It may be a bit alarmist, but if alarm rings too late then it's too late. There issues with Yosemite, issues with icloud, issues with iOS 8. I personally seen "blue screen of death" several times when iPhone suddenly rebooted, and it never happened to me before since iOS 3.
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iCloud Development Held Up By 'Deep Organizational Issues' at Apple
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It may be a bit alarmist, but if alarm rings too late then it's too late. There issues with Yosemite, issues with icloud, issues with iOS 8. I personally seen "blue screen of death" several times when iPhone suddenly rebooted, and it never happened to me before since iOS 3.
Had an interesting experience at an Apple Store recently. Dropped by and asked a genius if he could explain iCloud Photo Library to me a little better and in particular what would happen if I switched it on, when I'm relying on Photostream right now to upload my iPhone pics over to my iMac and save them automatically in iPhoto.
He really couldn't help much. Said since it was a beta, he wasn't trained on it at all and couldn't really explain much of anything to me about it.
He did take time to lecture me that by having a shared iTunes account with my wife, I'm basically stealing all the apps we share.
He really couldn't help much. Said since it was a beta, he wasn't trained on it at all and couldn't really explain much of anything to me about it.
He did take time to lecture me that by having a shared iTunes account with my wife, I'm basically stealing all the apps we share.
And...? It's all exactly how I feel about things, and there's a lot of ridiculous ignorance out there.
Why would you need to delete a photo from Photostream and Recently Deleted? You don't have to worry about those; just let them auto-delete on their own timeline -- unless the photo is something really scandalous and you want to remove all traces of it immediately? (and how often does that scenario come up for your mom?
for someone that has a 16GB model, and takes pics all the time, space is precious.
mom was diagnosed with OCD. she deletes .txt files off of the 2x4TB PC because she thinks it'll make the hard drive lighter. so many things wrong with that sentence, but its true.
iCloud Development Held Up By 'Deep Organizational Issues' at Apple
I said it many times and I'll say it again. Blame Edy Cue. He is the cause of all cloud related services.
Apple cloud and web services are big disappointment.
Just food for thought, Why adding new products need to bring down online Apple Store?
Amazon much more products to maintain and they never need to bring it down when introducing new product
I said it many times and I'll say it again. Blame Edy Cue. He is the cause of all cloud related services.
Apple cloud and web services are big disappointment.
Just food for thought, Why adding new products need to bring down online Apple Store?
Amazon much more products to maintain and they never need to bring it down when introducing new product
I have to agree with not wanting to be forced into using iTunes. I've gotten so used to drag and drop for videos in my other non-native apps, this is so frustrating - I've actually stopped doing it.
I just subscribe to Spotify now.
What issues with Yosemite have you seen? I have been a Beta tester since July. It has come a LONG way. I personally have not had to file a report for weeks now.
The last iOS sudden restart my iPhone had was shortly after the iOS7 release if memory serves. How frequent are the restarts? Which phone are you using? There may be more going on than the iOS version. Are you near an Apple Store that can examine it if needs be?
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He is prolific and I personally find he is generally making points I can agree with.
Google "Yosemite wifi issues". 10.10 was not fine, nor is 10.10.1
Right. Make the hardware un-upgradable so users will want/have to upgrade their machines every year or two.
What they did to the mini clearly illustrates that point. Here's a machine that was specifically engineered so the end user could pop the bottom off and upgrade their own memory. Now there's a plate in there with nonstandard screws so the user can't get in.
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He may not be perfect but at least he tasked out one of his people to respond to an email I sent him once. I am giving the guy a little more slack for now.
Was iCloud Drive all that you use iCloud for?
I get that people are having problems with the Drive functionality (compared to OneDrive/DropBox/etc), but for me, in addition to iCloud Drive, iCloud also does my iOS Backups, Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Safari bookmarks, Notes, Keychain, and Find My [Mac, iPod, iPhone].
Having come from the .Mac and MobileMe days, and as much as I wish iCloud Drive was mature enough be competing with OneDrive/DropBox, it's hard for me to be dismissive of iCloud as a whole just because of Drive.
For getting photos off iphone there's Image Capture app in Mac's App folder. Not an intuitive name to me so I also didn't discover that way of copying photos until some time later.
This.
I have one ID, that has never been changed since 2003, for iTunes, and my iCloud ID.
Done.
I do not understand why this is such a huge issue. For one user, sure. Perhaps. But for me, it allows multiple people in my family to buy apps and music, independently from using my iCloud ID and password.
That I prefer.
