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\"iPhone<\/p>\n

I’ve long been an Apple fan as wasn’t too deterred by the recent bad press regarding the signal strength. As it happens my new iPhone’s signal seems to be fine, so far. Although in our office we have a better signal strength on the 3’s network that that of O2, vodafone or Orange (but that’s a network issue).<\/p>\n

After charging my new iPhone I plugged it into my Mac Mini to activate. I wasn’t surprised to see a message telling me to upgrade to a more recent version of iTunes. However, I was extremely surprised to find that after upgrading iTunes I was further halted from activation due to my operating system being too old!   <\/p>\n

My Mac Mini is just over 3 years old and is running Mac OS version 10.4.8. Apparetly I needed to be running version 10.5.8 or later (https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-gb\/HT204023<\/a>). So this would effectively mean I would have to spend another £xxx on upgrading my Mac’s OS in order to make a phone call?<\/p>\n

After buying a phone, surely I should be able to use the device to make phone calls without using this unfriendly approach. In my opinion this goes against what I believe Apple stand for: great design, innovation and usability.  <\/p>\n

Surely there must be another method to activate your iPhone, other than locking users into iTunes? If not, then put iTunes in the cloud and remove the hardware requirement?<\/p>\n

Slightly disgruntled, I installed iTunes on my 4 year old laptop in order to activate the phone. Now I’m going to have to move my entire iTunes library over to my laptop – no small task. <\/p>\n

Sorry Apple, as one who is normally a Mac evangelist, my recent experience has put a slight kink in my advocacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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