The iPhone could use a few things. I dunno, copy/paste comes to mind. A few thousand other things.
Apple just released 2.2.1 for the iPhone 3G. It’s a 246MB download. It claims to fix some things:
- Improves the stability of Mobile Safari
- Fixes an issue where some images saved from Mail do not display correctly in the Camera Roll
Okay, so… what? 246MB software update. Fixes what, two shared libraries? And we need to do a monolithic OS install for that? 246MB worth?
While I’m on this topic, Sony is guilty of this crap as well. My Playstation 3 just got an update (2.6) that was really large (140MB) and here’s what that gave me:
- Photo Gallery Application – support for the new Photo Gallery application, which gives users a fancier way of organizing and viewing photos stored on the PS3. Sort of. It’s crap, really.
- Support for DivX 3.11
- Guest Viewing of the PlayStation Store – provides guest access to PlayStation Store, enabling non-PlayStation®Network members to browse the storefront’s downloadable content, including games, game trailers, and demos, along with more than 4,200 movies and TV shows.
The best part of this update? The Photo Gallery application then needs to be installed separately from the XMB, after you update your PS3’s firmware. “To install the Photo Gallery application, go to the Photo section on the XMB, select Photo Gallery and press the X button.” Seriously, what the hell is it with these guys? I mean, my PS3 seems at times to be a progress indicator machine. Don’t even get me started on Playstation Home.
Meanwhile, a real software company like Microsoft can roll out incremental tiny updates to the Xbox 360 that are 1-3M and are pretty darned fast. The only huge update was when they replaced the entire OS with the new NXE. That was less than 128MB, still smaller than the PS3 update and about HALF the size of the iPhone update, and that replaced the ENTIRE OS with all new functionality.
Come on, step up Apple and Sony. Holy crap already.