Burn!!! I'm glad Windows apps never crash.
Well, not withstanding that all of the those old Windows crashes (which by the way, if you looked at them, were almost always ring-0/Device Driver crashes, caused by 3rd party hardware or device driver faults,) were fairly commonplace, they were pretty much wiped out by the time that Vista SP1 came out, with a full WDM library. Now, lately you might see a driver/hardware issue but its very rare these days (and also, again 3rd party,) and rarer still some outer ring crashes (although almost universally games, frequently doing something dumb with the GPU.)
I can't think of an application crash in a basic consumer application
actually written by Microsoft, like say, I.E. 10
I'd also like to think if they had tens or hundreds of thousands of people experiencing that issue in that admittedly critical application, they might actually do something to fix it, within 4-5 years.
iOS's author, Apple, (apparently) think different.
Not my solution. Apple's. Good dig though!
I didn't say iCloud was your solution to not having Safari crash. That was, indeed Apples solution. It follows however, that if there is this issue common enough for iOS that half a million views are on a single thread, that iCloud isn't a full solution to PC-free syncing on iOS. If
Apple says disable iCloud how can you sync/backup/restore etc to an iOS device without iTunes?
The goalposts are just teleporting everywhere at this point.
Its just an example of something I (and I'm sure many people) did last week. I'll repeat, can you do that with iCloud or Dropbox?
No, I was just looking for real numbers. Do you have them?
Net Appliances says 60 million in use. Which is right around the number of macs shipped total in the last 8 years. Its a sure bet that Mac OS X gets utterly eclipsed by the end of the year, and 95% probability by the end of the summer.
I didn't disagree. That's absolutely true. I just pointed that it wasn't really important, since you don't need a PC to sync or another iPhone to charge an iPhone.
But you CAN charge an iphone with a windows 8 pc or tablet. You CAN'T with another iphone (but this was really a piggy backed argument regarding my comment to someone else's fatuous statement) We're arguing different things. You're arguing you don't have to charge an iphone with a PC-- true. I'm arguing that you can both charge and performance syncing/maintenance tasks on a PC that you simply cannot do with iOS devices alone.
However and incidentally, if you had just two iOS devices, and no plug, you couldn't charge one or the other iOS device, but if you had an iOS device and a Windows 8 machine with a usb cable you could charge the iOS device.
I don't know why you think I'm under the impression that an iOS device can do everything a PC can do. I'm not. I am fully aware of the limitations of iOS and iOS hardware. I completely understand that a Windows 8 tablet has more functionality than than a tablet.
Understood. All I'm saying is that I'm very well aware that iOS can't do everything for itself, alone without the support of iTunes. Although 3rd party apps can help in some cases, that certainly doesn't mean all cases.
Yep. Dropbox, for example. Amazon Cloud Player. Google Play Music. Lots of options.
Separate issue... but he was talking about the lack of easy native file access via standard protocols to iOS devices. If you took a random hard drive with gigs of music on it, and wanted it on your iOS device you'd be very likely to need an intermediate pc to transfer said music.