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

I read that OS X Mavericks will no longer allow me to use iTunes to sync my iPhone to a local system but makes iCloud mandatory? Is that correct?

 

iCloud is not a valid option for me since I have no control about my data there, I need to keep all my data (contacts, calendar...) on a system under my control and so far iTunes allowed me to do that which was one of the reasons I didn't even consider Android or Windows Phone.

OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Oct 20, 2013 8:54 AM

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

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  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Mar 18, 2014 4:08 PM in response to Unix Guru
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    Mar 18, 2014 4:08 PM in response to Unix Guru

    1. Good. No one else here is a computer professional

     

    2. Why do you think you have to use Cloud Services at all?

     

    3. You don't use Internet browsing, email, social media, mobile phone calls or texts then? Because anything that involves electronic communication is open to the possibility of data theft.

     

    Pete

  • by echelon3,

    echelon3 echelon3 Mar 18, 2014 4:40 PM in response to petermac87
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    Mar 18, 2014 4:40 PM in response to petermac87

    Whether you understand it or not, there are professions that are precluded from storing client data on computers not in their control. Some of those professionals need a way to sync their devices. Some of those professionals are a bit too busy to run their own servers or to institute some other round-about way to acheive what they had before this change. It does not mean they are not using email, texts, or mobile phone calls.

    I don't understand why, throughout this thread, you haven't been able to grasp that fact.

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Mar 18, 2014 4:44 PM in response to echelon3
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    Mar 18, 2014 4:44 PM in response to echelon3

    echelon3 wrote:

     

    Whether you understand it or not, there are professions that are precluded from storing client data on computers not in their control. Some of those professionals need a way to sync their devices. Some of those professionals are a bit too busy to run their own servers or to institute some other round-about way to acheive what they had before this change. It does not mean they are not using email, texts, or mobile phone calls.

    I don't understand why, throughout this thread, you haven't been able to grasp that fact.

    What fact?

     

    Pete

  • by wiredancer,

    wiredancer wiredancer Mar 18, 2014 4:50 PM in response to P J M
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    Mar 18, 2014 4:50 PM in response to P J M

    Hi, P J M

    I'm with you 100%


    ... thanks to all of us that don't want to send our data in the Cloud, Apple has heard us after all. I guess some people on this thread underestimated us.


    P J M don't bother in arguing with the pro-iCloud radicals, it's a waste of time.

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Mar 18, 2014 4:55 PM in response to wiredancer
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    Mar 18, 2014 4:55 PM in response to wiredancer

    wiredancer wrote:

     

     


    ... thanks to all of us that don't want to send our data in the Cloud, Apple has heard us after all. I guess some people on this thread underestimated us.


     

    Yes, the feedback channel is the correct avenue and may see the return of the feature in a future update if enough people give feedback. That has been said from the outset.. iCloud will still be around for the 320 million iCloud accounts, luckily.

     

    Pete

  • by wiredancer,

    wiredancer wiredancer Mar 18, 2014 5:00 PM in response to petermac87
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    Mar 18, 2014 5:00 PM in response to petermac87

    some people kept saying that it is useless, that Apple is not going to look at ouy comments. well, I guess they did.

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Mar 18, 2014 5:04 PM in response to wiredancer
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    Mar 18, 2014 5:04 PM in response to wiredancer

    What makes you think that they looked at the comments here?

     

    Pete

  • by jayv.,

    jayv. jayv. Mar 18, 2014 5:16 PM in response to wiredancer
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    Mar 18, 2014 5:16 PM in response to wiredancer

    Yup things are looking good Now we wait.

  • by fred242,

    fred242 fred242 Mar 18, 2014 5:35 PM in response to petermac87
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    Mar 18, 2014 5:35 PM in response to petermac87

    Well, Pete, you've just confirmed the old aphorism about horses,water and compulsory drinking, or how about: "There's none so blind as those that will not see"?

     

    What will we all argue about now that this thread will shortly shut down?

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Mar 18, 2014 5:38 PM in response to fred242
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    Mar 18, 2014 5:38 PM in response to fred242

    fred242 wrote:

     

    Well, Pete, you've just confirmed the old aphorism about horses,water and compulsory drinking, or how about: "There's none so blind as those that will not see"?

     

    What will we all argue about now that this thread will shortly shut down?

    How do you interpret that? Apple will make their decision on feedback given in their feedback channel. Not here. I fail to see your point. Also, why will this thread be closed down?

     

    Pete

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Mar 18, 2014 5:39 PM in response to P J M
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    Mar 18, 2014 5:39 PM in response to P J M

    P J M wrote:

     

    There are plenty of historical precedents for abuse of power and Apple's recent move to try to require porting personal information to their cloud is just a preleminary reflection of their growing arrogance.

    Which, if it were true, might be pertinent. But it is not.

  • by DieselFuelForLife,

    DieselFuelForLife DieselFuelForLife Mar 18, 2014 7:02 PM in response to Csound1
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    Mar 18, 2014 7:02 PM in response to Csound1

    Its why I don't use any cloud features and put a fake address in my OS registration.

  • by Chris CA,

    Chris CA Chris CA Mar 18, 2014 7:53 PM in response to DieselFuelForLife
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    Mar 18, 2014 7:53 PM in response to DieselFuelForLife

    DieselFuelForLife wrote:

     

    Its why I don't use any cloud features and put a fake address in my OS registration.

    What is why you do this?

  • by Unix Guru,

    Unix Guru Unix Guru Mar 18, 2014 8:41 PM in response to petermac87
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    Mar 18, 2014 8:41 PM in response to petermac87

    Let me make myself clear, I have been a Unix administrator for over 30 years. I use the Internet and have used it since the mid 80's. I am very careful what service and what companies I trust. I don't want to trust my notes, SMS messages, contacts and such to yet another company. For my phone to function I have to trust my phone carrier and we have seen how well those folks have kept things private, NOT. I want to back up my data to my private storage where my rights are well defined. Data storage at a third party has yet to be fully tested in the courts.

     

    I'm done here. This is a religious discussion without rationality. No one wins.

  • by TopSteve,

    TopSteve TopSteve Mar 18, 2014 11:04 PM in response to petermac87
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    Mar 18, 2014 11:04 PM in response to petermac87

    petermac87 wrote:

     

    fred242 wrote:

     

    Well, Pete, you've just confirmed the old aphorism about horses,water and compulsory drinking, or how about: "There's none so blind as those that will not see"?

     

    What will we all argue about now that this thread will shortly shut down?

    How do you interpret that? Apple will make their decision on feedback given in their feedback channel. Not here. I fail to see your point. Also, why will this thread be closed down?

     

    Pete

    Yes the feedback site is the place but what makes you so sirton/shoure of the point you keep making "Not here"?  Is it not posable that some people from Apple might see the posts here?

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