Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name Newsgroups: comp.mobile.ipad,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: Install iOS 17.4.1 now to patch 2 new zero-day vulnerabilities Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 11:07:16 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 01:07:17 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="477b3234bc71e3b06cb1e6a0c66937f1"; logging-data="4162781"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Ave0DCUR0cyQjwdxu7rdgFu8KsBuzxXA=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:L1oireQ3TfW+hayH1evsiP+gE0k= Bytes: 3569 On 2024-04-26 22:11:04 +0000, paul@paulglover.net.invalid said: > In comp.mobile.ipad Hank Rogers 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. >>>>> >>>>> There's no reason to wait that long to install updates. >>>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>>>> These are the 2 0-day holes that Google found that Apple missed in >>>>>> testing. >>>>> >>>>> Which is why all updates should be installed. Doesn't matter which OS. >>>> >>>> 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/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 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). >>> >>> These "features" are actually not missed on iOS by the vast majority of users. >> >> 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. Despite Apple's attempts to claim otherwise, the iPad is not and cannot be a computer replacement for many reasons. The main one being that fat fingers are a hopelessly inaccurate input device. The Pencil or similar stylus (that Steve Jobs abhored when the iPad first launched) make is a bit better, but your hands are still in the way of the display so it is still nowhere near as good as a mouse, trackpad, or separate graphics tablet.