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[Tim May]

You can safely wait a week or three or six to upgrade to Yosemite. A few things are different, but nothing radically different.

I upgraded my MacBook Pro Retina and my Mac Pro to 10.10 Yosemite over the weekend. No issues in the upgrade. A few things are different. I've decided to not try to "make things the way I am used to" but instead to embrace the minor changes. Sometimes it's useful to learn new tricks, and often they're actually better than the old ways. (The canonical example would be the scroll bar thing, which you Mac users know what I'm describing. It's trivial to throw a switch in Preferences to make the scrolling act the way it did in previous OS versions a few years ago, but it takes almost no time to convert to the mode that matches the way iPhones and iPads scroll, so I barely even remember the old way. And when I very occasionally fire up my old machines that are still running the old scrolling approach, they seem weird. I can adapt pretty quickly, of course.)

I also updated my iPhone and iPad to iOS 8 and had no problems. The patch that arrived a few days later was merely an annoyance in having to download again.

Frankly, I'm more annoyed that my apps have had an update, then another update, then a "Sorry about that, we introduced another bug, so go ahead and download the 2 GB app yet again." (They are not this honest, they just show the app for several days running with each new version saying "Bug fixes.")

At least three large apps have had several updates since the original iOS 8 update. Apple needs either a longer beta, then public beta, or they need to rap the knuckles of the app developers who keep introducing new buggy apps which need to be fixed the next day, the day after that, etc. Maybe they could just tell app developers to wait a few weeks between updates, so that the flawed or crappy versions will be out there longer and degrade their rep. Updating an app every couple of day for a week is just obnoxious.

I pity the poor shlub (is this racist to use this language?) who only has a slow Net connection.

I only got my first iPhone the same summer DSL finally arrived in my neighborhood, in 2008. It's quite obvious that I could not have had an iPhone or iPad or any of the "deliverable only via the Net" OS versions with my old 44K dial-up. (Going to places with public WiFi gets old.)