It looks as though Apple are having a few issues with success. Firstly the issues with Mobile Me, although this seems to be getting fixed - I wont mention deleting an old .Mac Group though - come on it cant be that hard!
Secondly, the new iPhone 3G (And yes I have finally managed to get a 16gb one!) seems to be getting bad press for the quality of the 3G handling but apparently a software fix can sort all of this out . . . . .
And then my favourite, the Google Maps Locate Me. This was one of the killer features of the iphone, I used it on my 2g under firmware 1.14 all the time and it did a pretty good job. However, after upgrading my 2g iPhone to Firmware 2.0, the wheel just spins and it never finds me, unless on public wifi in city centres, Apple support forums have a huge thread about this with lots of people worldwide complaining - but still no answer, no information from Apple and suprizing I think, no real amounts of people kicking off about this on the internet, at least when I do a google for it!
After getting my new 3g Iphone complete with GPS, I of course wondered if this would fix the problem - short answer, no it doesnt. After a call to O2 to reset my MAC address for my free wifi, I quizzed them about this Locate Me issue - they have no knowledge of it and of course the stock 'Its an Apple application, so its for them to support it' answer came back - Nice.
So it begins, the classic, its not my problem, teflon shoulder attitude between hardware/handset manufacturer and Network provider - how disappointing. But more importantly, one of the main reasons for having an iPhone doesnt actually work - how can that be right?
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