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And the best feature of Lion is buried at the bottom of the list of all the features in small text...

It's about flippin' time! It only took them how many years to realize that resizing a window only from the bottom right corner is totally a pain...
25 years! ;)

anyone seen the hardware at their DC, looks like some ProLiant servers baby. :D
 
As opposed to having to do the horrible task of hooking up the iPhone/iPod/iPad to a cord?

I swear, why of all the features do people want wireless syncing so bad? Has society really become that lazy?

It's not that people are lazy. My wife and I use the same apple account for music. Once this goes live, I can buy a song/album/whatever while we are on vacation, one of us isn't home to be able to sync with the computer, etc. but we both still get that new purchase.
 
So help this moron clarify:

If I have music on CD's that I rip to put on my device that is not currently available in iTunes, "unmatched" then all is well.

However, if I have CD's that I rip where the music is already available as a download in iTunes, I have to pay $25.99 a year for the ability to "re-purchase" music I've already paid for once?

Sorry, but if that is truly the case (according to my crappy understanding) this is beyond rediculous to me. Please correct me if I'm wrong here....please.
 
As opposed to having to do the horrible task of hooking up the iPhone/iPod/iPad to a cord?

I swear, why of all the features do people want wireless syncing so bad? Has society really become that lazy?
for light users you won't need a computer anymore. so why buy a desktop or laptop u don't use, JUST so you can sync your device. my wife uses our MBA, but i haven't used it in months. I just use iPad daily so if we didn't have our air, how would i do updates?
 
It's not that people are lazy. My wife and I use the same apple account for music. Once this goes live, I can buy a song/album/whatever while we are on vacation, one of us isn't home to be able to sync with the computer, etc. but we both still get that new purchase.

This will be nice. I am hoping this bleeds over to other apps as well..... Not just Apple apps. This is pretty cool feature if you ask me.
 
As opposed to having to do the horrible task of hooking up the iPhone/iPod/iPad to a cord?

I swear, why of all the features do people want wireless syncing so bad? Has society really become that lazy?


I dont understand your complaint. Are you angry that something will become easier and seamless?
 
It's not that people are lazy. My wife and I use the same apple account for music. Once this goes live, I can buy a song/album/whatever while we are on vacation, one of us isn't home to be able to sync with the computer, etc. but we both still get that new purchase.

I understand, I'm a bit tired so pardon my ignorance there.
 
Just heard a rumor that Apple may be refunding recent purchases of MobileMe. This would make me a happy camper since mine was purchased on May 17th.
 
Cables still exist. Otherwise, I do not have any Apple hardware besides my Macbook. Though that could be easily replace with a virtual machine.

No you're missing my point. I'm honestly saying that the iTunes Extra service won't suit everybody. Sure you can still sync with a cable, as I can. I'd just rather not - given how often I'd be doing it.
 
Just heard a rumor that Apple may be refunding recent purchases of MobileMe. This would make me a happy camper since mine was purchased on May 17th.

yeah but probably only if u purchased from them. what about all the people that bought from an authorized seller and not straight from apple?
 
i believe so, so the account is the only unique identifier and in this case it is the same, apple would have to setup some sort of family account thing where you could specify sync of to specific devices. but i didn't hear anything about that

Hmmm.... that's too bad, but I'm thinking you are right. I suppose it might be easier to each have our separate ID's. Then, if I want the same app as my wife, I either have to buy it again, (which probably won't cost me a ton per year to duplicate paid apps). Or, maybe we can have unique ID's, but still share apps from her with home sharing. I think I've read of people that do this, and when an app from a different iTunes account needs updating, you have to put in their credentials. And of course, if we move to the 2 ID model, we have the whole legacy of everything we've already shared, and then complications with home shapring, Airplay, etc. Maybe this will work, but I wish they would put some thought into what families can do that all use the same id. So, you could share the family iTunes ID, but have some sort of sub tag to identify "wife's ipad" oo "husband's iphone".

Will need to see how this plays out before jumping on the bandwagon...
 
It's not that people are lazy. My wife and I use the same apple account for music. Once this goes live, I can buy a song/album/whatever while we are on vacation, one of us isn't home to be able to sync with the computer, etc. but we both still get that new purchase.

couldn't your wife also just redownload the song since you share an account it is already purchased on that phone, i know i redownload my apps all the time to different devices, i don't buy music from itunes but i assume it works the same way
 
So help this moron clarify:

If I have music on CD's that I rip to put on my device that is not currently available in iTunes, "unmatched" then all is well.

However, if I have CD's that I rip where the music is already available as a download in iTunes, I have to pay $25.99 a year for the ability to "re-purchase" music I've already paid for once?

Sorry, but if that is truly the case (according to my crappy understanding) this is beyond rediculous to me. Please correct me if I'm wrong here....please.


Ok, I think I missed the part were wired syncing was still able to do this. I'll crawl back in my cave now.

I wondered how they were going to get around copyright issues, I guess this is one way to attempt it, though it still seems to be a bit flawed.
 
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