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Don't panic! For some of us it works just fine (to be truthful I can't see any change).
P H E W !!! thats OK then
Don't panic! For some of us it works just fine (to be truthful I can't see any change).
Reinstalled my iPhone from scratch and it is now syncing (as judged by tests with Notes app). So, fingers crossed, everything is syncing.On a more cheerful note (for me ) last night‘s updates to macOS, iOS, iPadOS have started my Notes app syncing between iCloudOS (ie in browser), macOS and iPadOS but so far not on iOS* but maybe it’ll catch up .
* I am currently getting those annoying superfluous requests to sign in with my Apple ID on the iPhone which is a known oldish problem with no known specific solution so that may be why iOS is behaving differently.
Yes, they threw in a load of o/s updates in a very short timescale.Reinstalled my iPhone from scratch and it is now syncing (as judged by tests with Notes app). So, fingers crossed, everything is syncing.
Maybe it wasn’t the updates but just time. Apparently something of the order of 500M phones are now on iOS 13 and this was presumably more complicated than usual with the launch of iPadOS 13.
Yes, I run FileMaker 15 and no intention to upgrade so I run it in a virtual machine in Parallels (could use free VirtualBox) and also on dual boot and an old Windows machine for ‘backup/security’. I’ll probably do that with Aperture too, just in case.
Yes, to be precise Apple took it back in house some years ago. It is cross platform (Windows & Mac). FileMaker needs much more infrequent upgrades to keep working on Windows than on Mac, it is annoying . Also the tablet version, FileMaker Go (free and works excellently on the same files as the desktop) is iOS only so Windows users are stuffed — it may work on some Windows tablets but that is not clear.Wait what? Don't Apple still own Filemaker? And they wrote Aperture. So now they are breaking their own software?
That's the kind of crazy stuff that drove me away from PCs a l-o-n-g time ago. I really expect my next box to run some flavour of Windoze
Yes, to be precise Apple took it back in house some years ago. It is cross platform (Windows & Mac). FileMaker needs much more infrequent upgrades to keep working on Windows than on Mac, it is annoying . Also the tablet version, FileMaker Go (free and works excellently on the same files as the desktop) is iOS only so Windows users are stuffed — it may work on some Windows tablets but that is not clear.
I think the problem is that historically Apple wanted to give customers things they didn’t know they wanted — Steve Jobs said as much. The biggest example was the iPhone which introduced the “interface that changed with the application”, much mocked after the launch. Nobody was complaining that the buttons on their phone didn’t change! (https://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/09/09/genius-annotated-with-genius/ ). But I think that blinds them to seeking customer feedback, or at least they don’t explain why they can’t/wont do things. To take a small example the current Apple Pages can’t do mail merge which was particularly neatly done on the previous version. Maybe they can’t do it because of compatibility with the web version but they could say. A number of other features were inexplicably lost (2 page display) too. FileMaker Pro suffers in the same way.Genuinely it's almost like Apple hate their customers.
Meanwhile M$ Visual Studio runs beautifully on my Mac, M$ Office isn't too bad (unless you know the PC version well) and even heavyweight stuff like Sql Server runs in a Docker Container.
There are no ‘good guys’ ... ‘it’s only business‘ , quoting the Don, no not that one, Don Corleone ... on the other hand .It's important to remember that Apple are a hardware manufacturer, and the software is there to sell the hardware. There's also been the suggestion that they want to phase out laptops and desktops computers in favour of tablets (higher margins) and because of that they have really taken their eye off the ball regarding other aspects of their business or have deliberately degraded performance.
Certainly the ethos seems very different from the early 90s, when they were one of the 'good guys'.
There are no ‘good guys’ ... ‘it’s only business‘ , quoting the Don, no not that one, Don Corleone ... on the other hand .
I think the problem is that historically Apple wanted to give customers things they didn’t know they wanted — Steve Jobs said as much. The biggest example was the iPhone which introduced the “interface that changed with the application”, much mocked after the launch. Nobody was complaining that the buttons on their phone didn’t change! (https://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/09/09/genius-annotated-with-genius/ ). But I think that blinds them to seeking customer feedback, or at least they don’t explain why they can’t/wont do things. To take a small example the current Apple Pages can’t do mail merge which was particularly neatly done on the previous version. Maybe they can’t do it because of compatibility with the web version but they could say. A number of other features were inexplicably lost (2 page display) too. FileMaker Pro suffers in the same way.
Absolutely. I'm glad I got out of the industry when I did.Don Corleone is probably close to the truth in the computing industry now. The days of it being fun and a hobby are long gone.
Some very interesting points. IIRC (and I may be misremembering) the day the iPad was launched a few journalists said "who would want one of those?".
Just because it doesn’t work for you doesn’t mean it’s not good for others. People’s use case varies and denigrating their use of them is not helpful.That's how I felt, and to a large degree still feel. I have a tablet computer for music presentation as a substitute for sheets, but I also remember buying an Android tablet because I was interested to try the idea of such a device (OS makes no difference) and never really finding a use for it. Media consumption device? Sure, but the screen sucks compared to a real computer screen or laptop, and the weight is no big deal - yet consumers bought them by the million, even though they were a poor solution looking for a problem.
Just because it doesn’t work for you doesn’t mean it’s not good for others. People’s use case varies and denigrating their use of them is not helpful.
Edit: typo
Not going to get into an argument over this as I mostly agree with opinions. But, since you asked, this sentence is a minor put-down of tablet users “yet consumers bought them by the million, even though they were a poor solution looking for a problem” .Denigrating? Please explain where I did that? I was giving reasons why I agreed with the 'journalists' you mentioned.
It’s true I think your experience was with an Android tablet rather than an iPad and I’ve struggled to find my way around Androids when friends have asked for my help so I couldn’t comment on them .