I was reading on another forum that someone said that iPhone users have an advantage if you use a Mac. I will eventually be upgrading to a Mac, but for right now, my Dell laptop is suiting me just fine. When I do get my iphone, what disadvantages will I suffer by using the Iphone with a Dell? Or, what advantages does having a Mac do for iPhone users?
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Disadvantages of iphone without Mac?
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In which then it is solved by the free Audacity for Windows users.
There is no disadvantage. I've used t on both operating systems and the only disadvantage is that Windows....is Windows.
I have a PC as well and be getting the 3g iPhone on July 11. I'm glad I won;t be missing out on too much while I save for my first mac..... I really wanted to get the SDK too and mess around with that (even though I would have NO IDEA what I was doing), but until then my only Apple product will be the 3g iPhone.....unfortunately
Actually, it looks like MobileMe is now going to be useable with PC's.
http://www.apple.com/mobileme/features/pc.html
Actually, mobileme is available to PC users aswell, now that the applications are web based, there is no problem.
That correct, every import can be sorted into a 'event' (puts those photo's into a event and organises them a lilttle better.
No big advantages over OS X or Windows, just both work with the iPhone perfect, no problems. I dual boot my macs just incase. Although mac formatted iPods only work on a mac, whereas windows formatted iPods are suitable for Mac or Windows, might not be that barrier with a iPhone though.
Yes, I think it's quite the other way around -- before the iPhone, the only phones that really got along excellently with OS X were the ones with official iSync support. PocketMac and MissingSync were both at least occasionally troublesome, not to mention that you generally had to pay for them.
So it's less that iPhone users have an advantage with the Mac than Mac users have an advantage with the iPhone, because it's the most featureful device with full OS X support, and it's tied in to more things on your Mac than any other phone ever has been before.
True, its tied into...
Bookmarks
Email Accounts
Contact list
Music
Pictures
Videos
Syncing these with a click of a button, although importing photo's is another click away.
You will be gaining one big advantage switching to the Mac: OS X (and dual boot Windows, if you still feel like it).
Ahh, didn't know, already like imported all music and stuff into mac itunes, havent use windows itunes with my iPhone for a while now.
I recently switched to Mac.
I don't remember on windows, do you have the groups option in your phonebook on the iPhone?
I don't remember on windows, do you have the groups option in your phonebook on the iPhone?
Nope no groups. Although I can set them on Address book, it doesnt apply itself to the iPhone.
Been on Mac for about three months now and the only real thing I hated on Windows is you could only sync your main calandar, on Mac you can sync all of them and with the 2.0 release the iPhone will (at last) have the categories colour coded. By the look of mobileme the calendar sync on Windows will also be fixed.