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iCloud to Auto-Resolve Sync Conflicts
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so if you make a new calendar event for a day you already have something to do but forgot it, it will erase the old one and you won't even know.
Automatic deletion of your contacts/calendar/anything is plain stupid, apple. At least a notice should be given when it happens!
Heh, see my signature. John Gruber is a joke. He's some Apple fanatic who started a blog and had the audacity to charge people for it, and somehow became successful. He just pulls this stuff out of his ass, I'm not sure why anyone takes him seriously.
People seem to forget that mobile me is still working and pushing calanders all day long. This kind of schedule conflict entry simply doesn't happen to me because I would never schedule myself for two things at once.
The much bigger issue is when you quickly change a large amount of data (such as deleting a calander, group of contacts, several bookmarks or notes) the same conflict window appears on the Mac forcing you to confirm those changes before syncing can continue.
Is Apple going to address that too?
The much bigger issue is when you quickly change a large amount of data (such as deleting a calander, group of contacts, several bookmarks or notes) the same conflict window appears on the Mac forcing you to confirm those changes before syncing can continue.
Is Apple going to address that too?
Can iCloud Handle the Truth?
Versioning for contacts and calendar would be a great feature, even if it only goes back a few months.
Fields recently updated by sync such as name and address should be highlighted and a tap and hold could invoke a display of the versions. As long as the versions can be viewed and updated from any device, even the small-screened iPhone, I'd say that iCloud can handle the truth.
Versioning for contacts and calendar would be a great feature, even if it only goes back a few months.
Fields recently updated by sync such as name and address should be highlighted and a tap and hold could invoke a display of the versions. As long as the versions can be viewed and updated from any device, even the small-screened iPhone, I'd say that iCloud can handle the truth.
Charge people for it? It's hard to take YOU seriously with a false statement like that.
Aside from mentioning sponsors once in a while (in plain text), there are no ads on his blog and the content is free to access. His RSS feed contains the whole posts instead of truncated versions most sites offer.
As for your signature, I don't remember him saying/writing that having access to a list of notification from anywhere in the OS was a bad thing.
I do remember him saying something about the little notification icons accumulating in the status bar in Android to be annoying, and guess what, these are not in the iOS 5 implementation.
Apple didn't have much choice when it came to add the trigger mechanism to access the notification center. Tell me, what should Apple have used as a trigger? Triple click the home button? Pinch with three finger? Let me guess, you won't answer this one and instead spend the whole post bashing me for defending Gruber on this.
I do cringe sometimes about some of the things Gruber says and write, but I think that for the most part he gets what the real motivation behind some of the controversial decisions Apple makes while many others just shout "Evil! Evil!" without even trying to understand why Apple does what it does.
I read Gruber every once in a while and have heard him multiple times on TWiT and he's usually very level headed and a lot of times one of the only voices of reason. I would definitely not call him an Apple fanatic.
I'm sure the guy you're writing to will never reply. Obviously Gruber was talking about different parts of Android's notifications UI. As far as cringing from Gruber's blog, I just wish he would leave out his political views. I enjoy his opinions on Apple, but I think he has the worst political opinions/affiliations in the world.
That is what Steve Jobs means when he says "The Truth is in the Cloud." iTunes will decide which one is right and that's it. iCloud will push that right one to any device that has this account that has a different version.
--> Wow, that quote sure has a religious touch to it... and ties in remarkably well with a recent note about Apple-followers here:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/apple-stimulates-brains-religious-responses-claims-bbc-50003807/
I will follow, the truth and nothing but the truth... should be good provided a revert option
--> Wow, that quote sure has a religious touch to it... and ties in remarkably well with a recent note about Apple-followers here:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/apple-stimulates-brains-religious-responses-claims-bbc-50003807/
I will follow, the truth and nothing but the truth... should be good provided a revert option
Thats why!!! Thank you so much! lol not kidding here you're a life saver, my events were all duplicated and only half my contacts were synced, disabled iCloud everything is good now, I was blaming the last dev update.
Nothing gets deleted it gets versioned. So you can go back and get the removed part. As everything is still in a version not deleted the system can be more aggressive about stripping doulbe ups.
Calendars are a really bad example to me. A doulbe up there requires the truth to be created by the user considering the options then dealing with fall out.
For most others situations the versions will work to our advantage. This is where developer need to play their part in the chain. Deciding which way to deal.
You ask that question like you don't trust the turtle-necked one to know what's the truth for you? Have faith, young grasshopper.
Everyone should listen to The Talk Show #46
http://audio.5by5.tv/broadcasts/talkshow/2011/talkshow-046.mp3
John Gruber has some really interesting thoughts on where Apple is headed.
http://audio.5by5.tv/broadcasts/talkshow/2011/talkshow-046.mp3
John Gruber has some really interesting thoughts on where Apple is headed.
Ok, let's look back then at what Gruber said and you said in 2010.
Gruber's iPhone 4 rumors
And where you replied with the same "Gruber is always wrong" rant: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/9523217/
So, let me ask you this time. If the auto-resolve sync conflicts thing turns out to be true will you add gruber to your reliable rumors list, or are you just going to keep ranting about us publishing his rumors?
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Anyone with a developer account can see he's a little bit off this time:
http://developer.apple.com/library/...General/WhatsNewIniPhoneOS/Articles/iOS5.html
See "Handling File-Version Conflicts," particularly the sentence starting "However, if..." followed by "For example,"
Yep.
It may be that all the built-in apps behave like gruber says - that would fit within the framework explained therein. I think Gruber was describing the idealized scenario contemplated in the document I refer to, but ignoring the "but, that might not work, so do this..." scenario also described there. I'd bet even the built-in apps, under the right scenarios, will be forced to behave in the way this document describes.
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Me going all day without getting a raging erection from people getting told what's what on MacRumors - 0
Just sayin'
Me going all day without getting a raging erection from people getting told what's what on MacRumors - 0
Just sayin'
that could work. but are you sure that's the way it works? apple doesn't hesitate to delete your stuff just like that. An example is the iTunes sync.
I like the way apple syncs our media etc via itunes, but a little more freedom would be nice... For example to copy stuff from iphone to the pc, not just from the pc to the iphone...
Not sure why this is a big deal for Apple.
My blackberry (outlook server) sync worked fine.
outlook has delegates, sharing etc. plus in a work environment where literally 100s of people will be making appointments with you in various timezones (whilst you travel). Never a conflict that I need to resolve
This is one instance that it should "just work".
I don't know how people put up with mobile me.
My blackberry (outlook server) sync worked fine.
outlook has delegates, sharing etc. plus in a work environment where literally 100s of people will be making appointments with you in various timezones (whilst you travel). Never a conflict that I need to resolve
This is one instance that it should "just work".
I don't know how people put up with mobile me.
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