New iPad - Speed bump, lightning connector, but otherwise same as the 3rd gen iPad. Nah, not enough to upgrade for me, especially with all the connector business to deal with (I don't have an iPhone 5)

After peering at specs, I can't see why anyone would get one of these over the Nexus 7 - with perhaps the exception of some serious app tie-in or for some reason desperately desiring mobile Internet but without a phone they can turn into a hotspot. It's £110 more!

Never, ever, ever buying anything from this company again. I bought my iPad 3 on the under standing it wouldn't be replaced within a year. If I had known they were going to release a faster model and making the port obsolescent within 6 months I would never have bought it, given that I'm using it for synths.

Between that and not being able to download from the App Store more than half the time

This isn't an Android type arms race.

The new macs are a bit more likely to get my money though.

I'm still happy enough with [my iPad] though, despite it getting a bit warm at times when playing games on it.

What synths? How does the new device make your one no longer usable? It's a bit shitty when this kind of thing happens, but Apple does fast updates less than most other companies. You could always try flipping your device on eBay and taking a hit—I'm certainly going to be interested to see how iPad 3s hold their value (or not).


What's going wrong? The App Store is sometimes an arse, but I've not had any long-running problems with it for a long time now.

That's been around since iOS 5, but it only works if the person you are messaging has turned it on, and most people don't (it defaults to off).

Indeed. I'm not on 6, and I have it. Didn't realise I'd activated it, though.

No -- it only works if the person you are messaging has turned it on. So if you see "delivered" turn into "read" in your iMessage thread with someone else, that means the other person has it on, not you. You don't see anything change your end when you turn it on. So you don't have it on, the person you are messaging does.

It's a really useful feature (at the very least, it means you never need to send any "OK" style "I got that" replies) that I encourage people to enable.

Apple covered this too - by making iMessage less reliable than a pension fund invested in Dublin real estate.

I get unlimited free texts anyway so I have absolutely no reason to use iMessage.

I am pretty much going to stop using this for anything but music as soon as I can afford a google tablet, mind you. I have have little but bad progress from apple since buying this otherwise very capable device. Apple have fucked their chance to make a good impression on me.

As for the App Store, since iOS 6 I get cannot connect errors, with no explanation, nine attempts to get something out of ten. Really. I can often check back later and it works, but this is a near-constant problem. It was fine before iOS 6 and so I repeat: iOS 6 is shit.

Except it is. Apple's now going to be competing against tablets closer to the new iPad in the Android and Windows 8 space, and so MOAR POWER is a clear requirement. It's also pretty clear Apple wants everything shifted over to the new connector as soon as possible.

After peering at specs, I can't see why anyone would get one of these over the Nexus 7 - with perhaps the exception of some serious app tie-in or for some reason desperately desiring mobile Internet but without a phone they can turn into a hotspot. It's £110 more!

Went and had a play with an ipad mini today. Cor... it's lovely, it's definitely more than the sum of its parts. However I have problems with hitting the right bits of webpages on the current bigger version, so i'm not sure just having everything smaller will be a good idea. Plus it is still fucking expensive, especially for the 32gb 3G version, which is the one I would need.

How many Apple users does it take to change a lightbulb?
None, you have to replace the whole house.

Given Apple's erratic QA right now, I'd strongly recommend a wait-and-see approach to the Fusion Drive thing. I'd sooner control it myself until the quirks are more widely known, and until back-up software beyond Time Machine is confirmed fully working with it.

One of the most annoying things to do in older versions of iTunes was trimming down the apps downloaded on your computer.

http://lifehacker.com/5964613/how-to-use-itunes-11s-awesome-new-features-and-bring-back-the-old-itunes-look

For people like me who installed iTunes 11 yesterday and wondered what the fuck happened.

Why would you wonder what happened? You downloaded a new version of a programme; it was new.

So, I can't seem to find a way to display the album artwork in a 'now playing/currently selected' window in the sidebar.