Posts tagged Apple
Thoughts On iCloud
Tonight I got into a rather heated debate with several of my buddies on a podcast we recorded (TechFan). The debate centered on iCloud and it’s functionality, or more to the point lack of functionality or working functionality. Mark Greentree, Dennis Freitas, Jeffrey Bradbury basically took the point of view that Apple just didn’t deliver on the promise of iCloud. My contention was that iCloud is a work in progress and what it does, it does well. What it doesn’t do, it will probably do in the next 6 to 12 months.
I can see why they were and are frustrated. The début of iCloud was met with huge demand. So much demand that Apple obviously couldn’t keep up. The demand to switch to iCloud also put more pressure on Apple servers as the move required no less than 3 major downloads: iTunes 10.5, Mac OS 10.7.2 & iOS 5. Each iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch needed its own independent download of iOS too. The smallest of the downloads was iTunes, but both 10.7.2 and iOS 5 were relatively large; and due to demand took many hours to download.
Once a user had the software download, they had to install the software and then run the update on their iOS device; which required checking into Apple’s over burdened servers. Ouch, that took some time. Once that was done, there was a conversion from MobileMe to iCloud that had to take place; again more pressure on Apple’s servers. For many the process took hours. I was spared this pain as I had a developer account and my wife opted to wait to do her upgrade until later in the weekend. So maybe that spared me the pain and kept me from being as jaded about the rest of the experience. (more…)
TechFan Podcast – Great Time By All
I was one of the guests this week. Man it was fun. A great couple of debates. On one of them I found myself the odd man out defending the great Apple mothership. Alas, I think I lost the debate. But the voting may have been skewed.
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Dennis Freitas originally shared this post:
Just Recorded a new episode of the TechFan Podcast with +Mark Greentree +Jeffrey Bradbury and +Kelly Spore Spent 1st 30 minutes discussing Google+ Move on to a Great Debate on iOS 5 and iCloud! Gets pretty heated should be a good listen. Will be posting show in a couple days!
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Recording TechFan
Recording TechFan with +Mark Greentree +Jeffrey Bradbury +Dennis Freitas. Great guys, great time!!
Reshared post from Mark Greentree
Good article. I do though think that two automatic backups could be a bit much for most. I’m telling friends to use iCloud backup all the time and force a manual iTunes backup.
Excellent info.
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Everyday Mac Support – Warning: iCloud BackUp In iOS 5 – Tip Of The Day #488
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10/12/11 iTunes Terms & Conditions
If you are ready to read a novel, here are the latest “T’s” and “C’s” from Apple for iTunes. Good news, first few paragraphs are the summary. Bad news, this is one long document!
Terms and Conditions and Apple Privacy Policy
The changes we have made to the terms and conditions include the following:
• Update of iTunes terms and conditions and/or certain usage rules to reflect changes to available content types;
• Amendment of the App Store terms and conditions to account for the availability of free in-app subscriptions, and to explain where the subscriptions appear on devices after download;
• New terms have been added that govern your use of iTunes Match, whereby you may pay a subscription fee to access certain content remotely, subject to existing association rules and usage rules, and explain that such content may be accessed on certain devices that are not subject to existing association rules, with limitations; and
• New terms have been added that explain that use of iTunes Match requires collection of certain information from your iTunes library which shall be associated with your Account.
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