TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 320
Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank
JEFF for sending in the music you hear in the background. JEFF wrote:
Hi Rob,
I made this song with my iphone 4s using the GarageBand app. For free downloads and more music follow me @jeffj6 on twitter.
Regards,
Jeff J
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Thanks JEFF for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank SAUL for sending in the Artwork for today's show. SAUL wrote
Hi Rob.
I used Phonto app to add the text to the image.
Regards,
Saul
Well SAUL Thanks again for sending in this artwork and folks you can see SAUL'S artwork in the Tii App in the extras for ep 320
- or if you subscribe via iTunes on your computer as the album artwork and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios.
If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music.
01:44
In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote “It’s been years — considered a long time in tech — since Apple delivered a “mind-blowing” product that made a cultural dent, some say, harking back to the iPad in 2010 and iPhone in 2007.”
Jon Swartz, USA Today, 4 October 2012
Beyond the over all absurdity of that quote - What do you think about Today Jon?
02:10
For Promo codes - On Ep 319 we offered up chances to win promo codes for the Apps - STAR WALK KIDS AND HOMELESS LIFE SIMULATOR - we will be giving those out later this week - for more info on those apps go back and listen to the beginning of Ep 319.
This week we have promo codes for the APP - My Precious - two words Here is the review from the Dev - PLAY PROMO CODE MyPrecious - Thanks to the dev for his review of their App MY PRECIOUS and for sending in the promo codes to give away. Folks if you would like a chance for a promo code for this app - send an email to todayinos at gmail dot com and put PRECIOUS in the subject line.
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http://www.apple.com/live/
First Thanks Apple for making the 9.9.2014 event live. It is nice for you to share the info at the same time to all - and not just the chosen few in the elite media. Well that was what I wrote last night - today I would say thanks for trying to share the info at the same time - as many of us had lots of issues getting the live stream to work - for the first 45 minutes I also had someone talking in Chinese I think over the top of Apples presenters.
Of course that was just when I was not looking at the color bars - which I did a bunch of early on. Actually for the first 6 minutes or so.
Let get right into what was announced on the iPhone side - which is exactly what Apple did and here is a quick summary.
As expected by pretty much everyone - there were two new iPhones announced - what was not expected was the names or well one of them. And they are the iPhone 6 and 6+
Not iPhone Air or iPhone Pro or iPhone 6L - just iPhone 6+
As expected there are two new sizes a 4.7" and a 5.5"
Obviously the 6+ is the bigger one.
And then Tim Cook did the One more Thing and that was to surprise of not single person in crowd or watching live Apples new SmartWatch. Which is being called the Apple Watch. Not iWatch.
Now for the record if you are 56 minutes into a 2 hour presentation I don't think you can actually say one more thing As well - it really was not one more thing.
The True One More thing was at the end of the presentation - you know about 1 hour 56 minutes into the presentation when Apple announced they are giving away for free - well - we will get to that at the end of the summary.
But for now the quick summary is
iPhone 6 and 6+, Apple Pay, Apple Watch and then the one more one more thing.
Before we get into the nuts and bolts - lets go over the bingo Card.
Per the items which were on there - they are
From the top working are way through the card - The iPhone 4.7" , the iPhone 4S killed off, iPhone Power button moved to the side, iPhone 4.7" available Sept 19th, 128 GB version of the iPhone - which right there gave us a bingo.
Also on the card - the iPhone Camera sticking out the back of the iPhone. The A8 & M8 Processors, A Barometer, I guest we get a check mark for the 12 Hr of 3G talk time but actually the 6 is listed at 14 hours and the 6+ at 24 hours but more on that later, NFC was finally added to the iPhones - yes I had given up on that. Wifi 802.11.ac is finally added as well. The iWatch box is a check mark - It was not about the name but the device - So I give it a check mark - and that is our other bingo down the left side of the square. And finally there is the 5.5" iPhone in the lower right corner.
There were a couple of items we don't know the answers to yet - did not figure we would - and they are the 2GB or Ram and the 2 GHz clock speed. We may not learn about those until Sept 19th when iFixit pulls them apart.
