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Mine imports all the contacts every time I get in the car which takes awhile because I have maybe a couple hundred contacts. So apparently when I call the car just sends the number straight to the phone just like if I dialed a new number using the on-screen dialer. So maybe it is the iPhone's fault and it doesn't understand the comma when sent directly from the car, only if you are tapping the contact in iOS. Or perhaps the car removes the comma. Now that I think about,...
I know a lot of people around the forum have little affection for BMW iDrive but it is fine for me. That is exactly how it works, with a knob. I really don't want to touch the screen. It is too far away. So yeah a knob would make sense. One thing BMW needs to fix is the way it dials #s that have an extension. With iPhone you put a comma and it pauses just long enough to dial the extension but BMW doesn't understand the comma.
They should put a touchpad down in the center console where BMW has their controller. I don't want to reach forward to touch the actual screen. I like the screen recessed in the dash so that it is shaded for better contrast and no reflections. In that position it is not convenient to reach out and touch it, especially if you are tall and have the seat all the way back.
I find it comical how when waxing poetic about Apple, the disciples boast how Apple isn't ever first into the market with a music player, phone, tablet, etc but once they decide to enter the market they show everyone one else how to do it better, however, whenever they describe Google it is always "me too" copy, not innovative. Google releases products that also redefined and re-imagine what others have done before and they have certainly disrupted the industry in nearly...
I guess it depends on what you are used to. Personally, I think a precision pointing device is really important. Selecting text, dragging and dropping, right clicking option menus, controlling scroll bars, etc. is extremely frustrating for me with the touch pad. Of course I'm not using an Apple mouse. That would be torture.
I just tested my Retina MBP and it is almost instant from sleep, maybe one second max. Then I tested cold boot - 12.3 seconds as close as I could measure with the timer on my iPhone when the log in screen appeared, then another 3 seconds after login for the desktop to completely display. So yeah, it is pretty fast but more importantly, as you mentioned, it is what you do with it once it it is running that is important. That is why I always use a mouse whenever possible...
One second, two seconds, is anyone really keeping track? A MBP is 10x more expensive and offers 100x more productivity potential, depending on what productivity means to you. Personally, I would never buy a Chromebook because I need a Mac.
They have a few decent products: SearchMapsEarthPicasaFinanceAnalyticsSketch UpTranslateDriveCheck OutPatent SearchChrome BrowserVoiceBooksImage Search Which are the vaporware?
I think health related features may be on the way but it is a little off of Apple's typical mass consumer market path. I would rather they enter the home automation sector first. Possible explanation why Google purchased Nest. They may have been aware of Apple nosing around. But web connected thermostats and smoke detectors are not that difficult to engineer. What is really needed is a home control center so that security can be centralized. It is better than each device...
AT&T voice has always been poor. Their towers or back end is really jammed which makes the data slow. Surprisingly, in mountains of Panama with only 4G (we are getting LTE next year)  the data is much faster than OC in California. And the voice quality is superb. So much for the third world being behind in telecommunications. Of course we have unsightly cell towers all over the place.
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