Thursday night my wife and I wander into the local Apple store.
We have cash in hand.
We want an iPad.
We are ready to buy.
I mention that as it's important.
We have -2- questions.
1- How do we get our edited photos off of our iMacs (Our Officially Sanctioned Apple Computers) onto the new iPad (the Official Apple Tablet)?
2- The optional camera kit has an SD Card reader and what looks like a USB port. Is it a USB port that we can use to connect a media reader so we can read our Compact Flash cards and thumbdrives?
The answer from -2- different 'Geniuses' as well as a third who was consulted to #2 was "no". We were told we could connect directly to our cameras, but those shots aren't edited.
The answer to #1 roamed around a bit. It wandered into .me, the newly announced iCloud, iTunes and lots of confusion. The eventually decided it wasn't possible.
Unless we stored our stuff 'in the clouds'.
Or went through a complicated process involving copying all of our files to a single workstation, then using iTunes to import them.
Because you can't apparently connect an iPad to multiple systems unless you want to reset (ie wipe) the damn thing.
According to the 'Geniuses'
30 minutes. I was livid. Waste of time.
Did I mention, cash in hand, ready to buy, just want to get our pics on there?
Ended up at Best Buy. Grilled a "Geek".
Next day, I went to a different Best Buy, and grilled 2 more 'Geeks'.
Read a few hundred reviews.
Bought an Android 3 tablet.
10" display.
Took it home.
Downloaded a driver program to each of our iMacs.
Plugged it in.
Dragged and fricken dropped the folders onto the tablet.
Plugged it in to #2.
Dragged and fricken dropped the folders onto the tablet.
Fired up the photo browser and in -5- minutes time had everything set up, organized and rocking.
No need to 'upgrade' to '3G' and a 'contract'.
I can show clients 2 miles inside a mountain where no signals reach my port now.
"Genius"?
Naw, try "Dumb ***"
/rant
We have cash in hand.
We want an iPad.
We are ready to buy.
I mention that as it's important.
We have -2- questions.
1- How do we get our edited photos off of our iMacs (Our Officially Sanctioned Apple Computers) onto the new iPad (the Official Apple Tablet)?
2- The optional camera kit has an SD Card reader and what looks like a USB port. Is it a USB port that we can use to connect a media reader so we can read our Compact Flash cards and thumbdrives?
The answer from -2- different 'Geniuses' as well as a third who was consulted to #2 was "no". We were told we could connect directly to our cameras, but those shots aren't edited.
The answer to #1 roamed around a bit. It wandered into .me, the newly announced iCloud, iTunes and lots of confusion. The eventually decided it wasn't possible.
Unless we stored our stuff 'in the clouds'.
Or went through a complicated process involving copying all of our files to a single workstation, then using iTunes to import them.
Because you can't apparently connect an iPad to multiple systems unless you want to reset (ie wipe) the damn thing.
According to the 'Geniuses'
30 minutes. I was livid. Waste of time.
Did I mention, cash in hand, ready to buy, just want to get our pics on there?
Ended up at Best Buy. Grilled a "Geek".
Next day, I went to a different Best Buy, and grilled 2 more 'Geeks'.
Read a few hundred reviews.
Bought an Android 3 tablet.
10" display.
Took it home.
Downloaded a driver program to each of our iMacs.
Plugged it in.
Dragged and fricken dropped the folders onto the tablet.
Plugged it in to #2.
Dragged and fricken dropped the folders onto the tablet.
Fired up the photo browser and in -5- minutes time had everything set up, organized and rocking.
No need to 'upgrade' to '3G' and a 'contract'.
I can show clients 2 miles inside a mountain where no signals reach my port now.
"Genius"?
Naw, try "Dumb ***"
/rant
