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Not to be a hater but....

You will go up and down those stairs and synced up faster than syncing a couple gigs of data over wifi.
 
The paradigm are:
wireless sync will kill the iPhone battery
the sync itself takes forever
you have to use iTunes

I use 2 apps that sync wirelessly:
Things
Splash ID

Things really does the job very well, have desktop app open and open things in iPhone, is that simple.

Splash ID requires that in addition to having the mac app open, you select the mac and activate the sync in your iPhone.

:apple: wants to enforce the need of the mac.

Even the wired sync takes forever...
 
Benguitar said:
Wireless recharging is near to impossible to do, Not to mention, Invent.

As far as I know, There is no *safe* way to transmit electrical power through the air from one point to another.

I could be wrong.
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While the technology may still be a bit away from actually being consumer friendly (both for your wallet and space used) it's closer than you think :D

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/619
 
Benguitar said:
Wireless recharging is near to impossible to do, Not to mention, Invent.

As far as I know, There is no *safe* way to transmit electrical power through the air from one point to another.

I could be wrong.
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Tesla did it. Obviously, there were no long-term effect studies done as his work was (unfortunately) only experimental and did not get deployed, unlike some other of his inventions, like AC power and radio.
 
Syncing shouldn't take ages, wireless n-standard allows for like 6 MB/s transfers, so it shouldn't be that slow.
 
r0k said:
People have been trying to replace their computers for years because somehow the computer industry stopped obeying Moore's law back in the 1990's. You know the law, right? Electronics costs and weighs half as much and takes up half as much space roughly every 2 years.
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Err, no. Look up what Moore's Law is. We're still in the Moore's law era.

As for wireless syncing. It'll come when they upgrade MobileMe.

The Apple touch devices (iPad/iPhone/iPod) are all representations of your main machine right now. They are not standalone. However to make them standalone they could be representations of a cloud. Apple will need to be careful about making sure that whilst boosting MobileMe take up they don't kill some part of their hardware sales.
 
r0k said:
I think you are missing something in my case at least. My Macbook is in my home office which is two flights of stairs below my cozy bedroom where my iPad lives. Are you really asking me to climb 2 flights of stairs and fish for a usb cable over a simple matter of transferring a few gigabytes of files when I could let it all happen wirelessly on my 802.11n network when I'm in no hurry anyway? So I can get my calendar and contacts wirelessly by paying $99 a year for mobile me, but I'm expected to deal with a usb cable for everything else. That sounds a bit too much like 1995 to me.

I took a look at the itunes app on the iPad. While I can buy a huge app and have it load wirelessly from the app store, I cannot wirelessly back it up to my Mac and I cannot go in the iTunes app on my iPad and buy music directly over wifi? Maybe I did something wrong and didn't find the purchase button but usually Apple makes it oh so easy to send them money, I honestly think that the only way they want me getting music on my iPad is via a cable. Tsk tsk tsk.
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so its easier to wait for an hour than walk up 2 flights of stairs?

oh wait you have a macbook, thats almost a portable laptop type computer thing isn't it? :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 
Wow, at the guys defending the iPad's limited abilities and bashing the OP because he is pointing out something that SHOULD obviously exist. It's not like he doesn't OWN an iPad. He has every right to complain all he wants, and I will agree. Nothing would ever change if people were content with everything anyone gave them, and the world wouldn't progress.

I don't think the battery argument is a good one (streaming video could arguably use just as much power and somehow I doubt it is going to kill the device a WHOLE lot faster).
 
emotion said:
Err, no. Look up what Moore's Law is. We're still in the Moore's law era.

As for wireless syncing. It'll come when they upgrade MobileMe.

The Apple touch devices (iPad/iPhone/iPod) are all representations of your main machine right now. They are not standalone. However to make them standalone they could be representations of a cloud. Apple will need to be careful about making sure that whilst boosting MobileMe take up they don't kill some part of their hardware sales.
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Yes, I know Moore's law applies to silicon. I know I was taking some liberties with Moore's law, but how can the silicon keep shrinking but the box we put it in stays big and heavy?

I'm very encouraged by the possibility that Apple might upgrade MobileMe but they have historically been very slow about this.

drummerlondonw3 said:
so its easier to wait for an hour than walk up 2 flights of stairs?

oh wait you have a macbook, thats almost a portable laptop type computer thing isn't it? :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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Where'd you get an hour? I did say 802.11n not g.

Since you volunteered to be my personal trainer, do you mind if I become yours? Get rid of that remote control and walk over and change the TV channel. We don't need no stinking wireless! Get rid of that wireless phone and walk over to the wall phone when you need to make a call. We don't need no stinking wireless! :D

television.jpg

wall-phone.jpg


I guess I'll give up on trying to explain why wireless sync of everything is a big deal because I don't want this thread do veer off into a ping pong match over this one feature. I mean the existence of a filesystem is a bigger deal than how the files get to and from the iPad.

I will somehow continue to "get by" with wired sync on a brand new device roughly 5 years after I had wireless sync on a Palm device. Remember Palm? That little outfit that kicked some Apple butt the last time Apple tried to make a tablet? Well there's no more Palm to keep Apple honest this time. They are too busy trying to sell themselves off or just survive.

Hopefully somebody will come along that has their hearing aid turned on and offer the market a "real computer" in a tablet form factor (that doesn't weigh 6 pounds or run Windows).
 
nStyle said:
Wow, at the guys defending the iPad's limited abilities and bashing the OP because he is pointing out something that SHOULD obviously exist. It's not like he doesn't OWN an iPad. He has every right to complain all he wants, and I will agree. Nothing would ever change if people were content with everything anyone gave them, and the world wouldn't progress.

I don't think the battery argument is a good one (streaming video could arguably use just as much power and somehow I doubt it is going to kill the device a WHOLE lot faster).
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Agreed. I'm new here, but I've seen quite a few posts where people defend Apple's decisions, whether or not it's 100% reasonable to do so. It's usually done in a way to make a poster's request for a certain feature look childish and old fashioned, not by actually discussing the merits of a request.

I understand the love for Apple's products, especially since I own many of them myself, but blind fanboyism is irritating and useless.
 
r0k said:
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no I'm not trying to get into a flame but how long would it take you to sync a 64GB ipad over your network?

I have just moved back from networked drives to a local server because I wasnt happy with the speeds

I dont think its a deal breaker but I would use it if I had to.

at least its not like the original iphone OS that took about 4 hours to sync over USB!!! :D
 
drummerlondonw3 said:
no I'm not trying to get into a flame but how long would it take you to sync a 64GB ipad over your network?

I have just moved back from networked drives to a local server because I wasnt happy with the speeds

I dont think its a deal breaker but I would use it if I had to.

at least its not like the original iphone OS that took about 4 hours to sync over USB!!! :D
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Odds are you won't sync 64GB at once, but who cares? let me decide how much and how to sync.
 
r0k said:
Yes, I know Moore's law applies to silicon. I know I was taking some liberties with Moore's law, but how can the silicon keep shrinking but the box we put it in stays big and heavy?
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Fair enough. Apple have gaping holes in their line up for desktops. I'd like a "homeserver" at home. They don't really do that right now.

The rest of the computer industry is ahead here.

I'm very encouraged by the possibility that Apple might upgrade MobileMe but they have historically been very slow about this.
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I've been a MobileMe/.mac customer for years. I'm painfully aware. Esp. as I'm in Europe where the service is slower too.
 
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