform OS upgrades without a valid backup? Care to name your employer so I can avoid their products?