Mine started playing songs my future self was going to listen to tomorrow. It even burned a CD before I decided to make one.
...holy crap...I think it's making it's own playlist now..
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Mine started playing songs my future self was going to listen to tomorrow. It even burned a CD before I decided to make one.
...holy crap...I think it's making it's own playlist now..
I am an Apple Engineer on the iTunes team, and this behavior is as designed. The overwhelming majority of applications on the App Store are from 3rd-party (not Apple) developers. If the maker of the software changes something between versions, and you like the old way better, you still have the old one to go back to.
Roy
Roy
I am an Apple Engineer on the iTunes team, and this behavior is as designed. The overwhelming majority of applications on the App Store are from 3rd-party (not Apple) developers. If the maker of the software changes something between versions, and you like the old way better, you still have the old one to go back to.
Roy
If what you're saying is true, why doesn't Apple give us the same choice with Apple software (both iPhone and Mac)?
I am an Apple Engineer on the iTunes team, and this behavior is as designed. The overwhelming majority of applications on the App Store are from 3rd-party (not Apple) developers. If the maker of the software changes something between versions, and you like the old way better, you still have the old one to go back to.
Roy
Aren't you violating one hell of an NDA by posting here then, Roy??
I'm sticking with 7.5. That way, every time I plug in my iPod touch, I won't get that nag screen telling me that I should purchase the 2.0 firmware upgrade. (7.5 seems to think that firmware version 1.1.5 is the latest, which is fine by me.)
I'm done spending money on my iPod touch. I pre-ordered mine before it was released, and ever since, Steve Jobs has been asking me for more and more money to "upgrade" it. Nice.
I'm done spending money on my iPod touch. I pre-ordered mine before it was released, and ever since, Steve Jobs has been asking me for more and more money to "upgrade" it. Nice.
You'll find me most of the time on Apple Discussions:
http://discussions.apple.com/profile.jspa?userID=544734
Roy
http://discussions.apple.com/profile.jspa?userID=544734
Roy
I am an Apple Engineer on the iTunes team, and this behavior is as designed. The overwhelming majority of applications on the App Store are from 3rd-party (not Apple) developers. If the maker of the software changes something between versions, and you like the old way better, you still have the old one to go back to.
Roy
I thought Apple employees weren't allowed to have Macrumors accounts.......
interesting... since this update, the MDCrashReportTool process from the mobiledevice stuff crashes about 10 seconds after the sync starts, while copying the crash reports of my apps. I've been having a lot of app crashes and even full phone crashes.
Just wanted to say...
beyond all the issues we all may have with the software I am glad that there is a mac site that doesn't go to bed at 5 o'clock and truly keeps us all up-to-date no matter what the time. BTW, anyone use dashboard? most wasted concentration of apple engineers ever, seriously.
Cheers Arn and crew (if they exist
beyond all the issues we all may have with the software I am glad that there is a mac site that doesn't go to bed at 5 o'clock and truly keeps us all up-to-date no matter what the time. BTW, anyone use dashboard? most wasted concentration of apple engineers ever, seriously.
Cheers Arn and crew (if they exist
I am still seeing two things, 1 major and 1 minor.
1. iTunes does not store apps in your default location, they are always local.
2. Phone number does not show up in iTunes when connected. Sometimes it says n/a and sometimes it doesn't show up at all. It works on my friends phone (older gen1 pwned with 2.0), but doesn't work with my current phone. Probably more of a hardware change that is causing this.
1. iTunes does not store apps in your default location, they are always local.
2. Phone number does not show up in iTunes when connected. Sometimes it says n/a and sometimes it doesn't show up at all. It works on my friends phone (older gen1 pwned with 2.0), but doesn't work with my current phone. Probably more of a hardware change that is causing this.
Sure enough, this bug seems to be fixed. (I haven't seen many people complain about it here...but, then again, I don't read any iTunes-related forums here except for rumor/news threads...but I have seen a few posts at Apple Discussions.)
In fact, a few of my songs even fixed themselves when I selected them, but most I had to change myself (a pain to find since iTunes thinks, for example, 'é' and 'È' [one substitution it kept making] are the same, making a search for them useless). I hope I got most of them, but I suppose I'll be correcting for weeks to come as I notice random things.
By Design? ... A better solution.