There were some items that were wrong in the rumor mill - The key one is the iPhone 5.5 not being available until late October at the earliest - yeah - from the announcement it will be available on Sept 19th as well. The Apple Watch Available in December before the holidays was a big no as well - So Wishful thinking on that did not help and it will be early 2015 for the Apple Watch. The Names iPhone Air and iPhone 6L - both were misses
And the iTems - that were not announced and will likely be on next Years Bingo Card were: Reversible USB cable - actually that will be on Octobers Bingo card, The 13 MP camera - Nope missed on that - more info shortly, 4K Video Recording and playback. Definitely on next years bingo card, and the Light up rear logo - maybe on next years card. And the one with out a doubt that missed and will be back - Sapphire Glass - that's right no Sapphire Glass for the iPhone 6 or 6+
I will do a post with an update on the bingo card in the next few days.
Now Lets get into some details on Specs and Pricing and availability for each of the iPhones announced.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/
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http://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/
http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/specs/
As expected and seen in rumored photos and video the iPhone 6 and 6+ are 4.7" and 5.5" and the power button is moved from the top to the right side. Colors are same as with the 5S - Gold, Silver and Space Grey.
As I mentioned the camera protrudes / sticks out the back of the iPhones and that is because the rest of the device is pretty thin - the 6 is 6.9 mm thick and the 6+ is 7.1 mm thick - this vs 7.6 mm for the 5S.
The length and width for the 6 is 5.44 inches by 2.64 inches, and the 6+ is 6.22 inches by 3.06 inches. Weight of the iPhone 6+ is 172 grams vs 129 grams for the 6 and 112 grams for the 5S.
Storage finally changes the three sizes are 16Gb - don't do it. 64 GB and as mentioned before 128 GB as the new top size. Really folks - don't do the 16GB - go for 128 GB - you will be glad you did.
For the screens - Apple is calling the screens Retina HD. The Screens are still LED backlit more about that later in the show.
The resolution of the 6 is 1334 x 750 pixels at 326 ppi - which is the same resolution as the iPhone 5S. The 6+ has the resolution of 1920 x 1080 resolution for true 1080p HD video playback. The Resolution is 401 ppi.
The contract ratio for the 6 is 1400 to 1 vs 800 to 1 for the 5S. The 6+ is 1300 to 1.
And they added what they are calling dual domain pixels for wider viewing angles.
For the 6+ in landscape mode you can now have the icons line up vertically on the right side for your dock. And yes the icons do rotate when you rotate the 6+
There is also a hey my fingers are not that long one handed mode - where if you double tap on the touch id button everything moves down to the lower half of the screen.
Legacy apps works just fine on the new iPhones - no need to do anything special to the apps. They just fill the screen.
On to the heart of the iPhones - the A8 Chip was announced along with the M8 motion coprocessor.
The A8 is built using the new 20 nm process. This means better battery life and smaller size. Actually 13% smaller than the A7. But it is also 25% faster CPU performance. and up to 50% more energy efficient than the A7.
As mentioned before the Talk time on the 6 and 6+ is much better than the 5S.
With the 5S it was 10 hours of 3G talk time - the 6 is 14 hours and the 6+ is 24 hours.
Internet use 5s = 8 hours, 6 = 10 hours, 6+ = 12 hours.
Video Playback - 5S = 10 hours, 6 = 11 hours, 6+ = 14 hours.
Audio playback - the most important spec - 5S = 40 hours, 6 = 50 hours and 6+ = 80 hours.
If battery life is your thing - then the 6+ is definitely the iPhone for you.
On the sensor side - as expected the 6 and 6+ both gained a barometer.
Now lets get into what you really use your iPhone for and that is video recording and pictures.
For Video recording - the 5S supports 120 fps slow mo - the 6 and 6+ support up to 240 fps slow mo - and they showed a demo and it looked amazing.
Other new additions are up to 60 fps 1080p HD video recording - did I mention you really want that 128 gb version - Yeah - that is one reason why. The also added Cinematic Video Stabilization and Continuous Autofocus for video.
