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[sigh] OK. I'll give this one last try to explain it. The original article (by an objective, unbiased site as far as I can tell) stated that they had tested the iPhone 5s against its "five main competitors" (i.e. most popular models after the iPhone). So, it was not an attempt to find the best camera phone money could buy. If it were, the iPhone 5s wouldn't have stood a chance of winning the contest (I have unreservedly stated that already). However, if you were one of the many people who had purchased one of the 6 most popular phones last year (a large number of people), the iPhone 5s actually takes better pictures than some of it's technically superior major competitors based on this "blind taste test". That was the point of the whole article and as far as their comparisons went. Full stop.

You know, it's just astonishing how an argument is still being made here that it's illogical to decide to test the "most popular" individual smartphones (as in units sold) and then to exclude a phone (Nokia) that has a small percentage of the total market sales (few units sold). When, what would be illogical would be to include a phone that is not among the most popular by sales figures and include it in a most popular comparison. We've already been through the whole market share argument, and what seems to still not sink in is the facts. The market share of a Nokia running WP might be 99% in some random suburb somewhere in the world. However, this is what the actual sales figures worldwide show, which is that WP (the OS not a particular phone) has a 3% market share. 2013 FULL YEAR OPERATING SYSTEM MARKET SHARES Rank . . OS . . . . . . . . . 2013 units . . share . . .2012 units . . share . . 2011 units . . share 1 (1) . . Android . . . . . . 767.3 M . . . 78% . . . 452 M . . . . . 65% . . . 208 M . . . . . 43% 2 (2) . . iOS . . . . . . . . . 153.4 M . . . . 16% . . . 136 M . . . . . 20% . . . . 93 M . . . . . 19% 3 (6) . . Windows Phone . 33.3 M . . . . 3% . . . .16 M . . . . . . 2% . . . . 5 M . . . . . . 1% 4 (3) . . Blackberry . . . . . 23.0 M . . . . 2% . . . 33 M . . . . . .5% . . . . 52 M . . . . . 11% Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.3 M . . . . 1% TOTAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 990.0 M . . . . . . . . . . . 695 M . . . . . . .. . . . 486 M Communities Dominate Brands: Final 2013 Smartphone Market Share Numbers - Full year and Quarterly Q4 data by Top 10 brands, plus OS shares, plus installed base Nokia as a company has 2.9% market share as of the end of 2013. So, at best a particular Nokia phone is going to have less than a 3% market share - if they only sold one phone. Which they don't. What this comes down to is that the league of anti-fruits don't seem to like it when anything to do with the company named after a popular fruit is mentioned in a positive light, so the barbs come out and all rational thought seems to disappear in an instant. As for me, I think Windows Phone has a lot going for it. It's original, quite intuitive, and Nokia is making some great phones lately. I'm not surprised they are steadily increasing their market share. The fact still remains though, that WP does not have a large market share and a particular Nokia WP even less so. So, deal with it. And, feel free to take a look at the sister review of smartphone cameras that did include the Nokia (with its 40MP zoom lens) - linked to by @ZeroHour - where it crushes all of the competition.

+1 to that. This is the way to go for you @jimbopembo. Just remember to select the distribution codes (spreadsheet) option if you are using VPP to buy any apps if you want to distribute them with Configurator. You can always have them converted for VPP distribution via MDM later, but can't go the other way around. For free apps, you only have the VPP distribution code option, which only works with MDM, but you can just "buy" those using any iTunes account to install them using configurator.

I'm thinking it has something to do with Pcounter since it's occurred on two different servers on two different versions of Windows OS. But, let's try to isolate the problem first before coming to any conclusions: 1. Are you able to do a test print from the Print Server when this occurs? If no, then the problem may be with the printers. 2. Have you tried printing directly from a client to a printer, bypassing the server? If you can't, the problem may be the print driver or the printers. Has the print driver been updated recently? 3. What happens when you restart the Print Server service rather than restarting the server? If this fixes it then you have a problem with the print service and may have some conflicts with other software. 4. What happens if you simply restart the Pcounter services on the server when this problem occurs? Does it fix it? If it does, then Pcounter is the culprit. You have to think about the chain of events when a print job goes out. The client calls the print driver to send the print request, Pcounter acts as a middle-man from the client to the printer and either lets the print job through to the print server or rejects it. The print server sends the job to the printer. The problem could be anywhere along the chain.

