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I don't know what the developers expect to get out of this. Do they think that it hasn't occurred to Apple's engineers that this might be convenient? I think, a

by JunkDNA 16y ago

I don't know what the developers expect to get out of this. Do they think that it hasn't occurred to Apple's engineers that this might be convenient? I think, as with copy/paste and background apps, the issue has been how to implement something like this and not harm the user experience. I suspect the big thing preventing wireless sync until now has been the lack of 802.11n on the iPhone. Syncing 4 gigs of movies out to your phone on 802.11g has got to be painful (and a realy battery drain).

ugh 16y ago
I, too, would guess that they want some sort of complete solution. It’s still somewhat surprising that we haven’t seen any Wifi syncing for such a long time. Wireless sync has been a rumored “next” feature ever since Apple brought out their first iPod. And there is some stuff they could sync, even if they don’t want to move gigs through the air. Stuff like new playlists, play counts, calendars, notes, addresses. Heck, even the occasional new music track or podcast up to a certain file size limit. They wouldn’t even need to clutter the interface, showing a little “Connect to your Mac for full sync” status message would be enough.
- bruceboughton 16y ago
  Sync as implemented by iTunes right now is a really simple concept. If you start talking about partial syncs, you significantly up the complexity. And for what? Avoiding plugging your iPod/iPhone/iPad in to sync while charging. The real elephant in the room is the need for a PC master to sync from when using an iPad.
  - ugh 16y ago
    Apple might also want to go the cloudy road (which would pretty much solve sync, though probably not real soon when it comes to music and videos which just take up to much space). The only problem with that is that Apple sucks at doing that. Buy Dropbox already! :)

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I don't know what the developers expect to get out of this. Do they think that it hasn't occurred to Apple's engineers that this might be convenient? I think, a

by JunkDNA 16y ago

ugh 16y ago
I, too, would guess that they want some sort of complete solution. It’s still somewhat surprising that we haven’t seen any Wifi syncing for such a long time. Wireless sync has been a rumored “next” feature ever since Apple brought out their first iPod. And there is some stuff they could sync, even if they don’t want to move gigs through the air. Stuff like new playlists, play counts, calendars, notes, addresses. Heck, even the occasional new music track or podcast up to a certain file size limit. They wouldn’t even need to clutter the interface, showing a little “Connect to your Mac for full sync” status message would be enough.
- bruceboughton 16y ago
  Sync as implemented by iTunes right now is a really simple concept. If you start talking about partial syncs, you significantly up the complexity. And for what? Avoiding plugging your iPod/iPhone/iPad in to sync while charging. The real elephant in the room is the need for a PC master to sync from when using an iPad.
  - ugh 16y ago
    Apple might also want to go the cloudy road (which would pretty much solve sync, though probably not real soon when it comes to music and videos which just take up to much space). The only problem with that is that Apple sucks at doing that. Buy Dropbox already! :)