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

I agree with you totally about Apple being wrong and should restore the previous function.

I also hope that they walk the talk about giving their customers a good experience !!!!

this is a key point in the history of the iphone. that is the first time aplle forces users to either use the cloud or forget the iphone. the fact is, if you cannot sync contacts and calender, you are set back to the early 1990ies... eitehr apple changes this back in the spirit of an open company or apple is another suspocous data gathering machine for officials.

i am not anti american buy it must be clear, that these data of apple are accessible for the nsa or any other federal service to screen for information. and those are predominantly ideas and business informatiosn and not communication of stupid black-bearded terrorists..

and for sure huwei does the same for china and samsung via south korea for the usa adn i am sure my country also does ist. they may do what they want. but i decide if i want to participate in this cloud computing data-group-sex without condomes....

No one is forcing you to use iCloud. You can use any cloud service you want.

Great idea Kilted Tim!!!

i do...lets see.... Google?, Microsoft?..

what do you prefer? cancer or AIDS? makes no difference for me.

give me back my local sync. best regards to TIm Cook

KiltedTim wrote:

No one is forcing you to use iCloud. You can use any cloud service you want.

Sure they don't force you to use iCloud. Otherwise they would end up like Microsoft.

But they have taken away a well established feature that allowed users to sync data without using any cloud. And they've taken it away secretely because they knew that this step wouldn't be accepted by their professional users.

I was at UCLA, as a graduate student, in 1969. Clever of you to notice. Actually, all I used was the local area network we had then. The internet was not set up until September 1969 with a phone connection between UCLA and (I think), Stanford. Then, I used Arpanet in the early 1970s, email in the early 1980s (remember Decnet?), etc. I'm still using, and I'm still careful.

I give up. You're all a bunch of paranoid whiners.

Make sure you label your tin foil hats when you get together for your secret meetings... Wouldn't want to get them mixed up.

Strange discussion.

But in the end it´s the end of using iphone as phone in a business surrounding.

I want to go to Samsung, there I hopefully can sync via KIES.

In between its equal to me what phone I use. If I can´t sync offline the iPhone have not much benefit for me in the future.

If this is the strategy, good night AAPL!

doctorsuess wrote:

I was at UCLA, as a graduate student, in 1969. Clever of you to notice. Actually, all I used was the local area network we had then.

So you lied.

i still dont know who you are. i am still florian draeenrt, working at a german university.

trying to make this serious discussion about a device that i have to use more often than any other device, including my water bottel and the dinner plate, during every day silly is unprofessional.

and trying to deny that national services and persons can screen databases for meeting, ideas, projects is naive and stupid.

beside this it is my privacy. if we all do not care about that, then hey...let us save lots of money and forget about clothing. at least in summer much cheaper...

I hope that you live in an area with warm summers.

i do not need warm summers. i am wearing clothes and i do local sync and not icloud sync. the question ist, if i can do it with an iphone tomorrow again or if i need to buy a samsung....

The answer is clear, no.

Which Samsung do you plan on buying?

...let us save lots of money and forget about clothing. at least in summer much cheaper...

I second that fullheartedly.

To what other devices do you want to sync your new Samsung?

There are only two kind of people here.

• Who want apple to collect all (contacts, schedule, email, talking on the phone) personal data in one place at once and hand in to Obama.
• Who at least don't want apple to collect all personal data in one place and hand in to Obama.

Which person are you? I'm the latter.