I say this as an iPhone user, I'm not sure why it is commonly accepted that Apple provides this perfect user experience.
Repeatedly my iPhone has been wiped when connecting to iTunes. I've lost save data on games, photos, videos, contact information, etc.
I could in theory have contacts in groups, but there is no way in the interfact to add a contact to a group. I have to pay for a third party app to handle this for me.
I can't do basic things like add new SMS tones.
I tried importing contacts from a Yahoo account, a Gmail account, and Exchange. All failed. I can't edit my address book by typing at a computer. I have to very slowly type entries in via the phone.
iTunes is one of the worst pieces of software I've ever used. I see UI problems galore.
And the few times I've sat at a Mac to try and fix them for friends, Finder has driven me up a wall.
Can we instead say that Apple provides an alternative for those who prefer it? I don't buy how Apple is perfect and a superior user experience.
I have never had my phone wiped by connecting to iTunes and I have been using one for 4 years..I have imported contacts successfully imported contacts from every service you mentioned following absurdly simple on screen prompts.
iTunes is not their best work, but is far superior to Windows Media 1-99 (whatever version we are up to now).
Honestly your post looks like someone who was set in their ways and simply unwilling to do things differently. For most people without such a predisposition, they do provide a better experience. This is proven out by their success and absurdly high customer satisfaction ratings.
Any who could clean or repair such a device without damaging it, could quite easily get around this screw. This is a complete non-issue to 99.999% of the people on earth. 99.99 of whom could care less,.9% of whom actually want to open it and can, and.001% are morons who are not nearly as smart as they think they are.
You are to open it with a pentalobular screw driver. (Of course if you are in the US it is still a Phillips). If you are unable to find the appropriate screw driver, you may reconsider opening your phone because you are so far from qualified, you could not find it with a map.
Actually it objectively has significantly higher user satisfaction ratings then any phone on the market. It objectively has a much healthier app ecosystem than any other mobile device on the market. It is support by a much better media ecosystem (to everyone but slashdot nerds who think torrenting movies and copying to an sd card is the way to go).
It is in fact an objectively better smart phone than any other device on the market. Are there phones that may have this feature or that feature the iPhone does not have, sure..Are they better? No, not a single one of them provides a better User experience.
From a company standpoint, not a single competitors smartphone is even in the same Universe of straight up sales or profitability.
Objectively the iPhone still has no competition...Sure if you want to call 19 manufacturers giving away Android phones to build Marketshare competition go ahead. In the real world, everyone knows that is just a load of crap. If they had asked, Verizon would have dumped all of them just to be able to sell an iPhone..(This would obviously cause Apple some legal trouble, so they did not ask. ) If you think any carrier on earth would give up their iPhone sales to carry any or even all Android phones, you know very little about the Mobile market.
None of this is relevant to the conversation, you tried to sidetrack us with an ill-advised offhanded comment. For whatever reason, Apple does need Jobs. Could Tim Cook keep it moving in the right direction? Maybe. I for one do not believe he has the personality to stand up against brilliant engineers and tell them they can not clutter up the devices. Without Jobs Apple becomes Sony, and then no one gives a shit about any of their products.
It is not a particularly good long term strategy. With a solid strategy you could manage it technically over a day or two, but 95% of the people who even bother to try will lose big.
Point to a single objective account that indicates he is a terrible person (as he suggests). I know you are a mindless troll, but this is fun, and easy...
This is the part where you make another smart-ass comment, but never at any point will you provide a link.
Your cute,someone else using words they think sound important and trying to pretend like they understand the stock market. Unfortunately, wither or not a stock pays dividends has nothing at all to do with it being a solid investment or a speculative investment.
I imagine you don't do a lot of stock analysis and you both dislike Apple and read somewhere the stock was overpriced. Unfortunately for you most actual analysis would agree that given Apple's expected growth over the next 12 months, the stock is significantly undervalued.
Nice try though. You even used a snazzy catch phrase like "cult of personality"
No, but it is funny when people like you try to put words into his mouth. He actually makes very little in the way of forward looking statements about what people need. Apple will discuss the CPU in the next iPhone when it is actually for sale..
If you are running a PowerPC there is very very little in NEW Commercial software you can buy anyway....
I imagine anyone who was intentionally writing software to run on the PowerPC (They would actually have to be doing it on purpose now), would know not to use the app store as their sole method of distribution...
Did you actually say there are no technical reasons for not supporting 10.6 on PowerPC?
It is a lot more than a recompile. How long do you expect Apple (and apparently everyone else) to continue to write new code for old hardware? Contrary to your statement there are countless technical reasons for not supporting 10.6 on PowerPC....
You can freely re-download any apps on your itunes account all you want. It would be nice if you could do it all wirelessly, but since you still have to activate through itunes, it does in fact happen transparently.
Your assertion that Apple would not ever let you re-download paid apps for free is simply false.
Slashdot Mirror
And if you can't figure out where to get them, you are simply not qualified to muck around inside your phone and should just say thank you :)
I say this as an iPhone user, I'm not sure why it is commonly accepted that Apple provides this perfect user experience.
Repeatedly my iPhone has been wiped when connecting to iTunes. I've lost save data on games, photos, videos, contact information, etc.
I could in theory have contacts in groups, but there is no way in the interfact to add a contact to a group. I have to pay for a third party app to handle this for me.
I can't do basic things like add new SMS tones.