On the Back Camera or as Apple calls it the iSight camera - This is where Android boyz will be beating up and go after the iPhone for the next 12 months. Because Apple went from 8 MP on the iPhone 4S to an 8 MP on the 5 to an 8 MP on the 5S to now a you guessed it an 8 MP camera on the 6 and 6+. Yeah - leaving that 13 MP camera on the bingo card for next year. Again expect lots of ads and attacks about the iPhone 6 and 6+ camera being only 8 MP - forget that it is not all about MP's - it is simple to attack on and most people will not look to deep.
That said - there is really not much different between the 5S and 6 and 6+ cameras. The biggest difference is apple added Optical Image stabilization in the 6+ camera. this adds physical image stabilization to go along with the digital stabilization.
Apple claims there is also improved face detection. And there is Autofocus with focus pixels - that they claim improves pictures especially in low light. We shall see once it is released. But over all I think the camera updates we maybe one of the areas Apple could have and should have done more - and one areas I think we will see the iPhone attacked over for the next 12 months.
For the front facing or FaceTime camera - Apple added Burst Mode and that is it. Guess Apple wanted to cut down on the number of naked selfies by celebrities. Oooppps - did I say that out loud.
On the wireless front there were some additions to the 6 and 6+ namely Near Field communication or NFC has finally made it to the iPhone - I really thought NFC was not going to make it on the iPhone ever - I thought Apple did not like it. That said NFC is a big piece of Apple Pay - so now it is not just added but going forward a key cog in the machinery.
Apple also updated wifi to 802.11.ac - while still supporting , a , b , g , and n as with the 5S.
And LTE was improved again - with a boat load of different LTE bands supporting over 200 carriers around the world. One version supports 16 different bands, another version supports 20 LTE bands.
Interesting in the US - There are two versions - One for Sprint, C Spire and US Cellular, And the Second version for AT&T, T-mobile, Verizon, Cricker and AIO plus also for All of Canada's carriers. So if you are looking for a version in the US to get and move from one carrier to another - get the Verizon version - which does support GSM and CDMA.
One other new feature added to the iPhone 6 and 6+ is Voice over LTE - where supported by the carrier.
Per availability - that will be 8:00 AM local time at your Apple store on September 19th as expected for the iPhone 6 and also for the iPhone 6+ which was not expected.
For the iPhone 6 Subsidized Pricing not surprisingly is $199, 299 and 399 for the 16, 64 and 128 GB respectively. So same pricing as the iPhone 5S.
For the 6+ just add $100 for each storage level.
If you go with T-Mobile - there is no subsidizing of the price and the base price for the iPhone 6 is $649 and it is $749 for the 6+ again add $100 as you go up in storage levels. So the 128 GB iPhone 6+ unsubsidized is $949.
Pre-Orders start on September 12th.
So Am I going to order a 6+ - Well there is one item missing for me that pretty much put the kibosh on getting a new iPhone - and that is the missing Sapphire front glass. Well that and the fact I am not eligible for a full upgrade.
My recommendation is this - If you have the 5 or early - Definitely upgrade. If you have the 5S and you really were hoping for the larger screen and you travel and battery life is a huge issue - then definitely upgrade.
But if you get along fine on your 5S - and your battery life is fine 95% of the time - then I just can not justify upgrading to the 6 or 6S at this time.
I do however think we now know that next Years models will be called the 6S and the 6S+ with the S standing for Sapphire.
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http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/apple-pay/
After the iPhones were announced the next announcement was Apple Pay. Apples new payment system.
First off this will not be out until some time in October - and right now will require the iPhone 6 and 6+. Eventually when the Apple Watch is available it will work with it as well - and that will bring support to the iPhone 5S as well.
I am not going to get into a lot of detail now - because well it is about mobile payments and some of you might be operating heavy machinery and well it will not be available until October.
In a nut shell Apple will use Touch ID and NFC in your iPhone 6 to allow you to pay via credit card at a few places to start - like Subway or Mc Donalds, Disney World, Apple stores, Macy's, Walgreens, Whole foods, Petco, Toys R us and a few other stores to start.
