Why the Bluetooth file transfer to other smart devices is not supported by apple? I am seeing only the lame excuse "that it only supports apple devices and not other". Knowing that only I'm posting this question to apple support people...

APPLE never answers this question. I love apple products but this kind of useless restriction drawing itself back to the underground...they only answer what the device can do and they never answer why the device can't do that? I want to directly post this question to apple.

Apple aren't here. You won't get a response from Apple on this user-to-user help forum.
Although speculation on Apple policies is not permitted on this forum, it has been previously speculated frequently, that the reasons for not allowing Bluetooth file transfers are:
1) Bluetooth is too slow for transferring multi-megabyte / gigabyte media files that iOS devices typically store. There are much faster ways of transferring files, not limited by arbitrary distances Bluetooth is.
2) Allowing file transfers would allow illegal sharing of copyrighted music and video files. Apple has a duty to protect such files from easy sharing due to agreements with the copyright holders for whom they sell this copyrighted content in the iTunes Store.

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Can anyone give me any clues as to how I could stop the File transfer WIndow appearing when I Bluetooth an image from phone to my Mac?
It is the Obex Agent window. That says Incoming File etc
It will appear over any open applications right in the centre of the screen. I have tried instantly hiding it when it appears with Applescript but this is not quite good enough for my purposes.
Any idea how I can ideally disable it. Or at least move its location.
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Apple aren't here. You won't get a response from Apple on this user-to-user help forum.
Although speculation on Apple policies is not permitted on this forum, it has been previously speculated frequently, that the reasons for not allowing Bluetooth file transfers are:
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First off, i think it's sad that i have to use my non apple device to post this question... Why has my iPad become absolutely useless after updating to iOS 8.1? I am unable to use my mini because it crashes, slow performance, major battery drain.

Restore iPad to Factory Default; do not restore from backup. It may be the cause of the problem.
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There is not "fix" to be provided, Apple made a decision to not include the file sharing profile.
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Can Itune get too full whereas it will stop downloading podcast automatically or manually? I just exported my 2006 " bibleonradio" podcast to a folder on my harddrive. Immediately itune started downloading podast from that site. But for the last 4-5 months it would hit and miss with downloading and the last 2 weeks it quit altogether.I would go to the site and download the podcast to a selected itune folder as a mp3 for listening.
Do I need to do some type of maintenance to prevent this from occurring? The site is simple reading of bible scriptures. Could itunes get confuse with 2006 podcasts, thinking I already have the podcast, even though the release date for the new podast are mark 2007?
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Posted: Jun 24, 2007 9:23 AM in response to: Austin Smith2

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Look at the Podcasts in your iTunes Library. Do you see a little exclamation point to the left of the listing? If so, click on that.
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Posted: Jun 25, 2007 3:35 PM in response to: Diane Wordsmith

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Thank you for your reply:
I have that symbol on some of my other podacst sites, but not this one because I listen to it daily, sometimes 2-3 times a day. Could the exclamation symbol for the othe sites, which goes away if I start listening to them again affect this podcast? but these site with the exclamation also hit and miss when itunes downloads, as much as 2-3 weeks once I start it back up.
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Posted: Jun 25, 2007 3:49 PM in response to: Austin Smith2

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What's happened to me is that some Podcasts I subscribe to I might get lazy about listening to. Several of the Podcasts will pile up, and after a while iTunes will stop updating if you haven't listened to them. When I click on that little exclamation point in a circle, it will tell me that iTunes hasn't been updating that podcast because I haven't listened to it in a while. I think it asks if you want to continue (or maybe you have to click on subscribe again to get them started back).
If you are listening to this particular podcast every day, that shouldn't be a problem. And not listening to the other ones shouldn't affect this one. Sorry I can't be of more help, but I'm not sure what is causing it.
You might go to iTunes> Preferences and click on the tab for Podcasts and see what your settings are there.
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Posted: Jun 25, 2007 8:07 PM in response to: Diane Wordsmith

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Thank you again for your reply.
My settings in preference for podcast are::
check for new episodes-every hour
when new episodes are available-download all
keep-all episodes
does anyone else have this problem or any idea how to fix it?
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Trying to come up with an alternative to incomplete podcasts downloads from a website. What I'm trying to do is convert some the missing podcasts file from a website that itune don't download-reason unknown. I'm able to download a mp3 file of the podcast from the web site to my desktop, but I would like to add this to my podcast library under the same name of the podcast that I subscribed, then add to my playlist for continuous playing. Is this possible?
Thank for any Help,
Austin
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I was on the wrong forum. Hope someone might have an answer.
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automatic downloads incomplete
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Some Podcasts have many episodes and when I subscribe, I get them all at once. But with some podcasts ( http://www.bibleonradio.com/ ), only a few episodes download, and I know there are many others available either because I can see them listed by going directly to the site or because they are numbered and some are clearly missing. I have tried setting my preferences both to download the latest edition of a podcast when I update or to download ALL editions. No difference either way.
Strangely enough, if I am patience , sometimes the gaps will fill themselves in or all at once when I choose to click update. Anyone have any ideas why this might be happening? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I email the web administrator and they said they were able to go to the itune store and download all the recent episodes. Below is my email conversation.
Thanks,
Austin
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Posted: Jun 7, 2007 4:07 PM in response to: Austin Smith2
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Oops, I left off the dialog. Hope someone can Help.
Austin
From: Austin Smith [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 7:16 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: podcast
no podcast downloading after feb 17th. Can you help?
On Feb 19, 2007, at 8:45 AM, MasterMedia wrote:
Austin,
If you mean podcasting of the One Year Audio Bible, then whenever the podcasting is behind you can always go out to the website and download from there. That’s usually been updated even when the podcast has not. Sorry for the inconvenience but the podcast should be brought up to date soon.
MasterMedia
From: Austin Smith [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 7:21 AM
To: MasterMedia
Subject: Re: podcast
Thank you for your quick reply.
I was able to get itunes to download all the updates except,
Feb 18 New testament,
Feb 20 New Testament,
Feb 22 Old and New Testament.
Is this a problem on my end?
You wrote, "If you mean podcasting of the One Year Audio Bible, then whenever the podcasting is behind you can always go out to the website and download from there."
If I manually download the mp3 from your website, can I put them into the postcast library?
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Subject: RE: podcast
Date: February 20, 2007 9:14:44 AM CST
To: [email protected]
Austin,
I just went out to the iTunes store and tried to download those dates you had a problem with and I was able to download them without any problem. Maybe you should try again. And yes, you can manually download them from our website and store them into your podcast library. I’ve done that before and it works too.
MasterMedia
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Posted: Jun 7, 2007 4:12 PM in response to: Austin Smith2
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Just a suggestion, since this is a podcast issue, you might find more help in the podcast section of the Mac forum.
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Thanks.
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Guys am I asking the wrong question? I have posted this question 3 times, but I don;t get a reply. Am I in the wrong section? Am I the only one experiencing this problem?
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Hi I found the answer from another post. So far everything is working find. I been trying to fix this since march,
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Deleting the application rarely solves anything on Macs. A better starting point is normally to delete the preference file for the application (in Users/~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.itunes.plist) or see if you have the same problem in another user account on the computer.
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Mike, deleting the preferences did the trick, but I don't know why. Itunes downloaded 5 days of podcast! Hurray!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!

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