The Apple Thread

[Iridium]

Yea well I did

 

[sohum]

Wonder what this means in development terms. I've been learning objective C with XCode and started making my own apps.

Probably won't change anything.

By the way, you can use MonoTouch to develop apps for iOS using a .NET language. It does cost a lot to be able to deploy to a real phone, though ($300ish) not to mention that under the official Apple developer rules, your app has to be developed in Objective-C.

I've dabbled around a bit in Objective-C over the last few months but the language is so archaic and annoying that I have more or less given up on it.

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The new features are pretty cool. In particular, I'm glad they finally have wireless syncing between devices. In fact, it looks like that they enabled that remotely since I was *finally* able to download apps/music onto my iPhone that I had purchased on my iPod Touch and vica versa.

iCloud looks like a nice way to complete the sync use cases except for the fact that it costs $25 a year. I'm not ready to give any more of my money to Apple (purchasing mp3's through Amazon already costs less) so I'm going to stick with wired syncing until someone invariably makes a third-party app that syncs wirelessly using the new API.

Pretty soon I'll be down to one iOS device, though, as I'll be replacing my iPhone 3GS with an HTC HD7s.

 

[Chewie]

The $25 a year is only for the iTunes Match service. The normal iCloud service is completely free

 

[sohum]

The $25 a year is only for the iTunes Match service. The normal iCloud service is completely free

I know. But the normal iCloud is not really useful if you don't buy your music from iTunes.

 

[Chewie]

If I had a iMac and a MBP I'd use it to sync my documents between them. But cos I have a Windows PC I use dropbox

 

[Chewie]

I took my sister's Macbook into the Apple store here because it was making a funny noise. Apparently the cd drive is faulty and they're going to have to replace it. The thing is, this 'superdrive' is going to cost 370 without GST, with $180 of labour/'assessment fee'. All before GST. I don't see how it can costs so much for the cd/dvd drive when for a normal desktop it would only cost $30 or so. I would expect $100 maybe, but $370???

Only upside is that her case has a crack in it and they are replacing it for free because it comes under the apple quality programme.

That's a lot of money just to find and repair a cd drive though.

 

[Iridium]

It would be cheaper just to buy an external optical drive.

 

[Chewie]

Well she never uses the drive anyway. But it makes a really annoying noise

 

[Cricketman]

That's strange. Is it out of warranty? Usually all my mac repairs are free. In fact, they usually replace the whole thing with a new system, no questions asked. Just one of the many reasons I love apple. Unmatched customer service (from my experience at least).

 

[Chewie]

Yea it's out of warranty unfortunately

 

[sohum]

Get it fixed at a third party retailer. That way you won't get charged the exorbitant Apple tax and you won't have to deal with the problem.

 

[Chewie]

Way too late. It's my sister's laptop and my parents paid so it doesn't really bother me.

 

[Chewie]

OSX Lion coming out tomorrow, as well as possibly new Macbook Airs, Mac Minis and White Macbooks.

 

[iridescentt]

As much as I love the Apple trend, I've literally just verbally bashed a mate of mine for purchasing a Mac Pro - what an absolute waste of money.

Thousands of dollars down the drain.

 

[Chewie]

A Mac Pro as in the desktop?