Apple's Retail Stores Running Dry of AirPort and Time Capsule Stocks?

[JKColo22]

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Great. 6 months after I finally get my home VPN running, Apple comes out with iCloud connected airport.

 

[r00fus]

Of note: In Lion, AirPort is branded as "Wi-Fi." You don't see AirPort anywhere. Maybe they're rebranding the base stations as well?

They have way too much brand "Air" pollution (Airport Extreme, Airport Express, Airport Extreme Base Station, Airplay, Airdrop, Air Tunes, Macbook Air, etc.)

Dropping "Airport" from what is actually a wifi radio (name didn't make sense to me on the Macs) would make sense. I see the "airport" as the router/hub, not the laptop/planes connecting.

 

[MattInOz]

Can't believe no one else mentioned this. Isn't it possible that Apple will just try to move people away from the time capsule, and move it to the cloud. Economy of scale makes it much cheaper for them to just own massive hardrives and sell us space.

This is definitely the future of backups. I already store my pics and music on Amazon's cloud drive, and my documents on Google Documents.

A better concept to me at least would to for Apple to move to a system that is as much in the cloud as it's here with me. So your Time capsule is part of a storage system not unlike Amazon's Elastic, but it has one box ie. Time Capsule that has a least one copy of everything including previous versions but only has your stuff, while the wider cloud might have a copy bits and pieces everywhere and has lots of peoples stuff. As this box is low power it would always be no and generally accessible.

 

[rikscha]

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As I said before, I've been waiting for a time capsule nas iTunes streaming icloud server.

 

[mex4eric]

A5

Hope it will be A5 powered. My Airport Extremes have always run very hot. My first one failed by becoming erratic in use of USB port, never provable to Apple, so I replaced it at full price and have been happy since and bought another for another location, also running perfectly. Excess heat is not good for some electronics.

Have also recommended to others having problems with their non-Apple routers.

 

[nutmac]

Of note: In Lion, AirPort is branded as "Wi-Fi." You don't see AirPort anywhere. Maybe they're rebranding the base stations as well?

I don't think so. iOS devices have called Wi-Fi as "Wi-Fi" from day 1. It's all about consistency.

 

[Cydonia]

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The app store already does this for you. If you have paid for an app, you can download it again for free as long as you use the same account on tje app store. This also works across multiple devices using the same account ;-)

 

[RalfTheDog]

Wonder if they'll add some kind of iCloud functionality? What else would they add?

RAID. I have been pushing for Apple to include RAID on Time Capsule for years. Sometimes you need to backup more than one HD can fit, and what good is a backup if you don't have redundancy on your backup device. I am hoping for 0+1 at a minimum. It does not need to be fast, just big and safe.

Good luck keeping a high load multiple connection on your Linksys. There is a good reason the Airport Extreme costs as much as it does: it works.

Say thank you to the tons of Airport RAM.

This is probably just wishful thinking on my part, but what if for example: my nephew were to delete an app from my iPad, rather than have to plug in my device to a computer and have to restore from a back-up to not only get the app back but also it's data, I could just activate Time Machine on my iOS device and bring back this one app within seconds.

++ That is brilliant! I like the idea of being able to roll back to previous versions of documents.

I was under the impression that a HD attached to the Airport Extreme would be visible to all the network, not just the one Mac that sets it up. More fool me.

The question is why did Apple suggest to me that it would do all that when I bought it and more emphatically, why is it taking so long to make the obvious work?

That sounds like you are having sharing issues. Check passwords.

Time Capsule has been horrible, I say that because I was considering to get one, but found that a lot of people were reporting it dying within 6-12months.. I don't know if Apple fixed the issues or not..

I have had several running for quite some time. My big issue is, running a HD 24/7. It would be nice if it had a flash drive for buffering and only started up the main drives when it needed to. Unfortunately, that would cost too much.

The app store already does this for you. If you have paid for an app, you can download it again for free as long as you use the same account on tje app store. This also works across multiple devices using the same account

That only works for apps, not data stored in apps.

 

[0007776]

This is probably just wishful thinking on my part, but what if for example: my nephew were to delete an app from my iPad, rather than have to plug in my device to a computer and have to restore from a back-up to not only get the app back but also it's data, I could just activate Time Machine on my iOS device and bring back this one app within seconds.