Thanks for the follow-up. Just to clarify, I would think that AirCatch would need to use the Mail app for sending to the "email addresses", is that correct? If not, then that is brilliant and its exactly what we need for our shared iPad trolleys. If it does create an email account in the Mail app, is it possible for a student to open that up and send an email to a different address than the AirCatch server, or does it handle that by being the SMTP server itself and whitelisting the addresses the email account can send to that way.

Why is it silly to set parameters for a comparison? Most every comparison has some parameters otherwise it would take years to do the comparisons after which time no one would care as all of the products would be obsolete (but we would know the best one). Editorials do it all of the time "We've compared the most popular and here are the results...". If this wasn't common practice, then you would never see articles such as these: MSI X340 Slim: The best laptop you've never heard of - TechRepublic The Best Laptop That You Don't Know Exists - Tynan http://www.couriermail.com.au/travel/australia/revealed-best-aussie-beaches-youve-probably-never-heard-of/story-fnjjuyva-1226800984251 15 new cars you've probably never heard of - MSN Autos But, in any case this same mag have done comparisons that didn't set the "most popular" parameter as well, as ZeroHour made reference to in previous post.

Well, I'm done with this as well because if I say "x" I'm told that I said "y" so what is the point. It's like grasping for the wind.

My bad. The patents however, say they did invent it. Like it or not. I don't like the patent system myself, but it's only game in town. So, in that sense yes it is a playground. You are mistaking buying patents with buying companies. Apple bought the entire company and brought the employees onboard. If that's patent trolling then every company on earth that has ever bought another company must be in your bad books. I actually don't see anything wrong with what MS did with QDOS. They bought it at the asking price, did loads of development on top of it and made it a huge success. On the other hand, Apple does the same thing with a multi-touch OS and hardware and all of the anti-fruits scream bloody murder. Seems like a strange hypocrisy. Let's call things as they are and not cry foul only when a company with a fruit for their logo releases a new product. You're absolutely correct. Take a look at my original post and you'll see that I pointed that very fact out. Really, go back and read that post and you will find I was calling out loads of things that companies didn't invent, but only perfected or modified. That was the whole point of my "standing on the shoulders of giants" comment.

I'm very proud to be the first person you have blocked Nephilim if you have that much difficulty with rational arguments and enjoy calling people names rather than having a decent, hearty discussion. Also, if you weren't just screaming "fanboy" at me all of the time, you might find out that I: 1. Never owned any Apple products before 2006, not even an iPod. 2. Have criticism for Apple and others where it is due. 3. Recommended Office 365 and provide advice on Windows networks 4. Offer advice on Exchange migrations and have positive feelings toward Exchange, although it is far from perfect. I also like the Domino back end and web interface, but the clients is oh, so bad. 5. Would love to see an Ubuntu phone take off. and would be among the first in line to buy one to replace my iPhone. 6. Have loads of Unix experience (Solaris, AUX) from the 90s, and a decade of Windows development and/or infrastructure experience from 2002-present. 7. Have been bringing in Chromebooks and have recommended Chromebooks over PCs, Macs, or iPads in some instances. Definitely all the hallmarks of an Apple Fanboy.

Is that what he said, or did he claim the first multitouch interface on a phone? I think it was the latter. In any case, the patent office has validated Apple's multitouch patents - FOSS Patents: U.S. patent office confirmed all 20 claims of the Steve Jobs patent: bad for Samsung, Google Like or hate the patent system. These patents were challenged and have been found to be valid after a thorough review. This doesn't really work for your argument here. If Apple bought the company that made the multi-touch screens two years before the iPhone then that business and its employees were then absorbed into Apple and; therefore, part of Apple did invent or make that technology. Call it semantics if you want, but if we follow this train of though then nothing Microsoft ever did with QDOS to remake it into MS-DOS and later Windows really matters and their claims to be the owners or "inventors" of Windows is made null and void. I'm trying to show how ludicrous some of these whines about Apple really are.

Actually, what Apple most often says is that it "reinvented" or "reimagined" a product or feature. https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/01/09Apple-Reinvents-the-Phone-with-iPhone.html Not my shirt, BTW.

