Apple Releases Apple TV 3.0.1 Software Update

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Apple Releases Apple TV 3.0.1 Software Update
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Posted by: Kenan

Apple has announced the release of the Apple TV 3.0.1 software update, which prevents content from temporarily disappearing from the device. According to the company, there is an issue with Apple TV software version 3.0 that can possibly cause your content to disappear after a period of time. All users running Apple TV software version 3.0 should immediately restart their Apple TV and then upgrade to Apple TV software version 3.0.1. This update fixes the problem.



http://www.123macmini.com/news/story/1373.html

[g5g5]

I haven't had much time to mess around with the 3.0 software, but I don't like the sound of content disappearing. Perhaps a little more testing should be done next time around. I'm glad they released an update to fix it though.
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iLife's a Bitch!

[ESUNintel]

At least now I know my friend is not crazy

He said some things were missing from his AppleTV, I just assumed he was imagining he had transferred them over.

[Grover Time]

I had a bunch missing after updating to the 3.0 software. It took me forever to re-sync. Then they went missing again. Hope this works! I commented earlier about hating to re-sync the entire way. It takes forever and mine heats up like a toaster oven. That has got to be hard on the internal components

[snolan]

Sorry Apple, I am disgusted that a device I bought and paid for forces upgrades that I do not want.

This is the third time an upgrade has been applied automatically before I allowed it, before I was ready, and before the software that I added has been ready for the new version.

I paid for the device, I should get to decide. Period.

History of upgrades that I did NOT agree to:

May 13th, 2009: AppleTV upgraded from 2.3 to 2.3.1 on it's own; wiping out my installation of Boxee, Couch Surfer, Flash Plug-Ins, and my enabling of ssh. Instead of enjoying my AppleTV to watch what I wanted to watch, I spend a weekend re-installing Boxee, XMBC, Couch Surfer, and enabling ssh again; then re-installing my own content via scp. I never did recover flash plugins.

August 29th, 2009: AppleTV again upgraded itself (this time to 2.4); and again wiped out my own installs and media. I was more careful about documenting the May disaster, so re-installing everything was quicker (about 4 hours of my time)

November 11th, 2009: AppleTV upgraded itself to 3.0.1 without my agreement! Now I am inspired to sue Apple for my hours of lost time and chuck the box out the window. It is not even clear that all the software I use on my AppleTV will work with the new version yet (which is why I was waiting).

Frankly, this is exactly the crappy treatment we got from Microsoft and DISH network over our original DISHplayer 7200; it worked great for years then the relationship between the two companies soured and Microsoft started force feeding our DISHplayer upgrades we did not want; it became less and less stable as a DVR until we were forced off the device out of sheer disgust. DISH ended up giving us a free "upgrade" to a DishDVR 508 which did not have the same features (at the time) but was way more stable.

Perhaps I can get Apple to give me a free Mini to replace the broken and unstable AppleTV?
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[snolan]

A day later and I have cooled off enough to download the newest Apple TV firmware (3.01 is 2Z694-6004-003.dmg), and use that with ATVUSB-Creator (v1.0b10) to update my USB memory stick with new "patch stick" software. I bounced my Apple TV with the USB stick, which re-installs ssh, then bounced my Apple TV again.

Scouting several forums revealed that there is a new XBMC Launcher (3.2 beta3):

[hackersmovie]

[snolan]

You are correct; I would care a lot less if I had not hacked my Apple TV to add XBMC, Boxee, etc...

The bottom line is that people should still get a say in the upgrade decision.

My Mac does not get updated the first day an update is available; nor should my Apple TV.

I have seen a way to disable the auto update; though I have not tested that yet... applying it now.
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music, web, and wiki server
(iMac and Macbook Air additional machines, AppleTV for home theatre)

[Bandit Bill]

[snolan]

I am concerned that perhaps I was not clear enough in my original rant about the Apple TV upgrades.

I LOVE my iPhone, iPod and many Macs. OS X and application updates from Apple (Safari, iWork, etc) all work exactly the way I want the updates to.
A push notification shows up saying a new update is available; I defer for a few days while I research the impact; then choose to apply the update once I am comfortable with all the impacts.

This means that I am in control, and that I am always within a week or so of being up to date. Support for millions of Mac users is relatively easy because we all are pretty successful at keeping up to date when we have a few minutes within a week or so of the update being available.

My rant is because the last three updates to my Apple TV have not worked that way; though that used to be how they worked before.

The last three updates happened to my AppleTV when I was not even there. I discovered that an update had happened when I went to use my Apple TV and found I could not use it because it had changed on me with no notice, no warning, no option to defer until I learned more.

Was I not clear enough in the original rant? If so - sorry. I hope this is clearer. If I was clear enough and you think Apple should be allowed to push out involuntary updates... well, we will have to agree to disagree.

Involuntary upgrades, especially those without warning are flat out unacceptable, and I do not think I am alone in that position.
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(iMac and Macbook Air additional machines, AppleTV for home theatre)

[Bandit Bill]

That's a lot more clear. I agree. I personally wait a while to see if there are issues with updates as well.