Eventually if this works well it will expand to other stores - but to start it will seem like very few stores and probably not the ones you want.
Like Walmart, Target, the local gas station and grocery store.
Per the back end - you submit your credit card they verify with your bank and it is set up as a secure element in your iPhone - then when you go to pay - it is not your credit card info that is given but a special one time payment code. So if your phone is stollen - your credit card into is not in it.
But here is the part I really like - Apple does not know or collect what items your purchased. unlike say some other don't be evil company - Apple is not interested in collecting data on you to sell to give to advertisers. They just want to make it easier for you to pay for stuff and more secure.
Again to start I think it will be frustrating for many looking to actually make a payment via Apple Pay in the brick in mortar world. But Apple did say Apple Pay will also extend to online shopping and that is where Target.com will come into play, as well as Groupon - plus with the Starbucks App and some others.
Right now this is for Visa, Master card and Amex.
With the following banks - Bank of America, Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo and What's in your iPhone - Capital One.
Coming soon is Barclays, PNC, USAA, US Bank and Navy Federal Credit union.
And really I have said way more than I planned.
More info on this in October as it gets ready to roll out.
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http://www.apple.com/watch/
And that lead us to the One More thing.. which really - 56 minutes into a 2 hour presentation - just does not seem like one more thing.
But whatever - dead horse I have beaten.
And the first one more thing is the Apple Watch. Actually there are three - Apple Watch, Apple Watch Sport and apple Watch Edition.
Lets get right into pricing and availability - the two things most disappointing.
Pricing starts at $349 and most likely goes up quickly from there.
Availability - is Some time in Early 2015.
One other thing that could be an issue is the Apple Watch is ALL right. Every picture and every frame of every video showed one thing - the Apple Watch was on the left wrist of everyone - not one single picture or frame of video with it on the right wrist. Hopefully by early 2015 - Apple will have addressed this clearly Lefthanded snub.
And before you think I am going on a left-handed crusade - The way you interact with the Apple Watch - is via touch and turn - you touch on the screen - but you also turn the home nob - this is an important part of the UI - and that nob if placed on the right wrist would mean your hand left hand would be in the way of the screen when trying to use it.
So I hope Apple addresses this issue.
Ok - per the Apple watch - it is very pretty - it will gives you access to lots of apps and you definitely can do a lot more with it than with the Pebble.
You do need an iPhone to use it - an iPhone 5 or later is needed.
And it does have NFC so you could use your iPhone 5S and the Apple watch for Apple pay.
Apple wants 3rd Party apps to be developed for it - and by early 2015 we will have a lot more to say with regards to 3rd party app capabilities.
Per the hardware - there is a magsafe type charging connector that does inductive charging. And there are sensors on the back of the Apple Watch that allow it to monitory your heart rate.
The front face of all the Apple Watches is Sapphire.
And for each version there is a 38 mm and 42 mm case - a women's and mens version basically.
And all of them are really pretty.
I look forward to getting one of the sport versions - once they work out that whole Right wrist issue. And Yes - I did send an email to Tim Cook asking about that. No Reply yet.
Again a lot lot more on the Apple watch in future episodes.
Oh and the one more one more thing - is that Apple is giving away via iTunes U2's latest album for free. As long as you have an iTunes account you can download the U2 album for free. And U2 did perform live at the end of the apple event - and after their performance is when Apple did what I consider the real one more thing. And that was the announcement of the free album - you have to mid October to download it - so if you are a U2 fan - well you probably already downloaded it.
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One other announcement early in the presentation was that iOS 8 will go live on September 17th.
But first - let me read this email:
Rob
For the first time in over 5 years the live stream was a bust. Started with SAP blended into the North American feed on the servers. Then the CDN kept jittering while more server capacity was added. I came in and went out over a dozen times without touching the iPad.
