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Apple Engineer Recalls the iPhone's Birth
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Tuesday, March 25, 2014 | Daisuke Wakabayashi

Posted on 03/26/2014 2:47:35 PM PDT by Star Traveler

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To: faithhopecharity

Yes, the iTunes program, which will reside on your own private computer will do that.

The other method you’re referring to is “iCloud” - and that method does send the data “to the cloud”. You don’t have to use that, if you don’t want to.


21 posted on 03/26/2014 4:57:28 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler
You've got that right. I've seen one of the Apollo space capsules up close in Houston. The first thing that struck me was how small it was (I got claustrophobic just looking at it). The next thing I noticed is that every control and instrument was electromechanical. There may not have even been a printed circuit board in the thing.

Back then the missions were planned and executed by raw human brain power and slide-rules.

22 posted on 03/26/2014 5:00:07 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: Star Traveler

Thank you. We will call tech support and ask them to guide us through that using the PC memory to store backup. Thanks very much! (Do you do impeachments too?)


23 posted on 03/26/2014 5:08:00 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: Star Traveler

LOL, makes sense - after 2003, Jobs was under intense pressure from Hillary to come out with a product WITHOUT a keyboard.


24 posted on 03/26/2014 5:10:44 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: faithhopecharity

Glad to help.

No, about impeachments ... a bit out of my league ... :-) ...


25 posted on 03/26/2014 5:14:33 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Talisker

I didn’t know Hillary was involved with the iPhone development ... :-) ...


26 posted on 03/26/2014 5:15:49 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

It suddenly stopped sending any email using yahoo. We got it to send email you compose. But it still won’t do it if you’re using safari to forward a webpage address by yahoo email. This remains an annoyance but it’s not critical. It’s sure strange how these companies keep updating their code and how often their updates create problems that never existed before. They should leave well enough alone.


27 posted on 03/26/2014 5:47:58 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: Star Traveler

“AND ... people who find Apple’s products absolutely amazing have already run across the very curious phenomenon of the “Apple-haters” who occupy themselves running around on the Internet and forums seeking out customers who find Apple’s products “amazing” — and incessantly telling them how much they hate Apple products!”

Isn’t it funny that those who are most vocal about hating Apple all seem to carry imitation iPhones and imitation iPads?


28 posted on 03/26/2014 5:58:31 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

For sure! ... :-) ...


29 posted on 03/26/2014 6:02:57 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

Anyone remember the ROKR? Feh.

30 posted on 03/26/2014 6:09:45 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

That’s when Apple and Steve Jobs realized that they(and he) had to design a phone ENTIRELY on APPLE’s TERMS and dispense with the ridiculous ideas that the phone manufacturers had - plus how “beholden” these phone manufacturers were to the telecommunications companies.

Thank goodness Apple BROKE THE MOLD!


31 posted on 03/26/2014 6:18:01 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Isn’t it funny that those who are most vocal about hating Apple all seem to carry imitation iPhones and imitation iPads?

Yep. That insanity goes way back. When the Mac came out in 1984, I tried to get my supervisor to check it out at the annual computer shows in the area. He was a genius, but rabidly anti-Apple (we were both systems engineers supporting IBM equipment, mainframe, to mini and micro). He said "Mark my words, it's a toy because it has a GUI and mouse; you'll never see a mouse or GUI on a PC because it's useless!". A few years later he conveniently forgot what he said because Windows and mice were all the rage on PCs, used by these same anti-Apple haters.

Everything Apple came out with was called stupid, until PCs adopted the same strategy. Like 3-1/2 inch enclosed floppies (on Macs but not PCs). Spreadsheets and other apps adopted first on Apple products by Microsoft and later ported to PCs. The list goes on, to the current day. They hate Apple, even while adopting imitations of what they formerly knocked.

32 posted on 03/26/2014 7:55:08 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Mastador1
They were true innovators with their version of the home computer, but not so much original development since.

I disagree. They have continued original development all along. Some of their creations sit in museums because of their originality. Other manufacturers create metal and plastic boxes that for the most part are mundane and similar to each other (sort of like jelly-bean design cars). Have you seen the Mac Cube? It's in the New York Museum of Modern Art. A lot of innovation packed in a beautiful cube. How about the 20th-Anniversary Mac TAM, combining TV, with a Bose stereo sound system complete with subwoofer (predecessor to the iMac)? Laptop Powerbooks were ahead of their time in 1991 and won awards. The Mac mini shrunk the power of a tower machine into a small square for the desktop. The iMac G4 was radically different, a moveable thin screen attached to a base like a desk lamp. The iMacs that followed were computers in a screen, with no visible base or tower needed. No other manufacturers were doing what Apple has done; they merely copied Apple's lead (or continued making rectangular metal boxes).

33 posted on 03/26/2014 8:13:46 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: cicero2k; Revolting cat!
Example, as I gaze out the window, my neighbor walks his dog; staring at his phone, not his dog. A quantum shift in our interaction with the outside world has occurred.

And this is why I don't carry a cellphone. I don't see that lack of awareness of surroundings and interactions and experiences to be a positive change.

It's the electronic pacifier (no matter the brand) that goes everywhere you do (even the toilet, click-click-clickity-click).

34 posted on 03/27/2014 8:29:09 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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