---In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
> Coincidentally I watched a YouTube video yesterday where a couple sailing from
> Hawaii to Alaska were using their iPad for navigation. As they were leaving
> Hawaii the iPad wanted to do an iOS update. Since they didn't have WiFi the
> iPad froze and became useless. They did have multiple redundant devices for
> navigation but many cruisers like the convenience of iPads.
Darn tootin'. That's a real problem for us who live and work on the edge of the Internet. To repeat myself, the folks in Mountain View, Cupertino, and Redmond have trouble conceiving of anyone that doesn't have broadband everywhere all the time. We need to get them out of their offices and in the real world. That doesn't mean New York or St Louis. It means Coinjock NC, the Out Islands of the Bahamas, Horta Azores, Bradenton FL, and other places where connections are intermittent, slow, and expensive.
I force updates on everything I have when I have good Internet and still find Microsoft, Apple, and Google products suddenly deciding to phone home over a 1 Mbps or slower link and refusing to do anything until complete. The developers simply do not know better than the user when an update is appropriate.
Sore point - lots of people are using tablets for navigation but the pros do not. Daylight visibility is poor. Dimming for night vision is not adequate. They overheat and shut down in sunlight. You can't charge most of them and maintain watertight integrity at the same time. They aren't sufficient for mission critical functions. People do lots of silly things.
sail fast and eat well, dave
Dave Skolnick S/V Auspicious
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