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Subject: [Leica] Slightly OT: New Mac Pro for photo editing? Also whisk[e]y. -DAS
From: leowesson at gmail.com (Leowesson)
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 10:54:44 -0500
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Frank, 

Have you made an appointment at an Apple store and taken your questions to 
them?  

Leo Wesson
leowesson.com

> On Apr 3, 2014, at 10:51, FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie at btinternet.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Whether you use wifi or wired the contacts and calendar are no longer 
> synced using iTunes. You have to use iCloud, which means you no longer 
> have a copy yourself on your hard drive which you can back up.
> If you -do- keep a hard copy on your main computer, as I have for decades, 
> Mavericks now gives duplicate addresses, with no way of knowing which is 
> the latest, which is on iCloud or which is on the computer.
> If you update the one on the computer (if you can work out which that is!) 
> it will -not- be updated on your phone.
> I am really fed up with this.
> I have been a big fan of Apple software in the past. I suppose 90% of 
> their profit comes from prattle devices these days but Mavericks is not 
> the way I would have liked to see OSX going.
> I feel I have lost control of how I want my data to be managed.
> 
> OTOH in a fit of pique I tried an Android device and that software takes 
> removing the owner from the loop and doing exactly what it wants in the 
> background to an entirely new level!
> IMHO Mavericks is Apple moving in a Google direction. Not something I 
> welcome.
> 
> Frank D.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: Dennis Kushner <dennis.leicam6 at gmail.com>
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> 
>> Sent: Thursday, 3 April 2014, 14:10
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Slightly OT: New Mac Pro for photo editing? Also 
>> whisk[e]y. -DAS
>> 
>> 
>> Frank, did you try wi fi sync through iTunes?
>>   http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> ====On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Frank Dernie <
>>> Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> <<snip>>
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Lovely styling though.
>>>> Frank D,
>>> <<snip>>
>>> 
>>> I saw one for the first time at the local Apple Store this week.  It is
>>> very exotic looking but I am not clear as to what end.  If it is as
>>> confounding to configure and use as my new Oly OMD E-M1 I will give it a
>>> wide berth. These things make me appreciate again the simplicity of my
>>> Leica.
>>> 
>>> --Bob
>>> 
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