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Good luck with whatever input your iOverlords deem worthy for the collective. I'm certain it will be stupidly complex, obscenely priced, and will become obsolete fast enough for you to always label it a rip-off.

That's really funny.

iOS is compatible with iPhones from the 5s and forward, and iPads from the iPad mini 2.

http://osxdaily.com/2018/06/05...

Let's see: That's from 2013 for the 5s and the iPad mini 2. A cool FIVE YEARS of FULL SUPPORT, and Counting...

After a few people try and make room for the 1GB+ worth of space iOS 12 requires to upgrade their five-year old device, they will likely learn the valuable life lesson understanding the difference between compatible and functional.

And five years of support on a device with a non-removable battery is like putting a 10-year warranty on car tires. It's a nice gesture, but ultimately rather worthless in the end. That said, it is better than ending support prematurely.

Was any of that even REMOTELY relevant?

Good luck with whatever input your iOverlords deem worthy for the collective. I'm certain it will be stupidly complex, obscenely priced, and will become obsolete fast enough for you to always label it a rip-off.

That's really funny.

iOS is compatible with iPhones from the 5s and forward, and iPads from the iPad mini 2.

http://osxdaily.com/2018/06/05...

Let's see: That's from 2013 for the 5s and the iPad mini 2. A cool FIVE YEARS of FULL SUPPORT, and Counting...

After a few people try and make room for the 1GB+ worth of space iOS 12 requires to upgrade their five-year old device, they will likely learn the valuable life lesson understanding the difference between compatible and functional.

And five years of support on a device with a non-removable battery is like putting a 10-year warranty on car tires. It's a nice gesture, but ultimately rather worthless in the end. That said, it is better than ending support prematurely.

Good luck with whatever input your iOverlords deem worthy for the collective. I'm certain it will be stupidly complex, obscenely priced, and will become obsolete fast enough for you to always label it a rip-off.

That's really funny.

iOS is compatible with iPhones from the 5s and forward, and iPads from the iPad mini 2.

http://osxdaily.com/2018/06/05...

Let's see: That's from 2013 for the 5s and the iPad mini 2. A cool FIVE YEARS of FULL SUPPORT, and Counting...

http://osxdaily.com/2012/12/04...

There is a way reading this

http://osxdaily.com/2018/01/22...

http://osxdaily.com/2013/11/26...

On VMS you could never overwrite a file. File system would by default always keep all the previous versions of it. Ransomware action like that would just result in having additional, encrypted, versions of your files.

That should be true of macOS's "versioned" files, too. Although it appears to be an Application-Specific feature, rather than an OS-wide thing, although reportedly, there is wide Application support for it.

http://osxdaily.com/2015/06/16...

Yes and no. This is maybe the very first battle for territory... hardware rights and planned obsolescence in the Microsoft ecosystem. Windows 10 is the newest walled garden where the software publisher is allowed to expire hardware a customer has purchased. This is an echo.. of something that another vendor has relied on. Apple 101 - you can't make money on hardware by supporting legacy software platforms for more than a couple of years. For better or worse... Microsoft is now "owning" this plan which requires PC/Windows users to pony up more money to stay current... as Mac users have unfortunately become more complacent to. Honestly if you read up on it... the latest generation of the Microsoft Surface is glued together which is designed to never be upgraded... thus the hardware is stuck at a "point in time".

Peace.

Kindly leave Apple out of this meme.

Here is the compatibility list for the upcoming macOS "High Sierra" (macOS 10.13).

http://osxdaily.com/2017/06/06...

Notice that the compatibility goes back to Macs built in 2009. That means that these Macs were first released with OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard") on them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Snow Leopard, BTW, was the FIRST Intel-Only version of macOS (nee OS X). IOW, that means that Apple has actually MAINTAINED support for essentially EVERY (64-bit) Intel Mac ever created! Support for 32-bit (CoreSolo?) systems was ended with OS X Lion (10.7); but there were only a few models affected (a Macbook, and a bottom-level Mac mini, IIRC).

So, stop saying that Apple drops support for Mac hardware prematurely. With few exceptions, if you have an Intel Mac, you should be able to install and use any of SEVEN major releases of macOS, even up to the not-yet-released High Sierra.