Hmmm. I'm thinking that I had a Handspring "phone" back in the day called 2002 (still have it today and it still works, along with the niftiest little Targus folding keyboard you've ever seen). The Handspring was an offshoot of the Palm devices, which had a touchscreen in the Treo 650 in 2004. So, I'm not sure how innovative or original the company that originally made Android was as they were "standing on the shoulders" of others just like most other people before them. Oh, and there was that Newton thing that Apple started in 1987, which was a pre-cursor to the PDA that came to market a decade later. It's interesting how so many things are forgotten with the passage of time. Or, perhaps it's just selective memory. I don't know, I forget... Hmmm. It seems that Google actually played it pretty safe after buying Android in 2005 as in 2006/2007 their prototypes looked for all the world like a Blackberry. You are correct, the touch screen was invented in 1971 and I used many variants of touchscreens in defence and retail applications in the 80s, 90s, etc. Apple did however do a great deal toward perfecting the implementation and UI for touchscreens and bring it to mass market. Before the iPhone they were mostly lacking, non-responsive, and sucky. So, when did Apple (or I) ever imply that Apple invented the touchscreen? Interested to know so I can redact that remark.

You do realise Apple did not have "lots of money in the bank" in early 2007 compared to other phone companies. Blackberry had 1.5 times the revenue of Apple, Nokia had over 3 times the revenue of Apple in 2006 - Revenue for Apple (AAPL) 2006 - Wikinvest So, if anything Nokia should have been as bold as a drunken sailor...

Fortune favours the bold.

Yep, that will work. Saves some money too. The first time you download a specific version of an app the caching server won't help. If you kick off an app download on a lot of iPads at once the caching server also won't kick in until the app is fully downloaded and an iPad starts a download. Whenever an app is updated, the first download of it won't use the caching server. However, if you are having performance issues outside of these circumstances, you might want to do a little troubleshooting - Reference 16.4 Troubleshooting the Caching Service | OS X Server Essentials: Caching Content from Apple | Peachpit EDIT: Also, make sure you aren't using OpenDNS or Google DNS or it will make Apple downloads slooowww. I can vouch for this one. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/0110226/beware-of-using-google-or-opendns-for-itunes Apple Remote Desktop works much better than any VNC client, but if you are using Windows to manage a Mac server you might try Timbuktu or LogMeIn, which also work better than VNC most of the time.

Perhaps because the prototypes of Android before Apple announced the iPhone seemed to strongly copy the Blackberry OS: Android: Before and After the iPhone | TechnoBuffalo What Android Looked Like Right Before the iPhone Launched Settling this iPhone vs. LG Prada Nonsense My bad, back in 2005/2006 Android looked like Palm OS not the Blackberry...back when Palm was making a little traction. Except, then they were mimicking the Blackberry in 2006/2007 when the Blackberry was popular. But, then they decided to mimic the iPhone interface when that was announced. Android is certainly a chameleon I'll give you that. All the while, iOS for all of its changes still strongly resembles that of the original iPhone. For good or bad, Apple has remained pretty steady in its approach to OS development. No one can claim they are like a ship being tossed to and fro as fickle consumer tastes change (so far).

You actually can still create an Apple ID with "none" as the payment options. However, the pain in the bum of it is that you have to create the App ID when you are not signed into iTunes and "buy" a free app, then select "Create Apple ID" at the login prompt. If you try it any other way, the "none" option doesn't appear. Really asinine. Creating an iTunes Store, App Store, iBooks Store, and Mac App Store account without a credit card If you make a single user the "owner" of all of these iPads, sign in with the same Apple ID on them all and set apps to automatically install in the App Store settings on the iPad not only will they all get the apps OTA via VPP, but in your MDM it only shows 1 license being used. We still buy the number of app licenses we need, except for the iLife/iWork suite, which comes free with new iPads. You can either just "claim" these with your Apple ID on one iPad and it gets pushed out to all, or buy 1 license of each and push it out. Unless you had a load of apps purchased under those Apple IDs, you might just want to abandon them. Otherwise, it will be an ongoing pain.

VPP has been the weakest link for Apple in iPad management. When we initially setup our VPP account, it didn't work for purchasing either to start with (same loop you had) so we just fell back to using Configurator to mass install apps. Then, suddenly our account started working and its been fine since then. Even now, we can make a couple of purchases in VPP before it throws an error and we have to wait 10-15 minutes then can purchase apps again. There is clearly something under-resourced or buggy in the VPP for Education database or software. That said, once it does start working it works fantastically. Easy as pie to push out both free and paid for Apps and eBooks silently OTA now. And pull back the licenses as well in the case of Apps.

