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Are some Apple Watch features shaky?

17 Sep 2014 Jiri Zoth • • • •

What is Apple Watch? It is not as easy an answer as it might look.
Despite its name, Apple Watch IS A DISPLAY and INTERACTION EXTENSION TO your iPhone placed on your wrist, which accidentally happened to get a ‘watch’ in its name. Oh, by the way, it also shows the time. If you are not OK with pulling your iPhone 6 from a pocket, and you are ok with buying a new Apple Watch model every two years to not get outdated, then you can consider Apple Watch for purchase. I just would like to remind you about some important weak spots of several features that Apple Watch is promising to deliver.

Why is the Apple Watch the buyer's question of March 2016?

12 Sep 2014 Jiri Zoth • • • • •

In this article I discuss the phenomenon of ‘when to buy’ and ‘the rational vs emotional buyer decision’ applied to the decision process of an Apple Watch purchaser.
I come to the conclusion that ‘rational buyers’ can be at rest until March 2016 and than evaluate and decide whether to buy or not to buy the second generation of Apple Watch. Anything else prior that date will be pure ‘emotional’ buying decision.

iPhone takes pictures upside-down?

10 Sep 2014 Jiri Zoth • • • • •

In this article I am elaborating on one unpleasant mystery I resolved recently.
Last years, I was repeatedly receiving complaints from my wife and other family members that I keep sending them pictures upside down, and they find it difficult and annoying to fix the rotation of the photos. The situation became critical last week when I was taking pictures of my daughter’s first day at school. I received ONLY COMPLAINTS from my family that all my photos were upside-down. So, I finally stopped ignoring the fact and googled the internet for an answer.
The answer is that I AM NOT FOLLOWING THE APPLE WAY OF TAKING photos in landscape :-( The Apple way of taking photos - trigger button down
:-)) Is the camera in the correct position in the picture?

How to import photos from iphone?

10 Sep 2014 Jiri Zoth • • • • • •

I post this article solely to increase blog post coverage on the ONLY EFFICIENT way to import photos from iphone to mac. The majority of articles explain the import process using iPhoto or Aperture. That might lead one to the completely wrong conclusion that it is not possible to import photos / pictures from iphone directly to the file system. Wrong. It is possible and there is already a minority of articles that describe the import from an iphone to a file system without iPhoto or Aperture. Let me try to push the back balance in the article count :-)

Did I just have bad luck with Apple over the last two years?

08 Sep 2014 Jiri Zoth • • •

It will be four years since I started with the Apple iphones and Macbook Airs. There are positive as well as negative experiences. Despite experiencing daily satisfaction with the Apple products that I have, looking back, I have realized that I have had a lot of bad experiences too. More than I want to bear. Hence I drafted my own buying recommendation: Before you buy a NEW Apple PRODUCT you should WAIT SIX MONTHS after the product's introduction to the market. Then do some research on the general user experience and the rumors in discussion forums, and then decide. This should minimize the risk of getting into a product affected by issues caused by a premature production process or insufficient testing.