You computer is now too old, it will not longer allow windows 10, buy a new computer but don't forget you previous copy of windows 10 is tied to the old computer we wont provide upgrades for

So it's like a Mac?

Ah, another day, another incorrect Apple meme to dispel...

No.

If Windows were like a Mac (or more correctly, macOS), in MOST cases, hardware would be supported for as long as reasonably practical. Right now, pretty much every, or maybe even every, Mac back to at least 2009 is supported up through the upcoming High Sierra version (macOS 10.13). That includes most Macs that shipped with Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6), which is SEVEN major revisions ago.

http://osxdaily.com/2017/06/06...

In other words, if it is a 64 bit Intel Mac, it will likely run High Sierra (and run it well, BTW). A few features might be excluded from the very oldest designs, and there is a peculiar anomaly in the "supported systems" regarding some "wrongfully orphaned" Cheese-Grater Mac Pros that the Mac hacker community has taken care of; but by and large, Apple has done a VERY good job at NOT obsoleting Mac systems.

I wouldn't buy it for any price, really. It isn't the functionality or the hardware, but the fact that you are tied into only ever using Apple's app store etc etc

Not true anymore. You can sideload apps with a free developer account that anyone can create now. http://osxdaily.com/2016/01/12/howto-sideload-apps-iphone-ipad-xcode/

plus the fact that you have to actually BUY the development tools

A developer account for just your own development is free now. You do have to pay if you want to actual distribute apps to others (signed for devices you don't own). Would I prefer if this were free? Yes. However, it's a pretty nominal fee, and it's certainly not a dealbreaker.

and learn yet another languages,

This one is just silly. People fall over themselves to learn the new language du jour. You can still write iOS apps in Objective-C which is a relatively simple language and has been around forever. (Or you can use Swift) I simply don't see this as a significant barrier.

when the Android comes without the same degree of tie-in, plus you can download the whole development kit for free and it is Java, a language that actually has applications outside the phone. In a way, it isn't the iPhone that I don't want, it is Apple.

Same comments as above.

Apple: most people run recent iOS versions - this shows Apple is doing well. Newer versions of OS X run well on older Macs too. Excellent Apple!

Except that they cut the PPC macs out in the cold, many of which still have sufficient horsepower to run modern applications — only there are no applications because the application developers took their cue from Apple (reasonably) and abandoned it at the same time Apple did. So there's no for example javascript engine which has been updated for PPC, so there's a distinct dearth of modern browsers.

But let's forget what is essentially ancient history and move on to the fact that Apple dropped support for lots of models from Sierra and in fact some of the models they kept had worse specs than some of the models they dropped. So no, newer versions of OSX do not run at all on older macs. You have that completely wrong.

Google: there's a lot of people on older versions of Android, it would be great if Google were in charge and everyone had the opportunity to upgrade asap! It's the telco operators that are getting in the way of OS greatness! Excellent Google!

It would be great if Google were in charge, since everyone would have the opportunity to upgrade ASAP. It would also be great if in order to have your hardware "Android certified" you had to provide driver support for some years into the future, so that people who wanted to would have the option to install Lineage OS, AOSP, or some other distribution. Driver support rapidly becomes an issue when trying to do this now.

Microsoft: In my special case it is 100% reasonable that I want to run Windows XP until the end of times.

Microsoft is a special case because they are the only OS vendor which was found by the USDoJ to have abused their monopoly position which was gained through anticompetitive practices. Microsoft has proven itself to be even less trustworthy than the other major players. You may forget the lessons of history if you wish, but the rest of us are still paying attention to the world around us and acting accordingly.

Windows XP in particular comes from the time period when they were actually busted-not-busted for their malfeasance (busted-not-busted Since Bush's lapdog John Ashcroft declared that Microsoft would not face any penalty after the DoJ spent a substantial amount of our money proving they in general and Bill Gates in particular were career criminals) and they should extra-special have to support it today.

