The arab and the camel
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at 10:33PM My mother used to tell us a bedtime story called "the Arab and the camel". In that story an Arab is pitching a tent to keep him warm in the cold desert night. His Camel tries to get in the tent and he says "no". Then the camel puts is head into the tent and he goes "okay, will let him do that".. slowly the neck comes in... and beore he knows it, the camel is in the tent and he is outside! It was an elaborate version of the "give an inch, take a mile". Why bring that up?
My iFamily of devices kept screaming for an OS update to iOS 8! I do not risk doing OS updates while traveling abroad. There is a back story to that which is better off untold.
Came back to the US and hit "update" only to get a message saying "This update needs 5.1 GB more space. you have to delete items from your phone and retry" or something to that effect.
Seriously?!
I got a 16 GB iPhone 5S a year ago. The thing has hardly a few hundred songs, 30-35 Apps and NO videos permanently stored. At any time I have 0-50 pictures on the phone and a few videos in the Camera roll.
Slowly the OS upgrades keep taking up so much space, that it is almost one third of the storage space. That is tragic.
For now I am sticking to the old OS. I hope there is a way to turn the "reminder to upgrade OS" off ,as it does not make sense to upgrade right now.
If the OS upgrade is a must, and it needs more memory, we should get that addiitonal memory for free, no?!
Had the same gripe with Windows ten years ago with all those "patches" taking up space. Now it is Apple.
Someday memory will be cheap enough and we will have enough of it on our phones for it to not matter. Till then, we have to budget for a phone with more memory than we think we need, just to accomodate future memory grabbing OS installs that tout bug fixes!
Sigh!
apple, memory in all part of life, technology
Reader Comments (2)
google on this. i think if you connect to itunes you might be able to get around to it.
otherwise, it only needs the much during the update after that you get the memory space back.
thanks. my wife's cousin told me the same thing. If I do the upgrade using the laptop connection through iTunes it will work . but apparently iOS8 is interfering with the touch ID. going to check with my colleagues at work to see if they are having any issues after the upgrade on the touch ID stuff and then upgrade.
:)