LAPTOP GAMER
08-22-2008, 09:50 AM
Problem is I don't know which one. I have been having an issue of my whole music library being wiped out, and this is my second i pod touch, so this leads me to think it is not the i pod, but a corrupt app.:gasp:
The weird thing is only music and videos are wiped out and every thing else is left in tact, so based on this I am convinced it is a corrupt app.
I found an article that was in my E mail that relates to this and it appears that that apps are more trouble than their worth.
App Store problems are tarnishing the brand
By Peter Cohen (pcohen@macworld.com) (http://us.f819.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=pcohen@macworld.com)
When the App Store first debuted, I went hog-wild and bought or downloaded dozens of apps. I promptly ran into a wall -- my iPhone wouldn't stop crashing and locking up, in some cases, so badly that I needed to restore it several times.
Since then I've pared way down. Now I only install those apps I absolutely need, and for the last few weeks, that's been only those apps I'm reviewing at the time (plus what is already installed on the iPhone by default). The phone runs more stably, that's for sure, so I'm reasonably confident that if I have an app crash, it's probably an app-specific problem.
But just what the heck is Apple's App Store Q.A. doing with their time? I don't expect them to be the arbiters of taste -- and judging by some of the downright lousy and mediocre games you can get right now, they're not making any pretenses of being such -- but they are letting some problems get through, that's for sure.
If there's a silver lining to this, it's that the app developers themselves are pretty quick to fix the problems once they know what's going on. Getting updates to their applications can be a bit of a problem -- it seems like Apple (http://www.apple.com/) has gotten overwhelmed with getting those updates posted, in some cases, but at least they're coming.
I'm not trying to diminish or brush aside the myriad problems associated with launching a new hardware platform, a major revision to a software platform and a new distribution platform all on top of one another.
But these problems tarnish Apple's hard-won reputation as a quality maker of electronic products. As much goodwill as Apple loses with its long-loyal customers over problems like this, I can't imagine it really sets high expectations of people who are new to Apple products, either.
The weird thing is only music and videos are wiped out and every thing else is left in tact, so based on this I am convinced it is a corrupt app.
I found an article that was in my E mail that relates to this and it appears that that apps are more trouble than their worth.
App Store problems are tarnishing the brand
By Peter Cohen (pcohen@macworld.com) (http://us.f819.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=pcohen@macworld.com)
When the App Store first debuted, I went hog-wild and bought or downloaded dozens of apps. I promptly ran into a wall -- my iPhone wouldn't stop crashing and locking up, in some cases, so badly that I needed to restore it several times.
Since then I've pared way down. Now I only install those apps I absolutely need, and for the last few weeks, that's been only those apps I'm reviewing at the time (plus what is already installed on the iPhone by default). The phone runs more stably, that's for sure, so I'm reasonably confident that if I have an app crash, it's probably an app-specific problem.
But just what the heck is Apple's App Store Q.A. doing with their time? I don't expect them to be the arbiters of taste -- and judging by some of the downright lousy and mediocre games you can get right now, they're not making any pretenses of being such -- but they are letting some problems get through, that's for sure.
If there's a silver lining to this, it's that the app developers themselves are pretty quick to fix the problems once they know what's going on. Getting updates to their applications can be a bit of a problem -- it seems like Apple (http://www.apple.com/) has gotten overwhelmed with getting those updates posted, in some cases, but at least they're coming.
I'm not trying to diminish or brush aside the myriad problems associated with launching a new hardware platform, a major revision to a software platform and a new distribution platform all on top of one another.
But these problems tarnish Apple's hard-won reputation as a quality maker of electronic products. As much goodwill as Apple loses with its long-loyal customers over problems like this, I can't imagine it really sets high expectations of people who are new to Apple products, either.