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Re:Wireless iPad Syncing Is Awesome — Too Bad It Will Likely... by briancooley on Monday April 26, 2010 @10:25AM (#1294921)
The one thing I wonder about is disconnecting during the sync. A couple of times I have disconnected iPod Nanos during sync and had to restore them. It wasn't much more than a nuisance, admittedly, but on a slower sync with more data transfer (say 20 or 30 GB of video), the likelihood of disconnects being a problem may become significant.
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Re:Wireless iPad Syncing Is Awesome — Too Bad It Will Likely... by hexley on Monday April 26, 2010 @12:40PM (#1295262)
Devices running OS X handle this completely differently (with a client-client communication mode) and can gracefully handle disconnects. Older iPods used disk mode for syncing where filesystem corruption can be problematic if you unexpectedly disconnect.
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Re:Wireless iPad Syncing Is Awesome — Too Bad It Will Likely... by Timothee on Monday April 26, 2010 @01:05PM (#1295331)
And they probably had to make it work without problem for the iPhone, since a phone call can pop up at any time.
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