iPad 20MB limit over 3G?

bwana said:
I think the more people that request it through Apple's feedback system the quicker they'll do something about it.

Moaning on the interwebs might make some feel better but it's unlikely to actually achieve anything.Nope. I made a 3G video call the other day for the first time and it worked very well.
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Just submitted my feedback, hope it does something. Because the lack of full 3G capabilities is really killing my experience.

And skype works fine over 3G.
 
phoneJunky said:
Just submitted my feedback, hope it does something. Because the lack of full 3G capabilities is really killing my experience.

And skype works fine over 3G.
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Always good, and if anyone has a developer account, it can also be logged as a defect.
 
Dolby said:
Me too ;)

Thanks guys!
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Btw I recently received an updated newsstand app for popular science.

Since then the December edition downloaded with no intervention from me, I even received a notification message to let me know it was ready to read. :) So in the end the problem is not with Apple, but a rather a problem with the developers (hopefully the other apps are fixed soon)

Previously I had to open the popsci app, and manually initiate the download, and had to keep the app open and in the foreground until it finished downloading ~350mb / edition (painful)
 
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[)roi(];7291257 said:
So in the end the problem is not with Apple, but a rather a problem with the developers
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;)

I also got something from Popular Photography and 3 weeks after buying the issue, I received a mail from them with instructions of what to do. Though my other issue is Readers Digest - surely with separate developers the odds of them doing the same thing are slim?

Anyway - glad I eventually got them, but hoping its sorted in future. I don't hav unlimited bandwidth and 1gb per month on subscription is alright, but when it gets more than that it becomes an issue for me
 
That's not a nice thing to say ...
 
Dolby said:
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;)

I also got something from Popular Photography and 3 weeks after buying the issue, I received a mail from them with instructions of what to do. Though my other issue is Readers Digest - surely with separate developers the odds of them doing the same thing are slim?

Anyway - glad I eventually got them, but hoping its sorted in future. I don't hav unlimited bandwidth and 1gb per month on subscription is alright, but when it gets more than that it becomes an issue for me
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I guess this is another scenario Apple could never win; if they enforce a new app model to ensure success, then the content publishers will complain re no diversity / uniqueness, the alternative which we have btw is to place the responsibility of success on the content publishers; but then the users complain. In either scenario they're to "blame", and I'm sure there would be many users complaining in the first case as well.

Surely if the app is crap, you should go to the content publisher and not Apple?

Btw the size of the content has also nothing to do with Apple;

It's one of my biggest remaining complaints in this category; that we are going through a period that I like to call "magazine bloatware";
They add crap like movies, sounds, ... for the sake of it, rather than adding things only when it's absolutely necessary to help with the understanding.
 
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Oh - I've got no issue with the size of the magazine ... and I quite like the interactive crap they add ;) Especially great in - for example - Popular Mechanics when one can see the animations of how things work.

The size is the having to download over and over due to errors and issues. For example the Readers Digest was 400MB - which is great considerin the animation. However it took 1.3GB to actually get the full book.

It'd download 100MB and I'd need to activate wireless - at which point it'd start from scratch! Then we'd get to 150MB and the screen would shut off ... and again it'd restart. To eventually get it I had turn off that screen lock and do nothing else.

Popular Photography did the same thing - except when it eventually got the 250MB issue, it said 'content failed' - and I needed to redownload. So to get >700MB I used 2GB of data ... 20% of my cap :/

I'd love to get National Geographic too, which would make my download 1GB if all worked, But with the issues, this could easily account for 3GB per month trying my best to get these.
 
:(

Now I realised I wasted my money ....

Thanks for site sandmanm!
 
I see the one difference is the interactive ... but I can live without is for free ;)
 
I have another question ... how do I use a PDF on my iPad? ;)
 
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