March 3, 2013

Oh, ok, so I just wait 75 days and then I can watch the movie I bought? Sounds great! WTF, #apple @iTunes ???!!! FAIL.

Oh, ok, so I just wait 75 days and then I can watch the movie I bought? Sounds great!

No idea why all of a sudden this started happening (I didn’t “associate” the computer with a different Apple ID), but apparently this has been a known issue for years, since June 2011.

Google search: http://bit.ly/12m325F

I guess the intent was to prevent piracy ( http://betanews.com/2011/06/07/what-happens-when-you-download-itunes-past-purchases-with-a-different-account/ ) but both in concept and implementation this is a horrific user experience fail. Beyond embarrassing.

Simple solution instead of this malarkey: if you try to play or download something that was purchased with a different Apple ID, you are asked to enter the user name / password for the Apple ID used to purchase the item.

I also just learned this:

“Movies rented on your Apple TV are not transferable to any other device and can only be viewed on your Apple TV.” ( http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1498 )

Fucked up. I love my Apple TV but honestly this is so absurd that I might ditch it and find an alternative…

It’s funny, I just read this article yesterday:

http://www.zeldman.com/2013/03/02/the-curse-of-the-zeldman-curse/

Maybe I’ve been cursed with the Zeldman Curse?!… NOOOOO!!!…

December 21, 2012

iPhone falls 5 stories while recording video

October 6, 2012

Heard horror stories but so far Apple Maps has been awesome for me. Really nice UI.

August 25, 2012

Cell phones : before the #Apple #iPhone & after. #JustSayin

Jury Awards $1 Billion to Apple in Samsung Patent Case

Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters

A Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone, left, and an Apple iPhone 4.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/technology/jury-reaches-decision-in-apple-samsung-patent-trial.html?_r=1&emc=na

May 24, 2012

So easy it’s impossible…

April 15, 2012

1st time seeing progress bar when saving a file in Photoshop since getting the MacBook with SSD. File is 1.6GB.

April 11, 2012

Has iTunes always had this menu for playing to AppleTV? (If so, I feel stupid…)

This is one of the new features I thought looked really great in Apple’s upcoming OS release Mountain Lion ( http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/features.html#airplay ) — but honestly I only see myself using that feature for videos anyway, so iTunes already does what I need. Nice.

(Still don’t get why QuickTime Player doesn’t have the same option, though. Strange… In the meantime, that’s what Air Video is for : www.inmethod.com/air-video/ Apple should really just buy Air Video and make it part of iOS as well as Mac OS. It is quite possibly the greatest app ever.)

April 2, 2012