I think you can do that already. Just make sure you are logged in to the same account you bought it from and you can download it again from the app store. It works on my iPad at least.

 

[Nightarchaon]

Here is hoping for a time capsule that's actual got adequate cooling and doesn't fry itself after 18months of use.

 

[RalfTheDog]

I think you can do that already. Just make sure you are logged in to the same account you bought it from and you can download it again from the app store. It works on my iPad at least.

As I said above, that works great for the app, however, the data related to the app is what has real value.

 

[linked.account]

Maybe due to support for iCloud

I guess the new version of those products is going to support iCloud in some way.... So the refresh seems reasonable.

 

[CplBadboy]

Yes! Hopefully everyones predictions about it incorporating an iTunes server are true. Only yesterday I was thinking that as leaving my computer on just doesnt seem the best option.

And please whatever they do get away from the horrible white. Nice aluminium / black combo please like the Macmini and a nice black for the AEX! White id for washing machines and dishwashers.

 

[Palad1]

Makes perfect sense, I bought an airport extreme base station two weeks ago...

The curse of

 

[Nomadski]

Heres hoping a new AE has better firmware than the current crappy one. Ive never had a product before where firmware updates actually makes the product WORSE.

For some reason Apple decided from the previous FW to the current one to make Time Machine backups to a QNAP NAS completely fail time after time.

 

[Ubuntu]

Good luck keeping a high load multiple connection on your Linksys. There is a good reason the Airport Extreme costs as much as it does: it works.

Pretty certain that not everyone on these forums has it and their internet still works.

 

[macsmurf]

RAID. I have been pushing for Apple to include RAID on Time Capsule for years. Sometimes you need to backup more than one HD can fit, and what good is a backup if you don't have redundancy on your backup device. I am hoping for 0+1 at a minimum. It does not need to be fast, just big and safe.

I just have a Linux server in the closet running Raid and LVM. That means i cn just add new hard drives on the fly if one fails or if need more space.

It has two 1 TB hard disks mirrored and it cost about half of an Time Capsule. ...And of course it works with Time Machine

It's not as pretty, though.

 

[old-school]

Just bought one of these last weekend. Do they have a returns policy for these like they do the macbooks?!

Well worth the money though, they're really robust.

 

[carl62]

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They could be adding an ADSL router so it works better around the globe. In Europe at least ADSL is the still the most common connection method. The only thing that has put me and many people off an AEBS so far is the lack of modem meaning we have to use a separate modem (and have 2 pieces of equipment).

 

[GoodWatch]

What I would like is an Apple engineered and designed 'all-in-one' NAS-like device, comparable with e.g. Synology's offerings. With perhaps a simplified OSX server edition running it. To provide for plug-and-play home server functionality, TimeCapsule and an access point. Sculpted from aluminium of course. Awww.

 

[macnisse]

I wouldn't mind having all my docs, pics, vids and backups (incl bootable hds?) in one place in the cloud. Having to rely on several servies today, too scattered... hoping that Apple may add a twist that can outperform google/chrome, ms skydrive, dropbox et al. Perhaps steve will shed some light for us on Monday

 

[WickedStealthy]

Waiting to see the airport express being updated for dual band support sim.
Being able to use vlans.
Current ones are very nice when used as ap in my gigabit nw.
Timecapsule is nice but will probably not support gigabit trunking like the synologys. Itunes server however would be nice and not only for streaming but it would be nice to sync your ipad etc to it. So no need to connect it to your pc or mac

 

[plumosa]

My AEBS has always run *extremely* hot. So I predict that, if they keep all the product lines separate, the AEBS will been smaller and in aluminum.


Ideally they would integrate all three, keep the same size, but put it in metal. This, of course, would be lots of money; but I think the ease of it all would be worth it.

 

[animatedude]

i don't want to use a DSL router from my ISP AND Time Capsule...i want to use only one.they should release a Time Capsule with a DSL modem built in..which will never happen i think.

 

[ajyates]

Airport Express update

I would really love an update to the Airport Express adapter. It seems like one of the products in the Apple range that has been most ignored, despite a big push towards AirPlay functionality. If they created a new, smaller, cheaper audio-only AirPlay plug, and heavily marketed it, I think they could make a killing! So many people have iOS devises now, to be able to throw audio around the house would be fabulous. And while I know you can already do this with the current model, £83 is way too high a price to pay, especially when the Apple TV is only £18 more.