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Now it is time to recount my iOS5 experiences for everyone to love and enjoy. Something like that.

On the morning of the fifth eyeohess, I downloaded an iTunes update. Well, I started it downloading. Then I went to work, and worked a fairly shitty shift. When I got back, I was so ready to put some iOS5 on my iPad, so I started it downloading. That took a damn long while, like over an hour. But that’s okay, now it’s going to start installing! Then I can use it! Neat.

I get something that says “Unexpected Error 3200.”
Well, maybe the fact that I didn’t reboot when it asked me to was part of it, I thought, so I rebooted, and tried again.
Same error.
Well, maybe I need another USB port. I moved the cord.
Same error.
It was then that I saw someone bitching about it on Twitter. Apparently the servers were overloaded, and that’s why I was getting this error that seemed to have nothing to do with servers. What a great error message, Apple! Thanks for that.

Anyway, I left to teach, and came back to try it again later. It worked that time! Installed and everything. Neat! But then it said “Restoring Apps.” There was a progress bar, but it wasn’t like, filling like a progress bar. My iPad, meanwhile, didn’t say it was syncing. iTunes seemed stuck. The stupid thing crashes on windows all the time, so I just force-quit it. When I opened it again, the same bar popped up. When I looked at my iPad, some of my apps were there, but others weren’t. Fantastic.
I just happened, though, at random, to notice it was actually adding more apps. Somehow. Without syncing. So I just kind of threw up my hands and left it there. When I came back from work, it was all fine. Working great now.

All in all, it was a pretty shitty experience! I don’t know. I’m not a huge Apple fangirl type person, but they always struck me as caring about not making their users go through this kind of thing over things like having features, and being able to do what you want it to. They just always seemed to go so far out of their way to restrict functionality to keep people from seeing that. Yet, here I am. I really did see all that! It was weird.

How’s iOS5? I don’t really know. All I cared about were the notifications, really, and I do have to say that the notifications are great. What they should have been in the first place. Glad they just blatantly stole them from Android. My various board game updates are very nicely organized now. That’s all I wanted, and I got it. Maybe some other feature will jump out at me at some point? I dunno. But notifications! And so on and so forth.