Hi Rob,
I used the info in the Fireworks Photography app that you gave out promo codes for recently to take this photo with my DSLR on the 4th of July, then imported it on to my iPad and added the words using A+ Signature App and cropped in Snapseed.
REGARDS,
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Episode 233 - Transcript
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Verizon CFO Fran Shammo hinted at a major smartphone launch in Q4 of this year - IE the iPhone 2012. That was the highlight most posts started off with from the conference call - but really that is not news just a confirmation of what was expected by almost all.
What was news is this past quarter Verizon sold 2.7 million iPhones - vs 2.9 Million Android smartphones combined. So yes once again the iPhone was the best selling smartphone on Verizon. That the iPhone and ALL Android phones combined were so close in sales is amazing when you considerVerizon sales staff has been pushing new customers to 4G / LTE Android phones the entire quarter.
According to CNET overall Verizon sold 5.9 Mil smartphones. So that you don't need to go to your calc app - that means RIM sold 300k smartphones at Verizon last quarter - Yikes!! Ouch !!! oh my and simply Wow - but not in a good way wow. I should note - That looking at the transcript at Seeking Alpha - I could not confirm that 5.9 Mil number.
To put the 2.7 Mil iPhones into perspective Verizon sold 2.3 Mil in the year ago quarter - but sold 3.2 Mil in Q1 of 2012.
Since the last episode Apple has released iOS 6 beta 3. I think the biggest news of iOS 6 beta 3 is that it does something Apple said iOS 6 would not do - and that is allow VIP lists for the iPhone 3GS and also allows Shared Photo Streams. As I ranted before on the show those were a couple of the features I felt there was no technical reason for apple to exclude from the 3GS - it was purely a marketing decision - and well Apple thanks for making me look good - but more importantly I hope this change in the beta is permanent and that these features and also safari's offline reading list are there for 3GS owners when iOS 6 goes gold master. Right now the offline reading list is still not supported with the iOS 6 beta. Some of the other new things in iOS 6 beta 3 are new section in the settings app for the new maps app you can switch between miles and kilometers. You can toggle between english always or using the local language for Map Labels. And you can change the size of said labels. The maps in iOS 6 also appear much more detailed. In safari there are now icons for bookmarks, reading list and history instead of worded labels.
Overall these beta updates are more about making more stable and less about new features.
That said if you found anything in iOS 6 beta 3 - well you would not be able to tell me as that would break the NDA - So I can not ask you to call 206-666-6364 that's 206-moon-dog and give an update on any new features. Nope I can't ask you .
This next story comes out of the iOS 6 beta 3 update. Seems one other quote feature unquote of the beta 3 version is that it looks like AT&T might be getting ready to charge for FaceTime over cellular - like they try to do for tethering now. This is all based on error messages some running the iOS beta 3 got when trying to use FaceTime over cellular. Now only those on AT&T are getting this error message - those on Verizon and Sprint when they try to do a FaceTime call over cellular are not getting the error message.
This is where we miss steve jobs - if he was still with us and rumors started to abound about AT&T trying to essentially castrate FaceTime over 3G with additional BS charges - Steve would pick up the phone after his PA dialed it for him and then rip someone on AT&T's side a new one. Or at least that is what I think would happen. I imagine Tim Cook is a little more cordial that that. Still I hope Tim had that call made and I hope AT&T backs down from any plans to charge additionally for FaceTime over 3G.
When AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson was asked about this he said he had heard of the rumor and that it was too early to talk about pricing. So it seems AT&T may still be thinking about what it wants to do pricing wise - yup - sure would be nice right now to have steve around to kick butt and take names.
I really hopes AT&T comes to their senses on this one and decides not to screw over their customers. After all there is still Skype and Google+ hangouts that already work over Cellular.
Into the email bag.
Hi Rob,
In regards to the user asking about the Craigslist app I use craigspro+. They have a free and a paid version and I believe it is worth getting the paid app.
I hope that helps
Héctor from auburn ny.
Hey Rob!
Stop Danielle in from going to the Windows tablet thingy!
Regards,
-Kevin King
Metuchen, NJ
Thanks Kevin for the help.
