I HATE APPLE

yeah :(

no offsite? no cloud versh?

this is 100% otm in my opinion and, given enough time (probably quite a lot), it will eventually be the thing that kills apple.

http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits/2011/03/the-apple-strategy-tax.ars

This article explains what people itt were talking about:

http://www.9to5mac.com/54578/apple-negotiating-unlimited-song-downloadspermanent-music-backups-for-itunes/

Currently, iTunes users need to repurchase music if they want to wirelessly download the songs to other iOS devices. Users could also of course sync via iTunes on their Mac or PC to work around these download charges.

(not that I ever thought you guys were wrong, I just didn't understand)

Currently, iTunes users need to repurchase music if they want to wirelessly download the songs to other iOS devices.

Well, that's another way of saying "there is no wireless sync". If you're not near your computer, you have to download it from the iTunes store as if new.

I suppose the bandwidth costs of everyone treating re-download as a cloud storage solution would be not inconsiderable, certainly for video.

http://images.macrumors.com/article/2011/03/07/131951-justin_ipad_2_in_store.jpg

I suppose the bandwidth costs of everyone treating re-download as a cloud storage solution would be not inconsiderable, certainly for video.

Yes especially because after like a day or so, people would stop thinking of it as "redownloading" and more as "hitting the play button".

I was very close to posting creepy camping-for-iPad guy, I am glad someone else did.

Really beginning to think that Gruber needs his own thread, but I don't want to be the one to start it.

The latest Talk Show podcast, 35-ish minutes in. They're discussing the new iPad cover and he's practically on some kind of nerd interpretation of the old "Magnets? How the fuck do they work?" routine.

So I dare to visit his website today because of his verbal spastic attack, and one of the links is to a news story about the actress from The Wire with his heartfelt and not at all patronisingly semi-racist comment of "That’s a shame, but I’m glad to see her alive."

I don't know if I could listen to him in podcast form. Is he ranty?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2011/03/10/david-simon-creator-of-the-wire-speaks-on-felicia-snoop-pearson-s-arrest.aspx

Wrong thread, but good article.

It's a sort of postscript to the discussion of Gruber's concern about Snoop.

Oh, duh.

hey! so backups are useful. woke up this morning and found my hd was making a 'clicking noise' occasionally - when it did so, my mac would 'hiccup' but everything ran fine. updated my backup with Super Duper, swapped disks, everything's peachy.

the affected hard disk seems to be fine, I'm wondering what I can do to flog it and force it into failure so I can RMA it easily. any ideas?

magnets

lol maybe whack it a few times with a hammer. I wonder if it has a diagnostics log or something.

So I update my Apple TV and suddenly I've got some dumb shit called 'MLB.tv' that I can't get rid of AND it reset my time to somewhere in America.

Oh wow, I didn't think it'd show the sports stuff outside the US

HILARIOUS

mlb.tv is not lame!

it's batshit if you're not american or into bas(k)e(t)ball

it's pretty dumb if you can't get rid of it.

I don't know if I could listen to him in podcast form. Is he ranty?

Not ranty. More controlled, very slow. Lots of pauses in the conversation. I'm sure it's pretty much intended to come across as unscripted but they're obviously working to some kind of schedule/rundown.

This week's has this marvellous bit towards the beginning where they're talking about how to import video to the iPad version of iMovie and Gruber can't understand why it can't be easier to copy videos onto the device. He suggests that cameras should have wireless technology built in to enable this. It's like he thinks everybody should upgrade and buy new versions of equipment they already have - as opposed to Apple should include a USB port or SD card slot in their brand new product (which nobody owns) - because that would mean the decision Apple has made is wrong.

It's worst when he's talking about Google or Android, because it's obvious he's clueless. Pretty sure last week's podcast had them discussing that Samsung executive quote about "smooth sales" that Apple used in their iPad presentation and the show was recorded at least a few days after the quote had been explained and debunked.

Wow, what balls:

Apple said on Tuesday that it would delay the planned March 25 launch of the iPad 2 in Japan, writes Joseph Menn in San Francisco.

Nat Kerris, company spokeswoman, said Apple wanted to focus on helping employees and their families affected by the quake and tsunami.

"Our hearts go out to the people of Japan, including our employees and their families", Ms Kerris said. She said Apple's decision was not driven by supplychain issues, and that all Apple stores and other facilities in the country remained open.

good balls imo

They ran out of good balls due to supply chain issues, have some version one balls instead.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/18/apple_christian_conundrum/

Worst article ever. Yeah, I am sure Apple's "Christian base (wtf)" is unanimously for this app.

Receiving a 4+ rating from Apple (applications in this category contain no objectionable material), this application is designed to be a useful resource for men, women, parents, students, and ministry leaders. Christ.

I've got an iphone 3GS and I've shot some video on it which I was going to try upload to youtube, but the file is massive. I want to edit it: nothing too sophisticated, just cutting the start and end off and then making it lower resolution to get the file size down to something more manageable. It seems that I can't do that without Quicktime Pro which I don't want to buy as a)it's expensive (well, not cheap) and b)it's got totally shit reviews. Is there any free software which will do the job? Or an app which is affordable?

quicktimeX can do this iirc

Wikipedia says: Mac OS X v10.6 "Snow Leopard", includes QuickTime X, the latest version of the player. This version lacks cut, copy and paste and will only export to 4 formats, but its limited export feature is free
which suggests I can't use it with a 3GS iphone, or a PC, and it might not even do what I want it to anyway.

avidemux?

can't you do this with imovie or idvd?

first time a system update has ever caused me any trouble - emails and PDFs now print with fonts missing. the issue is all over the forums and the only real fix seems to be a downgrade.

Do they display on screen correctly? I may never see this issue before it's fixed since I don't actually ever print anything.

yep, displays fine.

actually i take that back. the lovely emma b has a document that she's due to present in another city and it's completely garbled.

if the pdf looks ok, try opening it in illustrator and converting everything to outline before printing.

it's in powerpoint (yes, i know) and she needs to present it as slides in powerpoint. and it's too late, her flight was this morning. the only way we were able to even print out her tickets was by opening the PDFs (which looked fine) and then choosing "print as image". otherwise they printed with half the fonts missing. from reading around this looks like a major, far-reaching fuckup.

Yup. Apparently Acrobat will still print correctly, tho.

http://indesignsecrets.com/mac-os-x-10-6-7-update-causes-font-problems—but-probably-not-in-indesign.php

sorry

http://indesignsecrets.com/mac-os-x-10-6-7-update-causes-font-problems—but-probably-not-in-indesign.php

ok. I don't know why those spaces keep getting added, but you can figure it out.

Hey Keith

anyone evr ordered a MBP battery from a semi-sketchy ebay site? a new battery is liek 200 from apple but only like 60 on ebay, and my laptop's already a few years old, and investing 200 in it seems stupid, but i need a battery since mine completely fucked off and died recently.

i have, but i made sure it was an official one and not off-brand.

still much cheaper than from apple btw.