{"id":14352,"date":"2011-07-11T12:30:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T04:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=14352"},"modified":"2018-12-23T14:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T06:25:51","slug":"it-just-works-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/07\/11\/it-just-works-not\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It just works&#8230;?&#8221; Not!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had the iPad 2 for just over 2 months now. Never jailbroke it (it became possible just a few days ago). Never installed anything that didn&#8217;t come off the iTunes store on it. Never used it for anything other than its intended use.<\/p>\n<p>So, I decided to hook it up to iTunes this morning to see if there were any OS updates&#8230; and the iPad promptly crashed. Wouldn&#8217;t even boot up. And the only option iTunes offered was to reset it back using Factory Restore. I lost all my applications and data, including an entire library of applications that I&#8217;ve collected for Hannah.<\/p>\n<p>!@#!@#!@#!@#<\/p>\n<p>And that wasn&#8217;t the end of it. The Factory Restore failed the first two times even. And just when I was about to throw the iPad out of the window, the Factory Restore finally worked on the third try, inexplicably.<\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s favorite mantra &#8220;It just works&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>What crock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had the iPad 2 for just over 2 months now. Never jailbroke it (it became possible just a few days ago). Never installed anything that didn&#8217;t come off the iTunes store on it. Never used it for anything other<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/07\/11\/it-just-works-not\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  &#8220;It just works&#8230;?&#8221; Not!!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[650],"class_list":["post-14352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-toys-technology","tag-tablet","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-16-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}