Anyone else mad about Apple....

lynndiwagon wrote:
Funny one, but back to the original complaint.....I can buy pretty much any old charge cable for my Samsung S5 and it will work. Apple deliberately made it so that you had to buy an "Apple Certified" (more money for Apple) or a genuine Apple charge cable before it would work. They did this as part of a software upgrade. It just galls me......

I've never paid more than $5 for an Apple-certified lightning cable, and I have about a half dozen of them. Amazon has them on their daily deals a few times a week, and I add them to orders when I don't have enough for free shipping. However, I have plenty now, so I need to find something else to pad orders for free shipping.

Oasisbob wrote:


Why can't plumbing stuff all just conect?

Car parts?

same reason.

It's the American way

Yep buy a Ford and use Chevy or Toyota parts.

Can't do that....it's the - "American Way"..:R..:R

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Funny one, but back to the original complaint.....I can buy pretty much any old charge cable for my Samsung S5 and it will work. Apple deliberately made it so that you had to buy an "Apple Certified" (more money for Apple) or a genuine Apple charge cable before it would work. They did this as part of a software upgrade. It just galls me......

Free apples at Apple !

Yes, I am mad about my apples - because the deer harvested them all off my apple trees. I guess I am mad at the deer too.

Big Katuna wrote:
No cell service or wifi required for iPhone GPS. Co-Pilot is great.

Thanks very much for that! I got all of Canada free with the free copilot app and it is only a few MB. I see there are other offline navigation apps as well. http://www.wired.com/2015/04/offline-gps-apps/

I don't pay for data, my phone service costs only $100 a year. Mobile maps are about the only thing I miss since I am close to wifi almost all the time. I paid for a 32 GB iPhone 5 on eBay and got 64 GB by mistake so I have tons of memory for maps.

After my wife vacuumed my cord last year I bought a cheapo at a bargain store that didn't work. A $10 one from Best Buy worked and so did another from a bargain store at about the same price. I think they had "for iPhone/iPad" on the packages whereas the bad one did not. My plugin with two USB ports no longer charges iPad, I suppose that is the electrical noise problem someone mentioned.

Last time I used Weather bug 10-12 years ago it was full of spyware. Haven't tried it since.

I owned an Apple II + CLONE made by Franklin Ace Computers back in the day. Closest I have ever been to owning an Apple product...:B

lynndiwagon wrote:
I'll jump back in here on the weather app thing. Weatherbug is hard to beat, and as far as estimating the time of rain all you've got to do is look at the moving map and there is a little time indicator at the bottom of the radar. Plus, it's free. I also like the "Spark" portion of it.

Thanks!

I have not tried weatherbug since...my Blackberry Pearl (loved that phone BTW). I may have to give it a try again.

Thanks!

I'll jump back in here on the weather app thing. Weatherbug is hard to beat, and as far as estimating the time of rain all you've got to do is look at the moving map and there is a little time indicator at the bottom of the radar. Plus, it's free. I also like the "Spark" portion of it.