I don't know if it's a setting somewhere, if it's model specific, or some change that happened with more recent updates, but my wife's iPhone 6 keeps updating itself in the middle of the night shortly after a new point release of iOS. The GP and my wife might be clicking the wrong button but my wife swears she's not. I don't know because I don't use Apple devices since I dumped my PowerMac G3.
Apple's not the only one to do this, though. My Samsung S5 Active kept updating itself at night. I use it as my alarm, too, so this stupid "security feature" has made me late for work twice now (my phone is encrypted and asks for password on reboot). I finally figured how to disable the update app using ADB after the last time; my wife may not have that option without a jailbreak. Automatic updates that require a reboot are plain anti-consumer and unacceptable.

iOS 10 chose to hide controls in places that users (old or new) would have no idea where to look. The shuffle button for the Music app is a great example, see: http://osxdaily.com/2016/09/16... I would love to hear someone explain who thought this was a good idea, and why they thought that way.

It's kind of funny that Android users say that the great thing about Android is that you're not stuck with just one manufacturer and one App Store but if you want security updates and not get infected by malware you're stuck with one manufacturer (Google) and one app store. (Google Play).

But on the other hand, Android is based on Linux, why shouldn't you be able to download apps from anywhere and the OS be able to sandbox it?

I currently can access three different App stores without sideloading or disabling protections. And security updates is a completely different issue that has nothing at all to do with sideloading, since you don't have to root/crack your OS or install custom ROMs to do it like you do with an Apple product.

WRONG! Please try to keep up!

I don't know how many times I have to repeat this: Apple has actually ALLOWED "Side-Loading" on iOS WITHOUT JAILBREAKING since iOS 8.

Here's how you do it.

And you don't even have to use XCode (and from Windows and Linux computers). Just use the handy Cydia Impactor.

And here's a list of F/OSS iOS Apps on github that can be Sideloaded.

And here's an example of a NON F/OSS App that can be Sideloaded with Impactor.

Yet, instead of making it clear what background processes are draining your battery, and why that's killing your estimated time remaining, Apple goes it's usual "form over function" route and just hides all those nasty details.

You'd be 100% right.. except for one nasty detail which makes you 0% right.

There are multiple ways to find out precisely which applications/processes are draining your battery.

Here's one:

https://support.apple.com/en-c...

Here's another:

http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-con...

That second one is right there in the battery menu.

Nasty.. nasty details.

The problem with this is that you will no longer get legitimate invitations in your calendar. Don't get me wrong, the only other ways are even worse.

Here's the only three solutions I can find.

Swapping the drive is the first option and gets you immediately back up and running, restoring a backup is the second choice option and takes longer.

Excuse me. Opening the back and swapping a bad SSD for a good one STILL doesn't get you "immediately back up and running", unless you have been vigilant enough to actually have the good SSD PRELOADED WITH EVERYTHING. And if you are THAT vigilant, chances are you are OCD enough (or wise enough!) to have a good Backup strategy anyway.

Sorry. The FASTEST ways to get back up and running are as follows:

1. A completely redundant system. Always the best, like when studios ran a "Safety Master" recording in PARALLEL. This is what Nine-Inch-Nails does live with their Mac-Based "Mainstage" system. They report never having to use it; but it's there to take over at the proverbial flip of a switch.

2. Have an EXTERNAL Drive pre-loaded and hooked-up, loaded with all your System Software and Applications from a Time Machine backup. That way, all you have to do is Reboot from External, and Voila! Back up in under a minute (faster (like 10 seconds or less) if it's an external SSD).

And if you've been following along, you may have noticed that NEITHER of those methods have ANYTHING to do with whether the internal storage is REMOVABLE.

Well, those people were using android, so they were kinda asking for it.

More than likely, they were downloading apk files for commercial apps from whatever site they got in a search result. This is the direct equivalent of all the mac users that got hit with malware when they installed cracked copies of photoshop a few years ago.

You can crack a iphone too, and also install things from outside the walled garden, which of course puts you at risk.

