I fully agree with you. In fact here are the last two sentences of my post of 1/15/15 5:59 pm:
"Instead of developing iOS 8.2 for a new product, Apple should concentrate on making iOS 8 work for those of us that are stuck with it. I also wish that Apple allowed us to revert to a previous iOS (I had no problems with 7). Windows lets me "Unistall" many (not all but most) of the updates it pushes."
Also for whatever it is worth I sent an email to the Apple Liaison rep this morning. The email is copied below and I may not get a call from Apple after that. I am going out of the country for two weeks starting early tomorrow so I did not feel like spending time with them this evening.
Kevin,
This is important so please give me the courtesy of reading the whole email, thank you. Let me summarize a bit. There are thousands of people having Wi-Fi issues since iOS 8 came out. This fact has been well documented in a large number of reputable forums including Apple’s own. It is all over the web and all over technical and news organizations. Even Forbes Magazine pipes into this fact:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/11/20/ios-8-1-1-problems/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/12/09/apple-releases-ios-8-1-2/
As a result of this, I posted the problem in detail on Apple’s own Support Forum and the Engineering Department now wants my help. They feel that their time is more valuable than mine so they make me spend 55 minutes on the phone with you filling out a worthless form about the router when it is well known that the routers have nothing to do with the problem. If they would have bothered to read their own Forum or any of the technical articles on the web they would have readily seen this but apparently their time is too valuable or so they feel.
If I was the only one having an issue I would be at their mercy but since I am one of thousands with the problem and in addition I am an engineer who has researched the problem, I think it is they who are at my mercy. So please pass the following to them:
1) Tell them that I will be more than glad to help them and will do so for free, I will not charge Apple for my engineering time, but whatever help I provide will be at our mutual convenience, not just theirs.
2) I will talk with them once they spend the 5 minutes needed to read the article by Mario Ciabarra since this article summarizes not only the problem but the potential solution. If they call me I will first ask if they have read the article and if they are not willing to devote 5 minutes to this then I will not waste my time further. Here is the link again: (I have deleted the link since the moderator tends to remove it, just Google "WiFried: iOS 8 Wi-Fi").
3) Also tell them to read the following:
http://www.tuaw.com/2014/11/25/heres-the-root-cause-and-a-workaround-for-ios-8-a nd-yosemite-wi/
I will talk with them after they have bothered to do so.
By now I have compiled substantial data listing speed tests results over the last month with various devices and configuration settings. This data took me time to generate and I offer it to them but at our mutual convenience, not just theirs, and only after they have bothered to read the material above. If they are not willing to do this there is no sense in wasting my time. I will be available between 2 and 4 pm this afternoon.
Thank you,