Then tried from MacBook Air, and webpage had been rolled back to cached content without the live feed link. What I did see was impressive in terms of technical advances. The major tradeoff for me is the cycloptic camera bumping out. Clearly not a problem for anyone using a case. But I think I can hear the bump screams from the "other side" where Steve's genius spirit is loathing this aspect.
I like the 2-wide landscape capabilities for things like mail and messaging - just like my iPad mini. I guess I'll play with one before jumping though.
Looks like you got a lot of the bingo card covered and thanks for keeping us up to dat all through the iOS 8 development phases!
Cheers,
PaulG in Lawrenceville
PS: If there was "One More Thing" I couldn't see/hear it so can't address it - hope it was an Apple TV uplift.
Well Paul - sorry no Apple TV mention except Tim cook mentioned you can control Apple TV with your Apple Watch.
Per your issues with the Feed - and this is coming from Apples new CDN - you and I were not the only ones with issues.
I bring this up as I just mentioned that iOS 8 will go live on September 17th - Stay away from iOS 8 - do not repeat do not update on the 17th or the 18th or 19th or the 20th. Wait until the 24th before you update. Please Please Please listen to me.
If today's event is any indications of Apples CDN prowess - you want nothing to do with it next week.
Now when you are ready to upgrade to iOS 8 - remember my tried and true steps for upgrading.
First force quite out of every open app.
Second - Back up your iOS device to your computer and then sync and then disconnect after the sync.
Third - Go to Settings - General - Reset - Reset network settings.
Fourth - re-connect to Wifi after the reboot.
Fifth - Connect to your computer - do one more back up.
Sixth - Upgrade to iOS 8
Seventh - Enjoy iOS 8.
But again - I can not say it enough - do not try to upgrade on September 17th - wait one week until Sept 24th - you will be glad you waited.
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Did I mention not to update to iOS 8 on the 17th.
If you are with AT&T and if you want to check to see if your phone is eligible for an upgrade you can check by going the phone and dialing * 6 3 9 # and then the green call button - the 639 stands for NEW for the letters of those keys.
Then you get a text - which well in the past was useful in telling you when you could upgrade on your current plan.
But at least for me - it is no longer useful - as it says I am eligible to upgrade if I switch to the Next plan - which is in my opinion not something I would ever do or recommend.
So it does not look like it gives you info on when you can upgrade on your current plan - which for me is the grandfathered unlimited plan - which really is about a two year upgrade cycle.
Actually I did find the place to check for my current plan and not going to AT&T next - and it looks like if I were to go to the iPhone 6+ now at 128 GB - instead of it costing me $949 it would only cost me $749 - which is still more than fully subsidized at $499. But as I said early - I am going to pass on this years versions and wait until next years 6S+
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Steve - it is the Verizon Version you want to get if you want the unlocked version. This is Assuming the same is true for new Verizon version - which it should be as it will be LTE - and that is the deal with the FCC they needed to make it unlocked to get access to certain LTE bands.
But if you say have an AT&T account and then you buy a Verizon iPhone and take it to your AT&T account - they are not likely going to unlock your old iPhone 5S for example - not until you reach the end of your original contract period.
Hi Rob,
On the bingo card does itime count the same as iWatch on the bingo card?
Regards,
Michael
And that came in prior to the event - to which I answered - the iWatch block was about a device not a name. So any wearable watch with add sensors was what that block was about.
In the past I have been pretty good with specs on new devices - at least compared to most blogs - but on the name side - Not so much. Look at my post about the iPad before it launched - I nailed most of the specs even the weight - but missed on the Name.
Prior to the launch was this email:
Hi Rob,
I seriously see no reason why the camera would protrude on the phone, due to the fact that that it is so much thicker than the iPod, (due to the "phone" parts). Which would allow for the
camera to mount flush to the outside of the phone (internal room)
Regards,
Ken B
Another Prior to the Launch email was
Hi Rob,
After listening to your podcast about the bingo card I had to wonder if the dual phone launch and some of the other variables wouldn't make apple tighten things up a bit in the options for new devices.
