Why Bother with Apple TV?

Get a Mini, hook it up via DVI to your TV, and enjoy your music, movies, rented movies, downloaded movies, photos, etc - without streaming anything or buying another box that will just need to be replaced in 6 months. At least with a Mini you get a whole computer for only $300 more that you can also use email, internet, work, etc.
Other than HD, I just don't see the difference...

The difference is more than $ 300, there is a major difference in concept when it comes to using a computer to do a consumer products job.
I initially had 4 tv's throughout the house but used the wife's mini in the kitchen in place of an tv there. No one used it and went to another room where there was an tv to use it instead. Eventually I bought the fifth and used it instead of the wife's mini and now everyone uses it.
The mini may well do more, be capable of higher quality and have unlimited storage capabilities and front row may not be all that different to the tv, but that difference is enough to be the difference between whether it gets used or not.

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Why Bother with Objective C?

Given the tools out there for writing iOS apps in HTML, Jquery, C#, Ruby, etc, including some with generate apps that can run on both Android and iOS,
why bother writing in Objective C?
What are the advantages?
thx

red_menace wrote:
RubyMotion is not a bridge or an interpreter or a wrapper, it is built directly on top of the Objective-C run time, so there isn't really a downside if Ruby is your thing.
Interesting. Do you know of any similar projects with different languages? RubyMotion looks cool, but only if, as you say, "Ruby is your thing". For me, it is just another syntax. Objective-C is just C with a few "@" characters and a lot of "[]", so why bother? Now if there was a Perl front-end, that would be interesting.
I found the following list of LLVM front-ends:
Here is a tutorial on building your own: http://gnuu.org/2009/09/18/writing-your-own-toy-compiler/
LLVM Projects page has more information: http://llvm.org/ProjectsWithLLVM/
Now, where am I going to find a BNF for Perl
PS: Yes, I know about CamelBones. Unfortunately, both the project and its author are no more.
But to get back to the question of why bother with Objective-C, the answer is clearly the Objective-C runtime. It doesn't turn C into Perl, but it comes quite close. It comes so close that it really isn't worth ones time to bother with Objective-Perl.

Why bother with payin for sim free?

why bother with payin for sim free when you still have to wait for updates for months?
I bought my 5800 sim free on order to get updates faster and it seems to always be the last to get firmware update releases
not that i can update anyway as Nokia in all it's wisdom has failed to add support for windows 7
for its software update program only the fastest selling OS in history means that most users are using it
I want V40 now not in 12 months gawd

totally agree Jimmy shame branded phones often see and update before me with my unbranded simfree phone despite me paying extra and buying outright
Phones supplied by network operators are network-branded. This means that they alter the features of the phone to suit their marketing needs and basically turn it into a semi-functional device used to advertise to you. Features that they don't want you using are removed, their logo is plastered all over the place and links to their services are stuffed into the menus.
In some cases, they add a few features that are required to take full advantage of their subscriber services.
Given that the firmware in these phones is something based on Nokia's original firmware but subsequently modified by the network operator, any updates that the operator is planning on releasing will become available to your branded phone after they've been made available to generic, SIM-free phones. You will have to wait for your network operator to modify the firmware and release it, and this can often take a very long time, if indeed the operator bothers doing it at all. You may well be left with buggy firmware while users of SIM-free phones have already updated theirs and thus eliminated the bugs. Not to mention bugs introduced by the networks themselves during the branding process.

So why bother with Notes at all?

I was an avid user of Palm Memo's and have transferred to using Notes on my iPhone 3G. I was just updating a note that contained a bunch of measurements, when the phone went crazy and started deleting each word of the note before my eyes. I'd tap the screen and it wouldn't stop. I'd keep touching and it still wouldn't stop. It was like it was permanently "touched" (pun intended). Finally I just hit the Done button and it went back to the main page but my whole note was gone.
I've just spent the past 2.5 hours scanning the net trying to figure out how to restore that one note to get back all the measurements. Yes, I faithfully backed up my iPhone and and synced and it was on my computer, so I knew it was there. However as soon as I plugged it into the computer to try and restore, it backed it up again and I couldn't cancel the sync and now my latest backup contains the corrupted note!
I've been pouring through perl scripts to try and at least dump the information from an old backup, but it looks like "dbextract" doesn't work on the newest phones. I tried MobileSyncBrowser and it worked great and gave me the newest and most corrupt version of the Note that just got backed up, but I can't look at older versions of the note and its not meant as a restore tool either. I could completely restore from a backup but can I do it from the "2nd oldest" backup? And will it restore Notes? I've read that a restore doesn't do SMS messages or notes.
I have to tell you - why bother relying on Notes?
Thanks,
Janice

