Honestly, why iphone?

**Rakeesh** · 01-08-12, 01:15 AM

I have a friend who is an apple fanboy. Owns a macintosh, airport extreme, and an iphone. He's asking me to help him transfer a voice recording off of his iphone to his mac, and the app gives instructions to point his web browser to the IP address of his phone (which it gives) in order to download the file.

After a process of figuring out how to configure his airport to enable wireless, we got to the point of configuring his iphone to connect to his airport. After giving it the network name and password, it just says "unable to join the network." No explanation of why it can't join it, doesn't give any indication as to whether its a layer 2 or 3 problem, doesn't indicate if there's a problem with the signal, or if there's a problem with the crypto key. Just "unable to join the network."

So we troubleshoot by having his mac connect to the network over wifi (it was wired.) It connects just fine. So we google the words "iphone unable to join airport extreme" and it turns out that the solution is to put the iphone into the freezer for 10 minutes, and then it should be able to connect until it goes back to room temperature.

The FREEZER?! Are you f*cking kidding me?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread...t=120&tstart=0

WTF happened to "it just works"? Just works my ass.

**Roadhog** · 01-08-12, 01:18 AM

People like different things is why.

01-08-12, 06:13 AM

After having an ipod and messing with her ipad I can see why after having an android phone. It just works while the android just quirks.

**Rakeesh** · 01-08-12, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Hogrider

After having an ipod and messing with her ipad I can see why after having an android phone. It just works while the android just quirks.

How does giving you a completely useless error message "just work", and sticking it in the freezer is the solution?

six_storm · 01-08-12, 11:52 AM

That's hilarious.

**bacon12** · 01-08-12, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Roadhog

People like different things is why.

No people are stupid moronic consumers and like shiny things because other people have shiny things. Apple is great at marketing their products to make them seem special.

They use words like magical in their campaigns and silly people eat it up. Windows ftw! Still.

**Roadhog** · 01-08-12, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by bacon12

No people are stupid moronic consumers and like shiny things because other people have shiny things. Apple is great at marketing their products to make them seem special.

They use words like magical in their campaigns and silly people eat it up. Windows ftw! Still.

Maybe they like IOS?

**Rakeesh** · 01-08-12, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Roadhog

Maybe they like IOS?

They like cisco routers and switches?

**Roadhog** · 01-08-12, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Rakeesh

They like cisco routers and switches?

It's actually called Cisco IOS if you want to be a smartass.

**Maverick123w** · 01-08-12, 04:08 PM

I'm not sure why after having owned all 4 major OS's now, but some people just like certain things. Plus it's trendy which is incredibly important to a lot of people in today's culture.

**Shamrock** · 01-08-12, 08:54 PM

Android quirks?

If I have have my USB cord with me, I can plug it into ANY Windows PC, and download or upload a file. No itunes needed. It is used as a thumb drive.

six_storm · 01-08-12, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Shamrock

Android quirks?

If I have have my USB cord with me, I can plug it into ANY Windows PC, and download or upload a file. No itunes needed. It is used as a thumb drive.

Screw USB cords. Why not just use Dropbox and download straight to your phone? Cords FTL.

01-08-12, 01:15 AM	#1
Rakeesh Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Sonoran Desert Posts: 6,853	Honestly, why iphone? I have a friend who is an apple fanboy. Owns a macintosh, airport extreme, and an iphone. He's asking me to help him transfer a voice recording off of his iphone to his mac, and the app gives instructions to point his web browser to the IP address of his phone (which it gives) in order to download the file. After a process of figuring out how to configure his airport to enable wireless, we got to the point of configuring his iphone to connect to his airport. After giving it the network name and password, it just says "unable to join the network." No explanation of why it can't join it, doesn't give any indication as to whether its a layer 2 or 3 problem, doesn't indicate if there's a problem with the signal, or if there's a problem with the crypto key. Just "unable to join the network." So we troubleshoot by having his mac connect to the network over wifi (it was wired.) It connects just fine. So we google the words "iphone unable to join airport extreme" and it turns out that the solution is to put the iphone into the freezer for 10 minutes, and then it should be able to connect until it goes back to room temperature. The FREEZER?! Are you f*cking kidding me? https://discussions.apple.com/thread...t=120&tstart=0 WTF happened to "it just works"? Just works my ass. __________________ Want to listen to audio without your computer going to sleep? Try this. Core i7 2600k 4.4Ghz 1.385v \| Corsair H60 \| 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 8-8-8-24 \| MSI P67A-G45 \| OCZ Vertex 3 \| Sapphire 7850 OC to Max settings

01-08-12, 06:13 AM	#3
Hogrider Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Honestly, why iphone? After having an ipod and messing with her ipad I can see why after having an android phone. It just works while the android just quirks.

01-08-12, 11:52 AM	#5
six_storm Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Nashvegas Posts: 11,575	Re: Honestly, why iphone? That's hilarious.

01-08-12, 04:08 PM	#10
Maverick123w Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Cincinnati, OH Posts: 1,841	Re: Honestly, why iphone? I'm not sure why after having owned all 4 major OS's now, but some people just like certain things. Plus it's trendy which is incredibly important to a lot of people in today's culture.

01-08-12, 08:54 PM	#11
Shamrock Royalty gone awry Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Kentucky Posts: 1,597	Re: Honestly, why iphone? Android quirks? If I have have my USB cord with me, I can plug it into ANY Windows PC, and download or upload a file. No itunes needed. It is used as a thumb drive. __________________ They're after me Lucky Charms! AMD Phenom II 955BE 16GB G.Skill Sniper DDR3 1333Mhz Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 Logitech Z-5300 5.1 THX surround sound HANNS-G 28" LCD ZBoard Merc Gaming Keyboard CoolerMaster HAF-932 Full Tower Case Windows 7 Pro x64

01-08-12, 01:18 AM	#2
Roadhog Resident Alien Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 6,776	People like different things is why.