Yes, Edublogs is an easy way to do this. It does have a cost though. If you can use Office 365 as SYNACK suggested that would probably be your most integrated and cost effective solution. If you have an OS X server around, you could also use Wiki Server to automatically create a blog (and wiki) for each student. Information and examples below. The advantage of Wiki Server is that it is quite simple and easy to use for the end-user. Not nearly as powerful as Wordpress/Edublogs, but also less complex. It also works very well with iOS and other mobile devices. And it's free if you already have an OS X server. If you don't, it can still be a pretty cost-effective blogging system for a school. Examples: Apple Wiki Server – a hidden gem? | eLearning and economics - digging a little deeper https://dschool.stanford.edu/groups/ https://wiki.culver.k12.in.us/groups/ Setup instructions: Use Wikis and WebDAV in OS X Mavericks Server | Krypted If you have multiple domains, there are a couple of extra steps required: OS X Server: Using the Profile Manager or Wiki service with Active Directory or third-party LDAP services

There are quite a few MDM systems that can do Geofencing (not just AirWatch), including Meraki, Maas360, Absolute Manage, and AirWatch to name a few. Our MDM system (Casper Suite) does not have Geofencing, but we can scope profiles to be removed if the IP address of the device is not one of our LAN IP addresses. This can take up to 24 hours, but does the job. If your MDM system can scope profiles in such a manner then you can achieve what you want even without geofencing. Geofencing is a nice feature though, and I hope JAMF add it in the near future. https://meraki.cisco.com/blog/2013/09/geofencing-a-useful-way-to-corral-your-devices/ Mobile Device Management - Award Winning MDM Solution - MaaS360 | MaaS360 by Fiberlink https://www.absolute.com/en/resources/videos/product/geofencing

From Exchange 2007 onward MS did not provide an xdr-fixup tool as they did with Exchange 2003. I would recommend building a new Exchange server and importing the data from the old Exchange server. If you are really keen to try to do a rename on your existing Exchange server though, you could take a look at this thread where Matt Crowley (MVP) gives it the green light, although an uninstall of Exchange is required (gasp) and the admin still had some issues with importing PSTs afterwards with many crashes in the process. http://www.edugeek.net/forums/enterprise-software/132319-migrating-exchange-server-one-domain-another-possible.html A final word of warning. If you do this, take at least two backups of your Exchange server (bare metal or Veeam and of the exchange database itself) before proceeding and follow the steps outlined very carefully. You may end up with a toasted Exchange server. I'd give it at least a 30% chance of likelihood in fact.

Yes, but we all know Android also would have looked like the Blackberry if the iPhone had never existed.

That should be fine. Yes, you will need to use the VPP login that you purchased the apps with in the VPP store. The VPP login won't work for purchases in iTunes alternatively (although you can login to the iTunes store with it). There are some strange oddities with Apple IDs like this because originally created purely as a consumer purchase method and the transition for business use has been rough to say the least. I think this is likely something to do with the VPP token or the wrong ID being associated with the token. It could be another issue though. Let me know how you go with the above. No worries. Hopefully, it helps you get this sorted.

I don't know, I think to many users this is what they consider "bricked". I hear kids say something has been "bricked" (as in useless as a brick) quite often when actually its just a matter of restoring the device. That's why the article stated "...which some may consider 'bricking' it". In any case, it's something to be on the lookout for if a user presents a device with these symptoms.

OK. Firstly what version of OS X and Server App are you using? Next, have you downloaded the VPP token and installed it into Profile Manager? I'm sure you have, but just in case. Are you seeing any apps at all in the "Apps" section of the web interface for PM? Now regarding the need for separate Apple IDs for each iPad. Although this is technically the case as VPP is intended to distribute to individuals, you can use a little trick to do it for a trolley of iPads. How we set this is up is to create an Apple ID (without a credit card as the payment option) for each cart of iPads. So, with your Apple ID at the ready, first use Configurator to put the iPads into supervised mode and not to require a password for every app purchase in iTunes in your profile. Then, sign into each iPad with your Apple ID created for that cart and set Apps to automatically download (iTunes & App Store). Next, create a dummy user to assign one of the iPads push out the VPP invitation to (as this is how the invitations are sent). Once you have accepted this on one of the iPads and the app has installed, you should see it start downloading on the other iPads as well. Alternatively, you can use the method outlined in this article, which assigns all of the iPads to the one user and doesn't make use of the automatic download feature. It's just another way to try to crack the same egg (the fact it's discussing doing this usingAirWatch isn't important). Either way, its much easier than creating a separate Apple ID for each iPad.