But what's curious, is that iOS has absolutely allowed full-on "Sideloading" for a couple of YEARS now, (in fact, there is a Mac/Windows Application called "Cydia Impactor" that doesn't require Jailbreaking, nor a Mac with XCode) and yet, other than that old Bootleg iLife installation (IIRC, that happened long BEFORE the legit Sideloading), you don't hear about the Exploit du Jour with iOS like you do with Android. Why? Surely there are enough people taking advantage of that "Freedom" that there would have been at least SOME exploits by now. But the only one that comes to mind is that short-lived tainted version of XCode that circulated in China a couple of years ago. And that was actually OS X being Trojaned, not iOS, per se. The difference being that OS X (macOS) has always allowed Applications from anywhere (plus it's not iOS); so that doesn't "count".

So, what is fundamentally different between the two platforms that would cause this huge difference? Not marketshare: There are PLENTY of iOS devices (and their typically higher-income owners) to make it worthwhile, especially in the identity-theft arena. Not user-IQ: No matter the platform, there's a Seeker born every minute. So what? Did Apple (who most Slashdotters think are all about "restricting access") actually figure out how to allow full-on Sideloading in a SAFE manner, or is iOS somehow immune-by-design to Trojans (really, how could that be?), or what?

I am not trolling. It's a serious question. Does anyone with deep insight into BOTH platforms know why the ability to Sideload Apps hasn't caused rampant malware on iOS like it undeniably has on Android?

You somehow managed to forget, "Certain to be told exactly how you may or may not use their device (Apple)".

You're welcome!

I didn't "Manage to forget". What you suggest is simply not true.

ANYONE is completely free to build ANYTHING in iOS FOR THEMSELF. No "App Store" Rules. No "Approval" Process. No Licensing. Period. Just whip yourself up some Swift, ObjC, Javascript, or whatever code, and VOILA! That has ALWAYS been the case, BTW.

Oh, you say you can't code? Well, sucks to be you. Because if that's the case, you will ALWAYS be beholden to SOMEONE who decides what you can, and cannot, do with your device. No matter what platform.

And besides, any ad-hoc group of people who want to exchange "private" Apps can do so (what fandroids refer to as "Sideloading"). Been available for a few YEARS now. Completely "Legal" according to Apple. In fact, they are the ones that enabled the ability to do so. Do try to keep up. Again: No App Store. No Approval Process. No Rules. No License Fee. The fact that most people in the U.S. don't take advantage of such FREEDOM says to me that there is actually only a VERY small percentage of users that need/want to do that.

But as you can see, the ability that you alluded to not existing, does in fact exist, and with no jailbreaks required. In fact, there is also a tool called "Cydia Impactor" that alludes to do this "Sideloading" without Jailbreaking, and without requiring XCode.

So, STFU.

http://osxdaily.com/2016/01/04...

Option 1: Punt the iOS Update for 24 Hours

If you take this route, get used to pressing Later and Remind Me Later repeatedly, as in 24 hours you'll be asked about it again. And 24 hours later, again. And another 24 hours later, you can go through the process yet again, until you either give in or move along with another of the options below.

That was option 1. The other options are even more awesome.

Option 2: delete update and avoid wifi forever.

This deletes the available iOS update which stops the iOS update from popping up every day, however, the moment you're on a sustained wi-fi connection for a while the iOS update will download itself again automatically and start sending pop-ups to install it again.

Option 3: Accept the update.

Avoid the upgrade reminders by accepting the update. yay solution!

Option 4: Block the update domains on your firewall.

Of course this means blocking all updates for all apple devices on the LAN... and only works while you are at home; so hardly a solution at all really.

This is just as shite as Microsoft, if not worse.

You are a liar. Period.

http://osxdaily.com/2016/01/04...

Option 1: Punt the iOS Update for 24 Hours

If you take this route, get used to pressing Later and Remind Me Later repeatedly, as in 24 hours you'll be asked about it again. And 24 hours later, again. And another 24 hours later, you can go through the process yet again, until you either give in or move along with another of the options below.

That was option 1. The other options are even more awesome.

Option 2: delete update and avoid wifi forever.

This deletes the available iOS update which stops the iOS update from popping up every day, however, the moment you're on a sustained wi-fi connection for a while the iOS update will download itself again automatically and start sending pop-ups to install it again.

Option 3: Accept the update.

Avoid the upgrade reminders by accepting the update. yay solution!

Option 4: Block the update domains on your firewall.

Of course this means blocking all updates for all apple devices on the LAN... and only works while you are at home; so hardly a solution at all really.

