Tristan Baldwin, Apple iOS 8, and My Red Butt!

[whipped guy]

Tristan Baldwin, Apple iOS 8, and my red behind... How they are connected...

 

Well, I already started a thread about Apple and their new update to iOS 8 which highlighted some issues not knowing that iOS 8 would interfere with a hire that I had booked with a favorite escort for this afternoon... Yes, it was with the former EOY who wants this incident to be made public. So this is being posted with his permission.

 

When he was 30 minutes late for our session I called him inquiring if all was okay. Well, he was at an Apple Store because he had updated to the new version of iOS 8 and it wiped out his entire phone and contacts so he had no way of contacting me. By calling him I established contact... Therefore I am presently his one and only client until things get restored. Or as he said, I am his first client because he presently has no record of any other clients. He felt as though he was just starting in business!

 

Needless to say this played more than a bit of havoc with our scheduled session. However, since he was in a bad way... actually beyond being irritated... as in ballistic... I was the perfect client to be on the receiving end of his wrath as he worked me over leaving no body part neglected or unturned. If I were not the lucky person to have been his personal whipping boy I think he would have marched on the local Apple Store after having visited the local Walmart to pick up a few rounds of explosives to literally blow up the place. At any rate, if you hear of such an incident at an Apple Store you have gotten advance notice.

 

Still, something this idiotic should not have happened. What is sad is that since he is traveling he is effectively out of business until he can totally reconstruct things at his home base or hopefully sooner from the clouds! Fortunately he is a sharp guy, has a keen memory, and is quite resourceful. Consequently with any luck he will be able to reconstruct his hires for the next couple of days until he returns home over the weekend.

 

So again all here have been duly warned! Tristan's advice is to avoid iOS 8 and especially if you have a 16 Gig iPhone 5s. If he had the larger capacity there might not have been an issue or so he was told.

 

So as mentioned... You have been warned!

[bigvalboy]

First of all, congrats on another successful appointment with TB. He is amazing to be with. On a more stressful note, Apple has accidentally deleted all contacts and countless photographs on two separate occasions over the years while upgrading to a new phone, and on a recent trip I was told that my old phone had to be upgraded first to the iOS 8 before my contacts could be downloaded to the new iPhone, and then was told that there still was a chance that I would lose everything during the transfer of information. Still I have spoken to several people who have not had an issue. I'm waiting on this on.

[+ deej]

Yeah, this particular update you can wait out unless you bought an iPhone 6 AND you shop somewhere that accepts Apple Pay. (There aren't many yet.) Unless you REALLY REALLY REALLY want Camera Roll back. (I do! but....)

 

I always wait a few days for updates and watch the tech blogs for problems. Let someone else be the guinea pig.

 

FWIW, I've never had an IOS update lose anything.

[+ Robster]

Wow, if I wasn't already happy to have a good old-fashioned (well, sorta) dumbphone, I sure would be after reading this thread. Yikes!

 

Rob

[+ Socalguy]

It happened to a coworker of mine too. Hopefully this won't start an Apple vs. Android flame war but I gotta say, Google got it right. If I buy a new phone or switch for any reasons, I punch my google name and password in and it automatically downloads all my contacts, etc.

 

I feel for Tristan, he is such a nice guy and I hope he's able to get it all straightened out but Congrats Whipped Guy, sounds like you made lemonade out of lemons (just don't pour it on any welts)

[+ Funguy]

Whoa baby! RAAV!

 

When i contacted Papa Legba he only promised me that you and TB would finally get together. He didn't tell me that one of you had offended the gods! Perhaps it was Sister Felicity who attempted this un-devine intervention BUT FAILED.

 

[Whipped Guy will understand]

 

I'm with Socalguy with this - the contents of my contacts, etc. are automatically uploaded daily and stored in the cloud (by Verizon?) so if something happens to the phone I can just download everything to my computer. My calendar goes to my computer.

 

In the end, Whipped Guy, you got whipped just as you like it.

Kudos to TB and Whipped; sour cherries to Apple. TB 1 and Apple 0.

 

As ever,

Funguy

[maninsoma]

I don't know you or Tristan, but unless he also appreciates the joke maybe you can get a moderator to remove your reference to him going to a store to buy explosives to blow up the Apple store. In this day and age, I think that making any sort of statements that could be viewed as terrorist threats should be avoided, even those that to any thinking person would obviously be recognized as a joke.

