> So I regularly run into cases where I need to prepare ahead of time for no/spotty internet and still get surprises as some app refuses to launch because it decided now is the time it needed to update over a connection that's doing single digit kilobytes per second, or speak to a license server or whatever.
Recently I was on a flight and prepared a book on my iPad the day before. iBooks decided that it was a good idea to “offload it into the cloud”, a book that wasn’t even 24 hours on my device with plenty of space available. Who knows…
Or when an app decides that it's too out of date spontaneously, and I literally get stuck on an error screen when I just launch the app that used to work up until today... "just install the latest update to enjoy this app"
Yeah, that's a dick move when I'm not on wifi or don't have data access at all on a long hiking trip.
> iBooks decided that it was a good idea to “offload it into the cloud”, a book that wasn’t even 24 hours on my device with plenty of space available
I had the same problem with Google Books on my Galaxy devices. There's a feature that will let you pin the book to be available offline. But you have to do that for every book.
It really takes away the usefulness of the devices.
Recently I was on a flight and prepared a book on my iPad the day before. iBooks decided that it was a good idea to “offload it into the cloud”, a book that wasn’t even 24 hours on my device with plenty of space available. Who knows…