Had an interesting experience at an Apple Store recently. Dropped by and asked a genius if he could explain iCloud Photo Library to me a little better and in particular what would happen if I switched it on, when I'm relying on Photostream right now to upload my iPhone pics over to my iMac and save them automatically in iPhoto.
He really couldn't help much. Said since it was a beta, he wasn't trained on it at all and couldn't really explain much of anything to me about it.
He did take time to lecture me that by having a shared iTunes account with my wife, I'm basically stealing all the apps we share.
Sorry to hear about the lackluster experience. If that last part is something he actually said it should be brought to the attention of the manager since family sharing is now an iTunes feature last I checked.
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This is how I always remove photos from my phone. I have never liked loading pics to iPhoto.
You can't upload your own stuff easily....hmmmm (How hard is dropping a file in the iCloud Drive directory)
You can't share iCloud with other users....hmmmm (Try setting up Family Sharing)
Interesting solution. With the family sharing option this is less of an issue. I am considering giving some family members their own account and programming a limit on what they can spend. There are several good ways of managing accounts.
Apple doesn't put top priority in getting photos to sync correctly on iCloud because that's really not what their business model is about. Apple is all about getting, well, another bite of the Apple. If you buy music from itunes, they want you to buy more music from itunes. If you buy movies, they want you to buy more movies. Once people have bought space on iCloud, their revenue is done. Photos snapped from their iPhone won't make them more money.
In fact most of iCloud exists so people can accept either a 16 GB version of an iPhone or decide they want to fork over more money for more storage.
The good news is that Apple has no interest in your baby pictures. The bad news is that Apple has, well, no interest in your baby pictures ...
In fact most of iCloud exists so people can accept either a 16 GB version of an iPhone or decide they want to fork over more money for more storage.
The good news is that Apple has no interest in your baby pictures. The bad news is that Apple has, well, no interest in your baby pictures ...
You can't upload your own stuff easily....hmmmm (How hard is dropping a file in the iCloud Drive directory)
You can't share iCloud with other users....hmmmm (Try setting up Family Sharing)
It is that easy but it is also slower in my experience than Dropbox. Hopefully this is something that will improve in the coming months.
There's a very long thread on Apple forums and it was mentioned on macrumors also. The reason of blue/red screens is with flash memory controller as I remember which should IMO lead to recalling all affected devices (and as I understand all iphone 6 plus are affected), but my gut tells me Apple won't acknowledge it. It's keeping silence.
iPhone 6+, the more data you have there the more frequently it happens. After some "red screens of death" iPhone dies. I was lucky to get only blue. Also MacBook crashed a couple of times with an error screen in many languages when using Xcode with iPhone on iOS 8 (and that also never happened on earlier OS releases).
Not exactly.
iTunes is less stable and reliable than Plex, for instance. I have stopped using iTunes as a server for local content, because it drops out and often requires restarts, making the experience of using my ATV for local content sub-standard.
Instead, I just installed Plex Connect and now things are stable, if a bit awkward because of having to go to the Trailers tile to access it. Apple should just allow Plex on ATV, before it loses market share to more open set top boxes.
If it wasn't for Plex Connect, I would have kept the Nexus Player I just got and dumped my ATVs.
As for drag and drop, as in Android, it is easier. It should be an option for iOS as well, so that if someone wants to use iTunes, they can, but if other want the ease of drag and drop, they can use that.
"Move on" is hardly a good attitude for addressing legitimate complaints about an overly restrictive and complex system.
Works so far.
After my wife and I moved in together before we married, she just started using my iTunes account instead of hers and it sort of stuck.
Plus, we don't have kids yet. Once that come into the picture, then perhaps I'll move to a different model.
Agree with most of your list.
Yes, iCloud is getting worse than .Mac and MobileMe ever were.
When iCloud was first introduced at WWDC 2011 it was tight, worked, even though it was missing features previously offered, but the most important stuff worked.
Now with feature creep, it's unraveling again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfj7UgCMsqs
skip to 1:18:00 to see Steve introduce iCloud.
He's even making fun of MobileMe at 1:22:40.
Now the sync & reliability issues are back.
"deep organizational issue", p.c. speak for "we've really ********d this up this time"
3 strikes you're out Apple. I'm going back to manual sync and making my Macbook the hub again, syncing contacts, etc.. to my iPhone, iPods.
I've sold my iPad since I cannot put up with the nuisance that is iOS 8.
Cloud services from Microsoft OneDrive are stable on Mac & iPhone, so I'm getting my free 30GB and when I need it, I'll pay $2/month for 100GB or $5.75/month for 1TB. Best prices around and it just works.