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IOS 5 looks to right the wrongs of previous iOS version



  • 200 million iOS devices have been sold to date
  • IOS has 44 percent of the mobile OS market
  • 25 million iPads have been sold in just over a year 















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Itunes hater, please explain
By shompa on 6/6/2011 3:40:08 PM , Rating: -1
Itunes haters, could you please explain how you sync your devices? Do you manage your songs/photos/PDFs/books/movies/audiobooks/apps/radi oprograms on a file system basis? You sit with windows explorer and drag folders here and there?

And I guess you are windows users mostly since Itunes much worse on PC then mac.

By Shadowmaster625 on 6/6/2011 4:10:39 PM , Rating: 2
I dont see how you avoid it. If you have a 8GB device and a 16GB SD card, and you want to load them up with stuff to take with you somewhere, and you have 800GB of stuff to choose from then here is my question: HOW IS SOME STUPID DUMBED DOWN PIECE OF iCRAP SOFTWARE GOING TO EVEN BEGIN TO KNOW HOW THE HECK TO HELP YOU? The obvious answer is: it doesnt, and it wont. On the other hand, if you learn basic file management, you dont need some piece of junk software to help you sync your devices. You are able to do it yourself, quickly and easily, and do it much better.

RE: Itunes hater, please explain
By weskurtz0081 on 6/6/2011 4:21:01 PM , Rating: 2
Well, I don't bother with a lot of stuff since it's stored on the SD card, but contacts and updates have always been done in the background OTA, and those are the two most important aspects to me.

Now that Apple has FINALLY caught up on that front, and even surpassed Google if they do apps free OTA (remember, Google has been doing OTA syncing and updates since the G1) Google has some improvements they can make to leapfrog Apple again in this area.

I am a former iPhone user that lost contact data due to not regularly plugging my phone into my PC.

RE: Itunes hater, please explain
By IamTHEsnake on 6/6/2011 4:47:15 PM , Rating: 2
agreed. making mobileme-type services free is the right move. the less maintenance required, the better. especially when thinking of those that are less informed on the tech front.

RE: Itunes hater, please explain
By weskurtz0081 on 6/6/2011 5:01:18 PM , Rating: 2
Hell, and I am VERY well informed about technology, but I loathed being forced to plug my phone into my PC to protect my data, so I just didn't do it (and one day I broke my phone).

So, since that day, I swore off Apple due to the fact I didn't have that worry with Android, but now the tides are starting to shift, Apple has finally gotten on the OTA ball and fixed the antiquated notifications system!

Now, I MIGHT actually consider getting another iPhone at some point.

RE: Itunes hater, please explain
By mcnabney on 6/6/2011 6:40:19 PM , Rating: 2
So you like buying from the company that is playing catch-up?


RE: Itunes hater, please explain
By Motoman on 6/6/2011 4:51:33 PM , Rating: 1
Lots of apps can automatically manage an iPlod or whatever instead of iToons. Winamp for example.

...and Winamp can actually do advanced things that iToons can't - like, say, delete a song from your iPod. Try doing that on iToons...

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RE: Itunes hater, please explain
By nafhan on 6/6/2011 5:29:34 PM , Rating: 2
I have all my contacts in Google contacts, I generally stream media, and read on the web. So, I rarely mess with data management. When I do, then, yes, Windows explorer. Pictures are the only thing where I do that regularly, and even then I just copy the entire picture folder off the device - same as I do with my digital camera.

My experience is that whenever I use a media management program to actually manage my stuff, I end up getting locked into using that media manager, because otherwise, due to all the "helpful" abstraction, I have no idea where anything is. I started off with a good directory/subdirectory naming scheme years ago. So, I can usually find any of my media files in two or three clicks. I will occasionally use media managers (Picassa, Media Monkey) for viewing pictures or listening to music, but that's about it.

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