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New Time Capsules Rather Than Apple's Servers to Act as Hub for iCloud Data Syncing?

I like the idea of using my Time Machine drive, which is essentially what a Time Capsule was for (although it also included WiFi capabilities), to store my media and use my Mac connected through WiFi to stream the data to my iPhone 4 when I request it.

We've no idea how it'll work, and I'm looking forward to tomorrow, but I can't see Apple pushing iCloud to this extent and then telling people, "If you want to use iCloud you need to buy a new Time Capsule". That's a flop waiting to happen.
 
KnightWRX said:
Look, you were replying to my post that said June 14th was Spring, saying no, it is summer. So in the context of the reply, you were wrong.

It's not about being anal retentive, it's about not distorting facts. Like I said, a little education saves you a lot of embarrassment. I think you just like to argue. This is the second time you've jumped all over me with trivial non-sense and failed to admit you were wrong when proven so.

Your first reply to me was wrong in the context it was made. Apple shipping on June 14th means they are shipping in the Spring. End of story.

And "Oh look, I just said June" was also quite condescending, so please refrain from being a Pot and calling the kettle black. I was not condescending in my posts, I do think that people who don't know about Solstices and Equinoxes lack very basic knowledge about the flow of seasons, which is basically kid's stuff.
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i never said you're distorting facts, i'm calling you anal retentive. i called you out on the date thing cos you said i said something i didn't. that's not anal retentive, that's pointing out you're twisting facts.

I'm the one being trivial when you're jumping on that guy for june the 14th not being summer by the soltices or equinox by 1 WEEK?? lol.

everyone considers June as a whole to be the start of the summer, especially the marketing world, so when they said they'd release it in summer 2011, in the eyes of the general public, June 14th would be a fair enough date in that.

you always post some pedantic rubbish to distract from the matter, this ain't no different.
 
If I'm reading this correctly, this syncing only applies to apple devices?

so... does this mean i won't be able to sync music/videos from my PC desktop to my macbook?
 
andythursby said:
I'm the one being trivial when you're jumping on that guy for june the 14th not being summer by the soltices or equinox by 1 WEEK??.
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When did I jump on OllyW ? I was adding to his post, not arguing with him. The June 14th thing is a rumor, it could be true or false. I was simply pointing out that if it is true, then it means Apple is shipping early when taking into account what Apple said.

Is everything an argument and debate to you ? :confused:

You're the only one doing jumping here. I reported your various insults.
 
Cougarcat said:
SL also shipped a bit early.

In my mind, what makes this date dubious is not that it's not summer, it's that it would only give developers a week with the GM, at a time when many of them will be attending WWDC, not testing their apps.
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Having time with GM won't make them release updated versions of their apps the same day Lion ships anyway and i doubt there will be something drastic in the GM that they need this time right now.
 
I'd love to see better OS X native support for PS3 & XBox 360 Audio/Picture/Video streaming; the amount of 3rd party software is ridiculous and the quality/stability varies way too much.
 
ciTiger said:
So you have to buy yet another Apple device to have access to it? :(
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Doubtful, but I bet the proposition is buy a new TC (or maybe upgrade the software on a current one) for the fullest iClouds (especially iTunes media access) capabilities OR rent all the space on the NC iCloud at a pretty good price above $25/yr if you have a lot of storage needs.

Then, I bet in comparing the rental cost (plus the bandwidth costs in "stream everything) vs. the ownership cost, the new TC proposition will look like a bargain for many.
 
KnightWRX said:
When did I jump on OllyW ? I was adding to his post, not arguing with him. The June 14th thing is a rumor, it could be true or false. I was simply pointing out that if it is true, then it means Apple is shipping early when taking into account what Apple said.