I tried importing contacts from a Yahoo account, a Gmail account, and Exchange. All failed. I can't edit my address book by typing at a computer. I have to very slowly type entries in via the phone.
iTunes is one of the worst pieces of software I've ever used. I see UI problems galore.
And the few times I've sat at a Mac to try and fix them for friends, Finder has driven me up a wall.
Can we instead say that Apple provides an alternative for those who prefer it? I don't buy how Apple is perfect and a superior user experience.
I have never had my phone wiped by connecting to iTunes and I have been using one for 4 years..I have imported contacts successfully imported contacts from every service you mentioned following absurdly simple on screen prompts.
iTunes is not their best work, but is far superior to Windows Media 1-99 (whatever version we are up to now).
Honestly your post looks like someone who was set in their ways and simply unwilling to do things differently. For most people without such a predisposition, they do provide a better experience. This is proven out by their success and absurdly high customer satisfaction ratings.
pardon me the middle category should have been .009 ;)
Any who could clean or repair such a device without damaging it, could quite easily get around this screw. This is a complete non-issue to 99.999% of the people on earth. 99.99 of whom could care less, .9% of whom actually want to open it and can, and .001% are morons who are not nearly as smart as they think they are.
You are to open it with a pentalobular screw driver. (Of course if you are in the US it is still a Phillips). If you are unable to find the appropriate screw driver, you may reconsider opening your phone because you are so far from qualified, you could not find it with a map.
I typed in a hurry. My grammatical errors do not make the GP any better informed about the stock market.
Yeah you were wrong, but an Apple hater had mod points.
Actually it objectively has significantly higher user satisfaction ratings then any phone on the market. It objectively has a much healthier app ecosystem than any other mobile device on the market. It is support by a much better media ecosystem (to everyone but slashdot nerds who think torrenting movies and copying to an sd card is the way to go).
It is in fact an objectively better smart phone than any other device on the market. Are there phones that may have this feature or that feature the iPhone does not have, sure..Are they better? No, not a single one of them provides a better User experience.
From a company standpoint, not a single competitors smartphone is even in the same Universe of straight up sales or profitability.
Objectively the iPhone still has no competition...Sure if you want to call 19 manufacturers giving away Android phones to build Marketshare competition go ahead. In the real world, everyone knows that is just a load of crap. If they had asked, Verizon would have dumped all of them just to be able to sell an iPhone..(This would obviously cause Apple some legal trouble, so they did not ask. ) If you think any carrier on earth would give up their iPhone sales to carry any or even all Android phones, you know very little about the Mobile market.
None of this is relevant to the conversation, you tried to sidetrack us with an ill-advised offhanded comment. For whatever reason, Apple does need Jobs. Could Tim Cook keep it moving in the right direction? Maybe. I for one do not believe he has the personality to stand up against brilliant engineers and tell them they can not clutter up the devices. Without Jobs Apple becomes Sony, and then no one gives a shit about any of their products.
It is not a particularly good long term strategy. With a solid strategy you could manage it technically over a day or two, but 95% of the people who even bother to try will lose big.
Woz still regularly professes his undying love for the man... I doubt you would ever get Woz to say he is a terrible person...
Point to a single objective account that indicates he is a terrible person (as he suggests). I know you are a mindless troll, but this is fun, and easy...
This is the part where you make another smart-ass comment, but never at any point will you provide a link.
Your cute ,someone else using words they think sound important and trying to pretend like they understand the stock market. Unfortunately, wither or not a stock pays dividends has nothing at all to do with it being a solid investment or a speculative investment.
You should by a second book...
I imagine you don't do a lot of stock analysis and you both dislike Apple and read somewhere the stock was overpriced. Unfortunately for you most actual analysis would agree that given Apple's expected growth over the next 12 months, the stock is significantly undervalued.
Nice try though. You even used a snazzy catch phrase like "cult of personality"
No, but it is funny when people like you try to put words into his mouth. He actually makes very little in the way of forward looking statements about what people need. Apple will discuss the CPU in the next iPhone when it is actually for sale..
Has worked for me since I got my 3GS, only did not work on original iPhone because it was Edge. Has always worked on 3G+
No less then 5 times a day on a weekday , the average is over 10 I am sure.
err 4.0->4.2 on 3GS
99% of the worlds population prefers the walled garden, antenna-gate was always a load of BS, and there was never a problem with 4.2 on the 3GS.
So I guess other than the fact that you made up all your problems, I agree with you.
You will eat a statistically significant percentage of your words tomorrow :)
If you are running a PowerPC there is very very little in NEW Commercial software you can buy anyway....
I imagine anyone who was intentionally writing software to run on the PowerPC (They would actually have to be doing it on purpose now), would know not to use the app store as their sole method of distribution...
Except of course Snow Leopard was a bigger upgrade to core functionality than Windows has experienced shince 95->XP.
Neato try though.
Did you actually say there are no technical reasons for not supporting 10.6 on PowerPC?
It is a lot more than a recompile. How long do you expect Apple (and apparently everyone else) to continue to write new code for old hardware? Contrary to your statement there are countless technical reasons for not supporting 10.6 on PowerPC....
You can freely re-download any apps on your itunes account all you want. It would be nice if you could do it all wirelessly, but since you still have to activate through itunes, it does in fact happen transparently.
Your assertion that Apple would not ever let you re-download paid apps for free is simply false.
From reading the comments, you and I are the only ones to RTFA. I believe EFF has leaped off the deep end.
Last month was my last check to the EFF. It appears they are firmly entrenched in the world of paranoid conspiracy theory now.
LTR Patent FTW..