Wife bought a new Iphone7 yesterday to replace her 5 that was failing and doing weird things. She is trying to use her Itunes gift cards (Itunes...another Apple app designed by Satan). It wants her security questions which she no longer remembers or how she typed them in. So it's off to the apple ID reset page. You type in your user name, a captcha code and your password. All good right? Says to enter the code that was sent to your phone to reset security questions....what freakin code? I checked her email account that is set up for that phone...nothing. No texts or anything.
Now it looks like we have to call apple support just to be able to use apple functions on this POS. How the hell do these people stay in business? Androids are so much easier. Tried to get her to switch to android but she had gotten too comfortable with these hellish devices and doesn't like change.
God Bless
I found that part of the aforementioned dilemma was that the appleid support was sending the codes to my wifes IPhone 5 which she had replaced with the one in question. I thought it was supposed to be turned off? So I generated a new code, took it off of the 5 and was able to get onto ITUNES on the 7, and reset the stupid security questions. Which I then went back into IT, answered the questions, reentered a captcha and her password.....Fuh, fuh, fooey!
Now I have to set up ITUNES on my PC, transfer music to IT, then from IT to the phone. On an android, its pretty much drag and drop. Kill me now!
Jim -- I think you are right. For tech-savvy folks the Apple system is very confining. For those of us (me) who are not tech-savvy it is much simpler. DOS and Windows were always asking me questions I didn't know how to answer when, say, burning a CD. Apple just burned the damn CD. But I've noticed they are getting too restrictive, say in iPhoto, which they've gutted for Photos for Mac, or whatever. So if they do away with the capital gains tax this year maybe I'll cash in!
I just finished figuring out how to utilize that ITunes app and it has about 3 more steps in it than I think need be there. Still, when I try to add songs to the selected playlist, it duplicates the playlist which I have to delete off the phone. Maddening. That said, I saved my wifes new Iphone from certain destruction today, either by her or myself. LOL.
WW, I have a flip phone that I use for work but it is starting to die out after 7 years of hard use. I will get another as I do tower work from time to time and if it gets dropped, its not like it will cost a fortune to replace. Fits my head better as well.
Bob
My new hearing aids are integrated with my I-phone via Bluetooth. It's about the coolest thing I have ever had. Almost makes needing hearing aids worth it!
If you want to tell the phone/computer what to do then droids and windows. But even windows is going more towards taking complete control of your device and only giving you a handful of "options". sigh.
You can do pretty much anything on your phone now that used to be the realm of computers. When traveling they are awesome, from turn by turn directions (no need for any GPS, it's in the phone) in strange cities to finding places to eat, hotels to stay at and even booking them while on the road. Kinda handy sometimes to have a camera with you all the time as well as a rudimentary flashlight. All my music is on mine and with a bluetooth speaker you can hear your music in a cabin, hotel room, etc. the noise cancelling headphones on plane fights are awesome. I had most of my hunting maps for our unit in AZ on my phone this year.
In a bit of irony though...... many websites originally set up for high end computers and all the highest tech features, including this one, have to be dumbed down so as to make a better "experience" for mobile.
Shot timer for the pistol range A ballistic calculator for the rifle range it stores all my reloading data It checks me in for all my airline reservations and hold my boarding passes It does almost all my banking it checks me in for all my hotel reservations sometimes it is the key to my hotel room it controls my hearing aids I get my news from it it hold books and movies to listen to and watch when I get trapped on an airplane It is a marginal gps it's a real handy level I can verbally ask it any arithmetic question and it will reliably tell me the answer I purchase and usually carry all of my state hunting permits within it and use it to check in animals It knows when sunrise and sunset is detailed weather reports and near real time weather radar It communicates with my garmin watch and keeps details of every workout that I do
Could I do all that stuff the old fashioned way.....yep but not by choice.
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. . . .I got stuck in the Airport in Miami this past Saturday night. While I had to wait four hours in the rebooking line, people with IPhones and Droids had already made their airline and hotel room reservations, and were out enjoying the night life of Miami.
So I am seriously considering upgrading to a smart phone of some type, for the first time in my life.
A $20 bluetooth OBD2 connector (that was a higher end one...) and a $5 (some are free) app for the phone and I can read codes in nearly any vehicle made. Even read the fuel rail pressure on our Isuzu NPR diesel to determine the pump was ok ($1500-2000) .... was an electronic issue, basically tracked down to one of the chassis grounds messing with the ECM and sensors..... and read a few other codes including a #4 cylinder misfire (likely injector) and a problem with the EGR (or sensor).
Don't know what else would do that for $25...... I use it all the time on a half dozen vehicles.... well, not the 76 scout.... but soon to have fuel injection on the ol' 304 tractor engine and will use it there too.....
Apps available for these things can put some pretty incredible and powerful tools in the palm of you hand. Actually making a phone call is getting to be among the least of them......
If you weren't already married...................
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https://www.amazon.com/BAFX-Products-34t5-Bluetooth-Android/dp/B005NLQAHS
For some reason it wouldn't let me link it.
LOL! And therein lies the problem!
But they are evolving. The Car Gauge app was supposed to be able to read ABS and airbag codes..... but turns out only for Nissan and I was working on my daughters 4runner. Oh well....for $8.....
Joey gets it......LOL! But I'm guessing his scanners cost a bit more..... =D The mechanic that rents some space here here just dropped a few grand on his new Snap On Scammer...... and every time they "update" it, they take something away from him that he has to pay extra to have them put it back in.....
