Apple and Macs: New products, iMacs, iWork, iLife

[dbdynsty25]

If you have no idea what goes into selling phones, then you're better off just returning the one you don't want. It's kind of a hassel if you've never activated it on your account. Sometimes, especially with iPhones, the carriers tie them to your account so you have to activate it first. This prevents people from buying 5 and selling the extras as "brand new" phones.

I've jailbroken the iPhone before, I just choose not to.

What goes into selling phones. You sell the phone. I assumed they tied them to the account and you have to unlock them. I just didn't know for sure. Because there are a lot of people on eBay selling their phones and not all of them are unlocked.

Unlocking is strictly a "promotional" thing to sell the phone for more money. This allows buyers to use them on T-Mobile and overseas so it boosts the overall value. Has nothing to do with At&t users at all. I don't know what At&t does in terms of tying them to your account, but the unlocking part has nothing to do with it. With Verizon at least...I have to activate the phone on my line, then I activate another phone on the same line to de-activate the iPhone. Then I can sell it. Pretty sure the same process would need to take place on At&t.

[pk500]

50 GB of free, lifetime cloud storage for you iPod, iPhone and iPad users:

http://lifehacker.com/5849795/get-free- ... touch-user

One catch: Maximum file size is 100 MB. Still a good option for music collections and other smaller files.

[JRod]

If you have no idea what goes into selling phones, then you're better off just returning the one you don't want. It's kind of a hassel if you've never activated it on your account. Sometimes, especially with iPhones, the carriers tie them to your account so you have to activate it first. This prevents people from buying 5 and selling the extras as "brand new" phones.

I've jailbroken the iPhone before, I just choose not to.

What goes into selling phones. You sell the phone. I assumed they tied them to the account and you have to unlock them. I just didn't know for sure. Because there are a lot of people on eBay selling their phones and not all of them are unlocked.

Unlocking is strictly a "promotional" thing to sell the phone for more money. This allows buyers to use them on T-Mobile and overseas so it boosts the overall value. Has nothing to do with At&t users at all. I don't know what At&t does in terms of tying them to your account, but the unlocking part has nothing to do with it. With Verizon at least...I have to activate the phone on my line, then I activate another phone on the same line to de-activate the iPhone. Then I can sell it. Pretty sure the same process would need to take place on At&t.

That's what I wanted to know. Not sure why you always have to make things harder.

[dbdynsty25]

That's what I wanted to know. Not sure why you always have to make things harder.

How the F was I making it harder? Do tell? And then go F yourself. So sorry for helping.

[JRod]

That's what I wanted to know. Not sure why you always have to make things harder.

How the F was I making it harder? Do tell? And then go F yourself. So sorry for helping.

Lose the attitude Dan. It was a f***in joke.

[dbdynsty25]

Hilarious...and who's Dan?

[JRod]

Hilarious...and who's Dan?

Meant DB. But thought danimal.

[Murph]

4S Speed test between the three U.S. carriers. Sprint seems to lag behind the other two badly.

http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/14/sprint-at ... red-video/

[dbdynsty25]

If we're talking 3G speeds, At&t will be superior in a majority of locations. Followed by Verizon, then Sprint. That's just a fact that's been proven time and time again by true speedtests across the country. A test in ONE static location is the dumbest thing I've ever seen and shouldn't be a blog post on a reputable site. It's embarrassing.

[Diablo25]

Anyone else having trouble with the iCloud Control panel on a Windows PC? Its not a truly necessary thing on your PC but every time I try and apply/sync the control panel with iCloud it gets hung up. I'm guessing it is something MS is going to have to fix with an upgrade. You can still access iCloud via the web at icloud.com so it's not a huge headache.

Also, I can't get Outlook 10 to accept my @me.com account. I'm doing what Apple says to do (save the easy zingers ) and it won't grab the server settings.

[Murph]

New Find My Friends feature has guy claiming he caught his wife cheating.

http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/16/find-my-f ... forefront/

[Diablo25]

iOS 5 question...Apple's site says in iMessage you can "keep the conversation going across all of them (your iOS devices)." How do you get the conversation from your iPhone to continue on your iPad?

[greggsand]

iOS 5 question...Apple's site says in iMessage you can "keep the conversation going across all of them (your iOS devices)." How do you get the conversation from your iPhone to continue on your iPad?