[+ deej]

It happened to a coworker of mine too. Hopefully this won't start an Apple vs. Android flame war but I gotta say, Google got it right. If I buy a new phone or switch for any reasons, I punch my google name and password in and it automatically downloads all my contacts, etc.

 

Until it doesn't.

 

That's exactly the way it works with iDevices. Until it doesn't.

 

They both have their quirks.

[tom1980]

That's quite a tale. I emailed TB to tell him that I'll play the incompetent "genius" at the Apple store on our next visit. It seems to be getting warm in my house . . .

[shadowcatzxxx]

Very sorry for Tristan's problems ... I can only imagine how impossibly awful that must be for someone with his integrity and desire to please clients. suddenly losing not only contacts, but travel appointment schedule? yikes!

 

I would still like to meet (meat?) TB some time ... I've tried now nd then and our schedules never seem to quite match jup.

 

As far as losing info from phones on upgrade goes, there are definitely quirks in the system ... and I'll be taking my own ride on this roller-coaster ... as soon as my back-ordered iphone 6 arrives.

 

Some tips for others; if you talk to almost any of the apple people (geniuses, online or on-phone sales people, in-store folks, etc, they all agree on one thing. Make MULTIPLE different backups of data so that if/when a glitch happens, you don't lose everything.

 

so what I will be doing before I upgrade is:

make certain everything is backed up in the cloud,

and that at least two of my apple devices have that cloud-backed info,

AND phsyically plug the phone into one of my devices to do an i-tunes backup that way.

 

In a week or two, when the gizmo arrives, I'll let folks know which of these proved useful. (Hopefully)

[+ tristanbaldwin]

Whew! Some great action in the posts up above! Let me roll up my sleeves and get my 'typing-face' on, to, respond!

 

Oh wait. I rarely wear shirts with sleeves. Scratch that last..

 

Soooooo. WG is actually a mind-reader/omniscient, or he was 'in' on Apples devious plan to try and sidetrack me, in the hopes of having a more intense/painful/sensational session. He little plan worked. He will admit himself that when we talked two nights ago for close to an hour, he was *almost* going to warn me about his problems with the iOS patch. But he didnt. And for that, he required corrective action. *devilish grin*. If 'worked over' is the politically correct way to put it, let's just say I walked in his door with my face a thundercloud, angry and hostile towards Apple and Verizon...and walked up with a smile on my face. WG has ways to absorb ones difficulties, much like a sponge. The flogs danced in the afternoon light...delicately at first...but then with rapid and RABID fervor.

 

Ok, I'm getting too kiss and tell here. Point is, iOS was dangerous for this reason- if for some reason your connection while downloading and installing it is halted(battery, wifi connection loss, etc), the install program went into a loop. When you force shut down to get out of it, the phone restarts at a restore screen, as if you just opened it out of the box. Took it to Apple, where I didn't have an appointment, so I was kinda shouldered to the side- place was packed with people with similar problems. I illustrated to them that I had nothhhhhhing...no phone numbers, no GPS, and that I was 1500 miles from home and needed to be functional. When he gave me the 'deer in the headlights' stare, I then had to offer to suck his dick to get a standby appontment for repair. Instead, I opted to suck ALL their dicks(Geniuses that they are...), in order to get served more promptly so I could go track down WG.

 

Ok, so parts of the last story arent true, but at the end of it...WG made my afternoon special. Why is it we connect so fiercely and easily 1500 miles away from our homes, but aren't able to line up in CT as easy! Lol.

 

Val- you're HIDING from me right now. I heard all about it. If I could change my plans id ambush you in s. Florida again!

 

Tom- I'll be in dallas in January. If you can procure an apple Genius shirt and ID holder for yourself for a morbid Roleplay idea; the session is free. Fair warning, you'll need 3 days off and makeup to recover from it though.

 

Deej, Funster, Soma, SoCal- thanks for the suggestions and your experiences; cloud will definitely be in my future but with a coded system on how to classify certain clients/contacts. I never feel comfortable with big brother in my address book.

