How to locally sync an iPhone with OS X Mavericks? iCloud is NOT an option.

Follow along now petermac...

petermac87 wrote:

They don't do that in my country Chris.

Who doesn't do what?

You mean the police? I never said they did do that.

Since you have nothing to hide, it's okay of they police peruse through your iCloud information?

You seemed to think that the only people who should have a problem with the police getting info from iCloud are those with something to hide.

Slippery slope and all that...

Chris CA wrote:

Q. So you'd be happy to let the police in to your house every night at 3AM to just to "check things out"?

A. They don't do that in my country Chris

And in your own words

Everybody wrote;

Let's all argue about issues and non-issues alike, stray off-topic on every other post & responding when there's no need, simply to try & get a reaction...

Suggestions here -> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

May pay to practice what you preech, Chris. Your creative editing is making you look less relevant than we know you are.

But your call.

Pete

petermac87 wrote:

They don't do that in my country Chris

and???

Csound1 wrote:

You live in a fantasy world then.

You guys are funny.

lkrupp wrote:

Stop with the hypocritical pontificating. If you don't like what's going on take your business elsewhere. It's as simple as that. All this simplistic moralizing and blathering about your privacy and choice in an increasingly homogenous, public, non-private society is just hot air. The NSA probably already knows more about you than iCloud ever will. If they can spy on the Chancellor of Germany you are easy pick'ins. And there's NOTHING you can do about it.

That would not be nice since I have bought many Apple products hoping to use them. Yes, my choice is to through them away because Apple changes their policies just like that…

Again, thanks God for SyncMate that is giving me choice to keep my investments. Im sure they will not require you to log into iCloud before you can locally sync, unless Apple suddenly decides not to let you to unlock your iPad and iPhone until you first sync with iCloud and then you can use localy syncing.

Syncmate have just released a new beta, but when I downloaded it I found it was 'damaged'. Have other people found the same thing?

In System Preferences > Security & Privacy, temporarily set "Allow apps downloaded from" to "Anywhere". Open the app, see if it works, then set the preferences back to "app store and developers".

OK - didn´t look in this over-trolled thread since weeks.

My solution is owncloud on my own server. Works cool. Just one thing - the contact doesn´t work well with the groups. But it doesn´t matter to me, I just want a safe and own controlled sync from my mac to my iphone. It´s not my first choice because my data lay on an internet server but hey - I have to work!

For having the trouble and to try all the solutions I´m really in a bad mood with apple. I use them since many MANY years but this political uncorrect behavior to push me in the icloud is inacceptable.

Again - it´s a shame of the idea of freedom of decision that works in the times of Steve Jobs.

I am not sure that the next phone will be an iPhone. Found out that a sync via Kies.app works with Samsung so could be I am out.

tekknosaurus wrote:

this political uncorrect behavior to push me in the icloud is inacceptable.

You can use any service you prefer, you are not restricted to iCloud.

That´s what I mean with trolling.

I know, you said it 1000 times in the thread and won´t understand that it´s freedom to choose between iCloud and USB/WLAN-Sync.

And btw, and this is the last time I answering something like this:

I can´t use what I prefer. I prefer local sync, means USB or WLAN.

Keep the faith.

tekknosaurus wrote:

I can´t use what I prefer. I prefer local sync, means USB or WLAN.

Local sync alternatives have been posted in this thread numerous times, use one of them.

'I can't have what I want' is a local issue, when 'enough' people complain to Apple it becomes 'we can't have what we want', and when the we becomes substantial there may be change.

you said it 1000 times in the thread

There are only 3300 or so posts, most of them not mine, I think that you are exaggerating.

If you had looked it over recently you would have read that your wish may be granted in 10.9.3 and the accompanying itunes update, according to rumours.

Yep, the thread is now about pedantic quibbling over semantics, calling people crabby, and little else.

The good news is there is a strong chance that the issue, much like this thread, will soon be moot.

Hang in there, tekknosaurus.

Thanks echolon and peter_watt.

I didn´t heard that and I didn´t read the thread because some guys want just wast our time... I just want to tell that owncloud is very simple to use... in the last version they shows the url to contacts and calendar that you need to put in your mac and ios and - done! I was ready in some minutes.

But I keep my fingers crossed for 10.9.3 and the return of the local sync!

tekknosaurus wrote:

OK - didn´t look in this over-trolled thread since weeks.

You call it 'over-trolled' and then reignite the thread by coming back here, offering absolutely nothing new and not even reading any additions to the thread, such as the rumored return of the feature in beta updates with associated links?????

That, tekknosaurus, is trolling.

Pete