I'm trying to sync up my movies but when I do iTunes asks if I'm sure I want to delete all my apps from my pad. WTH?
I've only synced the pad on one computer although tunes thinks I have 4 authorized computers (don't know how to delete the others). I only have one account though.
Thanks for the replies. Some more info. All of the apps were downloaded and installed on the pad so iTunes didn't have them. I've only synced the pad on one computer although tunes thinks I have 4 authorized computers (don't know how to delete the others). I only have one account though.
You get a maximum of five. When you hit the limit the only options are to deauthorize ... you can deauthorize all computers from within your iTunes account and start over.
This is not a "user" problem, it's an outdated, "dumbed-down" method of iTunes master control over the way you use your media. Five years ago, when iTunes on your machine was your music "source," and a click-wheel iPoad that you connected was a device you used to listed to SOME of that music... then it made sense. Not on a new iPad.
The iPad is a self-contained computer, and it should not be linked to an iTunes mother ship by default. for ANY of its content, unless I specifically set a preference to synch. There's no logical reason I'd want iTunes to control the backup of my Apps. Tighter synch control makes sense on an iPod. It's just an external hard drive. This is a stupid option, targeted to the low-hanging fruit of the Apple consumer audience that knows where the play button is, and little else.
It would be like me "plugging in" my iMac to my PowerBook, and expecting all my apps to synch on those two machines. No reason for it whatsoever.
Well, actually this is your opinion of how you think it should work. And you're probably right. But the iPad isn't a self-contained computer as far as Apple is concerned; it's a sub-computer - large and capable, but very much requiring a 'mothership'.
I got an iPad for my mother to 'replace' her ageing desktop. It more or less does - and she uses it considerably more than she ever did the desktop itself. But occasionally she has to sync it, and occasionally she has to print formatted stuff the iPad won't do yet. The iPad then is an 'extension' of the hub computer - a (non-dumb but 'thin'ish) terminal that gets the majority of use.
I'm hoping that just this generation of iPad - and I expect probably the next too - will be seen as 'transitional' computers, semi-independent.
I hope that in two years' time, say, your model for iPad as a potentially independent device with the option to back up on a PC/Mac will indeed be the new model.
I don't uderstand this approach either. If I replace my old laptop with a new one, I need to wipe out everything on my iPad and start over when I sync? What's that about? Who thinks that is a good idea?This is not a "user" problem, it's an outdated, "dumbed-down" method of iTunes master control over the way you use your media. Five years ago, when iTunes on your machine was your music "source," and a click-wheel iPoad that you connected was a device you used to listed to SOME of that music... then it made sense. Not on a new iPad.
The iPad is a self-contained computer, and it should not be linked to an iTunes mother ship by default. for ANY of its content, unless I specifically set a preference to synch. There's no logical reason I'd want iTunes to control the backup of my Apps. Tighter synch control makes sense on an iPod. It's just an external hard drive. This is a stupid option, targeted to the low-hanging fruit of the Apple consumer audience that knows where the play button is, and little else.
It would be like me "plugging in" my iMac to my PowerBook, and expecting all my apps to synch on those two machines. No reason for it whatsoever.
If I replace my old laptop with a new one, I need to wipe out everything on my iPad and start over when I sync? What's that about?
If I replace my old laptop with a new one, I need to wipe out everything on my iPad and start over when I sync? What's that about? Who thinks that is a good idea?
It's Apple's approach to DRM (digital rights management) that causes this issue. A long time ago, when Shawn Fanning was in court over Napster, I'm sure Steve Jobs had a "lightbulb over the head" moment. All music is going digital, so if you can control it, and (mostly) control illicit use of it = gold mine.
The solution seems simple: offer the option to sync from the iPad to the PC instead of just from the PC to the iPad. What's so difficult for Apple to do that?Well, when you get your new laptop, you just copy over your entire /iTunes/* directory, then log into iTunes.
It will remember your devices, settings, backups, etc.
Do I think it's a good idea? Frankly, no. I would rather have all of my data stored up in the cloud triple encrypted, and geographically redundant on multiple continents in case of earth quakes, flooding, volcanos, tornados, tidal wave, typhoons, or meteors.
My local gear: servers, desktops, laptops, phones, media players, tablets, etc. would hold cached copies of the cloud data and keep everything in sync silently in the background.
When I die, my "Data Will" would specify which sections of my data would be partitioned and copied to my heirs cloud store. Any DRM or crypto codes would be re-applied to allow my heir to access the data. (If I die right now, I can bequeath my Books, CD collection, or DVD collection to an heir legally -- why can't I do this with my iTunes Books, Songs, Movies, and Apps?)
Anyway, that's the way I think it should work!
I don't uderstand this approach either. If I replace my old laptop with a new one, I need to wipe out everything on my iPad and start over when I sync? What's that about? Who thinks that is a good idea?