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No iPhone For 64-Bit Windows
Mizled writes "After buying a new iPhone yesterday and bringing it home to sync and activate it, I found out that Windows 64-bit is not supported. Neither XP 64-bit nor Vista 64-bit works with the iPhone. I called the Apple support line and the rep said I needed to downgrade my computer from a 64-bit operating system. I also posted about my concerns on the Apple iPhone discussion forums, but my post was quickly removed."
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If you're stupid enough to pay $500.00 or more for Bling AND run Windows on your computer, you're too stupid to have money. So you might as well give it to one of Satan's many minions. My $40.00 cell phone does everything a cell phone needs to do and I could still use it if my only computer was Commodore 64.
Oops debunking a 64 bit platform in just 5 lines of text
Which leads me to believe that if they have a legitimate use for 64 bit Windows, they would have something like May3d or Photoshop up and running.
Which either means they shelled out a lot of money on computer hardware to listen to MP3s on a powerful work station or simply pirated everything anyways. If they intended to use this as a development platform for iPhone apps, I wondering what the heck for seeing you don't need a supercomputer to do so.
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Meanwhile, my Motorola V3 RAZR syncs just fine with Bluetooth, and cost me £100 over a year ago. ...yeah.
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
If it's any help, not mentioning the 64-bit requirements is, in that case, a mistake according to contract law. The contract of sale is voidable, meaning you can return the iPhone (with a good lawyer, it may even be fraud). It's a raw deal, I agree.
No fool...Windows is the hack OS. OS X is most clearly an UPGRADE compared to ANYTHING MS has to offer. Quit being a TOOL LIKE THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE IS. Obviously the asshat cant READ and COMPREHEND! The iPhone CLEARLY SAYS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH 64 BIT versions of Windows. Which is fine because NOTHING else in the Windows world support 64 BIT Software. It a real shame, the haters have to come out and make up shiat to biatch about the iPhone. Like stuff that is clearly listed as NOT COMPATIBLE. Thats why your posting was removed (author) your bitching about something they told you about...yet you still bitch. STFU and DIAF. So many TOOLS on the internet these days...and by tools , i mean asshats like the author here. Guess what it also doesnt support FORTRAN or CPM you farking tool.
. I love the sound of burning women and screaming rubber....
Dreamcatcher...Dont buy one...Apple doesnt give a crap...your not a 1% anyways. Thats the point this is Apple testing the market...and seeing as they SOLD ALL OF THEM...no worries their. While it may piss you off that they wont build by the specs you set....mainly because your specs dont matter. They built the phone that MILLIONS wanted. Lets see...you cant build your own apps for most cell phones anyways...idjit. so your points are pretty much moot. All cell phone makers lock down their phones....Where have you been living. You cannot right new apps for your blockberry, or for your Nokia. Oh you can right java crap but not actually access the phone functions. At least with the iPhone i can have my programmers write web based apps and they work. You want a totally open phone like you describe...well then go farking build it....let me know how that goes. yeah i know about the open linux phone...good luck with that......funny i havent yet seen one NOT ONE in use or sold or suppoerted by ANY cell phone provider. Man the trolls are out today. I got 3 iPhones (8GB) and they are the shiznitz. Does EXACTLY EVERYTHING as PROMISED. Its got to be killing you MS fanboys and apple haters. Wait til you see what apple stock does Monday morning. Split time babies, its a commin
. I love the sound of burning women and screaming rubber....
Your tactic of attempting to silence disagreement does nothing to answer the points I raised.
A lot of apps still aren't supporting 64 bit.
All the trolls are blaming Apple for this one. Where is that famous Windoze backward capability when a competitor needs it? M$ should have a way of supporting legacy 32 bit software. Instead, 3rd parties have stepped up to the plate with virutlization and emulation. Shame on the M$ treadmill.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Everything except my logitech webcam works in 64-bit XP. BTW, games that can take advantage of the 64-bit environment (like ut2k4 and others) will smoke their 32-bit OS crippled versions any day. 800 FPS in 64-bit as opposed to a paltry ~85 FPS in 32 bit. No contest.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Just drop another 600 on another computer and use your iPhone with that, Daddy Warbucks.
Jesus I'm cranky today.
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