Better waiting for the iPhone 6


iPhone 6 may have self-aware camera

Well Apple may be integrating more technology behind its camera in the next generation iPhone . According to a recently uncovered patent, Apple will be pairing the iPhone camera with an infra-red sensor and transmitter so the camera is self-aware of what it is taking pictures of. In this way Apple can for example allow the camera to be disabled if the user walks into a cinema or other venues where photography and video recording is forbidden.

While we might think this is taking things too far, we are certain that businesses will appreciate it. Of course there can also be other applications for this technology is Apple permits. This includes putting a watermark on certain images and recording (e.g. if the image was taken at an exhibit or a show) or simply conveying information to the user when he steps into a new car dealership and points his camera to a certain car model for more information.

The possibilities are endless but at the same time it would make Apple feel a lot more like Big Brother, seeing everything you see and capture in the iPhone 6 in early 2012

And it's stuff like that Mick which are the precise reasons why I avoid everything Apple.

It's the whole "Apple in control" bit which makes my blood pressure go through the roof. If I choose to buy an Iphone then I consider that I am buying the phone and all the bits on it, they're mine, bought and paid for. What gives Apple the right to decide how and if I can use it in any given scenario?

The iTunes thing where I can't synch my music library to an iPhone AND an Ipod?? What's that all about? I paid for the rights to listen to that music so who the hell are Apple to tell me how many devices I can listen to it on? Or what file formats are supported? (FLAC)

Apple is for Lemmings who don't object to having their lives controlled. Not me then

Don't suppose you recall my FS post about Apple then?
http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic3641.html

Must have missed your previous linked posting Dom ….

At least your last sentence on the post came all but true apart from the Butt

mzplcg wrote:

The iTunes thing where I can't synch my music library to an iPhone AND an Ipod...

You don't even need iTunes now....

antoniasdad wrote:

mzplcg wrote:

The iTunes thing where I can't synch my music library to an iPhone AND an Ipod...

? Works for me. iPhone, iPad, iPod.

Support FLAC yet does it?

Or Flash?

Thought not.

Well it can if you download the App Skyfire … ( i think its called )

Dom, what is FLAC and should I care?

Not having flash is a little limiting, but the only sites where I have issues is with are the sites where my kids want to play flash games. Even with flash support these wouldn't work as they don't work with touchscreen inputs, or at least they are not optimised for it.

We are all individuals with individual needs and expectations. I found that Apple suited my needs and would allow me to just get on with doing things I needed to do without the BSOD or the difficulties of making (independently excellent) items work with each other. Integration of apple peripherals and software is what i bought into. Sure there are some limitations but nothing that has restricted my ability to be productive, for me the pro's outweigh the cons. Having read your other posts I guess that we are diametrically opposed here in our choice of IT equipment.

I quite enjoy surfing the web on my iPad without those f king irritating flash adverts popping up all the time, but that is why this suits my needs

FLAC = Free Lossless Audio Codec. So like MP3 is a codec (coder and decoder) which compresses the file to save space, most of them are a lossy process meaning some of the audio information is lost in the encoding process. MP3 is the most commonly used codec and it's main failing is that it strips out everything below 50Hz.

Should you care? That depends on how much you appreciate decent music and having it sounding right. For me personally MP3 is like listening to medium wave radio, horrid.

As for the whole apple experience, it simply doesn't do what I need. There is a lot less software available for Mac and especially some of the specialist apps I use like datacentre power & cooling calculators. Even Office doesn't have proper VB support which cripples Excel, until Office 2011 the mail client Entourage was painfully thin and lacking function, it was just a completely underwhelming and unproductive experience with precious little support in the corporate world.

There are many people who can manage with a Mac but TBH "getting by" with something which is twice the price it should be seems illogical. The ONLY plus that I can see is the turn it on and use it part. Fine as long as you accept the one size fits all approach, don't need specialist software and you can live with the lack of consideration in the corporate environment which, let's be honest, is still geared up for windows PC's.