My thinking is that since they are upping the storage to 128 gig, that the three tiers will be 32, 64, & 128 gig on the two new devices while 8 & 16 or 16 & 32 remain on the 5s/5c entry devices. Of course they would sell existing inventory of the larger sizes, but it would limit the production run for additional entry level phones.
Just my thought, thanks again and love the show!
Regards,
Peter
Hi Rob,
I was disappointed at the new curved glass screens. It may look nice, but screen protectors won't be able to completely cover the iPhone 6 (or 6 plus) screen and stay stuck down at the edges. I think Apple is creating future demand for sapphire-crystal screens here :-(
Best regards,
Paul.
P.S. The Apple watch looks nice though :-)
Hi Rob,
Per the Apple event
Mind. Blown.
iPhone 6 looks pretty amazing. I like that the middle step will be 64G now (tho I really haven't used all of my 32G on my 5s).
I watch capabilities blow everything else out of the water. Literally. Design seems chunky, but I'd have to see/feel it to know if I want to buy one. I certainly LUST for one now...
Overall, and amazing event (tho my streaming for the first 45 minutes kept crashing and audio was squirrely). Looking forward to other listeners feedback.
Lets see if Wall Street likes it. I am guessing they won't.lust for one.
Regards,
Tom
Hi Tom - per the street - nope they did not like it but did not hate it either - During the day the price moved from a high of 103.08 to a low of 96.14 ending the day down just 37 cents at 97.99.
Hi Rob,
today's announcement surprised me. I never would've expected to see apple announce a watch. I always saw it as un apple like, selling devices that need another device to take advantage of its features. The price point is a little high, but I'm sure that won't stop them from selling millions of them.
It also surprises me that apple dropped the 32GB and went to 16/64/128GB. That also seems very un apple like because of the hog price point for each storage tier. I had no doubts that apple would keep the 16GB as the base storage.
Regards,
Ben K
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Hi Rob,
I haven't been this excited since the launch of the original iPhone! This launch really gave me everything I've wanted and more!
Personally, I'll be getting an iPhone 6 -128 in gold for my fiancée and an iPhone 6+ 128 in gold for myself.
Thank God the Apple Watch won't come out until next year, this will give my wallet a relief over Christmas. I will be giving a promise note to my fiancée for an Apple watch 38mm version and I'll be getting the Sport edition for myself. I'm glad that I held off buying the Pebble.
What a great day for us Apple fanboys and fangirls! You're going to have lots to talk about!
Enjoying the moment,
Hope you are listening the new FREE U2 album. It's pretty good.
Regards,
TonyL
San Francisco
Hi Rob.
I was disappointed not to see anything on Apple TV. Did I miss it - my streaming kept stalling.
Apple watch looks awesome, but big mistake to miss the Xmas selling season & the price point is ridiculous.
Just my opinion.
Laurie B - Frisco TX
Agree with you on the Apple Watch feedback - pricing seems very high. And strange on missing the holiday season - clearly it just was not ready for prime time on time.
Per Apple TV - I did not think it would be in this event - Hoped it would - but likely will be in the October event.
We shall see.
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46:11
http://online.wsj.com/articles/tim-cook-says-apple-to-
add-security-alerts-for-icloud-users-1409880977
Here is some more info on the iCloud and naked celebrity picture gate.
According to Apple they plan to add additional steps to keep hackers out of user accounts. Tim Cook said quote
celebrities' iCloud accounts were compromised when hackers correctly answered security questions to obtain their passwords, or when they were victimized by a phishing scam to obtain user IDs and passwords. Apple will alert users via email and push notifications when someone tries to change an account password, restore iCloud data to a new device, or when a device logs into an account for the first time.
unquote
He also talked about the issue being more human than technological - quote
When I step back from this terrible scenario that happened and say what more could we have done, I think about the awareness piece," I think we have a responsibility to ratchet that up. That's not really an engineering thing."
Unquote
Apple said it will expand the use of two-factor authentication and that currently a majority of users don't use two-factor authentication - so it will be more aggressive in quote encouraging unquote people to turn it on in iOS 8.