Hi Rob,
Voice directions work in Canada with beta 3.
Though my dad says they have the street he works on (a one way street) going in the wrong direction. Do you know who I should report this to before there is an accident?
Regards,
Johnny Appleseed
Ummm - Yikes - Hopefully Apple is on that. Actually to report a problem when you flip up the map from the bottom right corner - you will see right above "print" in very small text a report a problem option - tap there and let them know of the street and the issue.
Thanks to John M - for the heads up on the app iExplorer. This is for your mac or pc - and lets you use your iOS device as a flash drive. It is a 100% freeware app and it works with your iOS device even if it is not jailbroken. So no need to jailbreak to use this free app. This is per the caller / emailer a couple of shows back that had asked for an app like this for windows - but in this case there is also a version for mac. Again it is free - Interestingly tonight they had a message on their site saying it was not available to download - but if you then go to the downloads page - it was there. Looks like an update is coming in about 3 days as there is a countdown timer on the iExplorer page - but again click on downloads at the top and find iExplorer and click download and that worked for me.
The also had a banner on their site saying they are making their iOS App - Awesome files available for free one day only - July 20th - so hopefully you are listening today on the 20th and if you are this is normally a $4.99 app that allows you to manage your documents and multimedia files on your iOS device. Again it is free just on July 20th so jump on this one now.
Thanks again John M for the heads up on this one.
I as you know avoid most of the legal fight stories - but there is one story that comes from the fight between Apple and Samsung - that is definitely worthy of mentioning - it seems in the legal documents for one of the legal fights between these two - some photos of early designs of an Apple Tablet have come out. This is a device that became the precursor for the iPhone and then the iPad. Initially it looked a lot like a white mac book - but with a touch screen, And these pics go back to 2002. So if you are interested in seeing what the great great grand father for the iPad looked like go to the article titled Earliest known photos of an iPad in the show notes for ep 233.
Each year there are cases for the iPhone that are released prior to the next iPhone that supposedly show what the new iPhone would be shaped like and well 2012 is no different - with a few cases already popping up for the iPhone 2012 or as they so wrongly call it the iPhone 5. Interestingly the photos of supposed iPhone 2012's on Alibaba show the standard config for the bottom of the unit - i.e. 30 pin dock connector. Of course it just might be old photos from the current iPhone 4S.
When prepping for my speech this past week over at KFest I reviewed my speech from last year at this time - and last year I guaranteed them the photos of the then supposed 5th gen iPhone being shown exclusively on This is my next which became the verge - were BS and that is not what the 5th gen iPhone would look like - I promised them that and said the 5th gen iPhone would look exactly like the iPhone 4 - and of course I was right. This year - I am not so sure what the iPhone 2012 will look like - I am leaning towards the photo from 9to5 mac that showed a slightly longer iPhone with a metal back. That has a 4 inch screen - but again I am just not sure what it will be other than being afraid it may have the new smaller dock connector. About the only thing I am 99.9999% sure of is the name will not be iPhone 5. And any site that calls it the iPhone 5 well they loose lots of cred in my book.
Hi Rob,
Just heard your latest episode stating that there is an NBC Olympics app that'll stream live video of the olympics. Looking at the information, the streams are only available in the IS and it appears that you'd also need a tv, cable or satellite service to be able to use it.
There is another app by the good old BBC here in the UK that also streams all the live olympics events, and it's free and it doesn't appear to require any other services. The app also does not state that it is UK only, so I'd assume it will be available to use in the US aswell. Check it out.
Keep up the podcast.
Gary
Hi Rob.
I am a consultant with Acme Crowbars and i would like to provide a general reason why android might be more for calls than iPhone.
Acme provides us with corporate phones. For three or four years, I have had my personal iPhone for everything and an ACME issued phone for calls. Some of the ACME issued phones were android, but not iPhone. So I, like a lot of my colleagues, have an ACME Issued android phones we use for work calls and personal iPhones we use for everything else. More and more I see many people carrying two phone devices and using them the same way I do. I downloaded three or four apps when i got my android phone but that is it. My iPhone is holding 150+ apps.
regards
E P
in NJ
Hi Rob, my name is Luis, from McAllen, Tx.
