Re: iOS apps without iTunes

2018-07-11 Thread Arno Hautala
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 1:54 PM Macs R We wrote: > > Apple is now preparing boxcars. Sure that's an entirely reasonable analogy to draw here. I've got the address for osx-nutters around here somewhere. -- arno s hautala/-| a...@alum.wpi.edu pgp b2c9d448

Re: iOS apps without iTunes

2018-07-11 Thread Neil Laubenthal
Actually...I already own Server but Sharing and Caching got moved into High Sierra...as well as Time Machine Server IIRC...no Server needed anymore. neil The three kinds of stress…nuclear, cooking and a& Jello is the key to the relationship. > On Jul 10, 2018, at 23:24, Macs R We wrote: >

Re: iOS apps without iTunes

2018-07-10 Thread Macs R We
Or, another option — buy Mac OS Server ($30?) before Apple discontinues it, install it on one of your Macs with spare disk space, and turn on File Caching. From then on, the first device on your LAN to download an OS update or app downloads it, but a copy of it simultaneously gets cached in

Re: iOS apps without iTunes

2018-07-10 Thread Neil Laubenthal
So…following up on this a bit since iTunes doesn’t do apps anymore, iOS 12 will be out in a month or two I guess, I’ve still got limited bandwidth living in my RV, and we’ll probably be updating our iPhones in November when we get back to FL for the winter. I’m working on how to best update my

Re: iOS apps without iTunes

2018-06-05 Thread Arno Hautala
On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 11:41 AM Neil Laubenthal wrote: > > So now that iTunes doesn’t do apps anymore…when you get a new iOS device is > downloading all the apps again the only way to restore it? I’ve always used > local instead of iCloud backups due to bandwidth limitations of living in an >

Re: iOS apps without iTunes

2018-06-05 Thread Michael Caplinger
> I really dislike that iTunes doesn’t do it anymore…Apple removed perfectly > good functionality from it… My recollection is that for years the ‘tech pundits’ complained that iTunes 'did too much' and was ‘bloated’. I’ve always thought removing the iOS App Store from iTunes was a response

Re: iOS apps without iTunes

2018-06-04 Thread Jeff Weinberger
On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 8:41 AM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: > So now that iTunes doesn’t do apps anymore…when you get a new iOS device > is downloading all the apps again the only way to restore it? > Disclaimer: It's been almost three years since I did this, but I just backed up my old device to my

Re: iOS apps without iTunes

2018-06-04 Thread David Schwartz
On Jun 4, 2018, at 8:41 AM, Neil Laubenthal asked: > > when you get a new iOS device is downloading all the apps again the only way > to restore it? Yes. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com

Re: iOS apps without iTunes

2018-06-04 Thread Macs R We
> On Jun 4, 2018, at 8:41 AM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: > > I really dislike that iTunes doesn’t do it anymore…Apple removed perfectly > good functionality from it…I guess they just figure that unlimited high speed > bandwidth is something everybody has. It's what I refer to as "gigabit