A replacement RSR for 16.5.1 which was rapidly pulled this week. Oddly it's
version 'c' rather than 'b'.

Installed fine here.

Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A replacement RSR for 16.5.1 which was rapidly pulled this week. Oddly it's
> version 'c' rather than 'b'.
>
> Installed fine here.
>
>

Maybe they had a version b which didn’t pan out.

Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> A replacement RSR for 16.5.1 which was rapidly pulled this week. Oddly it's
>> version 'c' rather than 'b'.
>>
>> Installed fine here.
>>
>>
>
> Maybe they had a version b which didn’t pan out.

The “a” version was released and did not pan out. Makes me glad I did not
install it.

The “c” version may not pan out either. I’ll wait at least a couple weeks
before installing it. Probably will just wait for 16.5.2.

I didn’t install the previous “a” either, 16.4.1a. I waited until 16.5
was released.

I have been in software development/testing/supporting for a very long
time. Call me crazy, but the result of super-fast coding/testing is not
software I want to install on my own computers (Mac, Windows, iPhone and
iPad). My computers are not a QA lab, and I am not interested in doing
unpaid testing.

On 2023-07-13 09:57, Bob Campbell wrote:
> development/testing/supporting for a very long
> time. Call me crazy, but the result of super-fast coding/testing is not
> software I want to install on my own computers (Mac, Windows, iPhone and
> iPad). My computers are not a QA lab, and I am not interested in doing
> unpaid testing.

Why I delay major OS updates by a week or more and minor updates by a
couple days.

--
“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything."
-Ronald Coase

On 7/13/23 2:44 AM, Chris wrote:
>
> A replacement RSR for 16.5.1 which was rapidly pulled this week. Oddly it's
> version 'c' rather than 'b'.
>
> Installed fine here.
>

I successfully installed it on several iPads, iPhones and Macs-- but
can't install it on a properly working and charged 7th gen iPad.

Settings\General\Software Update shows the update but hitting Download
and Install gives a spinning asterisk for several seconds but then it
quits-- still showing the download but no d/l and install option.

A hard reset gets the install option back but a retry has the same result.

--
Think...while it's still legal

On 7/13/2023 9:36 AM, Wade Garrett wrote:
> On 7/13/23 2:44 AM, Chris wrote:
>>
>> A replacement RSR for 16.5.1 which was rapidly pulled this week. Oddly
>> it's
>> version 'c' rather than 'b'.
>>
>> Installed fine here.
>>
>
> I successfully installed it on several iPads, iPhones and Macs-- but
> can't install it on a properly working and charged 7th gen iPad.

I wonder if those security updates in the RSR are already rolled into
public betas. I'm installing the iOS 17 public beta on my iPhone.

--
“If you are not an expert on a subject, then your opinions about it
really do matter less than the opinions of experts. It's not
indoctrination nor elitism. It's just that you don't know as much as
they do about the subject.”—Tin Foil Awards

Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote

>> development/testing/supporting for a very long
>> time. Call me crazy, but the result of super-fast coding/testing is not
>> software I want to install on my own computers (Mac, Windows, iPhone and
>> iPad). My computers are not a QA lab, and I am not interested in doing
>> unpaid testing.
>
> Why I delay major OS updates by a week or more and minor updates by a
> couple days.

You're an idiot if you think this RSR is a single-slab "Update" release.

This isn't a major nor a minor update. It's completely different.

Instead of being the normal single-slab release that iOS was until iOS 16,
it's a "rush" update, which Apple added the capacity for only in iOS 16.

Apple finally ponied up by copying what all other operating systems do.

Apple realized their slow single-slab walled garden needed to have the
ability that every other operating system already had to patch one bug.

Apple's RSR isn't anywhere nearly as good as Android's, but it's better
than the single-slap release that every iOS prior to iOS 16 was built of.

Up until then, Apple couldn't fix a bug without releasing an entire release
(which are the major and minor updates you are speaking of).

Now iOS is no longer the only operating system unable to patch one bug.

But Apple is going through some quality control issues as Apple is learning
what every other company long ago knows, which is that it's not easy to
convert the single-slab walled garden to allow a simple code fix instead of
creating an entire new slab release (which is what major & minor updates
are).

Probably none of you iIdiots knows any of this because you don't ever know
anything about Apple's single-slab release being different from all others.

It's not even surprising that you iIdiots know nothing of how Apple works.

On 2023-07-13, Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> wrote:
> On 7/13/23 2:44 AM, Chris wrote:
>>
>> A replacement RSR for 16.5.1 which was rapidly pulled this week. Oddly it's
>> version 'c' rather than 'b'.
>>
>> Installed fine here.
>
> I successfully installed it on several iPads, iPhones and Macs-- but
> can't install it on a properly working and charged 7th gen iPad.
>
> Settings\General\Software Update shows the update but hitting Download
> and Install gives a spinning asterisk for several seconds but then it
> quits-- still showing the download but no d/l and install option.
>
> A hard reset gets the install option back but a retry has the same result.

Check the iPad's network settings and make sure it's not connected to a
proxy or VPN.

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I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

On 7/15/23 11:25 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:
> On 2023-07-13, Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> wrote:
>> On 7/13/23 2:44 AM, Chris wrote:
>>>
>>> A replacement RSR for 16.5.1 which was rapidly pulled this week. Oddly it's
>>> version 'c' rather than 'b'.
>>>
>>> Installed fine here.
>>
>> I successfully installed it on several iPads, iPhones and Macs-- but
>> can't install it on a properly working and charged 7th gen iPad.
>>
>> Settings\General\Software Update shows the update but hitting Download
>> and Install gives a spinning asterisk for several seconds but then it
>> quits-- still showing the download but no d/l and install option.
>>
>> A hard reset gets the install option back but a retry has the same result.
>
> Check the iPad's network settings and make sure it's not connected to a
> proxy or VPN.
>

I was using the device a few days later and surprisingly the RSR had
been installed. No clue how, why, when..

In article <u94fo2$1c6ev$1@dont-email.me>, Wade Garrett
<wade@cooler.net> wrote:

> I was using the device a few days later and surprisingly the RSR had
> been installed. No clue how, why, when..

overnight.

On 7/17/23 7:16 PM, nospam wrote:
> In article <u94fo2$1c6ev$1@dont-email.me>, Wade Garrett
> <wade@cooler.net> wrote:
>
>> I was using the device a few days later and surprisingly the RSR had
>> been installed. No clue how, why, when..
>
> overnight.

I guess.

But still no clue why 8-10 install attempts over several days failed
while a half-dozen other devices went smoothly...

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The more you know, the more you suffer.