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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 Apple boss promises September iPhone software patch

Some iPhone users must wait for their App Store apps to launch again

Jonny Evans

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs has promised repair for a little publicised by widely suffered bug in which a user's iPhone applications won't properly launch.

In a short email, Jobs is claimed to have promised a fix is under development and will be rectified within a software update that's scheduled to ship in September

"This is a known iPhone bug that is being fixed in the next software update in September," says the sparse note from Jobs.

A report suggests the bug means users have seen third-party App Store applications freeze their iPhone when they attempt to use the apps; alternatively, such apps briefly launch and then quite to the home screen. Default applications are not affected.

It appears this fault is in the way iTunes is monitoring its App Store purchases. "One member of Apple's forums has been told by a support agent that his iTunes account was apparently "split into two separate accounts," confusing the iPhone when it attempts to load an app. Some users note experiencing the problem chiefly with on-iPhone downloads rather than through iTunes," the report claims.

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Ben London said on Wed, 20 Aug 2008

Naggy little glitches all over ! I'm so *glad* I've put off buying an iphone for a spell. A bit of a let down this whole thing, particularly the unspectacular Mobileme. Even when it works, Google offers more for free ! (more or less)

Kash said on Wed, 20 Aug 2008

Not limited to 3rd party applications, I have updated to 2.01 then to 2.02 with both my Camera Application fails execute properly.

It simply loads the application then at the point when its shutter graphic is supposed to open and reveal the camera view it fails and returns to the main OS screen.

I'm guessing that it can no longer access the device driver to the camera.

Anyone else encountered this bug ?

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