Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Mike Bonner
If I recall correctly, when you rent a movie you have 24 hours to watch it starting at the time you actually start playing the movie, otherwise I think it can sit there for a while (not sure how long) waiting for you to kick start the timer. . Not sure anymore though as my first gen (of the new

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Roger Eller
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Having a great Friday evening thanks to Apple. snip So I give up on that and think, OK, let's watch a movie through my new AppleTV box. Already watched several NetFlix movies with no problem. Ordered a movie. After

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Marian Petrides, MD
I think you have 30 days from the date of purchase to start watching and 24 hours from the time you start to finish the movie. Sent from my iPad On May 26, 2012, at 8:56 AM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: If I recall correctly, when you rent a movie you have 24 hours to watch it

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Roger Eller
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Marian Petrides, MD wrote: I think you have 30 days from the date of purchase to start watching and 24 hours from the time you start to finish the movie. Sent from my iPad I like the DRM of a DVD better. Anytime, anywhere... which should be in the

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Colin Holgate
Purchased was probably the wrong word. Surely you are renting the video? If you rent a DVD from a video store, aren't you expected to return it soon, even if you didn't get around to watching it? On May 26, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: I like the DRM of a

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Roger Eller
When renting, yes. On May 26, 2012 10:47 AM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: Purchased was probably the wrong word. Surely you are renting the video? If you rent a DVD from a video store, aren't you expected to return it soon, even if you didn't get around to watching it? On May 26,

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: So I give up on that and think, OK, let's watch a movie through my new AppleTV box. Already watched several NetFlix movies with no problem. Ordered a movie. After I've paid for it, I'm told a) it's only available to watch for 24 hours, and b) it's gonna take nearly 6

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Thats how mine works. Mine also usually says 12 hours to download to begin with, then I check 10 minutes later and its ready to play. One HUGE performance factor ive found is if you use a centralised dns like opendns or unblock-us etc it pretty much destroys the download performance and its

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/25/12 11:45 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Having a great Friday evening thanks to Apple. Okay, I laughed. :) But only in commiseration. Still in the throes of dealing with Apple Store submission for my app. TO register it, I have to upload at least one screenshot (why?). No problem, I have

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Roger Eller
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 1:50 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/25/12 11:45 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Having a great Friday evening thanks to Apple. Okay, I laughed. :) But only in commiseration. Still in the throes of dealing with Apple Store submission for my app. TO register it, I have

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Andrew Henshaw
You can also just use the iPhone simulator on your mac and hit cmd-s and a file appears on your desktop. Ive used these unaltered for the screenshots, they dont carry the network your phone is on and signal strength too :) Doesn't the power button + home button on an iOS device make a

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Peter Haworth
This is for the Mac Apple Store for desktop apps, not iPhone/iPad apps, not sure if the requirements are the same. The error message detailed that the screenshot had to be in one of several file formats - mine was .png which was one of the valid formats. It also had to be at least 1280x800 - my

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/26/12 12:59 PM, Roger Eller wrote: Doesn't the power button + home button on an iOS device make a screenshot in your photo gallery? The screen should flash. Probably but I didn't bother. I was making screenshots in different sizes for both main Android stores as well as the iPad, and

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-25 Thread Richmond
On 05/26/2012 07:45 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: Having a great Friday evening thanks to Apple. Still in the throes of dealing with Apple Store submission for my app. TO register it, I have to upload at least one screenshot (why?). No problem, I have several created with the OS X ability to take