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iPhone4 not compatible with tiger!?!?

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cwfrederick

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Oct 7, 2008
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was it common knowledge that leopard or snow leopard was required to sync the iphone 4? i was pretty pissed when i pulled an all-nighter, waited in line for 4 hours, and then find out when i get home that i can't even sync my new phone to an OS that's only two versions back. it does however support windows vista, 7, xp home, xp professional. i put up with a lot of apple stuff like this but this just seems overly absurd, and a big fu to apple users in particular.:mad:

(i'd get SL but my gd super drive on my white mb has gone out on me 3 times and i got sick of taking it in, and so of course my 3 years is up.)
 
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I had the same problem yesterday. I posted on here and just got told I should have checked before purchasing but everything I read about the phone didnt mention this at all! iphone4 supports all types of windows but no OS X!?! How is this possible? Im not a happy bunny at the moment.
Looks like im going to have to fork out another £30 to buy Leopard so I can get my phone working!
 
ChrisTX said:
Not only that but in this point in the game, who still runs Tiger?
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i ran tiger until about a week and a half ago....hah
yea it was made clear that it required 10.5+ in specs.
I don't know that I would have noticed though had i not wondered if my imac g5 was gonna be ok (since the new iphone is about as powerful) sure enough the g5 continues to rock! hah. leopard is as high as the power pc can go though....at some point i'm f'd and will have to buy my illusive imac (with blu ray)

and the window support is due to the fact xp is the most used window os and the newer ones of course will be supported....and there are a TON of windows users that apple is trying to convert with iphones and ipods!
 
i still think its total bs and a big f u to apple users. it should be a given that it works with tiger. and its kinda hard to read the box when its 5am in the morning and it hasnt been released yet. :mad:
 
cwfrederick said:
i still think its total bs and a big f u to apple users. it should be a given that it works with tiger. and its kinda hard to read the box when its 5am in the morning and it hasnt been released yet. :mad:
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not to be a jerk but i found it on the apple website the day of preordering. got a copy of leopard that wens. night. installed and got my imac opperational over the weekend and was ready by sunday night for the phone...then wens when fedex came by my office i was ready to roll. all of us with old computers need to think about this stuff. kinda like how firewire support is gone with all of the 3g phones....i've got multiple fire wire things from ipods past and lost them.

but yea it is b.s that it's not supported! also like not supporting ipod hi-fi with new stuff. that thing is still a cool box!
 
cwfrederick said:
i still think its total bs and a big f u to apple users. it should be a given that it works with tiger. and its kinda hard to read the box when its 5am in the morning and it hasnt been released yet. :mad:
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Quit whining and go buy Snow Leopard, it's $30. Tiger is 3-5 years old. You've got your money's worth.
 
GimmeSlack12 said:
Quit whining and go buy Snow Leaopard, it's $30. Tiger is 3-5 years old. You've got your money's worth.
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$30? it's around $100+ off eBay...but even that is shady. i had to buy it direct from Apple, luckily they still had it...for $156 which included $16 overnight shipping.
 
oh but make sure to read the box of snow leopard....the snow kitty doesn't work on power pc. if you've got an oldie like me it's leopard for you!
 
GimmeSlack12 said:
Quit whining and go buy Snow Leopard, it's $30. Tiger is 3-5 years old. You've got your money's worth.
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I spent 3 months of life ironing out all bug probs for Pro Tools 7.3, Reason, eastwest, DFH plug ins etc t be compatible with mac OSX 10.4,If apple think i,m goin t spent another 3 month updating all software t make my computer compatible with a ****in ipod they can take a hike, this products goin straight back t the shop:mad:
 
ChrisTX said:
Not only that but in this point in the game, who still runs Tiger?
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I do.
I am using it now as I reply to this thread. I don't see the point in fixing something that isn't broke. You would assume though that seeing as this is an apple product, they would make it compliant with every single apple pc it has ever produced. But hey, apple make billions a year, why listen to a few consumers who are peeved off???

I am not saying it is right, far from it, I think it's BS, but I am not phased because I also have a PC that is Windows so I can sync my new iPhone to that. No biggie.

I am just happy I read what specs were needed ... I am also trying to find a 9.2 itunes download. Apple only shows the 10.1 on its official page. On my iBook it is version 8.
 
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