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51 posts & 27 voices | Started 7 months ago by SBrock | Latest reply from euain

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SBrock - Member

Earlier this year i bought OS X snow leopard for my intel mac and have just paid £20.99 for the OS X Lion upgrade from the app store. Everything is working fine.
I bought an iPad 2 last week and love it, got the iOS 5 update with the iCloud etc, but for me to stream photos to my iPads I now have to buy the iPhoto update to do this? WTF I'm really not happy about this, are they taking the piss or what, I have owned apple stuff for years and love it, but I have to pay out more money for something that should just work with the OS updates that I have on my Mac and iPad. Must say Apple have got me now haven't they?

Rant over!!!!

Posted 7 months ago #
GrahamS - Member

Don't pay it then.

Don't really see the point in the photo stream stuff meeself.
Just use Google Photos or Flickr.

Posted 7 months ago #
xiphon - Member

Apple charges fanbois money for extra 'essentials' shocker. Film at 11.

Posted 7 months ago #
grum - Member

I'll tell you what does take the piss - I would like upcoming calendar entries to appear on the home/lock screen on the iphone. Apparently there is no way to do this without jailbreaking the phone. It did it on my crap old Nokia smartphone.

Posted 7 months ago #
enfht - Member

Didn't Apple get all legal on Microsoft over "forcing" PC customers to use Internet Explorer?

Therefore surely you can use a Non-Apple product to provide the functionality you need.....?

Or were you duped along with the other trillion Apple fanboyz?

Posted 7 months ago #
Sandwich - Member

Strange that as the notifications screen shows the calendar events on the lock screen here. Using iOS5? I suspect it will break when mobile me dies unless I upgrade to a new home Mac to replace the G5 powermac.

Posted 7 months ago #
fisha - Member

Didn't Apple get all legal on Microsoft over "forcing" PC customers to use Internet Explorer?

Not sure it was apple , more a case of everyone who had a browser they wanted put onto windows. ( I personally didn't see the issue myself - Windows always allowed you to use another browser and set the alternative as the default )

Posted 7 months ago #
euain - Member

I bought an iPad 2 last week and love it, got the iOS 5 update with the iCloud etc, but for me to stream photos to my iPads I now have to buy the iPhoto update to do this?

If you've got iPhoto '11, just go to Software Update and it should update to the latest version - no charge, no problem!

If you've not got iPhoto 11, and you bought the computer this year - might be worth sending support an email?

Posted 7 months ago #
GrahamS - Member

I'll tell you what does take the piss - I would like upcoming calendar entries to appear on the home/lock screen on the iphone.

Upcoming calendar entries appear on the Notifications screen. You can set how many should appear in the Settings.

Entries with alerts set will appear on the lock screen when the alert goes off.

Posted 7 months ago #
GrahamS - Member

Or were you duped along with the other trillion Apple fanboyz?

*Yawn*

Posted 7 months ago #
SBrock - Member

No not got iPhoto 11, all my software is up to date, so if I want streaming to iPad then I need to pay for it.

Posted 7 months ago #
STATO - Member

Sorry but iPhoto '11 is a separate product, not sure why you think it should be included with Lion? do you also want Apature, iLife '11 and iWork for free too? What you seem to have done is not researched before you purchased.

Posted 7 months ago #
GrahamS - Member

No not got iPhoto 11, all my software is up to date,

Not sure I get your point. I recently moved to Windows 7, but I didn't expect it to upgrade Microsoft Office while it was at it.

Posted 7 months ago #
grum - Member

Upcoming calendar entries appear on the Notifications screen. You can set how many should appear in the Settings.

They appear in the Notification Centre thingy reached by swiping right down the screen yup, but not on my lock screen. Is it only if you've actually set an alert that it appears there? That is a bit poor TBH. Why can't the actual Notification Centre thing come up on the lock screen?

Posted 7 months ago #
don simon - Member

Ooooh, Apple? Where can I buy one? They look great.

Posted 7 months ago #
GrahamS - Member

Is it only if you've actually set an alert that it appears there?

Yup.

