WTF! Apple.

Everytime i try to use an iPhone, i’m reminded of why I switch.

I bought an old iPhone 3G just for the fun of it, since it was pretty cheap. Only to realise that I cant install anything on my phone from App Store. I have tons of purchased apps there since I had been an iPhone user for years. Apparently, almost all the apps i need requires iOS 4.3, which the iPhone 3G conveniently can’t update to. My apps on my itunes has all been updated to newer versions since I have an iPhone 4 as well, so they don’t work as well.

I don’t understand why can’t App Store detects that you’re using an older device and offer an older version of an app so you can install, like what almost everybody is doing. I can get a Bold 9000 and use App World to install apps just fine, it detects my OS version and offers me the appropriate version that I can use. What is the point of having App Store on my iPhone when nothing in it works?

Workaround? Jailbreak. And install older versions of “cracked” apps. Apps that I have purchased before and now have to pirate inorder to make it work. It is the only thing that makes the phone work as it should. The way I see it, the jailbreaking community is help solving Apple’s problems. Like if you have an iPhone 3G with a broken home button, you’re screwed. You can’t exit apps. But if you jailbreak and install “Activator”, you can at least program other buttons to work like the home button.

This is just plain dumb imo. Its like they’re indirectly forcing you to upgrade, even though your old 3G still works just fine for you. They find ways to make it not work. Imagine if you don’t have any backup of older versions of app, you’re pretty much screwed, and be forced to jailbreak your phone. The very thing that Apple doesn’t want you to do.

Fix it. Offer me older versions of apps that are compatible with my OS version. Don’t be that stupid to tell me to upgrade to an OS version, that my phone doesn’t even support, and not allow any apps to be downloaded.

Mobile Affair

Lots of things to be excited about in the new year. One of which, BlackBerry 10. 

I have been device hopping for more than half a year, in the process, I have used WP, iOS (previously used it for a few years), Android (for a couple of hours), and of course multiple BlackBerry devices. By multiple, i meant like 13 different models of BlackBerry phone. 14 if you include their tablet, PlayBook. If you count the same models, when i have sold, only to buy back the same model later, it would probably bring me up to 30+ BlackBerry smartphones.

That is a lot no matter how you look at it. I even had to call BlackBerry and speak to their technicians in Canada because I switched devices too many times, and appworld would not transfer my account to over to a new BB Pin number. You’re only allowed 15 changes per year, and i ran through it in months. Of course after that, I am more cautious about how often i switch devices. I have a bunch of purchased apps there which I really don’t want to lose. Most of them for the PlayBook, which I am hoping means that it will be there on my future BB10 devices too.

Yeah, being such a huge sucker for mobile tech, I probably will be trying out multiple BlackBerry 10 devices if possible.

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On a side note, I’m now back on my first ever BlackBerry, the Bold 9000. I was previously on a Lumia 800, but the low call volume really turned me off.

I can’t wait for this year to end, and for the next to begin. Counting down to BlackBerry 10. #TeamBlackBerry