On 11/22/2013 10:11 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 11/22/13, 10:01 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/22/2013 9:46 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 11/22/13, 9:37 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/22/2013 9:16 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 11/22/13, 8:10 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/22/2013 7:33 AM, John H wrote:


My wife convinced me to get iTunes. Biggest boo-boo I've made. She
even gave me iTunes gift cards.
But, iTunes gets to be all-consuming. Now it's gone. If I want new
music on my Ipod (or whatever the
little thing's called) I just ask her to sync it with her Bluegrass.
Mostly I just leave it alone.

John H. -- Hope you're having a great day!




Yeah, I have a super duper iPad with all the bells and whistles and
maximum memory. I bought it back when I had the guitar shop and we'd
leave it out on a table so customers could check guitar prices,
etc. by
having it display the shop's website. I'd also occasionally transfer
mp3 backing tracks from my PC to it (using iTunes) and plug the iPad
into the stage PA system for "jam" sessions. Now it sits unused
in my
house, collecting dust.



iTunes is all-consuming? What kind of ignorant nonsense talk is that?


I don't think it's "all consuming" but I think it's annoying that you
*have* to have it installed and use it to transfer stuff from your
PC to
an Apple device like the iPad. If iTunes is installed on your computer
it regularly knocks on your door looking to be updated or offering
other
services I am not interested in. That's why my iPad now sits, unused.

That's another thing ... Seems like every couple of weeks when I *did*
use it, it wanted to update it's OS, a process that seemed to take
forever.

Seems to me that Apple used to be a sorta cool, technology driven
company but has shifted to being totally marketing/sales driven in
recent years.


Apple updates its software from time to time. So does Microsoft. I can't
recall being "offered" other services from Apple other than by email.



The Microsoft Windows updates are mostly security related and don't
radically change how your computer looks, feels or acts. The iPad OS
updates are like starting all over again, similar to when you first
bought and used it. It also asks for you Apple ID and password each
time, which I can never remember because I rarely use anything Apple.

The last time I updated the OS on the iPad (about a month an a half
ago) I wasn't sure it was even going to run and the screen looked
totally different when it finally finished.

I guess I am just used to PCs and Window operating systems. Apple used
to have a reputation of being simple and intuitive in it's use. Not so
much anymore, IMO.



The iPad updates take no longer to install, since it is the same OS,
than the iPhone updates. Just a couple of minutes. Apple releases a few
IOS updates a year to fix bugs and sometimes add features and update
apps. The update to IOS 7 you installed a month and a half ago was a
major update from Version 6 to Version 7 and had some significant
changes to the way the operating system looks. There's plenty of simple
documentation available on line from Apple and many other sources.

Asking for your ID and PW is just a security measure. I have mine set to
something simple.

What model iPad do you have?




I don't know what model it is. I know it was the most expensive they
had at the time which was probably about three years ago. IIRC, it was
just under $900 from the local Apple store.

We got a little bit of a price break (not much though) because we
bought four of them at the same time. We bought them when there was a
shortage of them, so we grabbed them when we could.

My wife has one. She uses hers more than I do for playing Scrabble or
something with her friends and also for Skype when she wants to see and
talk to our son's family in South Carolina. I have one. The other two
went to people who worked at the guitar shop at the time.