I bought my iPad from San Francisco last spring, and asked the Apple Store staff to activate it. That was the last time it has been connected to a computer. Calendar and contacts sync nicely from Google, as does email. And Kindle does its own syncing. What else would I need?
If iPads are “post-pc devices” why must I sync with iTunes before I can use one?
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Re: If iPads are “post-pc devices” why must I sync with iTunes before I can use one?
#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
You forgot - can only resize a window from one corner, and that corner may be off the screen in certain cases so that you can't move the window to a position where the corner is even visible (this just bit me this week) - still doesn't understand how to fullscreen programs (windows maximize function is the single best OS function I've seen that allows a user to focus on just ONE thing). I think this is fixed in the u…
Adding few more. - No cut-paste. - No tabs in Finder. - The missing delete key. (Backspace is renamed as delete) - The not-so-modern Terminal. (hence the wide usage of iTerm)
fn+backspace is delete.
Re: If iPads are “post-pc devices” why must I sync with iTunes before I can use one?
#193In "Marketing Warfare," Al Reis and Jack Trout give a rule of thumb: Never build your strategy around an opponent's weakness. Build it around their strength. Why? because weaknesses can be fixed. Strengths cannot be fixed without undermining an opponent's own strategy. From this, I get that there are two kinds of problems with a product or service: A weakness, which is something bad that is orthogonal to a product's…
That's a good observation. I think of cables as an anti-feature. ( as defined by Benjamin Mako-Hill ). In that, the devices are perfectly capable of syncing and tethering wirelessly, but Apple hasn't enabled that functionality yet. They are going to add that at some point for an extra 9.99$ and going to call it AirTether. Brand new feature of iPad3. You pay a premium for getting rid of cables.
The number of new iOS features you had to pay for is literally crushed by the number of those you did not have to. Yet this "Apple are a greedy bunch making you shell out $$$ for every single new feature" is incredibly entrenched. Was it historically even ever true?
Re: If iPads are “post-pc devices” why must I sync with iTunes before I can use one?
#194I bought my iPad from San Francisco last spring, and asked the Apple Store staff to activate it. That was the last time it has been connected to a computer. Calendar and contacts sync nicely from Google, as does email. And Kindle does its own syncing. What else would I need?
This would imply that your OS version is pretty out of date by now.
Re: If iPads are “post-pc devices” why must I sync with iTunes before I can use one?
#195I bought my iPad from San Francisco last spring, and asked the Apple Store staff to activate it. That was the last time it has been connected to a computer. Calendar and contacts sync nicely from Google, as does email. And Kindle does its own syncing. What else would I need?
This would imply that your OS version is pretty out of date by now.
It does, yes. But I haven't really felt a need to upgrade. Actually, somebody in another thread here said that they can do upgrades for you in Apple Store
Re: If iPads are “post-pc devices” why must I sync with iTunes before I can use one?
#196It's half way there. Or both ways sans saving to device.
Home Sharing on iOS 4.3 allows to get your music from your computer and play it. AirPlay allows you to upstream media from your device.
I am pretty sure OTA sync is implemented and working somewhere on Infinite Loop.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
Adding few more. - No cut-paste. - No tabs in Finder. - The missing delete key. (Backspace is renamed as delete) - The not-so-modern Terminal. (hence the wide usage of iTerm)
- Command-C / Command-V for cut and paste in OS X (if that's what you're looking for) - TotalFinder is a nice Finder replacement: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/ - includes tabs and some other nifty features. Hope that helps a bit...
I believe the poster meant "Command-X" on a file, not on text. In all other graphical shells, if I wish to move a file from one place to another, I do not have to have two separate windows open. Maybe Apple doesn't view this as a problem, but if you come from an OS that permits it, you miss it under OSX.
It is especially weird given that CMD-c/CMD-v does work in Finder, just not CMD-x. That leads me to believe that it was intentionally omitted for some bizarre reason.
Re: If iPads are “post-pc devices” why must I sync with iTunes before I can use one?
#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Adding few more. - No cut-paste. - No tabs in Finder. - The missing delete key. (Backspace is renamed as delete) - The not-so-modern Terminal. (hence the wide usage of iTerm)
fn+backspace is delete.
Yup, handy of them to label that functionality, eh?
Re: If iPads are “post-pc devices” why must I sync with iTunes before I can use one?
#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll have to disagree with most of what you say here. I would attribute Apple's decision not to divorce the iPad from a PC to their desire to assert some presence onto the PC ecosystem. They don't want to be be JUST your tablet OS, they want to be on the desktop, by forcing installation of iTunes onto Windows machines as well. This way, both products reenforce each other, and they can get increased market share on de…
Updates also work very well over the WiFi network - no need to use your low-bandwidth data plan. If you don't have a computer, you're unlikely to have a wifi router.
"If you don't have a computer, you're unlikely to have a wifi router."
That's a very limited mindset.
In another few years, if there aren't already, there will be households with smartphones, tablets, and broadband + wifi at home but no traditional PCs of any sort. If you refuse to acknowledge such a scenario then you will lose sales for those folks.
Re: If iPads are “post-pc devices” why must I sync with iTunes before I can use one?
#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
Adding few more. - No cut-paste. - No tabs in Finder. - The missing delete key. (Backspace is renamed as delete) - The not-so-modern Terminal. (hence the wide usage of iTerm)
fn+backspace is delete.
Wow! I have been a mac user for almost 2 years now, and I didn't know that.
Thank you.