Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Frank, Have you made an appointment at an Apple store and taken your questions to them? Leo Wesson leowesson.com > On Apr 3, 2014, at 10:51, FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie at btinternet.com> > wrote: > > Whether you use wifi or wired the contacts and calendar are no longer > synced using iTunes. You have to use iCloud, which means you no longer > have a copy yourself on your hard drive which you can back up. > If you -do- keep a hard copy on your main computer, as I have for decades, > Mavericks now gives duplicate addresses, with no way of knowing which is > the latest, which is on iCloud or which is on the computer. > If you update the one on the computer (if you can work out which that is!) > it will -not- be updated on your phone. > I am really fed up with this. > I have been a big fan of Apple software in the past. I suppose 90% of > their profit comes from prattle devices these days but Mavericks is not > the way I would have liked to see OSX going. > I feel I have lost control of how I want my data to be managed. > > OTOH in a fit of pique I tried an Android device and that software takes > removing the owner from the loop and doing exactly what it wants in the > background to an entirely new level! > IMHO Mavericks is Apple moving in a Google direction. Not something I > welcome. > > Frank D. > > > > > >> ________________________________ >> From: Dennis Kushner <dennis.leicam6 at gmail.com> >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Thursday, 3 April 2014, 14:10 >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Slightly OT: New Mac Pro for photo editing? Also >> whisk[e]y. -DAS >> >> >> Frank, did you try wi fi sync through iTunes? >> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> ====On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Frank Dernie < >>> Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: >>> >>> <<snip>> >>> >>> >>>> Lovely styling though. >>>> Frank D, >>> <<snip>> >>> >>> I saw one for the first time at the local Apple Store this week. It is >>> very exotic looking but I am not clear as to what end. If it is as >>> confounding to configure and use as my new Oly OMD E-M1 I will give it a >>> wide berth. These things make me appreciate again the simplicity of my >>> Leica. >>> >>> --Bob >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information