That is a bit poor TBH. Why can't the actual Notification Centre thing come up on the lock screen?

Dunno. Maybe they didn't think it was cool to display lots of personal private information on a lock screen?

Posted 7 months ago #
STATO - Member

They appear in the Notification Centre thingy reached by swiping right down the screen yup, but not on my lock screen. Is it only if you've actually set an alert that it appears there? That is a bit poor TBH.

Poor only if your only event is a reminder to pick the kids up from football or whatever. If you have multiple meetings, events and personal calendars i dont think it would have enough space, nevermind when you start adding in a barrage of emails, ebay notifications, twitter/facebook etc. As it is my notifications centre is getting pretty crowded, ive already switched some apps back to the little red number for notifications to free up space for important stuff.

Posted 7 months ago #
glenh - Member

They appear in the Notification Centre thingy reached by swiping right down the screen yup, but not on my lock screen. Is it only if you've actually set an alert that it appears there? That is a bit poor TBH. Why can't the actual Notification Centre thing come up on the lock screen?

Surely you just need to go into settings and select 'view in lock screen'?

Also, re the original post. I'm not sure what your point is. As far as I can tell, you paid for one piece of software and seem to expect to get another for free?

Posted 7 months ago #
defydude - Member

Not to sound like a millionaire, but iPhoto is only £10 on the app store.

Posted 7 months ago #
xiphon - Member

@enfht

You're talking about the EU Browser Choice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu

Posted 7 months ago #
markrtw - Member

http://www.bailey.asia/apple.html

Picture 3

nuff said

Posted 7 months ago #
xiphon - Member

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apple

Posted 7 months ago #
thisisnotaspoon - Member

Not sure it was apple , more a case of everyone who had a browser they wanted put onto windows. ( I personally didn't see the issue myself - Windows always allowed you to use another browser and set the alternative as the default )

I thought it was that loads of stuff has to use IE, which makes it an undeletable part of windows?

Posted 7 months ago #
GrahamS - Member

Picture 3

nuff said

Yup. Entirely accurate because when I went from Microsoft Office 2003 to 2007 to 2010 it cost me absolutely nothing. Oh no, wait...

Posted 7 months ago #
defydude - Member

markrtw - Member
http://www.bailey.asia/apple.html

Picture 3

nuff said

~~Well, no. Not really. The last major update of the OSX operating system, Lion, was £20. iPhoto is £10, whereas previously it has shipped free with macs as part of iLife.....~~

Oh what's the point....

Posted 7 months ago #
defydude - Member

Posted 7 months ago #
Elfinsafety - Member

Love that, Defydude!

Qualitage.

Posted 7 months ago #
glenh - Member

Oh what's the point....

I don't know. What is your point?

Posted 7 months ago #
FuzzyWuzzy - Member

To be fair they only had $28 billion revenue last quarter, they can't afford to be giving stuff away for free

Posted 7 months ago #
GrahamS - Member

Tesco had £60.3 billion revenue last year, but bizarrely they still insist I pay for my beans.

Greedy capitalist pigs eh?

Posted 7 months ago #
scuzz - Member

Tesco had £60.3 billion revenue last year, but bizarrely they still insist I pay for my beans.

There's a market down the road where you can get your beans for free. You've just got to put in a little effort, mind.

Posted 7 months ago #
PrinceJohn - Member

to be fair to the op I sympathise - he's had os upgrades forced on him & now doesn't have the functionality he had before the upgrades without paying out more money for the latest version.

Posted 7 months ago #
xiphon - Member

PrinceJohn - I take it you've never tried to install Office 2010 on Windows 95 then?

And he hasn't had OS upgrades forced on him!! He opted to purchase Lion...

Posted 7 months ago #
SBrock - Member

It's ok borrowing a copy of ilife11 off a mate

Posted 7 months ago #
Dougal - Member

to be fair to the op I sympathise - he's had os upgrades forced on him & now doesn't have the functionality he had before the upgrades without paying out more money for the latest version.

This functionality did not exist before. He's not lost anything, just whining about spending £10 to add a new feature to the £1500+ he's already spent.

Posted 7 months ago #