{"id":3031,"date":"2014-11-30T21:32:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T07:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2014-11-30T21:32:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T07:32:02","slug":"mobileviews-podcast-103-2014-operating-systems-upgrades-rants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/30\/mobileviews-podcast-103-2014-operating-systems-upgrades-rants\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileViews Podcast 103: 2014 Operating Systems upgrades rants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/audio\/postId\/5392988\/url\/http%253A%252F%252Fmobiletoday.podbean.com%252Fe%252Fmobileviews-podcast-103-2014-operating-system-upgrades-rants%252F\/initByJs\/1\/auto\/1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jon Westfall and I (Todd Ogasawara) have some choice comments about the major operating system upgrades in 2014. Android Lollipop, Apple iOS 8, and Apple OS\/X Yosemite all get stinging commentary. How bad is it? I refuse to upgrade my iPad 2 to iOS 8. I am waiting for Apple to fix 8.1.1 before I upgrade my iPhone 6+.  I&#8217;ve got a Mac that won&#8217;t go to Yosemite until it looks a bit more stable. And, Android 5.0 Lollipop turned my 1st generation Nexus 7 tablet into a slug. So,the Nexus 4 is staying at 4.4.<\/p>\n<p>I have some comments about Microsoft&#8217;s Windows 10 Technical Preview too. But, it gets a pass because it is a beta release. You know the saying: If you play with beta, expect to get burned.<\/p>\n<p>On a positive note: Jon has some kind words about Adonit&#8217;s customer service related to a problem he had with a Jotscript Bluetooth stylus purchased last year (2013). He also notes it is on sale right now over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/product\/1c6c\/?itm=customlabel0Electronics_%26_Gadgets_%7C_iPhone_%26_Smartphone_Accessories&#038;rkgid=1453728354&#038;cpg=ogplahe1&#038;source=google_home_electronics&#038;adpos=1o2&#038;creative=50718229485&#038;device=c&#038;matchtype=&#038;network=g&#038;gclid=COrEs9-Fo8ICFYdcMgodnE4Apg \">ThinkGeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have a few comments about the Alcatel pre-paid Android C1 phone running Android 4.2 and mention the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fire-TV\u00e2\u20ac\u017d\">Amazon Fire TV Stick<\/a> that started shipping to the first wave of buyers in November.<\/p>\n<p>And, finally, Jon has a bit of a &#8220;I told you so&#8221; moment in talking about the failed Amazon Fire Phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Westfall and I (Todd Ogasawara) have some choice comments about the major operating system upgrades in 2014. Android Lollipop, Apple iOS 8, and Apple OS\/X Yosemite all get stinging commentary. How bad is it? I refuse to upgrade my iPad 2 to iOS 8. I am waiting for Apple to fix 8.1.1 before I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-MT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3032,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}