iPhone follies-2

Yrs Trly doesn’t know what to think.
I allowed my iPhone to update its operating-system the other night — to iO8.
My iPhone gets my e-mail, allowing me to preview it.
The other day I started to get my e-mail, and got a hairball.
It wouldn’t do it.
E-mail seemed locked up.
Just to open an e-mail I had to click it first, then click some other app, then click back to my e-mail again.
Um, this wasn’t how it was with iO7, which seemed pretty stable.
E-mail on my iPhone had become a struggle, a wrestling-match of try this and then that.
For cryin’ out loud, Apple. You’ve become Microsoft; get the stuff out, then fix it later.
Madness like this is “blog-material.”
But now my iPhone e-mail is acting like iO7: normal.
No hair-pulling madness.
It wants me to log-in to iCloud all-the-time, but that’s just a “cancel.”
A friend has an iPhone, and she’s never changed anything since she bought it. She doesn’t have the log-in required to operate her iPhone that started with iO7.
iO8 also seems to have the screen-darkening feature my Apple laptop has. The screen darkens if the lights are off. —Which makes my iPhone impossible to read unless I turn on the lights.
iO7 didn’t require I turn on the lights to read a text.
This sounds like the Microsoft-Jones, the bit where Word® would vaporize your file if you happened to breathe on the wrong key.
Which is why I don’t use Word. I had a stroke long ago, so am left with sloppy keyboarding.
“Not my fault!” Bill exclaims. “If you have sloppy keyboarding, you ain’t normal. You shouldn’t be driving Word.”
So I don’t. I use Apple’s “Pages;” it doesn’t punish me like Word does.
So now Apple seems to be becoming Microsoft.
That is, Jobs is gone.
A friend who drives Windows PCs complains about never-ending updates and patches.
My wife drove a Windows PC. She’d get an update that took over her machine. We couldn’t even shut it off.
About all we could do was pull-the-plug, and plugging back in Microsoft took over again.
And as I recall, she couldn’t do anything while Microsoft was updating. — And I swear they were starting from scratch. An update might take all night.
At least Apple gives you a “later” option, and if you allow it it might take 10 minutes.
But I worry about my iPhone.
It’s stable now, but what’s it gonna do next?
Where’s Jobs when we need him?
Maybe I should have done like my friend and refuse updates.
My iPhone worked pretty good with iO7 — in fact, it worked fine before iO7.
Maybe I should have left well-enough alone.
So now Apple is trying to get me to configure iCloud.
I think I will pass.
My computer backs up here in my house, plus configuring iCloud requires a new operating-system.
A new operating system might lunch some of my apps. I’ve had it happen.

• I had a stroke October 26, 1993, from which I pretty much recovered.
• “Bill” is Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft. His equivalent at Apple Computer, was Steve Jobs, who died two years ago.
• My beloved wife of over 44 years died of cancer April 17th, 2012. I miss her dearly.