iphone

Congratulations iPhone users, you almost have an android phone.

Can we talk iCloud now?  Boy they can drag this stuff out…

that itunes match thing is pretty slick, if it actually works as advertised. 

chaz wrote:
that itunes match thing is pretty slick, if it actually works as advertised. 

Strangely enough, he didn't say anything about it working on the iphone or iPad.  It just said that it works with iTunes.  That can't be true, right?

Maybe "same benefits as music purchased from iTunes" was supposed to mean that you can transfer songs wirelessly from device to device, but I don't see where it's streaming and what happens with playlists.

I guess we'll wait and see.

I think in iTunes for the scanning your library part. Then all the same benefits of iTunes purchased music.

Chip wrote:
Then all the same benefits of iTunes purchased music.

Right.  But the only benefit he showed was that you could move it from the cloud to multiple devices, right?

I've had an Ipod for so damn long.  And have a LOT of stuff ripped in Apple Lossless.  Which makes the google service a less than stellar option for me.  I have ZERO interest in re ripping stuff into flac to use with the google cloud offering.

Don't get me wrong.  I've also got lot's of flac files that obviously won't work in itunes which i stream over the network at home.  But my library is much more icloud ready than it is google ready.

I like android.  A lot.  I like the spirit of it, the openness and the flexibility of it.  But, i'm thinking hard about a move back to the iphone when they have some 4g offerings.

chaz wrote:
And have a LOT of stuff ripped in Apple Lossless.

Once you went down this road you pretty much made your bed.

chaz wrote:
But, i'm thinking hard about a move back to the iphone when they have some 4g offerings.

And you better hope that happens on Sprint soon because iCloud will require unlimited data and Sprint is the only one that still offers truly unlimited data.

vansmack wrote:

Chip wrote:
Then all the same benefits of iTunes purchased music.

Right.  But the only benefit he showed was that you could move it from the cloud to multiple devices, right?

Yeah, I still haven't been shown why I should buy the new DCFC for $10.99 from iTunes rather than $5.00 from amazon.

vansmack wrote:

chaz wrote:
And have a LOT of stuff ripped in Apple Lossless.

Once you went down this road you pretty much made your bed.

yup.

If i could go back i'd do things differently…but this was a good long while ago and Apple was pretty much the only game in town for mobile digital music.  If there was a better way to go at the time it was a mystery to me.

iMessage:

I couldn't care less about this, but it could be huge, if BB Messenger is any indicator.  People that use it freaking love that thing.  With such a big user base out of the gate it'll be a big hit.

iTunes match limited to 25,000 songs. Oh well. I'm at 61,000 so doesn't really help.

chaz wrote:
but it could be huge

It's Apple.  Of course it will be huge…

All I hope is that it prompts Google to add MMS support to Google Voice.  Sending/reading texts from work computer has been a huge benefit.

Chip wrote:
iTunes match limited to 25,000 songs. Oh well. I'm at 61,000 so doesn't really help.

This has been my biggest complaint with Google Music too.  Cutting my collection in half has been almost too time consuming to make it worth it.

I'm willing to pay to double my space too.

wait, people like bbm?

so when is iphone 5 coming out? October?

godsshoeshine wrote:
wait, people like bbm?

it's what many of the hooligans in london used to coordinate the recent riots.

Vas wrote:
so when is iphone 5 coming out? October?

"Q3 2011" is all i've heard.

Vas wrote:
so when is iphone 5 coming out? October?

You mean the iPhone 4S?

Sept announcement, Oct Release.

the new iphone version, whatever they wish to call it

vansmack wrote:
Sept announcement, Oct Release.

Oct 7, with preorders starting on Sept 30.