“Following its latest seed of OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 beta (build 13D17) to developers, Apple has just pushed out a newer pre-release version of the 10.9.3 beta to employees alongside a pre-release version of iTunes 11.1.6 beta,” Jordan Kahn reports for 9to5Mac.
“iTunes 11.1.6 brings fixes for the latest 10.9.3 builds and ‘restores the ability to sync contacts and calendar information to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from your Mac running OS X 10.9.3,'” Kahn reports. “The ability to sync contacts and calendar data to an iOS device from a Mac was removed previously but remained possible through iCloud syncing.”
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I don’t know how Apple screwed Calendar up so royally. It’s in a non usable state at the moment. I hope they take some time to correct their screwup.
I think it’s time they brought Forstall back into the fold. His sense of taste matches Jobs. Cook’s sense of taste is like Ballmer version 2.0.
If nothing else, I like the narrative of Forstall coming back to Apple.
I like to think of Forstall having had his ‘Steve Jobs Moment’, going on his dream quest, walking the desert wastelands, wrestling with his own demons, evolving his spirit much as Jobs did. Then he returns to Apple and…
No, I’m not on peyote!
It’s the omega-tester “employees”. They don’t seem to be very good at saying, “This is crap!”
I could do without the wood-grain stuff, but, yeah, go back to making an interface look like an interface…until we have total thought/voice control.
Don’t bank on it. With every release the sw is worse
Nice to see that Apple was willing to admit the consumer was smarter than they were on this one. Bravo Zulu Apple!
I don’t understand the overall strategy for iTunes. Why did they remove the ability to gift playlists?
I want an iTunes Lite, something that simply allows a drag and drop of files directly on to my iPhone and iPad.
I don’t want to analyze them, sort them into genres, composers, playlists, ad infinitum.
I am busy, I don’t need to have a deep personal relationship with an app, just get the damn files on my devices without going through a bunch of unnecessary steps. Drag and drop from the download folder onto the device and get on with life!
I’m still waiting for them to fix all of the problems they caused with Mavericks. The trend is very troubling.