Re: Install iOS 17.4.1 now to patch 2 new zero-day vulnerabilities

paul@paulglover.net.invalid wrote:

In comp.mobile.ipad Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> wrote:

Alan Browne wrote:

On 2024-04-25 05:37, Enrico Papaloma wrote:

On 4/24/2024 9:36 PM, Chris wrote:

The advice is that these iOS zero-day holes that Apple didn't find are so
severe, the recommendation is for iPhone owners to update even if they
were
intending to wait for iOS 17.5 before running yet another update cycle.

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There's no reason to wait that long to install updates.

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But a lot of people do wait, for a variety of reasons, not the least of
which is the way iPhones are updated can cause a variety of slowdowns.
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These are the 2 0-day holes that Google found that Apple missed in
testing.

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Which is why all updates should be installed. Doesn't matter which OS.

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One smartphone OS does "seamless updates" where the user isn't even aware
that updates are happening due to A/B partitions. Sadly iOS isn't that OS.
https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-check-android-device-supports-seamless-updates/
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But iOS is getting better with the advent of real patches in iOS 16 so
maybe Apple will add the seamless updates that the other has enjoyed for
years (where the OS updates monthly without the user even knowing it).

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These "features" are actually not missed on iOS by the vast majority of users.

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Exactly. Many of us just use apple stuff as an appliance. We are not Super
USERS. We are not Apple cult fans.

 +1 this. I've used Android and Apple phones/tablets. NEITHER was ever
intended as a power-user device. Phones and tablets fall very much in
the "appliance" category for me (AppleIance?). I did try to do photo
editing and organization and use the iPad as primary computing device
for a while. It was not very successful, mostly because the organization
aspect was very lacking.
 I ended up with Apple devices because I got tired of the various
annoyances with Android, because I at best tolerate Windows, and Linux
doesn't really cut it for the photo editing side of things.
iOS/iPadOS/MacOS solved some of those annoyances, but
the trade off is different annoyances. I can live with them.
 

The apple walled garden works fairly well for us. We are not trying to
destroy apple. We do not care about the minutia of apple's imarket, istock
prices, isales statistics ... nor any other ibullshit.

 Exactly. Nothing I choose to do with a tablet or phone is limited by
being within a walled garden. For those, I just want them to work
reasonably well when they need to.
 The real work gets done on the Mac, or my work Windows laptop, or a
small BSD virtual machine which runs the "old school" stuff like 'tin'
newsreader in a terminal (and I can login to that from the iPad or
iPhone if I want to, even remotely over a VPN).
 If I want to tinker around with a system, I've got plenty of them to
choose from that are capable of such, and can emulate just about
anything I feel like on the Mac.
 

This group seems dedicated to quarreling over apple's statistical minutia,
and trading sophomoric insults.

 I just came back to Usenet after probably 25 years away. Such it was
then, such it remains (just with fewer people left to flame each other).
Oh well. :)
 

Yes. I think the majority of users get good service from their apple devices. I certainly do. Sometimes they might not work for a particular task, but I don't get upset, I just boot up a computer and do the job.
But I do not, and will not, religiously worship the company, join any cults, nor vigorously defend their every action. I just don't give a shit. It's just tool, an appliance.