This is just as shite as Microsoft, if not worse.

But if things do go wrong it's really easy for me to ssh in and figure out what's going on because the Linux ecosystem is actually designed to anticipate errors, as opposed to my Mac where I can't tell the difference between an error and stupid interface design.

Sounds like a combination of lack of knowledge and bias, both on your part.

You can ssh into a Mac, too; or you can simply use any VNC Client to do "Screen Sharing" with a Mac (e.g., when on my work Win7 laptop, I use TightVNC). In fact, you can even launch a separate OS X session (using another User Account), and not disturb the GUI of the local user. Note: This capability even allows multiple VNC Clients to use the same Mac simultaneously. Try THAT with Windows out of the box...

Guess you need a little knowledge on remote Mac Administration. Here's an article on "Screen Sharing". And here's how to enable ssh on OS X (hint: the "Screen Sharing" (VNC) Enable is in the same place)

> it's likely that they want to at some point force you
> go through the "Windows Store" to buy programs,
> just like Apple does on their "App Store"

Score: -1, Factually Incorrect. Apple does NOT "force" you to buy apps in their store. They encourage you to use the store, sure, and they'll pop up a warning the first time you try to run an app from somewhere else, but it's literally one click in System Preferences to say "run software from anywhere."

http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-con...

Only if GPS coordinates were embedded in the picture. In short, they are cheating ;-)

http://osxdaily.com/2015/05/08...

I did ask but apparently you can't read or your mac fanboy skills are lacking, let me enlighten you:

Apple's 2010 Phone Release:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

How many iPhone 4's are listed here, I'm just a moronic Android user so I can't tell :(
http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-con...

I see an iPhone 4S but that's the 2011 era phone we just discussed.

Please help me Apple fan boy, I want to understand!

How many iOS devices from 2010 got updated to iOS9?

Um, ALL of them. (YOU asked!)

How many iOS devices from 2011 will get iOS 9+1?

Well, besides being a metaphysically absurd question, if history is any guide, ALL of them as well.

Again, YOU asked...

about 80% there, i'd say.

Until there's background noise, or you have a slightly weird accent, or a speech impediment, or talk a bit fast, or a bit too slow, or push the 'listen to me now' button a bit late. So it's about 80% there in about 20% of cases.

a calculator

A calculator? On my wrist!!? What is this, the future??

A guitar tuner

Actually, that sounds quite useful... Sorry about the watch thing...

You don't know much about Macs - my 2008 MacPro is running 10.10.3 (Yosemite) and according to Apple, should run the next iteration (El Capitan). The only thing I had to do is replace the video card (who runs 7 year old video cards on anything?). My wife has a 2010 MacBook Pro which also will run 10.11.

Yes, there are Linux distros out there that will boot off an 8 inch floppy. That's impressive, but it's not Apple's MO.

And you can use command line programs to manipulate Airports. Even the old ones. Now that is pretty edge case and not well documented but a brief search shows you what you need to know.

Mod parent up. This is one of the most informative things I've ever read on /. in a comment.

It's usually people just trying to win semantic wars about stuff and trash Microsoft (or open sores or whatever).

Nicely done. I've got a Mac and I /don't/ have any of that old-skool software you mention, but if I did this is exactly what I'd want to do (or perhaps dual-boot... not sure if OS X likes side-by-side installs).

First, thanks for the "props" (blush); but now I feel ashamed.

Why? Because of what you mentioned about dual-booting two versions of OS X. And then it hit me: you're right! That's the ZERO-Cost (not counting download bandwidth) solution! So, here you go...

And also, since all accessible partitions automatically mount at startup (unless you do some simple command-line witchery), you should have no problem accessing/moving any desired stuff from the "old OS" to the new one. IIRC, these Partitions appear in the Finder like any other Volume.

Now, like any other dual-boot system, you really are only "in" ONE OS at a time. So, if you want to start migrating your "life" to the newer OS, but still seamlessly incorporate your Legacy apps into your workflow, then dual-boot is NOT for you. In that case, use the Virtualization method instead.

But if you only occasionally need to run some apps in the "old" OS, then dual-boot might be for you!

