My Iphone 4 finally arrived. I am so excited – I can now take random movies and load them straight up to Youtube from anywhere in the world. And run my business from it too.
So all I had to do was move the contacts from the old one to the new one, and all the settings and I would be right – right?
So I backed her up and plugged in the hew one. “BARP! you need Itnnes 10.2 to update this Iphone”
Ok easy – download 10.2 and away I go. Erm no… Seems I need OSX10.5 to run that and I only have 10.4.
Ok I just upload the old phone onto the OSX10.5 laptop and all is well yes?
Erm no… It doesn’t want to do that in any meaningful way, seems the newer version of Itunes doesn’t like my old Iphone version OS either.
SO gotta ask why can’t two Iphones talk to each other over Wireless network and sync that way? Who knows, the propellor heads at Apple certainly aren’t into useability…
In the end I backed up the contacts via the address book on the old computer, uploaded it and restored to the address book on the laptop and was able to download onto the new Iphone 4. Still had to recreate the old Itunes library items and play lists. Seems those are not easily transferrable either.
Wasted almost a whole working day discovering this and in the end had to work it out myself. Forums were useless, full of half answered geek talk, and Apples website worse than useless, and all the answers sites were only half right too. What is it with people who can only talk (or type) in two second sound bites before they go off on some other tangent?
Hmm is there an opportunity here I wonder?
Stay awesome
