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I had an issue with iTunes just recently. I recently (like today recent) purchased a season pass for The Legend of Korra at 1080p resolution. When I play it, there is a pop up message that the video is too large to play on my computer with it proceeding to do just that with no issue. Huh?
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BBC News - Apple loses UK tablet design appeal versus Samsung

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He also ordered Apple to run ads saying Samsung had not infringed its rights.

Judge Birss said one notice should remain on Apple's website for at least half a year while other adverts should be placed in various magazines and newspapers to "correct the damaging impression" that Samsung was a copycat.

"We continue to believe that Apple was not the first to design a tablet with a rectangular shape and rounded corners and that the origins of Apple's registered design features can be found in numerous examples of prior art".
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Old 10-24-2012, 07:28 PM
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I have to buy a new Macbook as it's cheaper to do that than to re-purchase all of my design software for Windows. Have I counteracted the evilness by also acquiring a Windows box?

The thing that kills me the most is how much cheaper a PC is for a comprable machine. The PC is more scalable, easier to work on, happier to be networked, and Windows 7 is more stable than the new OSX. Apple spend most of their time now on iGadgets instead of making better computers. They are losing their creative market by leaps and bounds, quite a few video editing platforms are leaving for Windows.

This and the fanboy aspect makes me secretly happy when Apple loses another absurd court case.
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Yeah, sorry, unfortunately there's just too many more consumers than creators. And consumers have more money, too. :sigh:
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I know. I hate it, too. I wish that Windows had managed to steal some of the creative market share from Apple earlier so that I wouldn't be stuck with this shitty iKeyboard that came with my iMachine because the keyboard isn't very iComfortable, I guess at least it's iKool to look at.
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iPad mini and iPad 4: Apple has muddied the waters

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Fast forward to mid-2012 and the third-generation 'new iPad' hits the streets, adding to the options, but it was still relatively straight forward as Apple took the first generation iPad out of circulation. Naturally you still had to choose what storage size you wanted, but that was all.

But just seven months later, we have the fourth-gen iPad and the introduction of the iPad mini.

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Old 10-25-2012, 01:57 AM
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As a Mac fan and an Apple gadget fan I'm worried the two are going to moosh in a bad way. Apple can get away with their psychotic control issues when it comes to gadgets but OS X has been my favorite OS yet (powerful, easy to use but with freedom) and I wonder how long till it gets eaten by the iOS concept of locking the user out of everything that isn't apple approved.
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I wonder how long till it gets eaten by the iOS concept of locking the user out of everything that isn't apple approved.
They're already well on their way, with the Mac App Store and particularly with Gatekeeper. And the closer they move in that direction, the more OS X is going to suck ass.

I'm waiting for the day when they disallow ports trees like MacPorts, under the auspices of security.
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Apple suggested an update for our Airport. We updated it like good little Jobbites. Now it's rendered one of our Airport Express units obsolete. Fuck you, Apple. That was only two years old.
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Apple were accused of copying a clock face design by Swiss-Federal Railways that has been in use at Swiss railway stations since the 1940s.

Apple have now admitted that they did copy the clock for the latest iPad clock app, and have agreed to pay royalties. :blank:

Apple Licenses Swiss Railway Clock Design for iPad's iOS 6 Clock App - Mac Rumors

As you can see from the linked article above, Apple's copy of the clock wasn't a 100% duplicate - they omitted the Swiss logo in their app version.
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Not coming to Apple's defense, but . . .

It seems weird to me that clock face design is copyrightable, unless it is obviously artistic in nature. That a claim of intellectual property on something so minimalistic can be enforced is rather bewildering. Also, Apple didn't copy it exactly, the aspect ratio of the minute-bars are different than the Swiss one (they're much thinner, and longer), the circle on the minute-hand is smaller, and the hour-hand is wider on the Swiss one. These are notable differences when there's so little to the face design to begin with.
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Indeed. A little like a rectangle with rounded corners. :blank:
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iTunes 11 is out. If you thought it was bad before you're in for a treat ... :facepalm:

ETA: Actually, after rummaging around a bit, I noticed that you can customize the interface. For example to bring the sidebar back which is gone by default.
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Also, we now have a Sinterklaas section in the store ... Sinterklaas! And plenty of Dutch movies: "Films in het Nederlands". According to Apple, we are in the Netherlands. :glare:
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Maybe there's just some translation confusion. They probably mean "nether regions"
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I use Winamp for a media player. Has a trippy ass visualizer. Definitely not minimalistic like Apples iTune viz.
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iTunes 11 is out. If you thought it was bad before you're in for a treat ... :facepalm:

ETA: Actually, after rummaging around a bit, I noticed that you can customize the interface. For example to bring the sidebar back which is gone by default.
iTunes has never been the most stable, user-friendly program, but it has yet to severely mangle my data. So far that's held true for iTunes 11.

However, iTunes 11 has managed to crash twice after running it 3 times (give it time, I'm running it for the 3rd time now.) I may have overtaxed the poor program by changing the user preferences while trying to sync. The first thing I did is figure out how to get the sidebar back. I'm working on a desktop, I often do more than once thing at a time - for instance, I'm posting this while praying that your sync actually works without crashing. Stop trying to show me only one thing at a time.

Ugh. I understand the manufacturers think the "desktop" is going away, but we're not even close to the usability I've come to expect from a desktop setup.
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I just finished with a round of iTunes ignoring me and doing what ever the fuck it wants.

I'm planning on getting a new phone some time soon and it will probably not be another iPhone. To get prepared for this I wanted to back up my contacts/etc.

So I go into iTunes, select my phone, got to the info tab and choose to enable synch of contacts. I choose to synch with Outlook. During the synch process I am asked if I want to MERGE contacts or REPLACE the contacts on the phone with those in Outlook. Well I don't have any contacts in Outlook so I choose MERGE.

Fucking iTunes does a REPLACE anyways. Now all my contacts on the phone are gone and NOTHING transferred into Outlook.

Ended up having to restore my phone from 11/12 (yeah I don't back it up very often) to get my contacts back, but that loses me numerous text messages and emails. Fucking piece of shit software.
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Maddox is being blocked by Apple.

Damn, if the best site on the internet is blocked, what's the point of going online?
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Maddox is being blocked by Apple.

Damn, if the best site on the internet is blocked, what's the point of going online?
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:smugnod: Well played, Adem. Well played.
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I just finished with a round of iTunes ignoring me and doing what ever the fuck it wants.

I'm planning on getting a new phone some time soon and it will probably not be another iPhone. To get prepared for this I wanted to back up my contacts/etc.

So I go into iTunes, select my phone, got to the info tab and choose to enable synch of contacts. I choose to synch with Outlook. During the synch process I am asked if I want to MERGE contacts or REPLACE the contacts on the phone with those in Outlook. Well I don't have any contacts in Outlook so I choose MERGE.

Fucking iTunes does a REPLACE anyways. Now all my contacts on the phone are gone and NOTHING transferred into Outlook.

Ended up having to restore my phone from 11/12 (yeah I don't back it up very often) to get my contacts back, but that loses me numerous text messages and emails. Fucking piece of shit software.
This may have been an iTunes on Windows problem. Earlier this morning I successfully backed up and merged my contacts on my phone with those on my MacBook Pro without any problems.

Still I hate iTunes.
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Maddox is being blocked by Apple.

Damn, if the best site on the internet is blocked, what's the point of going online?
I clickied on the link and bam....blocked at work.

I don't work at Apple, but they hate him too.


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Maddox needs a band-aid for all that butthurt. and 1990's web design.
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