Until Apple make an OS to rival Windows Server with all the associated backoffice server products (SQL, Exchange, Sharepoint, etc) the front office is unlikely to get geared up for MACs so they will remain home user items and fashion statements.

The Iphone is similar. In a corporate environment I find a blackberry more useful. Doesn't drop calls and email is it's forte. The Iphone is more a personal thing which saves carrying a phone and an ipod. Corporate IT departments hate them because they can't be secured like a Blackberry can and they potentially open the corporate network to information leaks. It's just way too hard to separate the work from the personal on them.

Oh and only Apple could produce such a blatantly faulty aerial design (IP4) and get away with it whilst charging customers even more money for the bumper to help correct it. If that had been Microsoft, HP, IBM etc they would have got slated for it but strangely Apple can do no wrong.

As for phones, Blackberry or Android all the way. Android is outselling Iphone dozens of times over now and this will only increase as the OS improves further.

So yes, fine if they do what you want and you can live with the shortcomings. And yes they do crash, despite what people say. I have experienced the beachball of death on numerous occasions, something I have rarely managed to do on Windows 7. Granted that XP was questionable, Vista was junk but Win 7 is light years ahead of Mac OS and despite the myth around BSOD, I have never had one on Windows 7. It works, no matter how hard I push it and one rogue application doesn't kill the whole machine.

However, regarding the "It just works" argument, well I know that when I get in a new car I take some time to set the seat how I like it, set the mirrors, adjust the climate and generally do all the personal things I need to be comfortable. Why should a phone be any different? Or a computer?

I really could go on having been around Macs for 15 years or so, since the G3's in fact when they used the PowerPC chip, through the G4 toaster, their refusal to implement TCP/IP and so on. Suffice to say that the entire success of apple is due 100% to clever marketing, not great products. Don't believe me? Watch this then. Should make you giggle.

Lol @ video

Have to disagree absolutely!

Maybe if you want to run a mega network in a faceless corporation some of the issues you referred to would be relevant. For my use running a home business I want computers which work reliably. I reckon the switch to Mac saves me at least one day per month that I used to spend messing around with updates or crashes, that's not to mention the fact that my windows laptop used to take minutes to start, my MacBook Air takes six seconds.

Anybody who says Apple don't make great products has either never used one, or is in denial. Does you pc have a mouse by any chance, remember where the mouse came from?

Using Apple products against PC's is like using 21st century product instead of a 20th Century product. PC's look and feel clunky, oversized, slow and old fashioned now, I used to be anti-mac, until I found out how good they were, now I doubt I would ever go back!  Range Rover-less at the moment - Pining!

got to admit i used nokia mobiles since when they were analogue and recently tried android which is very good but kinda rough round the edges then i played with a iphone 3gs and found nearly everything where it should be ...now i was hooked, i have progressed to a iphone 4 mainly because of the better camera and 720p video recording..there are limitations but for what i use it for its a very agreeable mobile phone. ... - .- -.




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Does you pc have a mouse by any chance, remember where the mouse came from?

bozmandb9 wrote:

Maybe if you want to run a mega network in a faceless corporation some of the issues you referred to would be relevant.

bozmandb9 wrote:

For my use running a home business I want computers which work reliably. I reckon the switch to Mac saves me at least one day per month that I used to spend messing around with updates or crashes,

bozmandb9 wrote:

that's not to mention the fact that my windows laptop used to take minutes to start, my MacBook Air takes six seconds.

bozmandb9 wrote:

Anybody who says Apple don't make great products has either never used one, or is in denial. Does you pc have a mouse by any chance, remember where the mouse came from?

bozmandb9 wrote:

Using Apple products against PC's is like using 21st century product instead of a 20th Century product. PC's look and feel clunky, oversized, slow and old fashioned now, I used to be anti-mac, until I found out how good they were, now I doubt I would ever go back!