Mac OS X 10.7.2 and iOS 5 Now Available

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Maccyroo said: I was horrifiedyesterday when I logged on to Yahoo Answers as I oftendo twice a week to see if my 15yrs experience with computing can help answer and assist people with questions about hardwaresoftware problems As the normal mixed bag of tech questions was buried under an avalanche of posts from obsessed ios users frantic about when they could download the ios 5 update I replied to one personspanicked post aboutwhy couldnt they access the update at 830ambefore school and how they were going to take the day off as they couldnt possibly wait until after school for the updateBy reminding them that although October 12th was the official release day that it doesnt end until midnight and that bearing in mind the recent loss of Steve Jobs a great visionary and innovator for technology in general a little patience and decorummight be in order They responded with atirade of frantic bordering on abusive comments about how could they possibly carry on living unless they could download the update whilst eating breakfast How could theygo to school without having ios 5 on their phones If a friend had downloaded and installed it and they hadnt thentheir lives would be over And how the grieving folks at apple were evil liars as it was 9am on 12th andthey couldnt download it yet These overhyped franticteenswere actingas ifthey were going to miss the second coming ofthe lord or something The comments made showed that theyhad not an ounce of respect forandbasically didnt care at all that the man responsible for bringing them the most important thing in their life was now sadlydeadNo Android users despite the fact that there are now more of themthan iphone users behaved in this disgusting uncontrolledway when froyo was superseded by gingerbread I am admittedly not a fan of apple and am particularly angered by the way they have conducted themselves during theridiculous law suits they are using primarilyagainst Samsungto try and kill offfair competition in the Smartphone and tablet market But that doesnt stop me having great respect and admiration for Steve Jobs as one of the greatest innovative technological minds of recent timesThese teens were behaving like frenzied lunatics and one actually had the gall to say well if ios 5 arrives even one minute past midnight then apple were evil liars and should all be sent to hell Crazy that the availability of an operating system update can cause this type of reaction from what are normally or maybe notfairly sane and average peopleOn checking this morning I find that Yahoo have removed many of these postings and related threads as being inappropriate Thank God there is some sanity left in the world and like I tried to tell some of these people yesterday the world keeps turning and lifedoes go on whether ios 5 arrives on a Thursday or a Friday