Roy,
Considering that Apple does not store backup copies of old versions of applications locally on user's computers when they release updates (i.e. through software update), why would they choose to go this route with iTunes? What happens when we get the bigger applications like Navigation apps with map data stored in them approaching the 2GB size, for example? Updated apps for now seem to be the same file size (i.e. not updates, but entirely new copies), and thus would begin wasting a LOT of space. Why not instead promote the use of the Time Machine feature built in on Macs for those who have Leopard installed, and allow backup copies be managed by Time Machine the same way as everything else in Time Machine. For Windows users and Non-Leopard users, the current solution implemented (copies of every version) would seem like a good idea. But better yet, let users have the option to keep old version backup copies by creating a toggle the iTunes preferences. This would seem like the most logical implementation as it seems as though a lot of people are crying out for a change, as I myself do not agree with the multiple-copies backup solution currently in place.
I am an Apple Engineer on the iTunes team, and this behavior is as designed. The overwhelming majority of applications on the App Store are from 3rd-party (not Apple) developers. If the maker of the software changes something between versions, and you like the old way better, you still have the old one to go back to.
Roy
Roy,
Considering that Apple does not store backup copies of old versions of applications locally on user's computers when they release updates (i.e. through software update), why would they choose to go this route with iTunes? What happens when we get the bigger applications like Navigation apps with map data stored in them approaching the 2GB size, for example? Updated apps for now seem to be the same file size (i.e. not updates, but entirely new copies), and thus would begin wasting a LOT of space. Why not instead promote the use of the Time Machine feature built in on Macs for those who have Leopard installed, and allow backup copies be managed by Time Machine the same way as everything else in Time Machine. For Windows users and Non-Leopard users, the current solution implemented (copies of every version) would seem like a good idea. But better yet, let users have the option to keep old version backup copies by creating a toggle the iTunes preferences. This would seem like the most logical implementation as it seems as though a lot of people are crying out for a change, as I myself do not agree with the multiple-copies backup solution currently in place.
Isn't all of this info "in the cloud" (though we all know how reliable said cloud has been, thus far)?
Or...
Why back up my iPhone when my Address Book, iCal, Mail, iTunes, iPhoto & Safari on my MacBook have all my contacts, events, messages, music/movies, photos & bookmarks?
Wouldn't a simple Sync place all items back on the phone?
I'm surely missing something...
Notes and text messages?
However, I HATE the fact that my iPhone backs up on each and every sync. It's just completely unnecessary and inefficient. It was so much better when it just synced- it could take all of 8 seconds if you only made a minor change.
App updates in iTunes
Mine says 1 update available, but if I click to see the detail, the screen shows 15 apps that have updates, and the phone shows none. Before, I've clicked "get update" in each one, and they'd finally all go away, but now they're back! If I choose to download all free updates at once, it says my credit balance is out of date! If you do each one, you'll finally at least get the one (or more) that really does have an update, and "check for updates" from the app list will say that they are all up to date.
Mine says 1 update available, but if I click to see the detail, the screen shows 15 apps that have updates, and the phone shows none. Before, I've clicked "get update" in each one, and they'd finally all go away, but now they're back! If I choose to download all free updates at once, it says my credit balance is out of date! If you do each one, you'll finally at least get the one (or more) that really does have an update, and "check for updates" from the app list will say that they are all up to date.
Same issue here, has been since the 2.0/7.7 updates came out. Looks like an iTunes Store bug.
If it's going to take as long as it does to do backups now, the iTunes team should add a ETA, at least we'd know when we can come back and use our iPhones and iPods again.
Nice catch! Got back like 150mb! It also stores apps that have been deleted.
Same with the long a** backups for the touch. WTF is up with that?Back-ups still take forever...
In fact this is the longest it has ever taken!!
You'll find me most of the time on Apple Discussions:
http://discussions.apple.com/profile.jspa?userID=544734
Roy
Roy, glad to have you and listening and posting here on MacRumors. Hope you come back and help us posters out when you can.
bugs even worse now
- backup still takes 2 hours
- iTunes says I have 4 apps to update, but when I click update, it shows 14 apps. If i download and sync all updates, it still shows the same 14 apps to update. iPhone shows no apps to update.
- frequent crashes and freezes, in 3rd party apps, and in iTunes.
I'm so frustrated with this garbage I'm thinking of asking for a refund. This is the WORST Apple has ever done! This is absolute CRAP!!!
- backup still takes 2 hours
- iTunes says I have 4 apps to update, but when I click update, it shows 14 apps. If i download and sync all updates, it still shows the same 14 apps to update. iPhone shows no apps to update.
- frequent crashes and freezes, in 3rd party apps, and in iTunes.
I'm so frustrated with this garbage I'm thinking of asking for a refund. This is the WORST Apple has ever done! This is absolute CRAP!!!