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Apple bugging out legacy phones

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The desperation can be seen through moderated postings on Apple's website, posted in their own Apple Support Community. Here, gdgmacguy had some choice words for someone who suggested that Apple is ignoring the issue:

Apple does NOT support downgrading the iOS. Why? who knows, But they don't. Nothing you can do. If you want to jailbreak your phone and downgrade, then fine. But look at all the postings here by people who have attempted to do so and permanently disabled their phones. Jailbreaking voids your warranty with Apple and eliminates your right to any further assistance. Your choice. No one forced you to upgrade in the first place. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4387499?start=0&tstart=0

But other newsgroups, not moderated by Apple, are giving legacy hardware (i.e., iPhone 4) owners ways to avoid upgrading to new hardware (i.e., iPhone 5) by sharing techniques...

Reinventing the Wheel

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In the 1978 ‘Rescue from Gilligan’s Island’, actor Russell Johnson shows the Professor in a reinvention predicament. After returning to work at a university, he discovers all his inventions made (while stranded on the island) had been invented already, among them the Frisbee and skateboard. His frustration makes him want to give up the world he's come back to. Reinventing the wheel has become a modern epidemic plaguing Internet technologists, and some are even giving up on innovation and settling into parlaying the same flawed technology because of a fear of trademark infringement or, more frightening still, because they think it just can’t be done any better. Blogger Tim Kastelle has written much about what he calls the Innovation Problem (IP), which advocates that we approach innovation through idea management, an effective counter to the...

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Why emailing your customers is important

When Jim Koch started Samuel Adams Brewing Company in the 1980s, everyone said he was crazy. Today, he is a billionaire who speaks about the importance of communicating with customers in ways that other businesses are failing. “It was a long, slow process for the education of a consumer,” Koch says. “Beer was sold on the advertising and the marketing of a brand, not the ingredients, brewing process, and the passion of a brewer.” Marketing has changed significantly with widespread adoption of email and social media, not to mention the way customers expect to be educated on a business. The story, ideals and values of your business should be told by emailing your customers, mailing your customers, posting to your customers. The point here is that the small business needs to cater to this new generation adverse to print and suspicious of companies who don’t demonstrate an elementary aptitude for new technologies or who are afraid to tell their stories. more
Mapping Functionality for Business Software

When mapping, geo-tagging and route optimization features are included in the business software your service business relies on, everyone will know you’ve got your best foot forward. It’s amazing a singular piece of software technology can go so far in demonstrating organization and accountability to both employees and your clients – you’d think mapping for service business software would be the standard, but you’d be wrong. Amazingly, not all software for service businesses takes advantage of the latest technology for convenient mapping, geo-tagging and route optimization. Remember the days when routing to a customer’s address could take as long as the onsite job itself? Those born after 1990 don’t know the troubles of folding maps and stopping in gas stations to ask directions. This Millennial Generation were the first to grow up using computers, relying on mapping software that optimizes the fastest way to drive to a destination. But like most established service business owners, I came along during a more
Web Design Optimization Means Your Best Selfie

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