Comments on: Linux iPhone sync draws near

By: stt

stt — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:02:28 +0000

The day has arrived (few weeks ago actually)
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ipod-touch-3g-sync-over-usb-without-jailbraking-in-ubuntu-karmic.html
works great for me so far, retains covers and ratings etc, writing through usbmuxd could be faster but I bet they’re working on it..
You just have to disable syncing from itunes and manage music library manually for it not to remove songs you added from other programs

By: Shocked

Shocked — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:40:14 +0000

Keep at it dudes!
Can’t wait for the day I can throw out the stinking rotten Apple OS.
Apple’s not allowing sync via USB cable really sucks.
People are always attacking Microsoft but Apple’s anti-competitive behaviour is something else again.
Basically my new iPhone has turned out to be a useless brick.

By: xDATx

xDATx — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:36:38 +0000

Apple; I love them and hate them.

By: moo

moo — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:28:45 +0000

why woudnt a zune work with osx?

By: Hector Martin

Hector Martin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:34:24 +0000

Some of us *like* reverse engineering proprietary devices. It’s a challenge. By the way, I’m not sure where the heck the DS came in Shaun’s comment. The DS is even worse than the iPhone: it’s a much inferior platform and you need custom *hardware* to use it for homebrew. At least on iPhones you can jailbreak via USB.

Sure, open devices are nice and desirable and you should spend your money on them, but Apple’s stuff is hugely popular, generally *good*, and worth supporting if possible.

By: Bort

Bort — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:27:08 +0000

Yeah. Imma’ going to get a Zune … It’ll work with OSX, right?

By: Shaun Taylor

Shaun Taylor — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:14:45 +0000

Why are people excited about a ton of wasted effort to implement what Apple should have done? A real solution is to grab something like the DS or a phone running Linux and run a real media player that supports direct file loading and more formats. Can’t sync? No problem, any computer with a card reader and the ability to read FAT32 can play nice with these non-crippled devices.

By: the Madman

the Madman — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:15:55 +0000

People obviously want to keep using iPhones, otherwise they wouldn’t be working so hard on this.

I don’t get it, but apparently the iPhone’s just so much better then all the competition… /sarc

By: therian

therian — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:01:55 +0000

just avoid Apple, problem solved. Other companies learned lesson

By: Heatgap/Ho0d0o

Heatgap/Ho0d0o — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:49:47 +0000

Why make it easy for the iPhone to communicate with anything other than OSX? We ARE talking about Apple here. We all know Apple doesn’t “play nice” with others in any sense of the term.

By: Skitchin

Skitchin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:15:08 +0000

Apple, once again graying the line between proprietary and anti-competitive practices.