All Things Mac/ Apple
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Maybe I'm just being stupid but I wasn't happy when I saw all the colors….I feel like it makes the iPhone seem cheap and like a kids toy. Black and white are way classier.
The whole "this wouldn't have happened if Steve was here" point is indeed silly but I really don't think this would have..... And also with ios7. I'm all for improvement but when apple starts blurring the line between what makes the iPhone the iPhone instead of any other random android it's not good Imo
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Apple has had brightly colored devices for years. This was probably on the roadmap when Jobs was at the helm. Maybe not the champagne 5S… And possibly not the goddamn 5C cheese grater cases...
Them looking more toy like is just typical Apple product line segmentation brilliance. 5S is meant to be the Rolls-Royce.
I just had my 5 battery replaced but battery life is still garbage. Maybe I'll get a 5S
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Mrs Snowy went from not wanting a phone to wanting the Yellow 1 just like that. She's the target audience.
Me I'm going Black 5S, and now there's 2 markets of phones :). http://daringfireball.net/2013/09/iphone_5c_5c_event is a good article on the creation of a 2nd market.
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It definitely looks cool and I'm sure it's optional to use it…. But as with all the "s" upgrades this one doesn't tempt me too much. I got a 5, and will probably be waiting for 6
McLain, my battery is crap too. IMO te battery on every 5 is
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Hoping the fingerprint sensor has an API that enables it to be used as a controller. That's a hope I've had ever since I had a blackberry bold long ago, it had an infrared sensor in replacement of the physical ball. It would be nice to have this added option for scrolling an other controls.
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Does fingerprint information remain local to the phone or is it collected like all other data?
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My guess is that it's local. A breach of a central resource would be devastating to the company in so many ways, there's no reason to take on such a risk.
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Anyone is already using ios7? I tried to instal the ios7 beta gm version I was unable to do it. And the error MSG was due to fireware. Anyone has any idea why?
I would just wait. Apparently, the new GM beta needs iTunes 11.1 to sync after you install. Also, WiFi syncing does not work in the iOS7 betas(not a bug, Apple just disabled it I believe). I've had iOS7 since the first beta and had OTA updates for each new beta but not this one. I'm just gonna wait a week until there's an iTunes update and official release of iOS7.
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@CLJ:
Does fingerprint information remain local to the phone or is it collected like all other data?
Apple said it was local.
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I hope the fingerprint thing is optional. I'm not paranoid or a conspiracy theorist or anything, but I would just as soon keep certain things to myself.
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I hope the fingerprint thing is optional. I'm not paranoid or a conspiracy theorist or anything, but I would just as soon keep certain things to myself.
"Apple says that your fingerprints are encrypted and are stored on the phone itself and not in the cloud or anywhere on the Internet, perhaps easing some NSA-related concerns.The fingerprint sensor will also be an optional feature: Owners will not be forced to use it for security, but it will be an option."
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Honestly, the best thing they could do in terms of corporate and military customers is to not just make it optional, but enable it as a second factor while retaining a key code lock. Multifactor authentication on a phone is a good story for the paranoid.
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Been writing powershell all night for work, and the bloody telco yesterday that took my line out still has it out :|.
As shoque has said/you assumed, you'll get better performance if you run another access 2/3rds down the house. New Airport Expresses might fit the bill, small/dual band etc. Little bit of Apple Tax, but they're a pretty simple/solid device.
To answer the new device/range question. Newer devices are generally covering lesser areas at higher throughput. 5Ghz stuff has short range, 2.4Ghz has heaps of interference, but better range.
So can I stick the cat 6 from the billion in to the back of an airport express?
As I cant with the wifi extender.Building on this and having a look at the airport range I want to be able to store my music mainly but photos and movies etc on an external harddrive that can be shared on the network, think it is called a NAS? So I can look and listen to what’s on there from different computers. I would also like to back up to it and just be able to grab it and go in case of a fire etc. I would want at least 3 tb if not more.
So thinking an airport extreme/ time capsule then an express to extended range.
I would still need a modem?Would this step up be easy to use with windows?
Is using apple the easiest/ best solution?
Cheers
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Hi mate, In order,
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Yes you can stick Cat 6 from billion to Airport express. You'll need to configure both, but it's meant to work like that
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It makes more sense if you buy a NAS and get it sharing (Synology). Airport Extreme + HDD will work, but it's bending the solution
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You're in an Apple thread, if it's mostly for windows I wouldn't go Airport Express/Extreme. It won't make much difference, but the ease of updating and where the Airports come in handy goes when used on Windows.
It sounds like you should sign up for Backblaze incase of fire/theft or failure, as well as NAS.
You will still need your ADSL Modem, yes.
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Nov 14th I'll get the 5S. Normally I'd wait for the 6, but the motion and fingerprint sensors are cool.
On another note, the 64-bit A7 makes me think that we could be looking at ARM MacBook Airs soon and iPads with 4GB or greater memory soon after that…
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Apple is the best technology company in the world for taking such risks with. Might sound fanboyish, but it's the simple truth. They are strategic and vertically integrated and iterative.
