** The Official WWDC 2011 Thread **

Alpherah said:
The more i read about Icloud the more i hate it being honest.
Its going to make managing multiple devices a complete nightmare.

"When you buy a new app its instantly pushed to all your other devices and installed, you dont have to think about it.."

Great, but maybe i dont want an app i buy on my Iphone to be installed on my Ipad, how about that? :|

Likewise with photo's .. video..
As i said before, my Ipad is much smaller storage then my other devices, why on earth would i want to waste its entire storage capacity on photo's from multiple other devices..

It would be much more usable if it wasnt automated, would love it that way with user choice.. but all this automation is just going to be a complete headache, ironically.
I mean, they specifically state that document storage works on a 'i want to choose this document from my icloud' approach, so why not use that for everything?
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I would have thought on a per device basis you can turn off 'auto-sync'.
 
iOS looks great and so does Lion! Maybe this summer is the time to complete the switch, with icloud everything seems to go together so well but I guess we will see!
 
Hi guys,

Just got back home so missed everything - is there a summary of what was announced and a feed of the whole event? I presume its only an hour or two long?

Ta

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
n111ck said:
There was an on off option shown in the presentation for each type of syncing.
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Re watched the video, i think i might of misunderstood it.

It appears to store all of the above on the cloud server and not auto sync it to the devices, you will need an internet connection to see these because everything is stored on an 'applie-fluffy-style-named' storage location.

Example:
Pictures are stored on a 'folder' called 'photostream' which in reality is just a link to the photo storage within the cloud. If you actually want to keep anything you see, you tell it to move into a different album and it actually downloads.
Same for video and apps it seems.

If it works that way, it seems much better.
 
Indeed. Go to Settings > Store and there's already a couple of options in there (for me) for Apps and Books, they have also defaulted to Off. I hope this behaviour is carried into iOS5
 
Back! watched video, and epic.

I knew there'd not be a new iPhone yet, maybe a small venue annoucement just as they're shipping iOS5 perhaps but I'm impressed with the iCloud stuff

For me the highlight was iTunes MATCH, scans your collection adds songs you have which it has and then allows you to download on any device. Or the songs you have which it doesn't it will upload and the price doesn't change, stays the same.

I have like 13k songs, and I'd say 10k it'll pick up and the rest will be uploaded.

What wasn't explained was how it interacts with other mac desktops, can you stream them, download them etc?

Edit: Found this in apple site:

Requires iOS 5 on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch (3rd and 4th generation), iPad, or iPad 2, or a Mac computer with OS X Lion or a PC with Windows Vista or Windows 7 (Outlook 2007 or 2010 recommended). Limit 25,000 songs. iTunes purchases do not count against limit.
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Just looking a few stories on MacRumors, some really interesting features coming through, can anyone find a full list of new features?

• Preference to open pages in Safari in a new page or in background (amazing!).
• More alert choices for emails, calendar, and the ability to buy more.
• Ability to create keyboard shortcuts (autotext) to replace custom phrases. The default entry is omw which is replaced with, On my way!
• Software update option in settings to check for the latest OS.
• Sync now button to wireless sync to iTunes
• Ability to customize how notifications in Notification Center look you can customize how many recent ones to show, 1, 5 or 10, if its showed in the lock screen, if its in Notification Center, and also the alert style, banner or alert style.
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