I HATE APPLE

thankign u

in iOS, typing a random letter and backspacing it clears the x thing as well

Apparently no one at all has iPhone 5 chargers in stock, and the Lightning-to-oldtyle adapter hasn't been released yet, so if you lose or damage your charging cable you are just plain fucked

http://consumerist.com/2012/10/09/lose-your-iphone-5-charger-youre-get-stuck-with-expensive-pretty-brick/

The adapters just shipped a couple days ago

iphone 5 users are so fucked

poor bastards, gonna go tell my coworker who just got one that he's in a sticky situation

the risks of being an early adapter

lmao @ 'bendgate'

is maps getting any better? can i upgrade yet?

I gave up, been using the mapquest app

Maps+ is good in that it actually uses the Google Maps API. Interface takes a little to get used to, search isn't as smart, and there's no Streetview, but I like that visually traces the walking route, which you don't get with using the mobile browser Google Maps. It's free.

(but I'm still sticking to iOS5 for now)

iOS 6 is indispensable for all your zooming past buildings in 3D needs

So all the mail in my inboxes keeps disappearing and then re-appearing. I've tried rebuilding the mailboxes, deleting them and re-adding, moving them out of my library folder and re-adding, fixing permissions, and even doing this weird boot-into-utilities and fix something else shit. Anyone run into this and figure out how to fix it?

Locked myself out of my iPhone while walking back from playing a gig t'other night. The phone had a voice memo recording of the gig on it that actually sounded pretty good. Anyway, I got on a bus and repeatedly put the wrong code in over and over and continued to do so until I was sober enough to realise what a plonker I'd been. Now it's locked for good. Is there any way of retrieving the recording of the gig? Not bothered about anything else.

AFAIK getting into the file system requires turning on the WiFi or something similar. My iCloud doesn't back up voice memos.

try http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/

it's probably not unlocked for good, but unlocking it may involve resetting (i.e. losing the recording), so try that first

I know to get back into the phone I'll have to do a restore, which will mean losing the recording. I don't suppose anyone knows if the apple store people can do any magic?

Anyway, cheers for the link, will try that when I get home. Would be amazing if I can get file system access without having to unlock the phone.

have a faint memory that the filesystem's encrypted FileVault-style so even if you could get access I fear you wouldn't get much useful.

you mean filevault is applied on failed pin attempts? because i've definitely got voice memos off a non-pin-locked phone with iexplorer.

Yes, if the device is unlocked the files are transparently unencrypted for access. But they're all encrypted on disk, and when the phone is locked you can't access 'em. Even iTunes now has to tell you to unlock the phone first.

More details on p7-9 of this PDF http://images.apple.com/ipad/business/docs/iOS_Security_May12.pdf

ah

:'(

and thanks. might drop in to the apple store anyway and see what they've got to say

So my iPhone is just randomly rebooting a few times a day now. Dock connector not working too well either. 4S I got within ... the last six months or so?

reboots are usually kernel panics; sounds like duff hardware. take it to apple

Ok!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/dec/10/apple-maps-life-threatening-australian-police

I was out that way this weekend, apple maps didn't mark the name of the town I was in (13,000 pop'n) or any town on the 200km b road that goes there

O these motherfuckers.

In a roundabout way, I got a big apple gift card for my birthday last month. I decide, what the hell, give me one of those mini pads. The total is about thirty bucks more than the gift card, so I put in my checking acct number in there as well.

Couple of days later on my bank's website, I see a PENDING transaction for the whole damn price. I freak out, call apple, give them the gift card number, guy tells me my acct will only be charged for what's left, and even moves up my shipping date. I breathe a sigh of relief.

Until Friday night when I see that the WHOLE DAMN PRICE OF THE THING has been taken out of my account. I freak out again. Against every fiber of nature, I turn into the asshole caller with this poor woman in Austin, especially when she tells me that it's going to take five business days for my account to be refunded. I tell her it's unacceptable, why would I give a gift card number if I had wanted the whole thing taken out of my acct, who's going to pay any overdraft charges I'll incur when I do things like pay daycare?

She keeps going, "We appreciate your business tonight, is there anything else I can help you with?" which keeps setting me off like a timebomb for another 15 minutes.

I finally get her manager who's all, "Boy, yeah, you know, ain't this a pickle?" routine on me. I tell him to wire me a check, pay for any charges I get, whatever it takes. His solution is to call the bank this morning and have a three-way conference call with them to try to figure something out.

I call the bank earlier this morning, and of course, they're pretty much, "Why would we be the ones to cover these charges or extend your credit? This one's on Apple."

The bank manager won't be out of a meeting until late this morning, so we're going to call again after lunch. I am so fucking pissed about this. Hell, even if they restore everything back to zero this afternoon, they still pretty much ruined my Friday night.

And I have a feeling this isn't going to be resolved either. But when your stock's worth $500, who the fuck cares?

if apple wanted to 'figure something out' it would have refunded your hundreds of dollars pronto

SYDNEY (AP) — Australian police are warning that Apple's much-maligned mapping application is stranding drivers headed to the southern city of Mildura in the middle of a remote state park.

Victoria state police said Tuesday that an error in Apple's Maps service places the city of Mildura about 70 kilomters (44 miles) away in the Murray Sunset National Park. The park is a desert-like 5,000-square-kilometer (1,900-square-mile) region with scorching temperatures and virtually no mobile phone reception.

Police have been forced to rescue distressed drivers. Some were stranded for 24 hours with no food or water and have walked long distances through tough terrain to access phone reception.

Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment. CEO Tim Cook apologized in September and said the map service "fell short" of Apple's standards.

Oh, whoops, didn't see that right upthread.

wow, indesign looks really really shitty on retina

Photoshop and Illustrator were updated for Retina TODAY, while InDesign got a bug fix. I imagine it's not far behind.

kinda annoying that they never stock MBAs in the refurb store w/8GB of RAM

... and you can't have them add in the extra RAM otherwise

... and you obv can't upgrade the RAM yourself

let me bto one real quick and then return it

lol, exactly

I think it's more that no one ever returns ones with that amount of memory

Non-upgradeable memory is amongst the most annoying things in all of Appledom. I'm about to spring on a 64gb iPhone, and when 32gb microSD cards are readily available for $25 each, it's robbery to charge $200 for an extra 48gb for your iPhone or iPad.

some day they will be able to make the whole phone out of one non-moving part. the diagnostic process will be as simple as: "does this part work?" if it does not work, they swap your phone with their new all-encompassing applecare.

literally robbery

not stanning, but I think apple uses storage that's faster and more reliable than your average twenny buck sd card

They do, but even the highest-end brands of flash memory don't cost $100 for 16gb. I do see Apple's position that forcing the use of high-quality memory leads to ppl not losing their data/photos/etc. and thus the perception of a more reliable device.

oh yeah, it's absolutely scalping

its so ppl look at the cheaper ones and think hmm not a bad price

I think it's so that Apple makes billions of fucking dollars.

The hugest scam is the price to put a 3G radio in an iPod touch runs $600, near enough.

All these fuckers are pushing non-upgradable memory. They all want you to use the cloud, which is lame.

what does the cloud have to do w/memory?