 

Shadow- lets renew our efforts in late 2014/2015 and we'll make it happen! I appreciate you still saying great things about me even though we've not yet met! ~

[bigvalboy]

Ok, I'm getting too kiss and tell here. Point is, iOS was dangerous for this reason- if for some reason your connection while downloading and installing it is halted(battery, wifi connection loss, etc), the install program went into a loop. When you force shut down to get out of it, the phone restarts at a restore screen, as if you just opened it out of the box. Took it to Apple, where I didn't have an appointment, so I was kinda shouldered to the side- place was packed with people with similar problems. I illustrated to them that I had nothhhhhhing...no phone numbers, no GPS, and that I was 1500 miles from home and needed to be functional. When he gave me the 'deer in the headlights' stare, I then had to offer to suck his dick to get a standby appontment for repair. Instead, I opted to suck ALL their dicks(Geniuses that they are...), in order to get served more promptly so I could go track down WG.

 

I love that look you get from the Apple techies. First time they lost all my contacts and pics, he just calmly looked at me and said,"Sir, nothing got copied because you didn't have anything in your phone, it was empty to begin with" REALLY? "I looked back and said, "Dude, who has a phone that is empty, seriously" I can laugh now, but I was not a happy camper then, and I can only imagine what poor Tristan went through.

 

 

Val- you're HIDING from me right now. I heard all about it. If I could change my plans id ambush you in s. Florida again!

 

AND not hiding boo, you have no idea what I went through in Boston to break away from friends so I could see you, all to no avail. They just wouldn't let me out of their site. (Sigh) You are welcome in my neck of the woods anytime.

[whipped guy]

Tristan... I gotta love ya man!!!

 

Yeah, it is so strange... We live in close proximity as fellow Nutmeggers yet this year it has only been when we are away from our home base that we have been able to connect... and even then it seems that every time that we have connected it has always been an adventure... be it up north or down south. I recall our first meeting the day his beloved pooch Maddy gave birth and he was the proud papa who had pulled an all-nighter to help deliver those precious pups! Then there was the incident in Florida this past February where I was accused of stealing an almost empty bottle of lube... (For the record I replaced it with a full bottle even though the illustrious Tristan left it behind accidentally... or was it to test my honesty?) In any event, yesterday after the Apple iOS 8 debacle he almost left behind not only his lube, but a few other items including a bottle of mouth wash.

 

Regarding the mouth wash, I am happy to report that it was not only of the antiseptic variety and but furthermore had the American Dental Association seal of approval. Plus, to his credit he not only rinsed but brushed prior to getting down to business as well. However!!! Yes there is a "however", if I had known that he had given all those so-called geniuses at the Apple Store blow jobs in order for them to attempt to fix his phone, I would have had him floss as well... not to mention have him also wash his mouth out with some chlorhexidine gluconate. One can never play too safely... and the gods only know what nasty bugs and viruses (computer or otherwise) those geniuses could have been harboring!

 

At any rate, I have seen Tristan after he experienced some interesting and trying situations... be it the elation of Maddy giving birth... to the most recent and unfortunate issue with his phone. In all situations he was able to perform beyond belief... Perhaps the predicaments got his adrenalin flowing? At any rate, before this turns into a gushing review... I'll cut things short... but not before I mention his humility and the big heart that beats inside his torso.

 

One final note... When speaking with Tristan the night before his fateful iPhone fiasco, I indeed almost mentioned how I had words with Apple earlier in the day. Would that I had! However, there is a pithy proverb that I remember every time I think that I would have or should have done something differently.

 

 

"Would haves and should haves are words we don't use...

They only make us feel bad and give us the blues..."

 

 

At any rate, I got a red butt out of the deal... no feeling blue here at all... and Tristan was so on top of his game that I'm not even black and blue the day after!

[+ Funguy]

Got to say, the gods were with you, all was aligned, and you were patiently awaiting TB's arrival.

Right?

[bigvalboy]

Very nice post Whipped Guy....

[+ azdr0710]

Whipped Guy has just shot into my ever-evolving "Daddy's Top Five Posters" list.....and, yes, Tristan is the best out there.....

[Andy2]

Whipped Guy has just shot into my ever-evolving "Daddy's Top Five Posters" list.....and, yes, Tristan is the best out there.....

 

+1

[+ tristanbaldwin]

Love you guys. You're a free stand up comedy routine, every time I sign on. Thanks for brightening the day. Shooting home from FTL right now. Seem to have a random clothespin in my bag..wonder how it got there, WG? Lol. Am I accused of being the thief now too! lolol

 

I'll buy you a bag of them...or maybe I should get ones with upgraded springs...