Friends Kingdom: Re: [iPad] iOS 8 for iPad 2?

When the iOS 8 update was released, I tried to get it on my IPhone 5. I finally got it. No problems. Then, I tried to get it on my Mini, 1st Generation. Didn't get it. Then, the other day, without my trying to get it, I saw that the update was ready to install on my iPad 2. I downloaded it. What I noticed was that I got the Tips App, like on my iPhone 5, but not the Health App. Was I supposed to get the Health App in the iPad 2? This download happened before Apple announce that they were stopping the downloading of the update to fix it. Otherwise, my iPad 2 was getting laggy before the update & is still laggy afterwards when going to websites. It's getting old, but it still works. When I pass down my iPad 2 to my father, he won't do much on it anyway. He just likes to read books.

Toby

Sent from my iPad

On Sep 21, 2014, at 4:40 PM, 'Rich Bauer' rk911@yahoo.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

we don't expect them but they do seem to be inevitable. I spent a career "breaking trail"...we just had to be the first with the best and newest. and we often paid dearly in delays, roll backs and the like.

I recall one time when Motorola wanted to upgrade our mobile data terminal server. the current MDT server was handing traffic to/from several hundred police and fire mobiles without breaking a sweat and we had modified code on our mini main frame to make the MDT server jump thru hoops. all was running well and smooth. the Moto convinced us to upgrade. i recall asking the lead engineer if we were going to need to write new code or make changes to the main frame. nope, he says, this is an invisible upgrade. nothing will change. we bring the system down, pull the server from the rack, install the new server into the rack, power it up and re-boot the mini. shouldn't take more than 30-minutes. hah! well, it did take less than 30-minutes to make the swap but it took us 6-mos to re-write code on the mini to partially restore the functionality we had on the old server that was absent on the new server.

'73,
rich, n9dko
I know a guy who's addicted to brake fulid. He says he can stop anytime
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Bugs are, by definition, mistakes. Mistakes - particularly big ones like the Health app - should never be regarded as normal or even inevitable. You don't expect your new car or your new sixty-inch 4K television set to have bugs. Why should a computing device any different? Beware of dumbing down your expectations. It's a slippery slope.