New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Basically I do routine clear-outs and can't bring myself to delete most of them.

I admire your fortitude. Too many apps makes my iPod touch a blackhole of focus every time I use it. Too much coffee and not enough sleep contribute, but an organized launch screen can be zen like.

My launch screen has always been in order but it's the whole "aaagh shit where did I put that shopping discounts app" thing that's been doing my head in.

I fully endorse too many apps. I havelike 5 folders of games that I keep. Most I keep so I dont lose my saved progress. If I removed them and they release an update with more levels then I have to start over. Completism fail.

I do that too. Too many Tiny Birds nests too lose and Essay gets so better with each update, I hang on to it till I get the most use out of it. I'm sayin, have the main screen be for apps you actually have the device for, a second screen for occasionally-used apps, then screens all the way down for erything else. This is the best method I've found so far.

ugh. I've bought three writing apps this week, don't think I'm up for a fourth. Essay does look bloody good though.

Haha. You a lost cause, man.

And you bring up a good point. With so many apps without trials, I waste a lot of money buying apps that look kinda good but might suck usability-wise. So many shit weather apps I have paid money for.

Yeah. If it's cheaper than a pint you can say "ah well, at least it was cheaper than a pint" but there's one $13 purchase from 2009 that I regret to this day. It stays on my phone because I'm too cranky to delete it.

btw the writing apps I bought all have different applications so it's not too bad.

If you backup the phone to iTunes you can delete the games. Updates will appear in iTunes and then when you reinstall it will put yr data back on the phone too.

But won't that only work if you then Restore from backup and so lose any subsequent game data from apps you're still using?

I've just spent 90 mins putting all my iphone and ipad apps into folders sorted alphabetically

90 minutes is too long! You weren't doing it on the actual phone were you?

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yes

but i reiterate that i was decently sick this morning

If you backup the phone to iTunes you can delete the games. Updates will appear in iTunes and then when you reinstall it will put yr data back on the phone too..

that ihas not been the case for me. For example if I beat angry birds, uncheck the app, sync, then check and sync it back, all the levels are shown as not complete. Maybe because I sync two phones to the same iTunes?

Hi, does anyone have a clue when the macbook air specs are going to be updated?

http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/

holy fucking apps.

Mine
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ty, DG.

If it's mid-cycle, then I guess the Air still has a core 2 duo for powersaving reasons then? Is 2gb ram really enough?

I am getting a MBP replaced on the insurance, and I'm wondering if they'll let me switch to an air.

Got a 2gb 11" here and it's really pretty fast. never have felt need for 4gb or faster proc, ssd makes up for a lot. I only use it for work stuff though, not 000s of RAW files etc.

I always end up running a monster IDE or vmware or something, 2gb seems really limiting even for just web browsing, to me.

i'd be amazed if the air was anywhere near the middle of a cycle. they have a lot more products due an update before they revise that.

im dying for an imac with thunderbolt

Good chance 10.7 will be built for an iOS way of computing (on an architecture level, not just interface). Perhaps it's worth waiting for that to appear. A5-alike chips in Airs would be interesting.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-04-13/apple-said-to-ready-white-iphone-after-10-month-wait.html

I'm assuming you mean hardware when you mean architecture? That's not really an iOS way of computing, that's just putting multiple platform support back in by supplementing x86 with ARM or whatever else. They took away PPC support, adding ARM wouldn't be that bad.

Nah I mean the architecture of the 10.7 OS could take advantage of iOS-type chips, given the UI is already going that way. The next lot of Airs could well use an A5-like chip to really help cut down size/expense/power consumption.

By being cut down or optimized, or what? I'm kind of confused what you're going at, but it might be because I'm a programmer and am thinking in different terms.

For what it's worth, 10.7 server edition is going to be on the same disc and be an install option, so it's not like they're removing much.

Trying to decide between a 13" pro and a 13" air. I don't think I have the chance to wait (depends on the insurance company). atm I'm thinking the air, because I'll never know the difference performance-wise, plus I can always upgrade the ram.

Can you?

actually no, thanks good point. probably worth getting 4gb as an option at purchase then.

Also consider that the Air doesn't have a CD/DVD ROM slot (if you even care in 2011, although MS Office only comes on a disc iirc) and the 11" doesn't have an SD card slot.

Oh and the MBP is cheaper and has more stuff.

Basically if you're not sure get the Pro.

hmm I would say the opposite but I guess it really comes down to how much you value portability

you can get office as a download now, and no, I don't care too much about cd/dvd.

It's a replacement for a £1300 pro (which I initially won in a competition), so I can get the 13" w/ extra ram.

so it comes down to light vs. heavier, core 2 duo vs. i7, flash vs. 500gb, and graphics.

Airs are amazing. The lovely Emma B has one and it really has gotten to the point now where, it's like, if you can throw your computer in your bag and not realize it's there, weight-wise, how much further does "lightness" matter in a computer?

Nah I mean the architecture of the 10.7 OS could take advantage of iOS-type chips, given the UI is already going that way.

i don't understand this.

Airs really are amazing. 13" Pros seem like something from 2002 in comparison

Oi, I love my new 13" (SSD) Pro. 2002 was never like this.

True, it's the SSD that makes the difference.

caek, I think AA is coming from some sort of gestalt theory of how a macintosh is formed instead of recognizing how hardware and software work.

good work being patronising there

Yeah, I failed, I meant you and not AA.

Sorry, Autumn Almanac!

But in all seriousness, I did ask for clarification upthread.

Sorry, Autumn Almanac!

That's okay, mh!

Perhaps I wasn't clear because (a) I'm coming off an illness and (b) I'm smashing off quickposts at work. The 10.7 UI has been influenced by the iOS UI in many ways (the effectiveness/shallowness of which is probably up to interpretation). My point was that the ~guts~ of 10.7 could well be rebuilt to properly take advantage of the sorts of chips that go into iOS sorts of devices. I don't know, perhaps OS X is designed in such a way that it can exploit a whole new chipset (CPU, GPU, whatever) without a major release, but from a requirements perspective it does seem logical that Apple would, taking into consideration the iOS stylings from a visual standpoint heads up going forward, choose to debut A5 etc support in Lion, thereby delivering this whole release as the first to run on what could well be a near-future release of the new iAir i.e. essentially an ipad + keyboard with a price to match. Look I don't know, perhaps iOS and OS X are now forks of the same lump of crazy gravy that is The Apple Operating System Of The Future in which case I would be talking shit, but if we knew that to be a fact then it would mean that Apple's wall of secrecy has failed and we wouldn't be having this discussion in the first place.

The guts between iOS and OS X are the same -- iOS is built on the same core as Mac OS X (which was built on the same core as NeXTSTEP).

Changing from PPC to Intel chips was just a point release. In theory there could be an ARM-based Mac, but it would need another version of Rosetta to run all the intel apps out there, and they'd run slow and you'd lose the point of the Arm chip in the first place.

Lovely, cheers.

think its time for a new iphone :( roll on june