I HATE APPLE

they had itunes match and apple music working off separate systems even if you had both and it'd be glitchy as fuck, I believe they finally integrated

righto

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/06/08/1418203/im-not-sure-i-understand----how-apples-siri-lost-her-mojo

Some former executives, close observers and even devoted customers say Apple's innovative power appears to be waning, stymied by a lack of urgency and difficulty bringing ideas to fruition. In nearly six years under Chief Executive Tim Cook, Apple's stock has soared but the company has not delivered a breakthrough product on par with the string of hits under late founder Steve Jobs, which included the iPod, iPhone and iPad. "Siri is a textbook of leading on something in tech and then losing an edge despite having all the money and the talent and sitting in Silicon Valley," said Holger Mueller, a principal analyst Constellation Research, a technology research and advisory firm.

the homepod looks great, but apple has so little confidence in siri that it's marketing its echo competitor as a very good speaker first and an intelligent assistant fourth.

this week's announcement was pretty damn solid, but apple is clearly a long way behind behind in some areas. for all that its hardware and stance on privacy seem to be stronger than ever, innovation is basically a lost cause at this point.

innovation is dumb who cares

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-sneakers-shoes-auction-1990s-heritage-ebay/

are those dayo's

deep diabetes-core

in your face jony ive, that's a real design classic right there

I still haven't found a way of getting OS Sierra to talk to an Android phone! I even got a new phone because I thought the problem was that my old one was too ancient but the problem is OS Sierra.

Literally all I want to do is sync a couple of iTunes playlists. Previously iSyncr worked perfectly for this. Now, I think the various apps that are meant to get Androids and Macs to talk to each other can recognise an Android is connected but can't actually access it: iSyncr doesn't open, Smartswitch doesn't allow any sort of iTunes transfer, Doubletwist just crashes.

I've even tried to completely change the way I listen by investigating Google Play and it's automatically trying to upload my entire iTunes library which looks like it might take weeks, is making my computer overload, can't actually be stopped and isn't even doing it by playlist so is useless.

Heelllllllllllp I just want to organise the music on my phone like I used to

iSyncr works fine for me on Sierra. what exactly is happening?

Literally nothing. I mean, when I click on the iSyncr icon it does say "Galaxy" rather than "Where is my USB device?" so it can tell there's a phone there, but nothing happens when I click on that. Sometimes a message on the phone itself will pop up after I've connected it via USB to the Mac saying there's no software that recognises it and I should download Kies (which the Kies website won't let me do as apparently Smartswitch is what Mac users have to use now).

Hm, I've only done the wifi sync. Maybe try that?

I don't see the option for that in the desktop app...

I have iSyncr running on desktop but I never open it to sync, I just see the menu bar icon. I start syncing from the mobile app, and the app lets me choose between wifi and usb.

WHY IN THE FUCK DOES MY KID'S IPAD MINI EASILY CONNECT AND STREAM AUDIO TO OUR AIRPORT EXPRESS AND MY BIG DAD IPAD DOES NOT
WHY DID I SPEND TWENTY WHOLE DOLLARS ON AN AMAZON BLUETOOTH AUDIO THINGY THAT NOTHING CAN ACTUALLY CONNECT AND STREAM TO
I HATE APPLE

also, FUCK

Have you tried asking your kid for help

low blow man

i have an admin account and a non-admin, daily use account. one day, for no apparent reason, i couldn't log into my daily use account until i logged into my admin account first.

i'm going to end up reinstalling OS X, aren't i?

Create another account and test that?

new account logs in just fine

have a suspicion this involves FileVault, but Apple removed UI for adding/removing permission to unlock FileVault

Ah that's a bit beyond my pay grade. I suppose if you've exhausted apple discussions you may be faced with back up and reinstall.

yeah

it's frustrating knowing that somewhere there are a just couple bits that need to be twiddled ...

When I hook up my iPhone to a Mac or pc, in the finder window I can see/edit/copy the folder which contains my camera roll. But 'my photo stream' (ugh) isn't there. Is there a way to access that particular folder through finder? Or a (third party) app, to copy it?

