Why does Apple now want to make life difficult
Having been an Apple user since the Apple Lisa in 1985 I am reasonably commited to the the hardware and software but the way things are going I must seriously start to question this. Mountain Lion now imposes restrictions that I consider onerous. With 2 Mac Pro's and 2 Macbook Pros and 2 iPhones the burden and methodology of updates is becoming untenable. I suppose that if you live in one of the lucky USA cities with fibre it may not be much of a problem to you but like an awful lot of people I don't. In Africa it is still very widespread to have speed limits imposed on you when you have transferred certain amounts, in my case it is 5 Gig. Because of the way Mountain lion now operates in order to update iMove I must now download the update to each machine, (at 1.08 Gig each) and the same for iPhoto and the same for iOS. Before I have had any personal use out of the internet my updates have consumed over 10 Gig and I am now restricted in it's use. Why can they not allow for a single download which can then be implemented on each system. This total closing of the distribution infrastructure may well mean looking at other platforms.
Chris Courtney-Stones wrote:
I am aware that it has always been this way for iOS but my marriage to the iPhone has been very short as I only started with one last September and to be quite honest I have no problem ditching at and going a different route for a cell phone. The updates for iOS are actually what alerted me to the stupiidity of this situation as in the past six weeks I have had one update for 910 Mb, one for 930 Mb with another one now waiting and the arrogant pratts won't even tell you the size of the update so I don't know whether on my, (by now because of previous updated), 256kb connection. If that is another 900+ Mb update have you any idea how long it is now going to tage me to download this twice.
Actually, thank you very much petermac87 for helping me decide, the iPhones are gone tommorow.
You would be a good candidate for using the OTA updates for your iOS devices. The last iOS update was 900+MB if you downloaded through iTunes (which could be used to update multiple iPhones of the same model) but if you used the OTA updates, I believe it was less than 20MB. The iTunes update is a full firmware download/flash files, whereas the OTA update is only the pieces that have changed. Just connect your iPhone to iTunes, and perform a full backup, then disconnect, and perform the software update OTA directly on the iPhone.
Additionally, if you want the full 900+MB download, it doesn't take much work to search Google to see how you can perform one download and use it on multiple computers. When you download iOS Apps, they have embedded in them the AppleID that was used to "purchase" them, but this is not the case with iOS itself. You can download the 8.IPSW file on one computer, then load it into iTunes on multiple computers to update many devices of the same model. The tricky part here is that there are so many iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch models, it is easy to need to perform multiple downloads for a single household. Just between my wife & I we need the iOS updates for iPhone 5 (times 2), iPad 2 (times 2), iPhone 4 (times 2), iPod Touch 3rd Generation (times 2). If I didn't use the download once, update multiple, then my 4 downloads would become 8.
Similarly, with the Mac App Store, you can do a little searching and find out where the App Store downloads the updates to, and copy those to your other Macs to limit the number of downloads you need to perform. You only have to be willing to search a little, and do some work.
While I don't know about Africa, I do know that here, Apple provides free wifi to their customers in the Apple Stores, so perhaps you just need to take your portable computers to your local Apple Store and download the updates from there so as not to use your own Internet bandwidth...
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There is one aspect that I find absolutely ridiculous and frustrating on Mac-OS. When I'm in Apple applications, it is impossible to find out where the file I'm working on is. For example, I have multiple files in my system, in different directories, lets say direcotories AA and BB and the file is called FooBar.txt. I open one of them in TextEdit. Great. Now I want to know which file I'm editing, AA/FooBar.txt or BB/FooBar.txt.
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So, hopefully, all you very sophisticated users will just point me to the right settings, swtiches and commands to make my life easier or that your designers will try to look at the sophisticated use cases and provide us with new tools, commands and options to make our lives easier. At the present, these frustrations remind me of the Microsoft ... we know beter .. attitude. So please, proove me wrong ;-)While most likely not of interest to you, Spotlight can also tell you where the files it finds are located
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<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/420456/open-terminal-here-in-mac-os-finder>
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This does not answer you question as to "why does apple", because for some reason Apple will treat us like children and try to do everything for you. An unrelated example would be trying to change the IP address of an Airport Extreme Base Station. You cannot. It will always grab the first IP in your subnet whether you like it or not. OK I digress. What I can say is that iTunes, in it's infinite wisdom, will look at your display and decide whether it will playback a HD movie (minimum 1280x800). If not, based upon display settings, it will refuse you the HD download. The "why" I cannot answer other than if you buy the HD movie on any other device like your iPhone 4 or iPad, you cannot share it from your library. So, maybe they get to sell more copies of the movie? That's my best guess. I've been an Apple guy since I first bought my Apple IIe. But honestly, I fume at them for being entirely non-responsive to their customers. Another example is the loss of the scroll arrows starting in OS Lion. Despite thousands and maybe millions of customer complaints, they refuse to listen. (Wow, I feel so much better...)
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Deceitful comes to mind....
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