iOS 7 update traffic

Tue Sep 24 04:45:52 UTC 2013

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Randy Bush" <randy at psg.com>

> i love the business plan of preventing the users from getting what
> they want. i think all my competitors should follow it.

Strawman, Randy.

Clearly, the Internet is *not* up to the task of 

1) updating several dozen million devices 
2) on links of various quality, 
3) with 650MB to 1.2GB downloads and 
4) a client that doesn't understand how to restart
5) all at once,

cause, over all, it went very poorly.

The people negatively impacted by that poor engineering planning on Apple's
part *are Apple's customers*, quite apart from any negative impact it had
on Everyone Else.

Fixing 4 (which is an easy engineering issue) and 5 (which is an operations
policy issue that, by and large, most people in that situation understand),
*would have had a direct positive effect on Apple's paying customers*.

"Preventing them from getting what they want" is made up, and I'm pretty 
sure you know that.  Staging FW update rollouts over networks is old hat.
Even I know better than to make that mistake, and I don't know anything.

Cheers,
-- jra
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