OS X is an evolution of NEXTSTEP, which was started in the late 80s. They saw that OS 9 was a dead end and Apple needed something "new" and "modern", so they went with NEXT (and for a good while there was this set of compatibility APIs called carbon, PROBABLY had a lot of mac classic code). You can still see a lot of similarities between Xcode today and what they were using on NEXT in the early 90s.
new code, old code, it makes no difference. It ALL has flaws.

Heck even the images from the "Grab" program in the recent versions of OSX have the original Grab icon from NeXTSTEP

Here's how I do it: http://osxdaily.com/2014/02/16...

Timtowtdi of course

Yeah, finding a way that doesn't require the user to turn on Automatic App Download and you having full access to the Apple-ID account (not to mention the user not noticing the new icon with a blue dot before the name) sure would be better than this one.

Here's how I do it:
http://osxdaily.com/2014/02/16...

Timtowtdi of course

Because it doesn't necessarily still work. I have an iphone that is nearly 3 years old and the home button is very nearly worn out, frequently only working intermittently.

One of my clients has an iPhone with a flaky button. He had an Apple Store person turn on a software button called "Assistive Touch" which is part of the standard iOS software. It might be useful in your situation too. Here are some instructions:

http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/02...

Apple went and deliberately developed "iBeacon"

Which works by Bluetooth, not WiFi, and it's basically a Bluetooth broadcaster. Also, it is opt-in.

In the same way, they cracked down on apps that used phone serial numbers, IMEIs and similar; but then built an "advertising identifier" right into their OS.

That you can opt out of.

So once the FBI subpeona'd Tor to...

That's an awful long post for someone that doesn't seem to know what they are talking about. Tor cannot be subpoenaed for information. It is a peer to peer network, not a legal entity. They got this guy because to get on university wifi you need to login, which then associates your mac address with your account and allows traffic to flow. They also monitor your traffic and could associate his account with Tor use. This gave the FBI enough information to question him and he probably was so scared and guilty feeling that he freely confessed. You can change the mac address on most network adapters. You wouldn't need to buy a throwaway usb wifi adapter. The FBI would have had much less to go on if the perp had simply used a free wifi hotspot.

It is difficult to understand what was going on in his head but it obviously wasn't rational thought.

Bad batteries something Apple is famous for, RAM fixed to the logic board, insecure and buggy OS, and a host of other complaints makes me wonder why anyone pays the premium for Apple any longer.

Maybe because that hasn't been most peoples' experience? I have a MacBook Pro that is almost 3 years old and the battery is still almost as good as the day I bought it. Of course, I make sure to run mine down once a month as recommended.

OS X gets better, but needs a few things to be usable:
- Quicksilver: all the UI slickness of a Mac app with the obscure/arcane functionality you'd only expect in a Linux app
- iTerm: yes, the default terminal sucks
- Witch: tabbing between windows (rather than apps) is useful
- Homebrew: For those who miss Gentoo

And if you're coming from Linux and like the command line, you might want to check out these command-line utilities:
pbcopy, say, defaults, open, fs_usage, airport, networksetup and osascript

I use both OSX (only very recently) and Linux desktops and always felt that the Gnome 2.0 desktop (abandoned by Ubuntu, but still the default for Debian stable for the moment), was the best desktop ever. It was the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS desktop that got be to "betray" my simple and straightforward olvwm solution and now I don't want to switch back to olvwm.

So I'm using LXDE on my Ubuntu desktop (only because I don't want to reinstall with Debian stable). It is OK. I like it more than OSX GUI, but not more than Gnome 2.0. I run OSX on my MacBookAir, but mostly I spend my time in a Debian VM which uses Gnome 2.0. Honestly having only just started using MACs really, and am not part of the group that abandoned Linux in the early 2000's. But Gnome 3.0 etc to me feel like a nudge away from Linux. The wonderful thing about Linux desktops though is the diversity of options, so if you don't like desktop X, you can use desktop Y or dekstop Z.

Hmm while writing this I just did a web search for virtual desktops in OSX (the major feature I miss from Linux when I'm on my macbook air)
http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/01/virtual-desktops-in-mac-os-x/

So OSX might be OK. I still like gnome-terminal and lxterm more than OSX terminal program. And left click should mark stuff, middle mousebutton (or chordmiddle) should paste!