Is everything an argument and debate to you ? :confused:

You're the only one doing jumping here. I reported your various insults.
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i've not insulted anyone, you have by implying that people that don't know the equinoxes and soltices are of low intelligence...

nothing wrong with healthy debate, that's what we're here for.

gorcman said:
If I'm reading this correctly, this syncing only applies to apple devices?

so... does this mean i won't be able to sync music/videos from my PC desktop to my macbook?
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i would like to think they wouldn't exclude PC's but i wouldn't be surprised since PC's have been denied at FaceTime client that Mac's have now. Jobs went on about how facetime will be open to all and they want more users using it, then why not make a windows client too? madness
 
ciTiger said:
So you have to buy yet another Apple device to have access to it? :(
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No people here are saying you may need a time capsule if you want local streaming. If you're happy streaming from iCloud over the internet then its just whatever charge they decide to set for access and/or storage limit
 
Žalgiris said:
Having time with GM won't make them release updated versions of their apps the same day Lion ships anyway and i doubt there will be something drastic in the GM that they need this time right now.
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Apple has always given devs at least a few weeks with a GM. If Lion is complete, a late-June release would make more sense because it would allow devs to get home from WWDC, verify that their current Lion builds work, and make any last-minute changes.

As for something drastic, the replacement of MobileMe with iCloud?
 
andythursby said:
i've not insulted anyone, you have by implying that people that don't know the equinoxes and soltices are of low intelligence...
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When did I say that ? Are you equating intelligence and education per chance ? Lack of education in a subject matter is not a sign of lack of intelligence as both are quite separate.

andythursby said:
nothing wrong with healthy debate, that's what we're here for.
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Yes, but don't accuse me of "jumping over a poster" when I didn't. Don't mistake debate with conversation. This is a discussion forum, not everything needs to be a debate.
 
ciTiger said:
So you have to buy yet another Apple device to have access to it? :(
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I doubt it. It would end up being even less popular than Mobile Me if it requires buying new hardware. I get the feeling that there will be even more to iCloud than we've heard so far.

It just sounds like this part of iCloud will need the new Time Capsule.
 
iClound requiring Time Capsule??

DUMBEST IDEA EVER PRESENTED - EVEN BY MICROSOFT.

If you have a local drive - who needs iCloud??? NOBODY.... Dumb....
 
Moccasin said:
No people here are saying you may need a time capsule if you want local streaming. If you're happy streaming from iCloud over the internet then its just whatever charge they decide to set for access and/or storage limit
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forcing people to have a time capsule for local streaming is a bad idea, it's just going to alienate people
 
KnightWRX said:
When did I say that ? Are you equating intelligence and education per chance ? Lack of education in a subject matter is not a sign of lack of intelligence as both are quite separate.

Yes, but don't accuse me of "jumping over a poster" when I didn't. Don't mistake debate with conversation. This is a discussion forum, not everything needs to be a debate.
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If you two wish to continue this discussion, do everyone a favor: get a room and do it via PM. Nobody else wants to read this nonsense.
 
KnightWRX said:
When did I say that ? Are you equating intelligence and education per chance ? Lack of education in a subject matter is not a sign of lack of intelligence as both are quite separate.
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you implied it, which is just as bad


KnightWRX said:
Yes, but don't accuse me of "jumping over a poster" when I didn't. Don't mistake debate with conversation. This is a discussion forum, not everything needs to be a debate.
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you outrightly said he was wrong, so yea, you jumped over him. i've seen you done it before and you are just getting stroppy with me cos you got called out on it.

anyway, i'm not talking more about this matter as it's distracting from the discussion.
 
Great, just great. I ordered a new Airport Extreme last week and it's going to be delivered - wait for it . . . Monday.

Guess I'll leave it in the box unopened so I can send it back to MacMall if the new iCloud versions are announced. My timing is usually better, but this news came from nowhere.
 
WelshDog said:
Great, just great. I ordered a new Airport Extreme last week and it's going to be delivered - wait for it . . . Monday.

Guess I'll leave it in the box unopened so I can send it back to MacMall if the new iCloud versions are announced. My timing is usually better, but this news came from nowhere.
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Well think of it positively - if you'd ordered it a few days earlier you'd be looking at selling on ebay...
 
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