With an approach like that PeterMac, you could get a job with Apple Customer relations - you'd blend right in.
I've been leaving this discussion alone for a while because it is going nowhere . . . slowly.
There is nothing new in the last month or so. Facts are still the same now as they were then. iOS 8.3 is still broken and it seems will never be fixed, just replaced with 8.4 with its own special set of bugs but, hopefully, not ones that affect me.
It is now over *10 weeks* since Apple launched the defective iOS 8.3 on an unsuspecting customer base that believed Apple just got things right. In that 10 weeks, my iPad Mini and Dual XGPS160 have sat idle on a shelf and remain there to this day. If anyone associated with Apple think that is fair enough then they are from a planet that would welcome home Scientologists.
I understand now that Apple is the most successful business on the this planet and has a gob-smacking market cap that is around $750 billion. As I see it, it achieved this sort of success by producing beautifully engineered products that just work. The intuitive nature of the iPad has made IT more accessible to many who probably thought themselves, proudly, as Technophobes - people like my wife. There is no doubt the iPad and iPhone have brought a lot of people into the Apple world, including people like me, who had previously avoided it since Apple left the Apple II+ behind and went all proprietary. I certainly swallowed the hype that Apple was not like Microsoft and actually had bullet proof OS. Clearly, I should have been more circumspect and certainly will be in future. What is happening at Apple? Are they losing the plot? Are they taking their customers for granted like Nokia did? A very slippery slope.
The rule that Apple does not allow OS rollbacks under any circumstances is plain pig-headed and stupid. Yes, it is quite undesirable to have people hanging back in old versions but, if the new version does not work then you need to allow people to step back to a version that does. Yes, when 8.4 comes out, in the fullness of time, it will probably mean I can dust off my iPad Mini and Dual XGPS160 but every time I look at my iPad I'll be reminded that Apple thinks it is OK to eff its customers around for >10 weeks while they dilly dally about with more bells and whistles for the marketing people to bang on about. Surely, a functioning OS is more important that adding more OS functionality?