You couldn't even rely on them as alarm clocks, given their propensity to hang and/or crash.

I'll be sure to remind my iPhone of that reality first thing tomorrow when it diligently wakes me at 7:30am against my wishes, but in accordance to my command -- as it and it's predecessors have seemed to have done this without fail over the last several years.

Except if Daylight Saving time is changing: http://osxdaily.com/2010/11/06/the-iphone-daylight-savings-time-alarm-bug-and-how-to-fix-it/

Or if it's 2011 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/01/02/0225235/iphone-alarms-hit-by-new-years-bug

I remember hearing battery problems for practically every iOS version from 5.0 onwards.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/16/ios-5-battery-life-fix-tips/
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/12/ios-6-0-2-suspected-of-draining-batteries/
What gives?

Yes, this is an absolute pain for games. Then again, laptops shouldn't be used for games ;). The problem is that in my case the laptop was the main computer for several years.

Like someone said about leaking tablet resolution "improvements" back into the PC world, fullsize keyboards have been playing with stupid layout ideas and removing keys for a decade. Geeky Mac switchers must have a rite of passage with a google search when first trying to printscreen, especially while running Windows. HP keyboards move Insert / Home / End / Page up and Page down. Laptop or not, playing with our non-querty row is a problem for flight simulators MMO's and simple emulators. My laptop vertically lists Delete / Home / Pg-up / Pg-dn/ End in the last row, which is a pain for web browsing without some head lamp on.

The industry ran out of new cool things to design to differentiate product. They can't reinvent the modern equivalent of "they're all plain ol' beige, so let's ship it in black!". Now they bring chiclet keyboards and tons of incompatible layouts.

Someone here yesterday wanted death on whoever decided that for Android's software keyboards (virtually non-optional) ENTER should sit right above BACKSPACE... presumably from logins or webforms getting posted "early" EXACTLY as we've located an error that needs backspacing to fix.

Luckily you have the option to get more real estate with the Retina instead if you wish.

Thanks for a better response, though I don't agree completely with you. Apple painted itself into the DTP corner neither by design and nor by choice. They just couldn't deal with the tsunami of IBM-PC clones from Compaq, Dell, HP etc. that MS very cunningly licensed DOS/Windows to. Apple's computers were general purpose computers able to run any applications, but they failed to attract developers like MS was able to and the prices kept it within the reach of only graphic designers and not the general public. In that sense, they were and are competing with Microsoft. A college kid goes to Best Buy and looks around for a laptop, and might just pick the Macbook Air instead of an Asus Ultrabook. Not only DTP users use Macs, and that's especially true nowadays.

How many of these kids are DTP users? http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f49/Voodoogoon/big-mac-class.jpg

http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/05/70-of-college-freshman-use-macs/

They also make an OS which is a miserable failure. The only reason Microsoft is still in existence is due to anti-competitive behavior and vendor lock-in.
Microsoft is currently trying to recast itself as a company capable of being in competition with Apple once again. They have failed miserably for the simple reason that they cannot possibly do it. They are incompetent morons

While MS did have luck like IBM picking DOS for the OS, they did make software in those times which was simply better than the competition. Office Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc. lagged behind their competitors like WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, etc. but by the typical 4th version or so, they were just better in objective ways and thus won the market. Did you ever try using Lotus Notes? Try it, you'd pay a million to run screaming to Outlook or Pine within a day. IE 4 and 5 were similarly better than Netscape 4 while Netscape didn't have a major version for 3 years smack in the middle of the dot com boom while implementing a new version.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Windows 95 was similarly better than any competition out there, and still OpenOffice or whatever Exchange/AD clone don't have the features and polish of MS Office/Exchange/AD.

The LAMP stack had success on the server side, but OpenOffice, Zimbra, OpenLDAP etc. have nothing on the competition. While I do agree that lock-in etc. played a role, you're underestimating the mis-steps made by competitors and that MS' software was actually better at the time it beat the rivals.