In the article from the wall street journal - they talked to Ashka Soltani a security expert who said the following quote:
There's a well-understood tension between usability and security, More often than not, Apple chooses to err on the side of usability to make it easier for the user that gets locked out from their kid's baby photos than to employ strong protections for the high-risk individuals."
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Now here are my thoughts on this.
Because some Hey Look at me Look at me Celebrities decided that posting pictures of their VaJay Jays to their iCloud account was a fun thing to do - with no common sense or reality that hey Naked Pictures of my private bits are probably not something I want to put up on the cloud - ANY cloud - we as regular users who do not post private pictures of our nasty bits - must now say good by to easy to remember passwords and easy to restore passwords and now must basically give DNA to prove our accounts are our accounts when we forget those impossible to remember passwords we need to switch to. Remember when you used to be able to just put in your first dogs name for a password and your were golden with iTunes - now unless your first dogs name happened to be Capital B lower case u lower case t lower case t Zero lower case N Dollar sign Dollar Sign - well you are kind of Capital S Capital O Capital L.
Thanks Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Kirsten Dunst For trying to see how good the True Tone flash really was, uploading pictures of your nether regions and picking easy to crack security questions. I am half tempted to go and look at your photos just so if you ever decide to do a Podcast and I have to work with you - I can say - yeah I saw the pics - I've seen better. I also love how Kirsten Dunst took a swipe at iCloud as well. Hey Ms Dunst - if you don't want your Naked as in no cloths on photos to get out - probably best not to you know take the pics to start with.
Point is the first step to having naked photos or videos leaked is in the taking of said videos or pictures - After that it is just a matter of when not if they get leaked.
Just Ask - Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Rob Lowe, Sharon Stone and Jessica Rabbit - come on you went frame by frame on the laser disk for that last one - I know you did.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/04/technology/security/
apple-celebrity-photos/index.html
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Hey Rob,
I have had a S4 for about 1 year now and a month ago it stopped working. I called samsung and said because I removed the battery(because I thought it might fix it)the warranty was voided. Foolishly I bought an S5 and it was like buying a rusted car. The back panel fell off(Samsung wouldn't fix), battery life dropped("Not samsungs responsibility"), and finally I dropped it and the chip cracked. My wife had been telling me all these years " Get an iPhone" but I never listened. I had been listening to your show sometimes because my wife does. I am wondering if I should buy a 5s because I need a phone for work or wait for 6. For all people thinking about switching to a S5 don't do it!
Thanks,
James,
Los Angles, California
Well James clearly at this point you should wait until September 19th and get the new iPhone 6 - and thanks for your warning on the S5.
Hi Rob
I have a question for you or the listeners. I have this problem were on my phone on the home screen I get the spinning busy icon to the right of the wifi/LTE icon. I have an iPhone 5 running the latest OS. It'll just randomly show up and I can't get it to stop unless I turn off and turn back on the phone. I've tried killing all apps and I've tried just waiting. Neither have worked. It doesn't seem to drain the battery but I can only let it go for a few hours before it drives me crazy. Have you are any of the listeners seen this before?
Regards,
Richard
Atlanta
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/madeincollege/belaycords-
reversible-usb-charging-cords-iphone-an?ref=nav_search
One of the rumors going into the 9.9.14 event was that Apple would introduce reversible USB cables.
Well If you don't want to wait for Apples cords - you can go to Kickstarter and ok wait there as well - but at least pledge today.
There is a project called Belaycords - one word spelled B E L A Y C O R D S - belaycords - And they are Reversible USB charging cords. This one had a goal of $4,000 and had raised over $55,000 to date. And has until November 2nd at 3:09 PM CT to complete funding. Like I said you will be waiting a little bit.
That said they plan to start delivery in November - yes this november - so the month they finish funding they will start delivering - which makes me wonder are they really needing the kickstarter money to fund this or are they just using it as a shopping cart.
Pricing on this one is $30 for one cord or $55 for two cords. You can choose between Lightening and 30 Pin and Micro USB cords - no not all three with one cord - just one end for one cord. You pick the end when ordering.