I am still to find a good stylus for the ipad. How come they only make soft rounded-tip styluses? They seem to not slide freely on the surface of the ipad. Do you know of a stylus that has a sharper tip in order to have more precision on what you write or draw?
regards,
Luis
And I send that question out to the artists in the audience - what is your favorite stylus's today for drawing on your iOS device. It has been a couple of years since we did this subject so will be interesting to see what stylus's people are using today. My mom still uses the pogo stylus's - that is the type you don't like.
Thanks to Mark H for this next one. And it is a Kickstarter Project for the photogs in the audience. It is called eye click - one word spelled e y e c l i c k. It is a way of doing a remote click of the camera for the iPhone. And it also has a periscope for connecting to the case it comes with to allow the back camera to take photos on the screen side - so you can use the back camera when looking at the screen and get the better resolution photo. So for just the case a it costs $30 I think. And with the HD lens it costs $35 and if you want the remote clicker the HD lens and the case it costs you $65 and you also get a stand. They also are stating they will have another one that will be compatible with the 6th gen iPhone - iPhone 2012 or as they wrongly call it the iPhone 5 - ok rob get over it already.
Anyway if you are looking for a way to take remote pics with your iPhone and to get the back camera to take pics on your side - then this is for you - if you can figure out the pricing. This is another one of those projects with way to many pricing options - 22 pricing options to be specific - yikes. At this point their goal of $20k has not been reached probably because no one can figure out which option to choose - they are at just $9k with 9 days to go - this one closes on Jul 29th at 1:39 AM ET.
If you like this one then start spreading the news. Again this project is the eyeClick over at Kickstarter.
Staying with the kickstart theme - Thanks to Tony for the heads up on this next one. It is one I actually pledged once I saw the video. What is this amazing device that it was able to pry $40 from my tight fists. It is the Pair with Pear. That is P A I R with P E A R - it is a bluetooth dongle that plugs into the 30 pin docks - but not at the iOS side - rather at the accessory side - this lets you pair your iOS device via bluetooth to say your old bose dock that is sitting in the den. This one had a goal of $40k - I say Had as in past tense as they raced past their goal and are at $100k now and have 52 days to go. This one closes on Sep 10th with an estimated dlvry of Nov. So if say in the future Apple does go away from the 30 pin dock connector - you will be able to plug this device into your speaker with the 30 pin connector and still get music to play. Anyway - more on this one in the future. For now go to kickstarter and search for Pair with Pear or just look for the link in the show notes for ep 233.
I have not mentioned this - but for those of you that live on Facebook - I have a Today in iOS fan page go to Facebook dot com slash today in iOS - and one thing you would see there is a picture I uploaded yesterday which shows the iPad and the iPad Mini - it shows the difference in the sizes with a hand on each device. This photo was created for the speech I did as a little spoof - My son basically has the same hands as me so I had him put his hand on the original iPad and I put my hand on the new iPad and then shrunk my photo to match the size of my hand with his hand. That is the type of photo that typically winds up on BGR. Anyway there is a lot of chatter recently about the iPad Mini. And that Apple will launch it soon. Almost to the point of it now be a foregone conclusion it will be launched in the next couple of months. I say not so fast. Now do I think Apple is working on a 7 Inch tablet - absolutely - and a 6 inch and probably a bunch of other sizes. But the latest rash of rumors comes from articles at the Times and bloomberg and others - in mainstream press. Where it has not come from is the ones that usually get it first - i.e. All things D or the Loop or Daring fireball. I just think at this point we are looking at 2013 before said iPad mini or iPod touch maxi. I was recently quoted in an article over on Forbes titled A 7-inch iPad question mark not so fast. If you want to hear more of my thoughts and those of Erika Morphy.
Speaking of my Facebook page - a big shout out thanks to Keith Paul Jr Kelly for helping bring in the like love to the page. If you are on Facebook - again go to Facebook dot com slash today in iOS and like the page.