There's a fix for sticking and non-responsive home buttons involving force-quitting a core app (resets something somehow) and shutting down your phone and depressing and then wiping the whole button area thoroughly with alcohol and a q-tip (esp around the edges)... let dry, boot back up. I did both of these with mine last July and it's been like new ever since.

The first step sounds like voodoo, but I did it and immediately the button was working again. I only did the second step as well because it seemed like a logical and good thing to do anyway.

http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/22/iphone-home-button-not-working-or-unresponsive-fix/

So, it's okay to give credit to him until facts collide with RDF??

I don't know what settings you have but I don't get any warnings at all.

It's a standard install and OSX will give you this message if you try to remove safari (or some other default install apps). It's default behavior in OSX.

[...] Gradients, drop shadows [...]

Try this.

A dock and a menu bar that you can't get rid of?

If you can deal with it just being hidden, you can hide it by going to the Apple menu and choosing Dock -> Turn Hiding On. If you want to actually get rid of it, there's this.

The menu bar? Uh...you got me there. But without a menu bar, there's not that much you can do. Kind of like saying, "Why can't I get rid of the Start menu" in Windows.

Animations you can't turn off?

Well, you can turn off window animations, and a bunch more.

Transparency?

You can turn off the translucent menu bar by going to System Preferences, choosing Desktop & Screen Saver, and unchecking the "Translucent Menu Bar" checkbox.

Anything else?

[...] Gradients, drop shadows [...]

Try this.

A dock and a menu bar that you can't get rid of?

If you can deal with it just being hidden, you can hide it by going to the Apple menu and choosing Dock -> Turn Hiding On. If you want to actually get rid of it, there's this.

The menu bar? Uh...you got me there. But without a menu bar, there's not that much you can do. Kind of like saying, "Why can't I get rid of the Start menu" in Windows.

Animations you can't turn off?

Well, you can turn off window animations, and a bunch more.

Transparency?

You can turn off the translucent menu bar by going to System Preferences, choosing Desktop & Screen Saver, and unchecking the "Translucent Menu Bar" checkbox.

Anything else?

It is instructive to look at tablet design before and after iPad.

That's a rather selective set of examples. Take a look at this photo frame, from 2006. It looks pretty much identical to the iPad, apart from the Samsung label.

What I conclude from this is that the iPad form factor - black surface, rounded corners, etc. - was already known to be attractive to customers 6 years ago. It was inevitable that, once computing hardware got small enough, someone would cram it into a device with that appearance. Does Apple deserve credit for being the first to do so? Yes, a bit. Do they deserve exclusive rights to use that form factor? Hell no.

A design patent does not claim ownership of the individual elements of the design, but rather rights over the specific combination of those multiple elements. So it is more accurate to say that Apple has claimed rights over devices that resemble an iPad in multiple ways, overall shape and proportions being only one of those.

It is quite clear that Apple created something. It is instructive to look at tablet design before and after iPad. Prior to the iPad, the overwhelming industry opinion was that pad devices were niche products with no large consumer market, and that consumers far preferred netbooks. That opinion was not without basis. Multiple attempts by multiple companies to develop a pad device had failed.

The iPhone similarly challenged conventional wisdom and completely transformed cell phone design. Yet now, multiple manufacturers are simply insisting that it is impossible to think of a phone design that would appeal to consumers that did not look pretty much like Apple's design. Of course, before the iPhone, they thought exactly the same thing about Blackberry's design.

Apple's history of transforming consumer electronics extends back to their introduction of window-based GUIs for consumer computers. Any one device could be luck, but Apple has done it repeatedly. No single feature of any of those devices--the Mac, the Macbook Air, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad, can be reasonably said to be responsible for their success; rather, it is the particular combination. So the objections to Apple's design patents are much like insisting that a famous chef should not be renowned for his signature dish because he didn't invent beef, or garlic, or pepper.

Does patent or copyright law protect Apple's particular brand of creativity, which has repeatedly transformed the user experience of consumer electronics? Perhaps the law offers no real protection for this kind of creativity; I don't know. But there is certainly a reasonable argument that the law should encourage companies like Apple that genuinely innovate in the area of design, and that are willing to take huge financial risks in introducing designs that challenge the conventional wisdom.