Will iOS6 be the straw that broke the Consumer's Back.
I always loved Apple products, but I was always limited in my funds to purchase an iMac or iPad. Then Best Buy had a deal on the iPhone 4 from Verizon and I purchased one for my wife and one for myself. Even though the phone is very limiting as far as movies and music, it was everything I needed in a phone. I just updated to iOS6 and found out that some of the more important features are not available on the iPhone 4, like turn by turn directions, and Facetime over 3G. I knew Siri wasn't going to be available, but who needs another woman's voice in your life. But these key features is making me wish I stayed with the Droid Family. I know that Apple will tell me that my iPhone 4 has a processor that isn't fast enough to run the new features, and I don't believe that, but that is how Apple gets you to buy the next best thing, which might not be an Apple device at all. Loosen the noose that you have around your customers necks or you may find that it might be like 1991 for Apple.
Welcome to the forum, and goodbye from the forum I suppose. The demise of Sky Sports on Freeview has been in the air for months and it finally ended on 30 June so you got a bonus. You won't be charged for it so I suspect a claim for financial compensation is dooomed for stony ground, though I thought BT were offering 6 months free broadband to cheer up people who lost the service.
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You've got to be realistic. Surely you know that the UK has some of the most diverse regional accents and dialects of any country in the world?
Even native English speakers have trouble understanding some regional British accents and meanings for locally used words. Remember you're talking to a computer. Even the level of understanding it offers right now is pretty amazing for a computer. Natural language recognition is incredibly hard.
It will get better with time, as Apple analyses all the accents and words spoken into Siri everyday.
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Will I loose the warranty if I change the hard drive?
hey everybody
i'm intersted in buying a macbook pro and would like to replace the biult-in hard drive by a SSD.
will this affect the warranty?Of course your new SSD won't be covered by Apple (it will be covered by the manufacturer). You should hold on to your original hard drive just in case you ever need to send your machine into Apple for service. It is not uncommon for them to replace the hard drive when servicing the machine... even when it would seem there was no reason to do so. They typically will not send the old drive back to you. You wouldn't want them to keep your nice SSD.
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The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico, Spanish is my native tongue. I do not speak English very well, however, I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
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If anyone has an option like how to reinstall iOS 5.1.1 back onto my 3GS I would love to hear it.
Thanks for any constructive solutions or directions other than here to turn.
I've spent over thirty thousand dollars since 1992 on Macintosh products and I'm on the verge of becoming a Windows OS user based upon this latest Apple tactics of fair use.
iPhone 3GS, iOS 6.0.1
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One other thing I'm not updating the OS on the laptop; I like the freedom to do as I please with my computer.Unkle Rayne wrote:
I'm running iTunes 10.6.3.
Macintosh has never allowed the user to update and or utilize any app or feature if the Operating System was inadequate to do so. Your answer "iOS 6 requires 10.6.8 to run iTunes 10.7" is ineffective at this point and mute. The update should not have been aloud over Wifi or 3G Network to iPhone without the ability to authenticate resources required or needed to operate both iPhnoe iOS and Desktop OS together.
The issue, as has already been explained is that the version of iTunes on the computer will not work with iOS6.
iOS updates via Wi-Fi have nothing to do with iTunes on the computer and does not care what version is on the computer. Personally, I find it completely moronic to update via Wi-Fi as there is really no option for backup or a restore from backup if the update fails. To me, it seems like a great way for the user to create issues for themselves that do not need to exist.
As there is no officially supported method to downgrade the iOS, the only option left if syncing is desired is to upgrade iTunes on the computer.
I really do not understand why you seem so defensive about updating iTunes. Update iTunes on the computer, then sync the device, if that's what you want.
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I tried to register to the facetime and imesseage in the IPAD2 after upgrade to IOS6 but telling me that apple ID is not correct but iam sure that my Appple ID is correct please help me
sckofusernames77 wrote:
but it doesn't ask you if you have one or say that you won't be able to log on without one.
Well, it does say on http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/pc.html in step 1: "To enable iCloud on your Windows PC (Windows 7 or 8 required), first set up iCloud on your other devices, then install the iCloud Control Panel for Windows.
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Will any of the features of iOS6 that are not supported on IPod touch 4 now be available in future software updates?
We are users, this is not an Apple forum. We know nothing more about future products.
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I have uninstalled iTunes several times and reinstalled it on my PC running Window 7 with all updated loaded. When I click on the iTunes Store Box, Nothing happens except for a message that reads:
iTunes has stopped working.
The following items give me a choice, but no answer comes up. The computer will shut down the website.
"Check online for a solution and close the program"
"Close the program."
There is an item below the box that is selectable for View problem details. When clicked a long list of items show up. I have listed some of the problems as written, but I do not understand them. I know the iTunes Store has been available on earlier versions of of iTunes but is not on this version. How can we go back and download an earlier version of iTunes?
Here are some of the Problem Details:
"Problem signature: APPCRASH
Application Name: iTunes.exe
Application Version: 11.0.1.12
Application Timestamp: 50c8fc7e"I had this exact same problem. I found this fix and it worked for me.
Step 1:
Browse to C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support and copy the filen named QTMovieWin.dll.
Step 2:
Browse and past that file into C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes.
Hope this helps you. I wish I could remember where I saw this originally so I could thank them.
Good Luck.
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i have purchased itunes match but the cloud will not load on my ipad 4.it works on my iphone 5 & it originally worked on my ipad.the only music that will show up is stuff that i bought from the itunes store.any ideas on how to get this to work?
On the MBP, in iTunes, switch to Song view and enable the iCloud Status column by pulling down View > View options and selecting the option for "iCloud Status." Close the small window. Look for any tracks that have a status of "waiting." If you see several of them disable iTunes Match while holding down the Option key. Quit iTunes, wait a few seconds, then open it again and turn iTM back on. Let it compelete the scan. Wait until all tracks that are "waiting" have a status of either "matched" or "uploaded."
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I'm about to buy a 27" i-Mac. I would like to connect my 30" Cinema Display to it as a second monitor. What will I need to do that? Will this slow down the overall performance?
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There is no such thing as an iPhone 4GS.
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The application called VirusScan that comes preloaded on the macbook will no longer open, claiming that it is corrupt and that I must reinstall it. After looking in the app store it does not appear that said application is available for re-downloading. Is there a special, non-app store place where I am to go for this?
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http://www.reedcorner.net/news.php/?p=245
Remove is ASAP. Do not use the provided uninstalled, as there are widespread reports of pop-ups advertising MacKeeper on your system after incompletely removing it. Try this:
http://applehelpwriter.com/2011/09/21/how-to-uninstall-mackeeper-malware/
As for VirusScan, Barney is right on the money that it does not come preinstalled on any Mac shipped new from Apple. However you have gotten it, your best bet is removing it. See my Mac Malware Guide for more information that will help you understand and avoid Mac malware without relying on anti-virus software.
http://www.reedcorner.net/guides/macvirus
(Note that my pages contain links to other pages that promote my services, and this should not be taken as an endorsement of my services by Apple.)
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