New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

ah cool

(i havent signed up yet in case anyone wants to talk me out of it)

(i am bad at decision-making)

So, supposedly this new AppleCare+ plan has to be purchased at the same time as the phone, but that wasn't made completely clear. I called Apple since my phone obviously isn't here yet but I'd still want the newer plan, since it covers accidental damage. They are currently hammering out the details, but it sounds like there will be a brief period where people who preordered will be able to still get it.

so applecare+ only covers the iphone and not e.g. my MBP?

afaik applecare+ is going to be for iPhones only, at this time

£60 seems like a good deal for two years' insurance but otoh I don't know much about insurance

is the iphone covered on your home contents insurance?

for MBP you need applecare++ iirc

applecare NT & NT+ coming next year obv

So, supposedly this new AppleCare+ plan has to be purchased at the same time as the phone, but that wasn't made completely clear.

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

Pretty rough considering normal applecare can be had at any time in the first year, although I suppose you could drop your phone and THEN buy applecare+.

This is the first one to cover accidental damage iirc so i guess that's it

Cozen: my house insurance covered my phone, yeh

oh damn

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/11/sprint-iphone-4s-to-be-sim-unlocked-verizon-after-60-days/

I wld go with sprint because it seems like the 'indie choice' ya mean but

Kind of hope that puts some pressure on AT&T, but who knows? Verizon/Sprint are doing it because they're trying to live up to this "world phone" label and cdma support is virtually nil outside the US, right?

yeah, i think at&t is less likely to change since they actually have a chance of getting some money out of int'l travelers, verizon and sprint werent getting any at all so its like "whatever, might as well"

xp you get cdma in aruba and baghdad i think, so verizon already had that market sewn up.

should i upgrade to lion everyone?

HI DERE

tbh I have no idea how Lion is doing stability-wise ATM; I've held off upgrading and it hasn't caused me any noticeable problems, the anecdotal stuff I've read seems to be split on whether it's a good idea or not and my wife's new MBP has Lion on it already and has zero issues. My gut call is "no, unless it has something you really need".

i kinda wanna get in on icloud

but also like, i'm a little worried about mail.app cuz i use that app so hard, and in ways that i'm probably not supposed to (like it's basically like a huge searchable database of everything in my life)

ah, I don't use the mail app at all so I can't really advise sensibly there

my friend complains a lot about the finder in lion, u notice anything weird with it?

I haven't played extensively with my wife's machine, so no.

lol really I just wanted to say hi, someone who is more knowledgeable should feel free to jump in at any time...

my friend complains a lot about the finder in lion, u notice anything weird with it?

they completely fucked up the icon view in finder.. if you sort by date modified, it creates these groups of like "less than a day ago", "more than 30 days ago" that are a single line of files you have to scroll horizontally. i just want a big ass list of icons sorted by date!!

hi xp

i never use icon view, i don't really "understand" it

i have a strange use-case where i need to visually scan over and pick out an image from a huge collection of images; other than that i mostly use detail or column view

i guess if you're dealing wiht photos or wtv that's true

ack, it looks like the Sprint / Verizon iPhone 4s won't have be unlocked for GSM?

was actually gonna consider springing for one if it did

might just have to get really big pockets to use my ipad as a phone ?

You can change icon view back to the normal style. I only use it for my downloads folder.

I'm on Lion. The only thing annoying is some weird animations when moving stuff around in the Finder. But otherwise I think it's great. And all my software works with it, though I had to wait forever for Xrite to update their monitor calibration software which was like 10 years old.

i know im gonna have problems with my uh... "special" copy of final draft :S

I have no issue with Lion other than not being able to set up spaces in a 2x2 desktop configuration which almost made me revert back but I've gotten used to.

Darn. I can't update to IOS5 with my work computer...

ooooh, icloud for itunes is live

lets you download anything you ever bought - totally forgot about some records I bought through itunes in 2007

in finder, lion made all your folders on the sidebar into ONE COLOR, it's really lame

wow apple shipped a lot today

iOS5 (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch)
OSX 10.7.2
iTunes 10.5
Apple TV 4.4
iCloud
iPhoto 9.7.2
Safari 5.1.1
Aperture 3.2
Lion Restore update

iOS:
Airport Utility app
Find my Friends app
Showtimes app
Cards app

Updates:
iMovie
Pages
Numbers
Keynote
Remote
Find My iPhone

and still it's going to cost $250 to fix my washing machine. they can put a man on the moon.

I have all this power in my pocket.

And I still don't have a washing machine.

it ended up being cheaper, so you all can relax.

oh god, iphone backing up, taking hours

anyone else finding the restore process not... working?

Loads of reports about that. I'm not even getting that far.

it didnt work for me at first, then i just restarted my phone and it worked fine

Mine backed up and immediately gave me some message about an internal error. Giving up, have to go to work.

is match live yet? that's all I'm interested in, since I never buy anything from itunes

nah, match isnt out yet

Saw a couple random glitches in the browser on iOS "gold master" on an iPad, gonna update when I get home and hope it works a bit better

Just use a direct download link. Much easier.

No need for me so far. Downloading the OS X update first, then grabbing iOS 5, then... onward!

Looks like they just released XCode too.

*posts from 10.7.2*

Having people on iMessage is grebt

is there a way to use that via the desktop yet? ichat? not yet tho?

I didn't realise but the icloud login screen is where you can create a whole new icloud apple id that's separate from your itunes apple id. Useful for when you've got multiple people sharing one itunes id but need separate icloud ids for doc/contact syncing etc. <-- TYPING THIS gave me a headache.

I have a choice of updating my dumb-phone to an iphone 4S or waiting to get iphone 5 when it's released sometime next year

I think it's probably worth the wait