# Is Apple losing customers fast?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-apple-losing-customers-fast/604033>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 25, 2011, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-apple-losing-customers-fast/604033 "2011-11-25T12:31:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-apple-losing-customers-fast/604033/101 "2011-12-01T22:36:16Z")

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> [@Red\_Barchetta](#):
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> Well, I would go long periods without syncing, because 1) I hated the process, and 2) Didn’t have much reason to. But when I did have to do it, it was a giant PITA.

Agreed. Syncing in a regular iPod was ok, but it used to be a bitch on my iPod touch because of it always wanting to back up the apps. What I didn’t get was, it insisted on backing this up in some library folder rather than the iTunes folder. Which is fine for small preferences files but not for apps that store real files like books or videos. My internal hard rive doesn’t have space for that. It should just all be in iTunes, and work the same way other iTunes files are synced. Plus that part of the sync took forever.

I’m just glad that the iOS updates through the cloud now. It’s much quicker and less buggy.

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**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-apple-losing-customers-fast/604033/102 "2011-12-01T22:38:14Z")

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Yeah, I never found syncing via iTunes to be _that_ much of a drag, but I certainly don’t miss it.

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**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-apple-losing-customers-fast/604033/103 "2011-12-02T01:42:58Z")

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> [@Red\_Barchetta](#):
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> I thought Steve Jobs died?

He did. Why do you bring this up? What does this have to do with Apple losing customers to the android platform?

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**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-apple-losing-customers-fast/604033/104 "2011-12-02T02:03:00Z")

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> [@jackdavinci](#):
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> My internal hard rive doesn’t have space for that. It should just all be in iTunes, and work the same way other iTunes files are synced.

The files in iTunes ARE on your hard drive unless you specify that it should keep them elsewhere. iTunes isn’t magical in that it has a special place “in itunes” that isn’t on your computer.

Of course, I hear that with iCloud, that might be a little different moving forward.

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