Add the same email/apple id to both devices. I had to turn off the notification on my iPad because it was driving me crazy to have both devices go off with every message.

[Murph]

iOS 5 question...Apple's site says in iMessage you can "keep the conversation going across all of them (your iOS devices)." How do you get the conversation from your iPhone to continue on your iPad?

Add the same email/apple id to both devices. I had to turn off the notification on my iPad because it was driving me crazy to have both devices go off with every message.

I only have one other contact who has downloaded iOS 5, so my iPad is not seeing much iMessage action yet. I'm sure plenty of them have no clue what iOS 5 even is.

[Murph]

Good story on what happened to "iPhone 5".

http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/17/the-insid ... -iphone-5/

[dbdynsty25]

Good story on what happened to "iPhone 5".

http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/17/the-insid ... -iphone-5/

That's not WHAT happened, it's what they THINK happened. Biiiiiig difference.

[Leadfoot5]

Good story on what happened to "iPhone 5".

http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/17/the-insid ... -iphone-5/

That's not WHAT happened, it's what they THINK happened. Biiiiiig difference.

My team's product is also manufactured by Foxconn, and I can confirm that they will refuse to ramp a product to production levels if the yields aren't where they need to be. So that part of the article sounds dead-on.

[wco81]

4 million iPhone 4S sold in the launch weekend, double what the iPhone 4 did. Must have been some pent-up demand. Hard to believe a lot of people with the iPhone 4 would upgrade just for Siri, which is the main difference.

[Spooky]

4 million iPhone 4S sold in the launch weekend, double what the iPhone 4 did. Must have been some pent-up demand. Hard to believe a lot of people with the iPhone 4 would upgrade just for Siri, which is the main difference.

I think a TON of people who had a 3G and 3GS were holding off for 5 and ended up with the 4S.

[jLp vAkEr0]

4 million iPhone 4S sold in the launch weekend, double what the iPhone 4 did. Must have been some pent-up demand. Hard to believe a lot of people with the iPhone 4 would upgrade just for Siri, which is the main difference.

I think a TON of people who had a 3G and 3GS were holding off for 5 and ended up with the 4S.

Basically everyone I know who has a 3GS is getting the 4s.

[Diablo25]

4 million iPhone 4S sold in the launch weekend, double what the iPhone 4 did. Must have been some pent-up demand. Hard to believe a lot of people with the iPhone 4 would upgrade just for Siri, which is the main difference.

I think a TON of people who had a 3G and 3GS were holding off for 5 and ended up with the 4S.

Basically everyone I know who has a 3GS is getting the 4s.

Thos numbers are shocking to me. I have a 4 and I'm perfectly fine not upgrading. I do agree that all the 3GS people out there are upping to the 4S. I'll be ready for the iphone 5 come summertime/fall if they debut that bad boy. I'm hoping for a June release if iPhone 5.

[fsquid]

does anyone connect their Ipad to the TV? Does it look pretty good/decent?

[dbdynsty25]

does anyone connect their Ipad to the TV? Does it look pretty good/decent?

I do it through AppleTV (iOS 5 includes streaming and mirroring from the iPad 2 finally). Looks good for content purchased from iTunes (like TV shows or whatever), but when you mirror, it looks only average.

If you're talking about doing it via HDMI...be warned that it only works with certain programs. Like you can't do any streaming of Hulu/Netflix/ESPN or whatever...a huge flaw IMO.

[Naples39]

does anyone connect their Ipad to the TV? Does it look pretty good/decent?

I do it all the time. I have the hdmi adapter, but don't use it anymore since I got an Apple TV.

With the Apple TV and iPad2 you can do wireless mirror, or you can do actual video-out. The mirroring is pretty good, but is hampered by a little lag (which doesn't matter if you're doing something passive like watching a video) and a display ratio that leaves black bars on the side.

The video out works really well. What I usually do is use Air Video. With Air Video I can stream videos from my computer to my iPad screen or now to my TV. Even better, I can start Air Video, select and send my video to my TV will it will play full screen in good quality, and then even use the iPad for email or internet while it continues to send the video to my TV.

So I guess it depends on what you want to use your TV for, and apps with dedicated TV-out options will look better and fill your whole TV screen (air video, built in video player, youtube). Of course you could also just send music or photos too.

[wco81]

I think some content owners may set flags which prevent some shows from going out over HDMI.

HBO Go app. may be this way.