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solipsism 
It's all self explanatory. You've contradicted your own post by stating that it sits for 6 hours in a powered dock on your nightstand yet want it to start as soon as you are within WiFi range of your home.
How is that contradictory? The vast majority of the time I sync less than 50 megabytes of data. As I said if there was a setting that would stop the sync if the battery was less than 50%, best of all worlds. If I have plenty of battery, sync. If not, as soon as I plug into power, sync. Either way my phone stays up to date without me having to think about it.
What's so hard about it?
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That completely ignores how it could task the phone's processor and battery. What if you were doing other tasks at the time or had only a few percent battery remaining? These have to be considered for a consumer device.
That's why I commented about having a setting where you can set a threshold on battery percentage remaining that would disable it until the phone is plugged in. Have the setting be user settable and people like you who are overly concerned about the battery can disable it unless the phone is plugged into the wall. Everyone is happy and the end result is a very Apple-like experience - "it just works".
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You can't just say, "well the user should now better and spend hours a day tinkering with their settings so I can have the freedom to do what I want". Thinking that way is destine for failure.
That's why I didn't say that
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What you suggest is to make it so "simple" that there are no checks and balances to make sure the backup can happen on the device while still keeping the device useful. How you can't see keeping the device useful during a backup needs to be questioned.
Have you noticed backups happen in a fraction of the time in iOS 4? Pretty much a non issue. Also I don't need a backup every time I connect my phone - nor does iTunes do a backup every time you plug the phone in - I sincerely doubt I'm in a minority in plugging my phone in at night - so restrict backups to only happen when the phone is powered on.
Heck, just by seeing usage patterns here in the forums quite a few people rarely plug into their computer - but they for sure plug their phone into power at least every other day. Perfect window for syncing content at a minimum.
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I also question your implication that syncing 64GB over 802.11b without it charging simply wouldn't happen because every uses a dock and 802.11n and has already synced it so it's only a minimal sync. That is hypocritical to your other statement that making the system check for for feasibility before syncing iss overly complex.
Huh? Your paragraph doesn't even make sense. Syncing a full 64GB of data is impossible for the iPhone
and an extreme edge case for the iPad. Other than initial setup/sync (which you could easily restrict to USB) people will be syncing a subset of the total capacity on their devices. Esp. if they sync automatically more frequently
But I still stand by my assertion that even syncing 64GB of an iPad over G is not a big deal and could easily happen overnight. And if it doesn't oh well, pick it up the next time the iPad is in range, or if it's really important or time critical you plug it into USB.
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I'm amazed at how this simple idea of usable features for the majority seems to pass over so many heads.
I'm amazed you didn't read my post more clearly and see that I had already addressed your major objection about battery usage.
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You can look at any of the Android phones to see exactly what uncontrolled features for the sake of having the feature can do to ruin the user experience.
If you think wireless sync is equal to the morass of poorly implemented features and inconsistent vendor provided UI's over multiple versions of the OS that can't be universally upgraded across Android hardware families I would have to ask - into hyperbole much?
I've been reading and enjoying your posts for a long time in these forums, so I know that's not the case - I think we just have a simple failure to communicate. I don't see the same issues you do. I dunno, perhaps it's because your assuming operations like backup and sync are atomic, lock out the phone and will fail unless that can be preserved - I don't think that needs to be the case. My Calendars, Contacts and Mail update in the background. If i use the App Store app on the iPhone or iPad the apps update en-mass, even in the background - how is updating from Apple's Servers or my iTunes library that much different? It isn't. And syncing can be configured so that if interrupted, it picks up from where it left off. Indeed, if you are syncing via USB and get a call on your iPhone, the sync is interrupted and you have to resume it when your call is over - and it picks up where you left off. No difference between a cable and wireless, except wireless is far more convenient and far more likely to happen. And wireless sync is LONG overdue...
