Molly woke up around 11:30 asking me to help fill up a blog post for today and mentioned she took a good video of Jack talking. Videos of Jack are always awesome, so I was excited to see it.
Unfortunately, her phone was running out of space and I was tasked with fixing it. I think my most recent run-in with Apply is making me question whether I’m truly done with this closed off experience. There’s no better user experience than Apple for some of the simpler items, but just trying to manage pictures… pictures that we took and we own mind you is one of the most maddening things in the world.
She was out of space, so I began backing up her pictures on my computer. I removed the Photo Stream (which is probably one of the worst launched features in Apply history. I can’t delete a photo?). Then I go back into the phone and see:
Ummm… What’s “Other”? And why is “Other” taking 9.7GB on Molly’s phone. I looked around on the internet and the only solution to eliminate “Other” is to restore the phone completely. Wow. Just wow. For all of the “amazingness” of Apple, it astounds me how restrictive and dumb it can be.
I’m in the process of restoring right now, but that cute video of Jack appears to be gone. GONE. However, the picture Molly took of her fingernails survived. What? Huh?
Then the restore apparently made it forget that it was associated with Molly’s phone number. I think I could punch something right now.
Anyway, a simple request to free up some room on her phone by moving some photos off the phone and onto my computer has now turned into a case of some lost pictures/videos, the phone forgetting it’s number, a complete restore from scratch, and a lost couple hours for something that should be quite easy.
So, in conclusion, I will leave you with a light hearted lesson on why the comma before the word “and” is quite important.
Next time you see me, I could be walking around with an Android… or my old Motorola StarTac.
3 Comments:
My blog bio includes the sentence "If you don't believe in the Oxford comma, we probably can't be friends." I think that sums up exactly the way I feel about it.
PS: Next time, a video of you doing a weather report would be great. Kthx.
I vote Motorola StarTac. Vintage! And you won't have to worry about stinkin' videos when you can't even text message. It was a simpler time.
I had one of those phones! I, also, believe in the use of the Oxford Comma. They might have been left out of the great vowel shift over seas, but they do have a lead on us in punctuation.
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