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Comment by samatman | Hacker News Reader

Good.

If they're going to migrate my data to an entirely new file system, I want that tested as thoroughly as possible. This happened during the update, when you can't use the phone by definition, and was removed completely before the update finished. Who cares, it's running the middle of the night.

Well, I care. I'm glad they did it, the migration went off without a hitch when they shipped it, I doubt I was even aware it had happened right away.

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And if they bricked your device while doing the testing on it without telling you? What if you were going on a trip the next day and you phone was out because they were quite literally testing in production? Why, that's just fine! You would go and buy another (i)phone and everything would be just fine, even better, you would have a brand new iphone! On an unrelated note, there is this bridge that just came on the market, would you be interesting in buying a share?

None of those things happened.

Instead Apple transitioned everyone's phone to a new and better filesystem, without a hitch.

If it had been bad, it would be. But it wasn't, so it's not.

It's just the mental acceptance of them having the audacity (and ability) to test a filesystem transition without the owners explicit consent.

I would not be happy about it anyway, and hearing that they did it makes me even more sure about not entering the Apple ecosystem.

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