They want you to go through the Photos app.

On a related note, I've got a Cannon. Used to be I could hook it up through the port and it would appear as a drive on my desktop. But after one of the recent updates, Apple did away with that handy function, so now I have to import through Photos and then to my preferred Lightroom.

Pain. In. The. Ass.

I'm sure there's an app for being able to dig through your phone through a finder window, but I haven't tried something like that since the iPhone 4.

You should be able still to import it directly to Lightroom, it doesn't need to be a drive for that. Is it not showing up at all in LR?

You can also make the Lightroom import screen fire up automatically when the Canon is attached.

Follow the steps in the second method here ("Stop the Photos app from launching using Image Capture") and choose Lightroom via that little icon hidden away in the bottom left of the Image Capture screen.

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/12/28/how-to-stop-photos-mac-auto-launch/

They want you to go through the Photos app.

:'-(

the "photo stream" is just a dump of images with a bunch of metadata that organizes it in different ways. depending on your settings, they may or may not even be on your phone. going through Photos makes sense -- it's not a folder, any view that made it folder-like in the finder would be embedding the Photos functionality into Finder!

Photo stream has screen shots, photos sent through whatsapp etc in it. It is a dump, but I want to be able to make a time-stamped copy of that photo stream. Guess I'll fire up Photos to see if I can deal with it.

They want you to go through the Photos app.

On a related note, I've got a Cannon. Used to be I could hook it up through the port and it would appear as a drive on my desktop. But after one of the recent updates, Apple did away with that handy function, so now I have to import through Photos and /then/ to my preferred Lightroom.

Pain. In. The. Ass.

I'm sure there's an app for being able to dig through your phone through a finder window, but I haven't tried something like that since the iPhone 4.

Iexplorer

You can also pull photos off of the phone directly using Image Capture. (it's in your Applications folder already)

http://www.macworld.com/article/2867001/exploring-the-many-miracles-of-image-capture.html

Completely new to me, thanks so much!

it also drives scanners and is the quickest way of deleting all the photos on an iphone

I used to use Image Capturw to delete all photos on my phone after I'd copied them to my Mac but was always annoyed I couldn't leave my favorites behind.

Then I found this app, Deleter, which allows you to do just that. Very handy.

https://appadvice.com/app/deleter/1180101544

can't you just, before deleting in ImageCapture, deselect the pics you want to keep?

That would be OK if they were grouped, but Image Capture doesn't show your favourites, or any of your iPhone folders, so you'd be left going through thumbnails of hundreds of photos to pick out the ones to keep each time.

It's a known issue with Canons:
https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/PowerShot/quot-No-camera-was-found-quot-message/td-p/54525
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4436919?tstart=0
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/help-cant-transfer-files-from-camera-to-mac.1327151/

The iMac doesn't even acknowledge there's a camera hooked in... unless you open up Photos.

can't use a 4-digit passcode anymore? fuck off

oh, grow up. my 6yo even prefers a longer passcode. we made her use a four digit one so us adults could remember how to unlock and update her "pea pod."

did android patent the draw a pattern screen lock thing or are apple just too huffy to borrow it?

the former, I would assume

apple hasn't implemented the swype keyboard functionality either for the same reason

(my passcode on my personal devices is basically "draw a pattern" on the keypad anyway, tbf)

i really need to update my mini but i'm waiting for apple to update theirs :(

Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced + reliable brand of lightning cable, the 3 pack of cheapshit ones I got on ebay charge at a snail's pace.

ime only the apple ones go fast

the socket for the charger in my iphone is dead, apparently all the grooves are broken. apple told me they'd give me a new model for £250 and that this part can't be replaced or repaired. i'm assuming if i go to some non-apple place they'll actually be able to repair this regardless?

I'm not sure about that — they're part of the board on most models, I think

Regarding the lightning cables, I think you have to look for ones that are "MFI certified" for them to perform properly. I shouldn't have bought the cheap ones that are labelled "genuine", they are a total waste of time.