# Why would iOS 8 get released as it was?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-ios-8-get-released-as-it-was/699727
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [September 27, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-ios-8-get-released-as-it-was/699727 "2014-09-27T17:34:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-ios-8-get-released-as-it-was/699727/21 "2014-09-28T21:49:30Z")
> [@iljitsch](#):
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> But as to the original question, that’s pretty obvious: they needed 8 out there because they were about to release the iPhone 6.
Were there catastrophic bugs with 8.0.0? (I know there were bugs, but were they device-crippling?)
I’m not suprised (disappointed, but not surprised) at the timing of the release of 8.0.0, but I AM suprised by how quickly they released 8.0.1.
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### Author:  [@qubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qubed)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-ios-8-get-released-as-it-was/699727/22 "2014-09-28T22:36:40Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#):
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> For now, I’m sticking with Windows XP on my desktop, and one or two versions behind the current IOS on my iPad.
Windows XP is **13 years old**. It is ancient, buggy, and unsupported. Your computer is probably compromised, and you don’t even know it. It may be contributing to the metric shit-load of spam that gets sent every year, or may be a bitcoin mining computer or something worse.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-ios-8-get-released-as-it-was/699727/23 "2014-09-29T00:29:45Z")
I’m not sure what anyone’s talking about, really. Besides some minor bugs, the update didn’t render my 5s unusable.
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2014, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-ios-8-get-released-as-it-was/699727/24 "2014-09-29T00:38:24Z")
I’m a little confused, too. 8.0 hasn’t caused any problems with my 5 that I’m aware of. I know the 8.0.1 update was bad, but they pulled it before I was even aware it was out, so that didn’t affect me. The base update seems totally fine.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-ios-8-get-released-as-it-was/699727/25 "2014-09-29T00:58:42Z")
Yeh, I didn’t even notice an 8.0.1 update was out and went directly from 8.0.0 to 8.0.2.
Seems fine.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2014, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-ios-8-get-released-as-it-was/699727/26 "2014-09-29T12:21:20Z")
> [@qubed](#):
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> Windows XP is **13 years old**. It is ancient, buggy, and unsupported. Your computer is probably compromised, and you don’t even know it. It may be contributing to the metric shit-load of spam that gets sent every year, or may be a bitcoin mining computer or something worse.
Especially if you have been avoiding patching it. XP patched to the end of support is probably still pretty secure. Unpatched XP (say as installed at SP1 or something) is quite likely a desperate mess by now.
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### Author:  [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-ios-8-get-released-as-it-was/699727/27 "2014-09-29T16:29:44Z")
I know where the OP is coming from. I tend to be very conservative when looking at making any sort of risk-associated change. Generally speaking, if I don’t have a pressing _need_ to update, I don’t update. With that in mind, has some serious problem been found with iOS6? What’s the reason for risking an upgrade on expensive, out-of-warranty hardware?
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### Author:  [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-ios-8-get-released-as-it-was/699727/28 "2014-09-29T20:18:52Z")
> [@Canadjun](#):
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> Were there catastrophic bugs with 8.0.0? (I know there were bugs, but were they device-crippling?)
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> I’m not suprised (disappointed, but not surprised) at the timing of the release of 8.0.0, but I AM suprised by how quickly they released 8.0.1.
There were some minor things to fix in the 8 release, but the 8.0.1 update killed the cell service and Touch ID function in iPhones 6. So those were some pretty major bugs. 8.0.1 was only live for a few hours and 8.0.2, which fixed the new bugs, was released the next day.
If you didn’t have an iPhone 6, 8.0.1 was fine.
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