Springle Finger:

‘…poor programming practice and insufficient SQA…’

Are you serious? You need to have guts to call Apple a company with poor programming practices and insufficient SQA. I say you are either a genius out of this world and far from human nature, or else… well… you are just ‘entirely and truly pathetic’.

Please, show a little respect and humility. That was as a stupid statement as the article we are genuinely criticizing.

I just starting using this site today, are a lot of posts like this?

says the douche writer… C’mon really. I know some people don’t grow up but acting like an upset child… that’s really gonna solve your problems… LOL

Jesus, shut up.

What a wanker. As if Apple needs to cater to his little whims. I doubt 99% of the owners will ever reach the 10,000 photo limit. Go back to your sandbox…

giles shoots himself in the foot when he doesnt make it clear that its not the ability to store 10,000 images on the iphone, its when you take your 10,001 image!

giles does make a comment to clarify, but he should provide an update in the article itself – like is standard blog protocol for clarifications.

its definitely an edge case, but he does have a point.

let’s just put it down to poor writing, and poor editing (did an editor even look at this) and move on.

I had to laugh at this. What professional in his right mind would use an iPhone? Okay for the average Joe I get it but if you are taking professional pictures someone might need to recommend a professional camera. Don’t get me wrong being an average Joe it is fine for me but you? I guess you aren’t that professional.

Yes this is a serious bug. If you use your camera for time lapse photography, you can easily shoot 1000 photos in a couple hours. The issue is that after you reach 10,000 you can no longer see ANY photos you have taken on the iPhone. Even if you have deleted every single photo, after you reach that number you cannot view any photos on your phone.

WTF? Was this written by a 10 year old?

Many more articles like this and I’ll be removing Cult of Mac from my RSS feeds.

“I had to laugh at this. What professional in his right mind would use an iPhone? Okay for the average Joe I get it but if you are taking professional pictures someone might need to recommend a professional camera. Don’t get me wrong being an average Joe it is fine for me but you? I guess you aren’t that professional.”

Despite my previous post regarding the article, this is the stupidest comment on here. GT clearly states that as an Apple journalist he takes many snaps of apps on his iPhone – presumably this is what has taken up the space in his album.

Who on earth said anything about taking professional photographs? What an idiotic comment.

But does it play Crysis?

Have to side with the Author here. People, he has a HUGE right to be this upset. What he failed to mention is that his iPhone has STOPPED SHOWING PICTURES.

My phone has done this as well. Whenever I take a screenshot or a picture, it says I have them in my camera roll but I, too, get the screen saying no photos are in the camera roll. Hmmm, let me think how this can be a gigantic problem. My car was in a minor accident yesterday. I think to myself, I have a camera on my iPhone so that I can show the security office (it happened at work and was a result of the parking lot being messed up). But, since my camera roll is busted, I had to leave my car in the middle of the parking lot and walk the 15 min. to the security office. Had my phone been working, I could have taken the pictures and parked the car so it was out of the way. It was a major inconvenience that my phone did not function as it should (especially when the asking price for my 32GB 3GS is $600).

So, I called Apple. The tech sat with me for 2 HOURS. His final solution, deal with it or erase you phone and start from scratch. Lose all of your stuff, in other words, ALL APP perferences and history. I’ve had my iPhone 2 years so there is an immense amount of data that would be unrecoverable. So, I’m dealing with it. He passed on the issue to the engineers, but I don’t think that means anything.

The problem causing this issue???:
The camera preference file is damaged/corrupt, and unlike on a mac, Apple does not give us a way to throw out that preference file. I knew this was the answer before I even called apple, b/c the problem started on my 1st gen iPhone and transferred to a 3G then the new 3GS.

So, there IS NO WAY TO FIX IT. My phone does not take pictures or video that I can see or use until I get to my house and download and re-sync with iTunes.

How is that right? Lay off of this guy because I am just as PO’d as he is. I paid a lot of money (its still a lot with an upgrade) to have a FULLY functioning phone yet I do not have the function of my camera. I will not be able to use SMS texts when they start working on the 25th (most people do not send old photos – they take one and send it). Its messed up that a bug is doing this and there is NO FIX for it except to wipe your phone and NOT restore from backup. RIdiculous. So, again, unless you are going through this you can’t understand. And yes, its just a function of the phone, but a function I use daily and NEED working.

Thanks for reading,
Sandy

Seriously? I have been following this site for years, and never have I seen such poor writing, a terrible article. who is this giles anyways? first article fail, imo.

What is more worrying than the quality of the humorously written article (which clearly explains a software bug and shortcoming of the iPhone software) is the appalling and extremely lacking quality of the comments herein. The same content is repeated over and over again and shows a kind of lynching or “hooligan” attitude. I am quite sure that most people posting here did not bother to properly read through everything before they posted. Giles Turnbull is a fine writer that seems to have pushed the wrong button (this time) and he got an avalanche which is totally out of proportion with his “crime”. Good luck, Giles. I am looking forward to see other articles from you; both those containing humor and otherwise….. :-)