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This is all big news for anyone who never uses anything but Apple products, but not so much for the rest of the world.
Apple’s Magnum Opus
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I add a calendar event to google calendar I'm still a bit surprised when I later notice it in my iPhone calendar. Same with updating contacts across devices.
To speak the truth - the Android integration with Google's contacts could be better. To transform all my locally stored contacts and make them Google contacts I had to first export them to a file, copy them on my laptop, upload to Google, mix&match duplicates and other corrections, download an export again on my computer, delete all my contacts from my phone (which also deleted my contacts from Google), reupload that…
You could also use something like http://www.soocial.com/
Disclaimer: I used to work there and they're working really hard on solving this kind of issues.
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#53Re: the "this is how it should have always worked" comment. I've watched my girlfriend use her computer, and this is essentially how she works. She just leaves everything open, never saving anything. She's comfortable using Expose to manage the million windows she ends up having open, but doesn't bother exiting apps when she's done with them and then starting them when she needs them again. If she could do this and h…
That's exactly how I use my computer. I reboot about once every 2 months, and only because I need to install a nagging security update or two. I never quit apps.
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#54Ok, that all sounds grandiose, but I think that perhaps people are overplaying the impact of iCloud. Yes, it's a big deal to be sure, but perhaps some pragmatism is in order. The author gets one bit right, that what Apple is theoretically "killing" is mostly irrelevant. On the other hand, what Apple showed thus far with iCloud is more about the fact that they are doing the cloud quite a bit differently than Google is…
Yes to the Office on all platforms - Google docs is really amateurish. It baffles me that they haven't improved it.
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#55Re: the "this is how it should have always worked" comment. I've watched my girlfriend use her computer, and this is essentially how she works. She just leaves everything open, never saving anything. She's comfortable using Expose to manage the million windows she ends up having open, but doesn't bother exiting apps when she's done with them and then starting them when she needs them again. If she could do this and h…
That's exactly how I use my computer. I reboot about once every 2 months, and only because I need to install a nagging security update or two. I never quit apps.
Sigh, I realized today that Ctrl+Alt+Del isn't that unrealistic to hit, when you use Emacs. :-(
(But then, most any key combination is probably quite easy to get in Emacs, by missing a couple of keys.)
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#56I think this article pretty much nails a key part of it. What Apple wants to do is implement a seamless digital world that Just Works. (It remains to be seen whether it does in fact Just Work.) Oddly enough, you could accuse them of, once again, stealing ideas from Xerox PARC (and, once again, be redirected to Douglas Englebart et al) ... the kind of thing Apple is demonstrating with iCloud, iOS5, and Lion is essenti…
I've just had my first branded backup device fail (with electronics grief, not media grief), received contradictory information about whether it was supported, and been told that, even if it was, there's no plan to put the media into new electronics, so I'm currently very resistant to any 'it just works' story.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't close programs anymore either, and I'm male. I do close documents to keep Exposé from getting unworkable, but my emacs usually has dozens of buffers open.
To provide a anecdotal counter point to balance this discussion, I obsessively close windows I'm not using. I dislike clutter and distraction. If I leave a Twitter client open or IRC I easily get distracted by it, so I'm constantly hitting CMD-W and use Quicksilver to open them when I need distraction. Same with iTunes when no music is playing.
I enabled spaces so I could push the things I wasn't ready for into the corners.
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#58I don’t know of a single other way to take a document I am working on with my iPad and jump to my Mac having the document up-to-date I do, it's called Google Docs.
Have you tried editing something with Google Docs on your iPad?
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't one lead to the other? What's the technical difference between allowing person to touch the same document on 4 devices, and two people touching the same document on 6 devices?
I don't know what the technical differences are, but I'm not sure how that's relevant. My point is, Apple doesn't seem to be interested in enabling that. And I'm not necessarily talking about collaboration, but even just sharing. Apple has given me great ways to take, edit, store, and organize my photos, but my primary purpose for all of that is to show my photos to others. They seem to have ignored that part. If you…
I also missed collaboration and sharing capabilities but Apple likes to take one step at a time. They are too good at this to just overlook collaboration and sharing, the only problem might be that implementing it could take them quite some time.
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#60Re: the "this is how it should have always worked" comment. I've watched my girlfriend use her computer, and this is essentially how she works. She just leaves everything open, never saving anything. She's comfortable using Expose to manage the million windows she ends up having open, but doesn't bother exiting apps when she's done with them and then starting them when she needs them again. If she could do this and h…
My girlfriend does exactly the same thing. I wonder if its a gender thing? Her PC kept freezing, but she loves her new Mac Air.
Please don't say things like this. Why should it be a "gender thing"? This only alienates people. "You don't close your windows? Like a girl?"