ios7 keeps refreshing apps after switching

Can it really be that the last posts by rick7, Laust and myself have been deleted by a moderator?

Rick7, you must have received an email notification of my latest (admittedly critical) post. How do feel like commenting on it and including the text verbatim as an experiment?

If Apple are deleting dissenting posts it's a pretty poor show.

Yes helveticum, your last post has been deleted.

There are other (not so critical) posts wich "disappeared" too.

What a shame, Apple...

I've had my posts deleted where I've described my experience of 7.1 beta versions. The reason given is that it contained information about beta software, with a link to the support communities terms of use, which doesn't appear to mention anything of the sort.

I suppose it goes with Apple's secrecy about everything. It's a bit different experience to what I'm used to though - Microsoft's Connect - where everyone's issues are publicly available, including feedback from Microsoft developers.

Yes, my post and the responses to that post has been deleted.

Apple has sent me an email and after looking at the guidelines I can see that yes, I violated the Apple Developer Forums Usage Guidelines, and no, it was not because it was critical (it was not).

I hope to see a solution to this problem and I am sure Apple do as well.

I have received no email or explanation from Apple as to why my own post was deleted.

Yes, I see that my post was deleted. I'm not even sure what I said that violated any guideline. I've received no email from Apple about it.

Because it was a reply to a deleted Post from Laust.

This is really ridiculous. There is absolutely NO help from Apple - but they have the time to delete perhaps helpful posts!

Well, at least it means someone at Apple is fully aware of our problem, however low on the food chain they might be!

May I be so bold as to quote helveticum here. An eloquently written and important addition to this discussion.

Follows quote:

My feeling is that Apple can try to pass the buck as much as they like, but either (a) iOS 7 is fundamentally flawed, (b) iOS 7 is too difficult to work with for app developers or (c) Apple is incapable of verifying third-party app compliance. Either way this is Apple's fault and responsibility and has resulted in a system that is virtually unusable for many and has severely and irrevocably damaged their reputation for delivering quality systems.

I have been in software development all my working life and cannot imagine any of the companies I have worked for allowing such sub-standard software out of the door. The SSL vulnerability that has just been patched in 7.0.6 exposes grossly poor programming practices (a duplicate goto statement) that suggests poor testing procedures at the very least.

It is surely such poor testing that has led to the appalling state of iOS 7. It baffles me that a company such as Apple could allow such flawed software out of the door and I can only imagine that unrealistic deadlines, competitor pressures and over-ambitious feature sets have led us to this flaky, bug-ridden mess. (I do not subscribe to the conspiracy theory that iOS 7’s 'bugs' are designed to increase page counts and data usage.)

Apple kit was always expensive but it was always stylish, achingly beautifully designed and ... just worked. I unhesitatingly recommended them to colleagues and friends. I do this no more and see Apple products as no more reliable as any of the other moderately decent packages out there. What use is a solid block of aluminium with gorilla glass and a sapphire lens, beautiful though it might be, without equally rugged and robust software?

I honestly believe 2013 will have marked the start of Apple's inexorable fall from grace and it is just a matter of time before another company rises to take its place as the king of style and quality. What a shame, what a pity, what a disgrace.

Thank you tomsruk. I no longer had that text as all but the author are notified by email. I cannot see how this can be in breach of any forum guidelines.

paulfromstone wrote:

I've had my posts deleted where I've described my experience of 7.1 beta versions. The reason given is that it contained information about beta software, with a link to the support communities terms of use, which doesn't appear to mention anything of the sort.

Because when you signed up as a developer, you understand that beta software is Apple Confidential Information and cannot be discussed in open forums. That's what developer.apple.com forums are for.

Just for the record, I didn't invent the conspiracy theory. I actually read that somewhere, that the phone service providers were paying something like the equivalent of “royalties” to Apple based on usage. I have subsequently been unable to find the source of that comment so that I could quote it, but I didn't just come up with that on my own.

So is it a consensus that the patch 7.0.6 is safe?

It seems OK so far though it did appear to reset the volume of my Ringer and Alerts to 0. Easily remedied in Settings.

Oh, you're still here, despite not experiencing the app refresh issue?

I'm not signed up as a developer.

Information about beta releases is all over the internet - it seems a bit futile trying to stop mere mentions of it on here.