Cool app, but I agree, this should be part of the iphone's built-in features. We shouldn't have to shell out an additional $19.95.
Notes should also be organized alphabetically, or at least have a preference to do so.
I came over from the Palm world also and used their version of "Notes" ("Memos") all the time. This should be one of Apple's top priorities for the iPhone IMHO, along with copy/paste (come on, it's a computer for crying out loud!), and a real data search function (For example: search "detroit" and get a list of calendar items, contacts, memos with "detriot" in entries.) This should also be included with the high price of admission.
Yes, I have requested these features to be added. After my 2 year contract is up, I will be looking at the competition if these basic issues aren't addressed.
PS - Still an antiquated STILL camera, and no ability to send or d/load attachments like movies? Not exactly cutting edge.

Why bother with the software upgrade BT ?

I've still got the old silver BTVision box, I've had it since launch which is quite a few years I can tell you !!. At the start the software was very dodgy, even watching TV had its problems. After some very overdue software upgrades the box now runs as sweet as a nut.
My question is, with the new HD Youview box on the horizon (which I will be getting day one), why bother upsetting the applecart ??. The old boxes are running fine so why introduce a new slow, buggy UI to a platform that is on its way out ?. What is BT trying to achieve here apart from forcing an upgrade on people that apparently doesnt provide any extra features and wipes all of your recordings ?.

minusdot wrote:
StewM wrote:
The new software is still in testing mode at this time. Hopefully by the time it is fully launched the bugs will be fixed and the features added back.
If it's in use by non-beta testing customers, as it appears to be, then it is not in "testing mode". Can I stick with the old look please!
And yet you want multi-room. Which one cannot have on the WinCE platform as it has no flexibility. But the new platform will, eventually.
Rank - Mostly Harmless.

Why mess with Apple TV Rental menu?

Talk about making it harder for customers!
Rentals use to be simple - it was on the main menu but I can't see it anymore. Now I have to search through the Settings and then find Rentals and then watch it sitting there spinning away!
Who is messing with the simple beauty of the menu systems?
Surely it doesn't need to be this hard Apple!

Ok - logged out and had to log back in and it's back. Why does an update mess things up? Oh well. Now off to the Apple store to fix my iPhone 5 that doesn't work as well.

Why bother with iOS6 on iPad 2?

Why would Apple market iOS6 with Siri technology if it won't work with iPad 2?? I am HIGHLY disappointed.

They didn't market it as running on the iPad 2. They marketed Siri originally on the iPhone 4s, at that time running iOS 5.1.1. Now they market it as improved running on the iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, new iPad (3) and the iPod Touch 5th Generation. Since the iPhone OS progressed into iOS there have always been hardware limitations for certain functions on various models.

Possibly why issues with Apple TV & iTunes...

Over the past 24 hours I have had terrible trouble with my Apple TV & iTunes setup - I've never had any issues until now so you can imagine I hit these forums looking for an answer pretty much right away.
I've got an Apple TV 2.0 (160gb) & Mac Mini (Intel Core Duo) running 10.5.2 connected over wifi using an Airport Extreme Base Station.
I've got iTunes 7.6.2 and didn't have a problem when running 7.6.0...
The AEBS is NOT setup for 802.11n as my Mac Mini only supports 802.11g. I have therefore got it setup for g-only (so no issues with wide channels etc on 802.11n).
I started using playlists last week to sync tv shows and movies (my kids always watch the same movies and tv shows over and over so it is the best way to keep these shows on the apple TV and add new content as and when I like).
Everything was working just fine until I added a couple of tv shows yesterday - then the apple TV decided to not play well with iTunes....or rather iTunes kept dropping the Apple TV and would not see it again until restarting iTunes.
Through a tortuous process of elimination I think I may have found the solution to my problem...
Here is what I have done so far :
1 - Reset my Apple TV back to factory defaults (v1.1) - iTunes still drops the connection to the Apple TV when syncing
Note: At this point I should have realised it's an iTunes problem and not the Apple TV, however I ploughed on...
2 - Upgraded Apple TV to 2.0 - still no joy with syncing the tv/movies playlists
3 - Sync'd just photos and music to the Apple TV overnight - no problem
4 - Sync'd one movie (no playlist) this morning - no problem
5 - Sync'd one set of kids TV shows (no playlist) - no problem
I checked the console at steps 1 & 2 above and found iTunes complaining about "can't read data length" when it drops the Apple TV.
So to cut this long story short - the problems I am seeing are likely a corrupt file or a corrupt playlist.
YMMV of course!
Kind regards,
Alex.

