No one's going to look at a phone labelled "Samsung" and think iPhone. Should Apple also go after the individuals who theme their droids like iPhones? There's only so much you can do with the layout of a candybar smartphone.
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WWDC 2011 Pre-Keynote Roundup and Coverage Details
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No one's going to look at a phone labelled "Samsung" and think iPhone. Should Apple also go after the individuals who theme their droids like iPhones? There's only so much you can do with the layout of a candybar smartphone.
Perhaps you can get a cheap copy of Snow Leopard from Craigslist or maybe a friend will let you use their SL disk.
Also, maybe if you take it into an Apple Store, they'll update you to SL and then you can update to Lion.
I'm sure Apple's thought of this scenario since it's so common amonst family members. I would guess that iCloud will have settings to determine which devices get sync with each other. For instance, the contacts on your iPhone will get sync'd with your Mac. Contacts on your wife's iPhone get sync'd with her Mac. Perhaps you can set it to sync all iCloud music to all devices except for your iPad. The possibilities are limitless.
That's not how I interpret the WWDC announcements. Seems like iCloud's free music component is the same as Amazon's. You can stream/store an unlimited number of songs bought off of the iTunes Store. Or you can upload to iCloud 5GB worth of your own songs (ripped from CDs, etc). The $25/year adds the iTunes Match feature which conserves your 5GB of complimentary storage and saves you the hassle of uploading.
Actually if you look at the pictures side by side,,,,, someone might just think that. I think that is the whole part of the aurgument.
Yeah, but what about things like SMS(iMessages)? Do we have to sync those now (due to the iCloud) or will that be tied to our mobileme(iCloud) accounts (which thank goodness is separate)?
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It get's a little funnier when you throw in Home Sharing and an AppleTV. For example, my wife and I have two macs and share an apple ID. Both our macs show up on the appletv. What if icloud forces us to use different IDs? I think our use of the appletv and home sharing is exactly the proper way of using it.
Also, currently GameCenter allows you to sign in with a separate apple ID, which seems to overcome these types of issues. They might allow the same thing with iMessaging and iCloud.
A lot of people seem to be getting carried away with themselves.
I'm a relatively heavy casual consumer, and the updates will be nice (not revolutionary) for me. I assume that's the case for the majority of the casual consumer base.
I'm a relatively heavy casual consumer, and the updates will be nice (not revolutionary) for me. I assume that's the case for the majority of the casual consumer base.
absurd if anyone was dumb enough to do this they would not even be alive because they would have killed themselves with their stupidity long before they could even use a cell phone.
For music, being able to re-download directly to the phone will be new. But, from itunes, or from your iphone for Apps, your wife could always re-download items you purchased for free since you use the same ID. No need to sync, as the app store already knew that your account had previously purchased.
What I worry about is my wife downloading a bunch of apps, and then having these automatically synced through the cloud onto my phone. I don't want to deal with that.
Same with settings - in the keynote Jobs said if you get a new phone just sign in with your ID, and your phone will automatically be restored and set up.
Uhhh... I want my phone to be different from my wifes, but want to still use the same ID to share purchases. Please tell me you have worked this out!
It is the norm for apple to get more criticism than praise at these events, in fact I don't think there has been an apple event where the majority of the comments were of praise.
iCloud will be in beta only, once fully launched all users will recieve a @me.com account, devs will get first dibs since the beta goes out today.
Apple will refund you if you provide proof for software as they have done for other things, call them. Some users were already refunded ostensibly because they bought MobileMe directly from Apple and not a third party. Don't spread false info.Mattie Num Nums said:
joshs2000ss said:
No, the music on CDs that is unavailable via iTunes can be uploaded as said in the keynote. Otherwise for all other songs, yes you have to pay in some form if you haven't bought it from iTunes.
I highly doubt that RIAA/MPAA would be willing to allow Apple to absolve piracy. $24.99/year is nothing, the millions Apple paid the record companies is nothing, compared to what they would get from copy infringements.
Also, this isn't temporary, add a new file through iTunes Match next year and Apple would then allow you to store it in iCloud.
Trust with consumer? You think Apple will side with the pirates?
BTW, I doubt Apple will check checksums of files to determine legal songs, that can't really be done. Matching songs will have to be done in another way.
My subscription was auto-renewed. Straight from Apple. I have had MobileME since 2004 when I was an Apple employee and was given .Mac for free.
HUH!
Why would you or anyone else even care about this, I really hope folks aren't actually losing sleep, experiencing sudden lost of appitite, getting weak stomachs, having migrains over this? I mean if its that serious I'd highly suggest break from smart-phones and consider a flip phone on the next contract cycle.
No seriously though, its not that serious.
Apple allows you to download music only once. From that point on it is your responsibility to sync it with other computers/devices and to keep your own backup. Supposedly this is the fault of RIAA's licensing.
From http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1373
My claim to the aurgement was never to the fact that people are smart. Hell, people by stuff that looks like other stuff all the time.
Wired Wi-Fi sync ?
This is a bit annoying, was hoping I wouldnt have to plug it in
Wirelessly sync your iOS device to your Mac or PC over a shared Wi-Fi connection. Every time you connect your iOS device to a power source (say, overnight for charging), it automatically syncs and backs up any new content to iTunes. So you always have your movies, TV shows, home videos, and photo albums everywhere you want them.
from here
This is a bit annoying, was hoping I wouldnt have to plug it in
Wirelessly sync your iOS device to your Mac or PC over a shared Wi-Fi connection. Every time you connect your iOS device to a power source (say, overnight for charging), it automatically syncs and backs up any new content to iTunes. So you always have your movies, TV shows, home videos, and photo albums everywhere you want them.
from here
This is a bit annoying, was hoping I wouldnt have to plug it in
Wirelessly sync your iOS device to your Mac or PC over a shared Wi-Fi connection. Every time you connect your iOS device to a power source (say, overnight for charging), it automatically syncs and backs up any new content to iTunes. So you always have your movies, TV shows, home videos, and photo albums everywhere you want them.
from here
Plus I am pretty sure the WiFi radio only stays active when the screen is sleep only if the device is plugged in.
Nice to see Apple's policy of re purposing device hardware buttons is out the window.
Wonder if they'll let Devs do this too.
Wonder if they'll let Devs do this too.