New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

ahahahaha. I'm probably not expressing how pleased I am that OS X is adopting some sensible UI conventions and (hopefully) gutting out that god-awful finder.

dan I'd be way happier with the concept of snapshots. even if it amounts to the same thing as saving. the prospect that you could lose 2hrs of work because you got a power cut or forgot a magic keystroke should just. not. ever. happen. but yeah I want to know more details.

(aa here) yeah I've got to say that after looking into how autosave and versions actually work I'm quite impressed. It makes perfect sense to take the whole time machine design principle and apply it to everything that requires saving.

(of course the worst thing about it is that Microsoft won't support it until Office 2017)

somehow I think this autosave function is gonna lead to a lot of corrupted files

idk

also I can foresee 50 years now, authors will release 'track changes' version of their epic books, so you can see the progress starting from the genesis

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/24/mac-os-x-lion-building-in-support-for-super-high-resolution-retina-monitors

yr resolution independence is in there ^ stet btw

yah I saw that, pretty dope

I was watching one of my students play smurfs farmville or w/e on her iphone4 and it was amazing how detailed the 1mm high smurf was

somehow I think this autosave function is gonna lead to a lot of corrupted files

Especially when working off a server. Or will this just not work when working off a server?

I'd hope the auto save thingo would be designed well enough (at file system level) that one corrupted file doesn't kill every revision.

Where do you all stand on the new backwards scrolling mechanic? I think it's brilliant.

so I had to restore my iPhone and iPad and redownload a bunch of apps, and it charged me again for a bunch of them. it ended up being like $100+ since I redownloaded both 1password and Logmein to both devices plus a bunch of other apps, so I'm obviously going to have to contest the charges with Apple. has anyone ever had to deal with this?

Depending on the pricing, thunderbolt portable HDs could be a huge fucking deal for me. I was on a shoot the other day that had hours of downtime because we were using a USB HD.

At least use FW, man!

I know, right? No one had the right cables (I was not in charge here), and the eSata drive wouldn't work for whatever reason.

I had the same thing happen with apps on my phone last year when I had to do a restore, but since I only paid for 2 apps it wasn't much money, and I didn't bother contesting it. But yeah, it can happen

That's pretty bad. Why has a bigger deal not been made of it?

(in the press, I mean)

Because it can't happen. If you use the same account to repurchase the apps you won't be charged. (it says you will purchase it again, but you don't get charged).

The only way you'd actually get charged again would be by using a different iTunes account second time round.

that isn't true, I was charged twice. but, they might have fixed this since.

It's been like this since app store launched. Did you use two different country stores? Compare the email receipts for both, if the email addresses and stores match then you've gotta big story.

(also getting the cash back if it's the same a/c should be pretty straightforward -- click the "report a problem" link in the receipt and give them both order numbers (in the email subject line). Had to do the begging act that way with a film I deleted and they sorted it in a day, even though you're not allowed redl films/music)

You're not allowed to redownload films/music that you've already paid for? Really? For god's sake why?

US store, same account I've been using for years, and I still have the original iTunes receipts for most of them. all of the ones which I don't have receipts for show purchase dates from hell of earlier like this:

http://i.imgur.com/XIsYT.png

(the second bill for this came on 2/19)

the day it happened, I emailed Apple with all of this (the only contact option they offer) along w/ receipt dates, order numbers, everything; I got a confirmation email that they had received it and that I should expect a response within 24 hours but haven't heard anything else. obviously these things can take time and the weekend and God and The Bible and so on, but this is still kind of worrying since I've been redownloading apps since forever and never had this happen before.

Wouldn't bother with email -- use the customer support form. Yu get there from the "report problem" link in the receipts, and also from the "support" link inside the store on desktop iTunes. They usually get back v. quick.

AA: Reason I heard was they didn't want ppl authorising their friend's computers and redownloading everything, but sounds spurious to me. I am not a Record Company Exec, tho.

well i am and i can confirm we demanded this feature out of pure bitterness and spite, fuck yall 'computer users'!

AA: Reason I heard was they didn't want ppl authorising their friend's computers and redownloading everything, but sounds spurious to me. I am not a Record Company Exec, tho.

― stet, Sunday, 27 February 2011 11:54 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Now that there's no DRM I suppose it's reasonable to expect users to manage their own backups. Still, shithouse.

I've never had a problem redownloading apps in fact when pp took my old iPhone ( he uses it as an iPod touch only on wifi so no ATT charges) all my existing apps worked fine and the ones I had deleted he could redownload for free also the ones I had downloaded onto my new phone. Not sure he ever tried to download a new one for just his phone.
I've had problems with audiobooks though. My comp at work syncs podcasts and audiobooks and my home one everything else but of course I had synced at home with 'sync audiobooks' on and it wiped all my audiobooks from my iPhone. I had to pay for those again. Sucky.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12570045

$9bn on shit

Funny how this thread and I HATE APPLe have basically become the same thread.

It didn't have to be.

Talk about complaints in the HATE thread.

Talk about lust-worthy new products and ridiculous rumors here.

Easy!

heard back from customer service and they're claiming they don't have any record of the order #s on the receipts I received from them WTF

yeah good luck getting a refund from apple. fuckers.

they are driving you to piracy, clearly

^^^^ this x 3454386592760527346793563924758

meaningful graphs are the best

http://www.blogcdn.com//media/2011/02/t-mo-iphone4-2282011.jpg

slow | | | | | | | | fast

oh come on ATT could at least be a guinea pig or something

heard back from customer service and they're claiming they don't have any record of the order #s on the receipts I received from them

that seems.... impossible

Perhaps you accidentally bought them from Fake Steve Jobs.

the best part: the customer service rep handling my claim says he works from Friday to Tuesday! I filed this shit on 2/24 and the only official response I've received so far was the "sorry but those receipts in your inbox don't exist" email I got yesterday, so now I probably won't hear anything else until like next week.

I handle a lot of customer service for my real job so despite all evidence to the contrary I'm really trying to be patient and operate under the assumption that I'll get my $80 back but they've handled this extremely badly so far.

Don't stop. Apple puts on this impenetrable omnipotent sheen but obviously it's subject to the same laws as everyone else.

sense of childlike wonder act 1984

app store is down, that seems early

Um, I mean the online apple store, not the app store.

wallet: ready

^^^

can't sleep (not because of this but whatevzz)

looks like insomnia means i will see this thing unfold

ah, didn't realize there was an 'event' today