Heat/power was also a major issue for the ATV1, and was solved beautifully by going over to A4/iOS and removing the HDD. I can see a similar path for the next Airport Extreme as a possibility, but the TC requires an HDD, no?
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Heat/power was also a major issue for the ATV1, and was solved beautifully by going over to A4/iOS and removing the HDD. I can see a similar path for the next Airport Extreme as a possibility, but the TC requires an HDD, no?
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If your sig is anything to go by it seems that the ability to spend money is not your biggest problem.....
I really hope they refresh AirPort Extreme/Time Capsule with a port faster than USB 2.0, say Thunderbolt or eSATA, so that hard-drive sharing becomes a real possibility again.
Hooking up an external hard-drive via USB 2.0 in 2011 is like using a floppy drive.
Hooking up an external hard-drive via USB 2.0 in 2011 is like using a floppy drive.
I hope airtunes will be part of all airport products from now on. But I also hope that the airport express continues as a product as well. Some may say the AppleTV replaces that (for the same price you get audio plus video). But the express allows for analog audio output (digital too if needed).
For audio purposes alone there is nothing wrong with grabbing older models. You don't need an N speed express that is dedicated to just music streaming. So if the express goes away, I'll be buying used units as people upgrade.
The other upgrade to the extreme I'd like to see is multiple usb ports so an external hub isn't required.
For audio purposes alone there is nothing wrong with grabbing older models. You don't need an N speed express that is dedicated to just music streaming. So if the express goes away, I'll be buying used units as people upgrade.
The other upgrade to the extreme I'd like to see is multiple usb ports so an external hub isn't required.
Ya, it'd be cool if they come with an A4 or A5 but even better is that they'd likely be running iOS. That opens doors to the jailbreak community. Imagine being able to do to an AE/TC what you can now do to an atv2?
In a few months of development the atv2 went from a typical walled garden Apple media-selling device to a much more open one able to run XBMC... changed everything (well for those willing to jailbreak at least).
Here's to hoping for an audio port for some Airplay on the AE/TC.
That would be sweet, but the aluminium casing would not be good for RF propagation.
You gotta love that a new APE or TC has not even been announced, and we are all already arguing about how hypothetical features should work.
That is partly why I wouldn't get a TimeCapsule. You end up having to hope that the single drive wouldn't go bad.My 15 month old Time Capsule was zapped during a storm recently - despite surge protection etc. etc.
Fingers crossed (dangerous I know) that I don't need a backup until the next gen comes along!!
Any of you guys have any ideas of timescale for new gen release or is it the usual 'hold your breath for as long as possible and pray that nothing fails in the meantime?'
What WPA2 problem?Well it didn't fix the WPA2 problem...
Things that don't work just for "you" tend to also just not work for others too. it's very rare only one person has an issue. Normally it's a lot if people with the same issue. Apple realise this.
And also your post I am quoting is full of arrogance. Limited and expensive bandwidth is a major issue for many people around the world. Either you can live in fantasy land and deny it or you can move to reality and accept this is an issue that needs to be addressed. And addressed pretty soon too. Cause with Apple's push to all things online/cloud the bandwith factor is going to become the bottleneck in the system that slows everything down.
Just because you don't have an issue does not mean others do or do not have the issue. Cut out the arrogance, it's not a good thing to do.
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I think you don't get it. It is immaterial whether the Time Capsule or the phone is totally consuming your uplink. The whole uplink is being consumed. What if you want to do something else during that hour that involves exchanging data with the internet ? The Time Capsule could "flow control" the upload so that it takes even longer, but you get some bandwidth back.
That said there is an "off" switch for iCloud. If you don't like it turn it off. What is probably bad for locations such as this is that it is on by default when you pull the devices out of box or upgrade them . It doesn't "look" to see if it makes sense (i.e., meets some minimal bandwidth requirements) to turn iCloud on; it just assumes it is OK.
Yupe, a fall back in case iCloud is unavailable.
It would be even cooler if they allowed keeping off iCloud all together and let the TC be the "local cloud", no more space limitations (although it will now have range limitations XD ) and people who are concern with privacy will welcome it I'm sure.
This is exciting, I was about to replace my TC and AEBS with a Linksys e4200 but given this news and the Linksys' lack of IPv6 support, I think I'll wait. I hope there's a design change too. What exactly would the benefits be of using an A4 or A5?
But how is that any different from auto updates on OS X at the moment? Or MobileMe syncing of iOS devices?
(I know you know this, but others don't
The Express also acts as WiFi range extender, which is something the AppleTV cannot do at this point.How many people really will have hundreds of MBs of things to upload daily? Are that many people taking that many photos on their phone? There is no need for iCloud or TimeCapsule or anything to backup your Apps, as Apple already has them on their servers. They also don't backup your music, because they have that on their servers too (thus Music Match - eliminating the need to actually upload any music that you didn't buy from Apple.)
The only thing that gets uploaded to Apple are documents that you create, pictures you take, etc. These are small, and *IF* TimeCapsule ever functions as an automatic backup thing that interfaces with iCloud, it could very easily be configured to only backup at night, ie, 3AM.
TimeCapsule consuming tons of bandwidth really is a nonissue. If someone really has to cry about it because they find problems in anything and everything, then just turn it off and shut your mouth!
I totally support the idea of TimeCapsule being a local iCloud.
Currently, I have three folders linked to DropBox (documents, my development folder, and my desktop.) So my three most important things are always automatically backed up to DropBox and if anything ever happened, I'd be fine. Also, I backup to TimeCapsule twice a week or so. I've never restored a backup via TimeMachine, so I have no idea how that works.
That said, TimeCapsule + iCloud would rock. I love the idea of TimeCapsule pushing out software updates as soon as they are downloaded, being an iTunes server to sync my devices, etc. And also of it automatically backing things up.
Honestly, I think this is still pretty damn far down the pipeline though. I don't see this coming in the refresh at all. I hope I'm wrong.
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"bsUP.description" = "Apple software updates that are copied to this %@ are available to anyone using this network."; lines are not new. They've been in there since October 2009.