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Quote: Originally Posted by Pooch two words: street view. walking directions. Add Transit Directions to that list...
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yah yah yah. Looks cool, totally useless. They best have transit when it comes out or you're gonna piss off all these city people when they can't get around any more.
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I'm wondering if this feature is going to be like Windows - it warns you so often you just get use dto hitting OK all the time, never bothering to read the dialog any more; and eventually saying 'OK' to something bad.
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Quote: Originally Posted by nkhm Yup, latest technologies require latest operating systems and hardware. That's the nature of technology, although i will say that apple try as hard as any other company to maintain compatibility with kit and os fo…
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Time for Lion? Sounds like we Snow Leopard hold-outs might get left out of the cloud....
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Tragedy if true. Shuffle: small, portable, easy interface. Yes, you can buy headphones with in-line control, but nothing beats the shuffle for portability and 'feel to use' interface. Classic: Yes, I have my whole library in work, and ca…
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Quote: Originally Posted by gsteeno Determining data usage for the top 5% is a dynamic and challenging problem. Well, as soon as you start throttling the top 5%, they drop off and there's now a new top 5%... Use this to throttle everyone ;-)
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Quote: Originally Posted by Galley What about those of us with 50,000 tracks in our library? Who determines which 25,000 are eligible for the Match service? uh-oh. Cult of mac has a news bit that if you have more than 25K songs, you get no …
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Quote: Originally Posted by hittrj01 I am not knocking it at all, but how can people possibly hoard that much music? 32,000 songs? 50,000? 100,000? (maybe not, but you never know) Unless you're a DJ or employed in the music industry, why is that …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Galley What about those of us with 50,000 tracks in our library? Who determines which 25,000 are eligible for the Match service? My question as well (sorry, only 32K songs. :-) Plus, since a large number of son…
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Wouldn't it be nice if the apple stores just threw them all in a 50% off bin to get rid of them? :-)
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Quote: Originally Posted by _Hawkeye_ What was the price of the now discontinued Final Cut Express? Looks like it might have been $199. . That sounds about right. Plus, while FC has been getting upgrades over the years, FCxpress has gone 4…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DocNo42 Perhaps because iTunes accounts were always meant to be individual and not a way for you to get friends and family free stuff? That's my confusion as well - I have an Apple ID and an ID used for itunes. W…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich I agree. They'll probably kill off Express and just offer iMovie for the amateurs and FCPX for pros. At $300, any prosumer can afford that. Ditto that. FCX has been left behind, but with the new FCP-…
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If MM was free, might be worth buying an Air - keep the shared stuff on MM and get an Air with a smaller drive. hmmmmm
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So where is the version info kept? If I send the file to someone, do they get the 'latest' file or the original with a million differences they have to process... It also sounds like they don't distinguish between saving to make sure your edits …
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Quote: Originally Posted by thompr Apple has simply brought the same technique into Mac OS X. In a perfect world maybe - but it doesn't work well in iOS... There are times my phone is running so sluggish it takes 10 seconds for an app do open…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mbarriault Quit is still there (as is Force Quit, aka Unix kill) it just won't be necessary. You're going to have to explain that one. Unless you have a ton of memory or like paging programs in and out of memory. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by BenRoethig Best way to make facetime even more of a novelty? Gets me a bit nervous about what else they might start charging for. Agreed. Is there any reason to charge for this aside form "because we can"?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Intellihence I'm not seeing anything good about Lion. Nothing looks 'gotta have' to me either. Versions/resume/autosave could be useful, not not exactly earthshattering. I'm concerned how many of these new featu…