Wifi syncing iPhone - what's the point
While it's mildly useful syncing your iPhone with your computer wirelessly, it doesn't really blow me away. Here's why.
I still have to go to my computer to add new content or create new playlists to include new content (added through a smart 'recently added) playlist for example).
So if I have a bunch of playlists, which I do and can only sync some of them in the I total wired setup because of lack of space, I am restricted to this playlists until I return to my Mac and select different ones for the iPhone. The step of plugging it in then is just a small one.
This needs to be developed into a process where on my iPhone I can look at the other playlists and content on my Mac wirelessly and add them at will wirelessly.
That would be a good idea they should develope, using your iPhone/iPod to manage playlist syncs and such.
I think a neat feature of the wireless would be for smart play lists. Imagine you have some podcasts that get automatically added to iTunes, or movies that get download automattically via RSS, same for TV show, and get added to iTunes automatically. You could create a play list that says "Keep the 5 most recent episodes," new week, new episode gets added to the smart playlist. Then with the wireless sync you can get the episode to watch on your commute to work the next morning.
I also use the wireless sync because my mac is upstairs and I am downstairs. That is just be being lazy, but hasn't Apple allowed us to bring out our inner laziness?
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What is the point of syncing apps with iTunes?
I have an iPad & iPhone.
In older itunes the updates on one device would sync to itunes. but now what is the point of apps in itunes other than to waste space? if i backup a device, all apps seem to come from the internet. if i update then don't sync to itunes on pc so i end up download all updates 3 times (ipad/iphone/itunes).
Should I just delete all apps from itunes and same space both on hdd and on network (since i backup my itunes folder).
note that I have 300mbps unlimited internet.Is the device backing up to iTunes on the computer or iCloud?
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Can I sync my iPhone and my wife's iPhone calenders through the same iCloud account? Or do I need to set up 2 different apple id's and iCloud's
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ok im confused now.. What is the point of backing up and restoring your iphone with icloud, when to restore your iphone you have to plug it into itunes anyway? you might as well just restore it from there then shouldnt you?
when to restore your iphone you have to plug it into itunes anyway?
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AirPlay: forgive me but what's the point?
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I'm wondering, what's the point of AirPlay in this scenario? I mean, why would I ever want or need to stream to Apple TV from an iPad or iPhone when all my stuff is stored on my iMac anyway? I'm having a hard time understanding the point of AirPlay, unless it's all about streaming content to OTHER people's Apple TVs when you are away from home... but I don't know if this is even possible.disconnekt wrote:
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I'm wondering, what's the point of AirPlay in this scenario? I mean, why would I ever want or need to stream to Apple TV from an iPad or iPhone when all my stuff is stored on my iMac anyway? I'm having a hard time understanding the point of AirPlay, unless it's all about streaming content to OTHER people's Apple TVs when you are away from home... but I don't know if this is even possible.
Well, if absolutely all the photo/video content on your iPhones already exists in iTunes on your imac, then there is no point to Airplay for you.
Myself, I'll be using it to Airplay photos to my big-screen TV from my iPhone 4. I only synch my phone to iTunes maybe once ever 3-4 weeks, so it will be great to snap a photo of my 7-month old son and instantly stream it straight to my TV, without having to plug my phone into my computer, import the photos into iPhoto, and then navigate to the homeshared photo event on my apple tv. Just one button (airplay) on the photo in your iPhone photos app, and it's on the TV. I already tested this and it's great.
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So I took some photos on my iPhone they sync'd to my iPad via photo stream. I then created an album on my iPad and started copying photos from photo stream to the album.. All good.
Now, that album doesn't seem to sync to my iPhone, or to iPhoto or anywhere. Nothing's happening by iCloud, and nothing is sync'd when I sync with iTunes via Wifi or USB. If I plug in by USB, iPhoto has no knowledge of the Album on the iPad.
There are no album-level sharing options (e.g. Publish album to iCloud/Facebook or anything).
So what's the point of creating the album on the iPad?If you've taken photos with the iPad, and/or synced photos from your computer, then you may want to create an album with just a selection of those photos so that you can then just show those photos in a slideshow on the iPad e.g. you may have taken 100's of photos with the iPad and just want to show those with your children in.
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Unless I misunderstood, I have to pay to get all my music to be pushed to all my devices (iTunes Match) and I have to buy iWork for my iPhone (even though I already have it on my Mac) in order to get those documents pushed to the cloud. (It makes more sense to stick with iWork beta!)
I feel like Apple is nickling and diming its loyal customers.
So, essentially, iCloud is useless! I thought it would be a great way to free up space on my hard drive; I could just store my documents and music in the cloud.
My question is: what is the point of iCloud? Honestly, what does it do? It just pushes stuff between your devices? I genuinely don't understand the point of it.capaho wrote:
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Here we go... Yet another 'loyal' Apple customer who seems to think that because they've bought one Apple product, Apple should forever let them have new products and services for free.
The real problem here is that Apple has no long-term commitment to support anything it makes. It wasn't that long ago that MobileMe (which was not free) came into existence and now it is already being dumped in favor of iCloud, which lacks the iDisk, remote access to Time Capsules and personal websites. It's a step backwards and a disservice to those of us who were using some or all of those MobileMe features.
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In my own small home network we 7 Macs all being synced through MobileMe. Only two of these Macs can run Lion and doing so would mean no longer being able to use applications that our clients still use so it would mean loss of these clients. Not to mention the cost of replacing at least 5 of or Macs.
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With MobileMe one could buy a newer Mac running Lion and it would still be able to sync with older Macs but now it is all or nothing.
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If your back up continually fails, you might try turning off back up on your mobile device (settings > iCloud > storage & backup) and then deleting the backup file from iCloud by swiping the backup file on the mobile device (settings > iCloud > storage & backup > manage…) and then turning back up on again.
If this doesn't help, try turning off some items for back up in a pattern to try to establish if your problem is being caused by specific data on your device.
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Ipod has been playing music in my car the past two years. new computer this year and new email address. Backed up to cloud. change ID on itunes. Music on my ipod disappeared. Shouldn't it be on the cloud somewhere?! What's the point of this cloud? And is it b/c I can't seem to change my icloud ID to the new one on my ipod settings?
Music is not stored in your personal iCloud account, or in your device backup. Music purchased from the iTunes store is in available for redownload as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519. Music from other sources such as your CDs should be in your iTunes library on your computer and can be synced back to your iPod from there.
To change the iCloud account on your device you have to delete the exsting account, then sign back into the new ID.
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