> I suppose you mean "syncing with a PC" vs "syncing with the cloud". > My iTunes syncs my music, video, movies, play lists, podcasts, iTunes > U lectures, audio books and Outlook contacts / appointments with my > iPhone with a single app (though iTunes for Windows is pretty slow > when syncing on my laptop). Now I assume I can't do that all with a > single app on Google, so I lose convenience here.
Yeah, but why the need to sync in the first place? Sync should just happen automatically according to connection policies/profiles, without you thinking about it - surely that's also very much the Apple way? > "syncing != copying" - when I sync pod casts, audio books or iTunes U > lectures, then iTunes remembers the position in the respective files. > For music, iTunes syncs the amount of time a song was played or its > rating no matter whether those changes came from the laptop or the > iPhone (I have automatic play lists based on both of these). I still > have an old iPod classic with some videos I want to watch and a little > Shuffle for sports, and they both get synced with iTunes, too. I had an iPod Nano, it would always be a nightmare to sync from iTunes because my music collection was bigger than the 8GB nano. So there are some things you just can't do naive sync on due to capacity and bandwidth limitations. > And finally, I'm a freelance and often on a client site where my > iPhone isn't allowed on the WiFi network, so I rely on the iPhone 3G > connection there (my laptop is connected to the Internet). My iPhone > price plan here in Germany only allows for 300 MB combined download/ > upload per month at full speed, after that, I get dropped to 64kBit/s > (I'm on Vodafone, T-Mobile plans suck in the same way). So syncing a > single iTunes U lecture would max me out for two months (the Stanford > iPhone dev ones are 500-700 MB per lecture). So don't waste your bandwidth/money doing naive sync over HSPA and wait until you are on wifi. You may love your Mac, but why require everyone to have to go through a master/host - make the phone a first class citizen. > So unless Google has all my content in the cloud, can really sync it, > my price plan has not volume limits and the Google phone is an order > of magnitude faster with downloads (4G, probably), I'll stick with PC > syncing. Well LTE will come soon enough, meanwhile HSPA is being throttled up to 84Mbps here in Scandinavia (although to take advantage of that, you are going to need a dongle since no phone supports this yet). But I respect you see things differently than I, something tells me you can't avoid the cloud though and it will gain greater importance to Apple too. /Casper -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