A key reason for all the chatter about the 7 inch iPad is that google just launched their 7 inch sell it for a loss Nexus 7 tablet and from reviews this is the first Android tablet that feels good and works good and is priced less than $299. Actually it is priced at $199 for the 8GB version and $249 for the $16 GB version - which means an iPad mini with 16 GB would be in the $299 range. It is yet to be seen if this 7 inch tablet from Google will catch on and sell in any real quantities. But from reviews so far - including one from MG Sigler - their reviews have been positive. And up until now 7 inch tablet reviews have been well you get what you pay for type reviews. Now the questions is if Apple will move on the 7 inch market because of this. And I would expect them to wait until after the holidays to make that move - unless the nexus 7 just starts eating into iPad sales. And so far no other tablet has ever done that.
Hi Rob,
What's your take on this?
regards
John
And this that john does speak was a link to an article over at popular mechanics called Can you use the same power adapter for the iPhone and iPad?
The article starts out stating the official answer from Apple is YES. However the article then asks and tries to answer should you. They kind of make it sound like if you charge your iPhone with your iPad charger you might over stress the iPhone battery and over time degrade the performance - maybe kinda sorta in theory with out knowing how the iPhone fully is designed - type answer. And they end their advice saying get the two year warranty and charge it how you like and if the battery starts to falter get it replaced.
So my thoughts on this. I already use my iPad charger to charge my iPhones and vice versa. I don't worry about it - never have. And the battery life on my 5 year old iPhone is still pretty darn good. One thing I think apple knows better than anyone else - and that is batteries.
If you want to read the whole article look for Can I Use the Same Power Adapter for iPhone and iPad? in the show notes for ep 233.
Hi Rob,
This should be obvious to me but can you sync a jail broken iPhone to iTunes and backup as normal
Thanks
Steve from AZ
Hi Steve - I get this question quite a bit - yes you can still sync a jailbroken iOS device to your computer just like you did before - jail breaking add features it does not take any away.
Hi Rob,
I have a original IPhone 8G I accidentally upgraded recently to 3.3 frpm Itunes. my Itunes screen showing Sim card is not supported on this phone. I used to have it unlocked - now it seem like I'm stuck with this problem that I can not unlock my phone and jailbreak my original IPhone. I try to search on the web of any way to unlock this my iPhone . but unfortunately i can not find a web site unlocking the original IPhone.
Can you give me advise or links on the web on how to unlocking and jail breaking my Original IPhone.
Regards
Albert H
Hi Albert I checked he links I had for the original iPhone for jail breaking and unlocking and it seems they all no longer work - so I will send this out to anyone in the audience if you know of a way that still works to jailbreak and unlock your original iPhone - please let us know - 206-666-6364 - that's 206 moon-dog or email us at today in iOS at GMAIL dot com.
Hi rob. I was updating my phone and download files from dropbox and the phone hung up and dropped off wifi. I got an email the next day saying I have been tethering from AT&T and it state that they were gonna upgrade me on next bill cycle. I explained to them that I was downloading files from my dropbox after an upgrade. The lady insisted that i was using a tethering and suggested I should update my phone. Even I already told her I did. So anyway my point is this is proof that they don't detect an tether up but a surge in network traffic. I'm in unlimited but average around 3gb per month. So I went from 1gb to over 3 overnight. Now I will be slow down for 3 weeks when It usually happen with a couple days left.
Regards, Jose M from Virginia beach, Va. Please say happy birthday to my girlfriend on the air :-) (Sofia) we love the show.. Take care!
Hi Sofia - Happy Birthday. Also happy birthday to my Brother which his birthday is on the 22nd.
More of those legal stories I don't like but this one has a strange twist - A UK judge has order Apple to put a notice on its site stating that Samsung did not copy any aspect of the iPad when it designed the Galaxy Tab 10.1 Device. This is the same judge that said consumers would have no trouble telling difference because the Samsung tablet was quote not as cool unquote as the iPad. Ouch. But now Apple has to mention on its site and in ads in the UK that Samsung did not copy the iPAd. If I was Apple I would make lemonade out of these lemons and put in the quote from the judge - and have an ad that says - We at Apple acknowledge that Samsung did not copy the iPad - the Galaxy is no where near as cool - according to the UK judicial system and well using the Galaxy tab will get your shunned by your peers cause acne and maybe even bed wetting - were not sure - as we are cool since we use the iPad and well so are you - since no one really buys the galaxy tab anyway. Or some wording similar to that. Oh yes if you are keep track at home this is the same product that was recently banned from sale in the US by one our judges and the one that Samsungs lawyers in Australia could not even tell which was their product when the judge held up both the Galaxy Tab and iPad next to each other - just a scant 10 feet away. But still legally speaking - the Tab is not as cool as the iPad.
