Comments on: UPDATED: New Apple Airport Extreme and Time Capsule Feature Dual-Band for Better iPhone Friendliness (and MobileMe Access!)

By: Lelia Saha

Lelia Saha — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:36:56 +0000

Fair point. Leveraging YouTube (and its brand) would make sense. Bottom line is they need to simply show up with a enough of a product that, as Android expands, can be as tightly-woven as possible into the UI.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:17:14 +0000

Andrew I have to agree with you to an extent. I fully agree with your point about the iPhone but only because it was such a drastic price drop and only two months after they first released. They didn't change any features just replace the 4GB with 16GB and drop the price by $200.

I don't agree with your argument about the AirPort Extreme. It has been out for a while and an update was not needed, but was a great thing. They changed it quite a lot and because it has been a while since its initial release a price drop would have even been alright.

I just purchased a brand new, in-the-box AirPort Extreme on eBay for $110 shipped!

By: Vu Le

Vu Le — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:47:42 +0000

I just purchased an AirPort Extreme 802.11n off of eBay. How can I find out whether mine is dual-band?

By: freddy

freddy — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:22:58 +0000

Its funny ppl feel like andrew. every body loves apple devices the only problem is that apple tries too hard to put their new products out the door that almost every first generation of any device they sell lacks most of the stuff that's on the 2nd generation of the same product. Advice, if you like to be the earlier adopter don't complaint when a new product comes out. just wait until the second gen. you'll be happier. By the way, I do have a Linksys WRT610N. It works amazingly I cannot imagine using anything else. I have it set up with a 2Tb external Wester Digital as a time capsule. I say 2Tb's are better than one. I did not have to do any configurations. It auto configured my G4, my macbook air, my dell notebook, my gateway pc, and my xbox 360, and media center without any configuration. I did try to configure all this with the Extreme Base Station but it had too much trouble with my PC, xbox 360 media center stuff so I just bought this linksys just to try and just sat in awe watching how the 610N did everything for me, so I returned my extreme base. Ps, I got the Linksys brand new for $108 form ebay so I ended up saving like 60+ bucks.

By: Doug T

Doug T — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:29:22 +0000

@CTM - Check your software updates. New software allows what you're asking for.

By: CTM

CTM — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:15:39 +0000

All I want is a software update for my home Time Capsule so that I can access it easily via MobileMe. Already, I can access it using Back To My Mac but this would make it one simple step. I'd upgrade my 500GB drive to 1TB and put my media and software installation archives on it... it would help me immensely for my IT business. And MobileMe access is just a software update, another tie to the IP tracker in the Cloud... so I really, really hope that feature is part of the next firmware update. If Apple doesn't do that, THEN I think they are really screwing customers... of all the new features it is the only one I would get real use out of from my home office usage. The rest is nice and interesting but unnecessary for me.

By: TedP

TedP — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:58:15 +0000

Yeah but did they fix the VPN and dropped connection issues?

By: scottb

scottb — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:19:08 +0000

Not sure i can say anything to Andrew (mom, is that you?) that hasn't been said, but I always DREAD new Apple releases for this very reason. The "I just bought my and Apple screwed me" posts. Give it up. Use what you bought and enjoy it. If it doesn't meet your needs, sell it and upgrade. Sheesh.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:43:11 +0000

Glad I got the Linksys WRT610N. No drop-outs like others are repoorting and it's the most feature-packed router ever produced (except maybe print server function, it has everything-even this guest networking feature called "AP Isolation".)

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:36:46 +0000

Apple is actually pretty good about putting the newest features into the old products. The dual band wireless most likely has different hardware, so older hardware is out of luck. The multiple guest accounts will hopefully end up in newer firmware that we'll apply to our older hardware.

Think about the 2 generations of iPhones. The 3G is faster because it has better and newer hardware. BUT, when they introduced it with version 2 of the software, that was backward compatible. I have gen 1 and my wife has gen 2. The only difference is because of the hardware.

If you want to complain about buying an outdated product, drobo is charging for firmware updates now.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:06:19 +0000

@ Andrew:

Actually the Linksys 610 router that offers simultaneous dual-band lists for $199 (about $170 street) and the new Apple Extreme is $179. No real price difference.

You can not compare the 1 TB Time Capsule to a Linksys Router and claim they are the same.

This update makes me very happy as I was considering the Linksys 610 for the simultaneous dual-band, NOW I can get the Time Capsule instead, gladly paying for the 1 TB model that ads wireless backups!

By: mark

mark — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:36:06 +0000

What does Andrew want, apple to stop making new and better products. Go back to pc

By: Chad Garrett

Chad Garrett — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:15:34 +0000

Nope. My Airport Extreme works fine with all of my Mac and PC stuff at home.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:57:42 +0000

What's really funny is that 20 years ago, there was Bloom County cartoon strip showing a PC store cash register to buy your new Banana Jr. machine at one end of the counter, and a garbage at the other end to throw it away as already obsolete.

If they were making that joke 20 years ago, how are people still not understanding the business now?

If you bought a 2009 Volkswagen, it's knowing the 2010 model is just around the corner, right?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:57:07 +0000

I understand what new technology is. D-Link and Linksys users aren't charged $300-$400 for their routers. They charge like $50 and its not breaking the bank to go update to the new model.

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:48:27 +0000

Andred WTF? It's called new technology. Get over it. Do you think the millions of D-Link and Linkysys users felt "screwed over when they introduced dual link routers. This is NEW HARDWARE INSIDE. Sheesh. Anyway I'm getting one to replace my existing Airport extreme Linksys combination with one device.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:44:10 +0000

This is truly frustrating. Apple really screws over early adopters. We all spend $300-$400 on a Time Capsule and now they add features like guest networks and mobile me access and our initial investment in a up and coming product is wasted. Why does apple use its primary customer as test dummies? Same thing happened with the iPhone's initial price and model. They can't post some kind of software update for existing time capsule owners?