Re: [sussex_mug] iOS 5 and your birthday

2011-10-15 Thread Virginia Routh
Thanks for advice about downloading iOS 5. The only snag I hit was when I entered my password at the end of the download, it would not accept it. Took me some head scratching to work out this was because they had put me.com as default. When I changed this to gmail, all was well. On 15 Oct

[sussex_mug] iOS 5 and your birthday

2011-10-14 Thread Rob Beattie
Just finished installing it - as people have been saying, patience pays off (and doing it at 6.30 in the morning). One strange one though. I kept getting this error message - Apple ID could not be created because of a server error Then I went back and instead of putting in my birthday (i.e. 10th

Re: [sussex_mug] iOS 5 and your birthday

2011-10-14 Thread Rob Beattie
But that's really sloppy - especially for Apple - because they don't ask for your date of birth. Rob - Rob Beattie Freelance writer and book author www.robbeattie.com 07769 902820 Twitter: @robbeattie On 14 October 2011 10:03, Phil Tomlinson philip.tomlins...@btinternet.com

Re: [sussex_mug] iOS 5 and your birthday

2011-10-14 Thread Emrah Omuris
It should do as I believe there is minimum age requirements somewhere in the TC. Sent from my iPad On 14 Oct 2011, at 09:56, Rob Beattie rob.beat...@gmail.com wrote: Just finished installing it - as people have been saying, patience pays off (and doing it at 6.30 in the morning). One

Re: [sussex_mug] iOS 5 and your birthday

2011-10-14 Thread Russell Brown
Yes, that's why I thought they asked for it. Though interestingly, they asked for my wife's but not mine. Although actually, that probably isn't that interesting... I would imagine that it stops them having to ask you to confirm that you are over 18 if buying age restricted stuff, such as film

Re: [sussex_mug] iOS 5 and your birthday

2011-10-14 Thread Rob Beattie
My point though is that they're asking the wrong question. If someone asks me when my birthday is they'll get one answer. If they ask for my date of birth, they'll get another. It was the only thing in the setup process that confused me. Rob - Rob Beattie Freelance writer and