Hello SamiD77,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
Apple TV: Syncing time and streaming performance dependent on the speed of wireless network
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24640
Best of luck,
Mario

Why bother with favorites

Every time I call Verizon the first thing they do is reset my box. Then I have to manually reenter my favorites. I set the favorites to the channels I actually receive. Why have to look thru the entire list (unless you are try to sell me something). If you ask the tech on phone or online they say you can restore and then painfully s-l-o-w walk you thru how to reenter it after the call. Im already an expert by now.

totally agree Jimmy shame branded phones often see and update before me with my unbranded simfree phone despite me paying extra and buying outright
Phones supplied by network operators are network-branded. This means that they alter the features of the phone to suit their marketing needs and basically turn it into a semi-functional device used to advertise to you. Features that they don't want you using are removed, their logo is plastered all over the place and links to their services are stuffed into the menus.
In some cases, they add a few features that are required to take full advantage of their subscriber services.
Given that the firmware in these phones is something based on Nokia's original firmware but subsequently modified by the network operator, any updates that the operator is planning on releasing will become available to your branded phone after they've been made available to generic, SIM-free phones. You will have to wait for your network operator to modify the firmware and release it, and this can often take a very long time, if indeed the operator bothers doing it at all. You may well be left with buggy firmware while users of SIM-free phones have already updated theirs and thus eliminated the bugs. Not to mention bugs introduced by the networks themselves during the branding process.

Why bother with a landline?

Our Verizon landline has been without a dial tone for almost 24 hours now. The online repair system promises that the situation will be resolved by next Tuesday evening, six days after the problem was reported! We even pay a monthly fee for a wiring maintenance plan in case the outage is caused by wiring inside the home (which, after testing at the NID, we know it's not).
Thankfully, our household has Vonage and Comcast Voice, as well as wireless service. Each of these vendors is able to diagnose and resolve problems within hours, not days or weeks.
I'm wondering why we - or anyone for that matter - would continue to maintain a Verizon landline when the cost is excessive and the service abysmal. It suddenly makes sense that so many of our friends and neighbors have given up their expensive and redundant landlines!

I am completely with you. My landline has not been working since July 8th. Verizon came out on the 9th and said it would be working within 48 hours but it's been almost 2 weeks now and still no phone service. I have used up almost all of my monthly cellphone minutes trying to get my phone working but to no avail. It's really, really ridiculous that Verizon who is supposed to be a phone company cannot get my line working. I never had issues with my landline when I was using Time Warner.
I am so fed up with verizon that i am ready to cancel my services (FIOS triple play) and go back to Time Warner. Since i am still under my 1 yr contract, would I be hit with the early termination fee b/c I cancel my account due to it not working?

Why bother with BSP???

Howdy,
I'm an ABAP programmer and I can't understand what is the benefit of creating BSP pages?
Aren't they just a way of displaying a report in a web-browser, rahter than in SAP? If so, what is the big deal with that?
Why should our company use BSPs is probably the question that I am trying to ask and is there much f a future for it? For unlike JAVA or ABAP, BSPs are not core SAP technology, are they???

This is a topic that's come up quite often.
I would suggest you read this forum thread and all the attached links to weblogs.
;\ New BSP Weblogs
BSP's are ABAP and HTML mixed together and they are a lot more than just displaying a report. You'll see several great examples in the link mentioned above.

