Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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And that's great, but iCloud has a ceiling that's less than the capacity of their upper-end devices. It may not matter to a ton of users, but I'd be curious to see if anyone's kinda wondering about how to go about a migration/upgrade on their large-ish capacity iDevice.
Kickaha, she's in Port Angeles. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Cool, that's a neat town. I grew up 2 hrs the *other* direction, so I was going to be amused if she was in my old stomping grounds.
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careful with axes
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Hillsborough, CA
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This is my opinion, but if you have >50GB of data on your iDevices at all times, then you are mostly doing it wrong. I treat that space as scratch mostly for video recordings and temporary storage of downloaded movies/shows.
I'm sure iCloud storage options will expand when needed. |
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¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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Apple needs to offer a way to plug in a USB flash-drive through an external Lightning>female USB adapter or a CF card via Lightning>CF adapter and make it completely seamless and easy through "Settings" or even a stand-alone "Backup" app. Why we have to think these things up for them in a Post-PC world is beyond me. *I really want to go 16GB on my next iPhone and just force myself to manage shit on there properly. My only hesitation is with the new slow-mo videos. I could see myself building a huge pile of those up between syncs... or maybe I should just manage my sync time properly as well. So it goes. |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Eugene, I'm talking specifically about those who've made an iPad their sole device (partly because Apple said they could, and provided the means to activate/use one as such). They've just not fully addressed the other end of the equation.
Procedurally/mechanically, what's the difference between someone having an 11" MacBook Air as their sole device vs. someone doing the same with an iPad? To me, if both users are able to do everything they need on their chosen device, there is none...except that Apple provides the former with the means to easily back up (and then restore/configure, when needed) their Mac locally. But somehow that thinking or approach is odd, funky and "not needed" when applied to the iOS side of things? I don't see any difference...you've got files, data, settings, documents, photos, music, video, etc. on an iPad too (they should be easily, seamlessly and locally able to be backed up - or thrown onto a new, upgraded device - as well), without iCloud being the sole possibility in a PC-free environment. What I'm talking about in all of this is no more complicated or "out there" than a product/approach Apple has already invented, and is using in their entire line of OS X-based products. Why shouldn't iOS get the same sort of consideration or handy, easy approach for those who've chucked their PC or Mac? It's not our place to say how someone uses their device is "wrong" or whatever. If 50GB was some universal, agreed-upon threshold for the amount of shit one should put on their device (and going past that made the user "wrong"), then Apple wouldn't offer 64GB devices (let alone 128GB ones). To me that would be like a car company bragging that their new sedan gets 75mpg...but they only install a two gallon tank in the car. It doesn't make sense, and it's going to cause problems and frustrate users at some point. Someone, at some point, is going to hit that wall where that arrangement is a pain-in-the-butt. "We offer 50GB of iCloud storage for $100 a year" is no kind of answer, or comprehensive solution/fix. It's not. iCloud is a great option. But I think it's just that...an option, for those whose needs it meets. That isn't everyone, and it's going to be even more "not everyone" as we move forward. Off-topic (click to toggle):
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Hey, I'm listening to Gruber's podcast and this outfit is one of the sponsors:
http://www.filetransporter.com Hmmm. Seems very close. 709, this might be exactly what you were talking about earlier. |
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