Fuck you iOS dev team

*update I rewrote the post*
My apologies for the rant without proper explanation. I should disclose since writing this post I’ve converted over our home network to Macs, and I have great respect for the design of the OS/hardware. This subtle change in the notepad app on iOS really caught me off guard.

iOS 4 now attempts to sync notes wiping them out

After spending an hour and a half writing up a post on analogies, machine intelligence and popular web apps that perform aspects of reasoning (abduction & Hunch*) the latest iPhone OS or iOS decided synchronizing notes would be nice and deleted 90% of the post. This is a new “feature” and invalidates my writing strategy of caching a local copy of a post before sending it to WordPress to avoid data loss.

It’s vexing losing time spent writing due to failed design, it’s extraordinarily frustrating to lose hours of work because of short sighted feature upgrades.

notes:
*= I commend the team at (founders Caterina Fake and Chris Dixon) Hunch and similar knowledge systems for pushing machine intelligence forward through consumer applications. It’s a creative and brilliant way to fuel research.

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  • Mark Hernandez

    Something similar happened to me. I spent hours trying to recover the backup of notes using SQLite utilities. Good thing I was a computer design engineer.

  • Mark Hernandez

    Oh, and for years my iCal calendar has been plagued with duplicates and NO ONE knows why or can explain it – not the internet nor the geniuses at the bar. I didn't know syncing was such rocket science.

  • http://www.victusspiritus.com/ Mark Essel

    That makes two of us.

    more words
    http://www.victusspiritus.com

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  • Jim

    Your fault for buying apple.

  • http://www.victusspiritus.com/ Mark Essel

    It gets better. I buy all Apple pcs now. Completely hooked on their interfaces and developer tools. This kinda cognitive dissonance is not right. But it’s the Faustian deal I made. No best choice comes regret free.

  • FAKE GRIMLOCK

    ANYONE THAT BUILD AN UPGRADE KNOW ALL CHANGES PISS SOMEONE OFF. IT NOT SPECIAL APPLE PROBLEM. CHANGE COLOR OF BUTTON, AND SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE, INSIST ENTIRE LIFE RUINED.

    AS LONG AS TOTAL VALUE OF SYSTEM AND UPGRADES OUTWEIGH TEMPORARY PROBLEM CAUSED BY CHANGES, IT STILL NET POSITIVE.

  • http://www.victusspiritus.com/ Mark Essel

    Agree, but it sucks to be in that minority. Products built for too many people become something that nobody wants.

  • FAKE GRIMLOCK

    SO, YOU COMPLAIN THAT APPLE FIX BROKEN WINDOW, BECAUSE YOU USING IT AS DOOR?

  • http://www.victusspiritus.com/ Mark Essel

    Yeah I think so, because it looked like a door when I walked through it.
    I figured out how to unhook it again from auto (faulty) synchronization so it’s back to a door again.