I m coming from linux platform ... now need my g to work with vim ... how to install g which supports C 0x ... why does not it has repository with apple ... its so easy rather than going to UI ...

i m coming from linux platform ... now need my g to work with vim ... how to install g which supports C 0x ... why does not it has repository with apple ... its so easy rather than going to UI ...

tom i have been using ubuntu for c++ project
i use lambda and atomic (c++0x) but now as I am working on MAC not able to use them
installed xcode(4.3) and changed compiler settings to LLVM3.1 but still both features are not available
to compile wanted to have g++ which supports c++0x features ...
new to MAC (2-3 days) so was in rush to solution
let me know if you have some suggestion ...
else will try with eclipse cdt ....

Why can't apple use both processors?

My question that I have had in my mind for quite a while was how apple could just drop powerpc chips for intel. I know the basis of the decision for going to intel was that they had a better road map of putting better processors for their notebooks etc (centrinos / yonah).
Though my question was how apple could not use both? Everyone likes options, and since most software companies are doing universal coding in present day, why couldn't we have products from 86x and power pc processors? Was apple relationship that tarnished with ibm over the years?
I would have been bet that IBM could have matched better processors for the power macs, but I guess we won't be able to see that anytime soon.

Apple, and other companies need to be able to focus on one product, they don't want to have to split the testing efforts and development among two different lines. They are doing it for the transition but its putting a strain on things I suspect.
And as the two line diverge in the future its going to be harder and harder to maintain both platforms properly.
It's not just the processor, its all the supporting chip sets and underlying foundation and OS's that they need to build and test for two different systems.
If it looked like a Power chip was going to be competitive they might think about it but it hasn't looked good in a long while and the odds of anything coming up isn't much now. So they are going to start migrating people towards a new unified system base don Intel.
IBM has always been a bit reluctant to do things the way Apple would like. It was the Altvec instructions made the G4 so great but IBM wanted nothing to do with, it was Motorola that insisted in put them in, IBM didn't want to, but after that IBM was forced to include the technology in subsequent processors because it became the heart of a Mac's media capacity.
The G5 was getting rather insanely hot running and not showing any signs of much improvement without massive investment in effort which IBM seemingly didn't want to put in for such a small customer base.
IBM and Freescale can beat Intel if they wanted to, but their interest have seemed to be elsewhere for some time now.
So If Apple did a dual line then they would be supplying even less they do now, its just not enough to bother with for the problems incurred.
--Spire

Why will my apple tv only access purchases made in itunes library? My Home Sharing is activated on both my TV and computer, but I continue to get message to activate Home Sharing. I am unable to transfer my movies downloaded in Itunes.

Why will my Apple TV only accept purchases made in Itunes? I am unable to transfer movies and music that I have downloaded in Itunes through my Apple TV to my TV. All movies are in an MP3 Ipad format.I have followed every troubleshooting suggestion with no luck. If my Apple TV will transfer purchased music, I must assume the Home Sharing is activate on both my computer and TV.

Thank you. I meant streaming, not transfer. I have streamed movies through my Apple TV before and watched them on my TV. Now, the only content that will stream is what I purchased in the Itunes store. My Home Sharing is obviously activated or the streaming of purchased items would not work. Both my Itunes and Apple TV are fully updated. Where am I going wrong?

HT202636 How is it that apple allows you to permanently delete photos, but not books. Some books are a blight, and one has buyer's remorse, and they should be obliterated? Why won't Apple allow this to happen? We can do it with photos? And iI think music?

I want, for whatever reason, to be able to permanently delete, not just hide, books and PDFs from my iCloud? Why won't Apple let me? Beg pardon from Apple if I'm mistaken, but don't think so.

I own the movies and I want them to stay in my iTunes library basically forever.
But in both cases the file name no longer shows in the movie list, so I don't know how to re-download it from the Cloud.
iTunes prefs > Store > Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases.
This will show all your iTunes purchases in your library with a cloud icon down arrow. Click the icon to redownload or click on Play to stream without downloading.
Also see this , -> Download past purchases
and techncially, you don't "own" the movie, You simply have a license to use it.
Yet the first thing iTunes does when you hit the delete key is tell you that it will remove the movie forever from all devices and the library.
Actually, no it does not tell you that.
FYI: You should keep copies of all yoru iTnue spurahses as the labels/movie studios/copyright owners can pull their product at anytime and it won't be available to redownload.
Suggestions here -> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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