iPhone 2.1 SDK Disappointments

I updated my Iphone with the latest 2.1 software update, I am using the original iphone. As of today I am unable to connect to youtube. I know I have an internet connection because the internet works, and I know the youtube site is up and working. Is anyone else having this problem?

I personally am a fairly new Apple fan, I was working with windows all my life. Then I got an Mac Pro and I fell in love, then I bought an ipod touch and was even happier with it. I like the fact that Apple is being stingy on new apps. I don't know what NDA is but i get the jist. Their are alot of apps that I downloaded then deleted because a) they just weren't readable b) horrible user interfaces and c) didn't function like it should. So if you app doesn't get excepted, move on with your life, continue fixing bugs and then try again, if at first you don't succeed......at least that what my parents taught me. Apple got hit alittle harder than expected with the 2.0 release and so they have bugs to work out as well. Its going to take alittle time to get things running as smooth as they originally planned. I can't count how many times, with Apple, i went "thats stupid" at first then when it was all said and done went "thats badass". Did you ever think that maybe the 2.1 update is geared towards certain features that maybe not everyone needs right now and hey lets give it to the big dogs first have them work out the kinks then distribute it to the rest. Why bitch when someone else is doing your dirty work. So to people complaining, were all gonna get it anyways so chill out.

Well just because I have not said anything about this I figured I would put my 2cents in now. So here are my problems.

1. iphone OS 2.0 was pretty stable on the old 2g phone while I was testing this and reporting bug with all the betas. This became buggy one they opened the app store. I believe if they want full testing then they should let us test it all, app store should have been included.

2. I must have submitted 26 bug or more during my testing. Not that I dont mind but it would be nice if the iphone development team returned one email and answered one of my 12 questions I submitted. Truth is I asked if I get a refund if I dont agree with the new NDA for the next beta and some other legal questions that were strong arm part of the NDA I needed clarification about. The response I got from apple was NULL.

So here I have with access to beta 3, but I have no drive to test since they have no drive to answer any of my questions. Heck, with the amount of bugs and time spent testing I would expect apple should be paying me and not me paying the $100 dollars. But since I dont get paid is it to much to expect them to answer what I would have considered simple questions.

One questions I still cant seem to get an answer on is "Can we still install apps from 2.0 or from the apps store when testing Beta 3 of 2.1? Anyone know the answer to this one?

Why dont they have a chat board for the beta tester to talk about bugs and offer suggestions?

I think I will just stick with being paid from my company for the engineering and testing I do from now on then wasting my time helping another company test when I cant even get basic support.

Here's my issue. I see some people defending apple taking their time, because they need to ensure quality of apps on the appstore, and that they've already let through a bunch of crappy apps, and that has them worried.

Here's a novile solution. Do what they had to do with MP3's. Have the appstore for officially supported apps that you sell through apple, but don't restrict the phone to ONLY install apps from the appstore. That takes away a developer's right to complain about apple's process. If they don't like dealing with apple and their way to deliver the app through apples official store, then they can just make it available for a user to download and use at their own risk.

The whole argument about this idea lowering the quality and experience of the iphone is total crap. Who cares if a few dumb people associate a bogus application screwing up their phone with the phone being bad. Those people really are the minority, and its sort of an insult to a lot of the people who really like the iphone, and wish they could customize it to their needs a little more. Insulting in the fact that we'd blame apple for a crappy application we decided to install that didn't even come off their appstore.

Then since the appstore is so in your face, people will still want to develop and put their products through it because hell is easy money if they're searchable on the thing.

Here's an example of a good write up on this issue: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080728-iphone-nda-doing-more-harm-than-good.html

Erica, notice how the author doesn't come across as whiney and pathetic?

Whine, whine, whine....

Erica, you are insufferable, as are many of your iPhone developer comrades.

Please go develop for Open Moko or Android. Please. You're clearly not happy with Apple, and you ceased being productive or helpful a long time ago. At this point you're more interested in complaining as a means to the spotlight you seem to crave.

Just go away...

"hire and editor." See, it even happens to me. Grrr.

Huzzah to Apple for rejecting help files with grammar mistakes! Why should they sully their image with products that have errors in basic English usage.

If you don't know the difference between 'your' and 'you're', if you write crap like 'most importantly', if you think 'than' and 'from' are synonyms (they aren't - 'different than' is wrong; if it were correct I could be taller from you), then thank Apple for saving you the embarrassment of the world seeing your poor writing. Ask your English-major friend to proofread or hire and editor. Preferably one from India; their English is probably better than yours.

What Apple SHOULD do is sign apps that have passed their tests, allowing unsigned apps to be installed after the user receives a warning... similar to installing a non-certified Windows driver.

As long as the user has been informed that a given app hasn't passed Apple quality assurance, they should be free to install it.

Apple can't keep this up and expect developers to stick around. The best thing to do is continue to bitch up a storm, get attention from the press, and hope Apple listens.

This is the most half-baked work of fiction I've read in awhile. Apple is protecting itself the same as it does with any pre-public OS release of OS X, not because the first developer beta of iPhone OS 2.1 was, now hold on here because here comes the climax...not ready for prime-time. Anyone who has been an Apple developer on the seed program knows that the first cut can sometimes be very rough indeed. Those who installed the first developer release of Leopard at WWDC 2007 know that all-to-well. And don't get me started about the early releases of 10.0...uggg!

Erica, everyone, 2.1 is an EARLY release for DEVELOPERS. Of course it's not ready for anything other than living on the bleeding edge. If you don't want to do that, then you're in the wrong business.