I HATE APPLE

The desktop PC version of Win8 is going to have a steep learning curve for anyone used to 7, and I suspect many Windows PC users who don't have Windows phones or tablets (which is most of them) will choose the old Windows 7 interface on their desktops and laptops. Most of us already are used to either iOS or Android on mobile/touchscreen devices anyway.

Windows Phone also suffers from the paucity of apps for it, and a small selection of phones that run it (mostly Nokia)

Crazy. Yeah, 7 does bluetooth and wireless fine, XP really had that grafted on and it was always kind of hacky.

I have no idea how you partially uninstall Windows 7 unless it's due to weird software or hardware failure?

Me neither! It was pretty magical.

that's a good play imo

i gotta admit these home screens are pretty dope

http://blog.inner-active.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/windows_phone_7_107099550.jpg

windows:rocka dnr oll

the managed home screens look nice and simple. but i've seen videos where they scroll to the next page and every app has its own square and its own colours and it looks like a carcrash.

I just got a new Win laptop and love 7

Ugh, part of the awesomeness of having an iPhone was being able to charge my phone almost ANYWHERE I went; like if I was at someone's house and my phone was dying and I asked them if they had an iPhone or iPod charger, 4 out of 5 times the answer was yes and the day was saved. Also Apple can gtfo with these grossly overpriced accessories. Does it come with an adapter bcz if it doesn't this will seriously make me reconsider upgrading in like 6mos

sounds like the adapter is an add-on you'd have to buy, $29 for the adapter and $39 for one with a cable. to boot, the phone comes out in september but the adapter won't be available until october.

rmde

I bet it's not even USB 3.0 capable.

It's not. So you're expected to just sit there for the hour or two it's going to take to back up a full 64gb phone I guess? Total trash.

monoprice will have their own adapters for $5 within a month, i'll bet

that said i almost never backup over USB anymore

monoprice will have their own adapters for $5 within a month, i'll bet

that said i almost never backup over USB anymore

Oh that's right I forgot you can do wifi sync!

the new ones will have 802.11n, oh yeah!

I mean I am sorta looking forward to not having to delete stuff every time I need to update iOS or large apps

:(

I think I came up with the theory that OS X runs a lot better if you have at least 20% of your hard disk space free, but this was several years ago and on a laptop with less memory.

the standard recommendation for years has been to keep 10% of HD space free on a laptop/desktop computer as a bare minimum

It's a fair assumption, just because (regardless of OS) you're not spinning to edge of the disk as often, running out of hard cache, etc.

xp that recommendation brought to you by the same people who repair permissions when they can't send email, ime

haha

thx koogs, good to know!

Unix depends on the free 10% so much that some versions of df don't even report it as free space, and say the disk is 100% used when it's only 90% full. (which means you can get a disk 105% full, with persistence)

When I upped my iPad to iOS 6 last night, the iTunes window claimed that the iPad was over-full by 9GB for a minute before the iPad rebooted. Impressive.

aw man I want ios 6 where do I sign up

t0rrents or ask a developer friend

caek when you've not got a lot of RAM the 10% free disk space thing is croosh ime

edward, it's getting released on the 19th of the month apparantly.

eh, you're not missing anything. they just messed up the maps app, removed the system youtube one, and changed some colors here and there

will google maps be a purchasable app?

i believe it's already available for free?

there is no standalone google maps app yet afaik, but I would bet they will make one.

the youtube standalone app points the way for that

wouldn't upgrade my iphone to ios6 for the maps reason but would upgrade my ipad since I don't use that for navigation at all

won't update iphone to iOS6 for fear of messing it up but tempted to upgrade my iPad 3 - altho the thing is I use G maps quite a lot on the iPad (esp street view) so would not like to lose that - what are the benefits of iOS6 again?

<crickets>

well there's the new disimproved maps, and there's also some other things that are indispensable

you won't know you loved without it

you loved how you lived

they've not improved the auto-correct, i notice 8)

weird shit

woke up today and my SSD had basically filled up by creating 65 GB of swap files overnight

what could be the culprit?

i did two things out of the ordinary last night:

1) left grand theft auto vice city running all night

2) enabled a new set of junk mail filtering rules on mail.app

i am thinking maybe some memory hooey with GTA?

seems likely

btw restarting my computer solved the issue but still ... wondering where all that junk in private/var came from

i wonder what sort of exotic shit was happening in vice city last night

i shut it down as soon as i woke up, maybe the city had filled up with like 1,000,000 residents or something

and now they're all dead u genocidal maniac

They don't just pause when you walk away, they continue interacting and building a world in there

nanites!

Yo, iOS 6 won't let me search contacts in the Messages app; what the fuck is this bullshit?!

I like complaints like this

http://gizmodo.com/5948045/the-iphone-5-may-be-the-best-phone-in-the-universe-but-its-calendar-icon-still-sucks

"Please examine the number 1 placement in the Calendar app's dock icon. It's optically centered and it looks great"

looks like it's on the wonk to me, isn't tilted as much as the page is.

also, the 1st was a monday...

xp ha yes i miss that kind of grouching. kind of pointless now with the suede calendar and marker felt : (

1. podcasts app is kinda dumb and glitchy
2. why do people get excited about panoramic photos when there is no good way to view them in their full size?