Thanks to John and Oscar for the heads up on this next one - which is a post over at Gigaom - that tries to help break down the new complex pricing plans for shared data plans from both AT&T and Verizon. Essentially as we mentioned before if you are with Verizon and you have unlimited data now - you can keep that plan when you upgrade to the iPhone 2012 - if and only if you are willing to pay full price for the new phone. Yikes. AT&T does not do that draconian measure - yet. If you are a potential new iPhone customer and looking for a carrier in the US - you can read this post and then at the end remember this - Sprint - they are the only one of the big 3 now making it easy to understand plans and pricing - as they offer unlimited everything plans still. Which is why I have been long on Sprint stock since the beginning of the year. If you confuse consumers - they will go elsewhere - remember when the iPhone first launched one of the nice things about it was a very simple price plan from AT&T that Apple helped dictate. That really made things nice for the consumers. Now AT&T and Verizon are trying to make it business as usual once again. Just sayin - Anyway look for the link titled. Explaining AT&T and Verizons’ complex shared-data plans in the show notes for ep 233 over at today in iOS dot com.
Oscar actually asked the following
Hello Rob,
I getting married next month and my future wife and I are going to
combine our phones bills into one,
My question is would it be worth it to get either AT&T or Verizon's
mobile share plan which is suppose to included tethering, and
give up my unlimited data plan? On average I don't use a whole
lot of data I jut like the fact that I have no limit on my data plan.
Any thoughts on this would greatly help thanks a lot for all that
you do Rob.
Hi Oscar - combining everything when you get married is usually
advice - except this time I am not sure. I have some AT&T people
in the audience - let me know your thoughts on what Oscar should do
Same from the Verizon folks - although I am going to guess you
would say drop the AT&T plan and go with Verizon.
My only advice at this point is wait until October before you do
anything.
Hi Rob,
I don't know about you or anybody else, but I have one major issue with AT&T and Verizon's shared data plans. I have the same issue with any of Sprint's current smartphone plans. They save lots of money for
people who use their phones for talking and/or texting, but for people like me that barely use my phone as a phone, they are a lot more expensive. My wife and I roll over more than 400 minutes of our 500 minute plan, and we rarely send text messages except to each other,
which is free between iPhones. No matter which new shared plan I select from AT&T or Verizon, it would cost us at least $30 more per month. The same is true if we wanted to switch to Sprint. I think the carriers are figuring out that there are many options that don't require texting, voice or data to use an iPhone so they are throwing in the voice plans and basically charging for data only now.
At least AT&T has large data plans now.
Myron U
Hi Rob,
Today's mission: find someone who actually owns one of these 600k Nokia Symbian phones in North America. They must be a resident, not a tourist.
Talk about a scavenger hunt!
Have a great day!
John
Hi Rob,
Recently I hit a deer and so I had to get a loaner which happens to be a ford fiesta with Microsoft sync and I plugged in the iPhone and all works great. However I also have a windows phone so I said to myself let's see how the sync works with the windows phone. To my surprise sync will not even recognize the windows 7 phone isn't that something a Microsoft os not working with Microsoft windows phone7 yet it work great with the iPhone.
Regards,
Héctor from auburn ny
Guess the best response is Doooohhhh
Thanks for the feed back hector.
One last story - and that is of the China Launch of the iPad today - early reports are so far void of throwing eggs or other items and it seems rather organized and sans drama. The question to be seen is this due to a lack of interest or more because of the online ordering program apple implemented this time around or because those that really wanted the iPad got it on the grey market already. In any case this seems to be so far the first chinese launch that did not involve pushing, shoving, throwing, breaking or some combination there of.
As always if you were at this role out of the Apple iPad - please email or call in with your experiences.