Search for Belaycords at kickstarter dot com or in the show notes for Ep 320 at today in iOS dot com or in the Tii App.
And note it looks like this is only for Charging - not for syncing.
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Hi Rob,
I just noticed this on the "wall huggers" commercial. The girl with the android phone says "no I'm good" but I pauses it at that moment and noticed she only had 10% battery!? How is that good?
Regards,
Cesar
And he sent a screen shot showing the 10% indicator - yeah - not exactly what I would call I'm fine unless well it is an Android device and we all know how Android users use their devices a lot less than iOS users do - so who knows maybe she was fine.
What I thought was interesting in the screen show was the pop over window on the Android device with the title - Ultra Power Saving Mode - and then under that 10% battery were recommendations for saving battery life like - Restrict applications usage to only essential apps and those selected by you, And turn off mobile data when the screen turns off - but most the most interesting suggestion - Change the color of the screen to grayscale
Hmmm - so on Sammy phones that saves battery life. And looking into this - We see that is true with the S5 because it has an AMOLED display - which relies on its pixels to brighten screens. unlike past iPhones that used LCD displays - and there was no savings. Some had speculated that iOS 8's ability to enable Grayscale was an indication of an AMOLED display coming to the iPhone 6. And well they WERE ?????????
http://ios.wonderhowto.com/how-to/grayscale-mode-ios-8-
proof-next-iphone-will-sport-amoled-display-0155441/
Hi Rob,
Every time I try to download an app on my iPhone 5c it downloads the app for a second and then app disappears what can I do to fix this
Regards,
Zach
Hi. Thanks for all you do with the show. Please post question to listeners. I would like to find a app that will allow me to download ustream archived videos to my iphone. The question was posed for YouTube a while back with great response.
Thanks
Nick
Rob,
Do you or the listeners know of a jailbreak tweek or app that tricks an iPhone app into thinking it is running the iPad version of that app?
I have an unlimited plan on my AT&T iPhone 5 and some apps, like the watchespn app or nbc sports live extra, offer more content on an iPad than they do on the iPhone.
Regards,
-Brian
From Leavenworth KS
59:11
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tii-today-in-ios-app/
id318848957?mt=8
A couple of big pieces of news with regards to the Tii App.
One The Tii App has been completely redesigned.
The UI is more iOS 8 - and it offers some great new features.
To start with in the Episode list - there is now options to pick just Audio episodes, or Text episodes - which are blog posts, or Video episode or PDF episodes.
Ok - no Video episodes yet - but soon.
Additionally the play screen has been completely redone making it really easy to get to the extras for that episode and to the show notes - and the show notes are not interactive with the links to items talked about.
In the upper right of the episode screen is a Persons Head - That is the contact us icon - tap that and you can email the show or call the show or follow on twitter or if you have issues hit the troubleshooting icon.
From the main episode play screen If you hit the play button and then turn the iPhone on its side - it will go into Car Mode. The first time you do this it will ask you for access to your location data - the reason for the question is it will automatically switch between day and night mode based on where you are living and the time of day and if it is day light or night time.
Car mode gives you some nice big buttons to you know make it easier to use when in the car.
In the episode list there is a thumbnail of the episode artwork for each episode - which I think looks very good. The Download button is wait for it - Labeled as Download - I know - unheard of. The little Star confused so many. When you view a blog post - it marks it as viewed and there is now an indicator on what % of each episode you have listened to.
In the upper right of each post in the episode mode there is either a microphone for an audio episode, T in a document for a Blog post - and a PDF in document for PDF file. Plus a Play button in a film slide for a Video episode.
If you go into the options - that is from the episode list and the button in the upper left - one option is Inbox - this shows all past tweets.
If you are someone that likes to consume two or more episodes at a time and in the order they were released - which is how I usually listen to podcasts - then you will want to go to settings - and then turn off - Play Top to Bottom - which will then mean it plays bottom to top in the list.
I hope you like the new update and your feedback is greatly appreciated - and I did not even go over the iPad mode.
But there is one other big announcement with regards to the Tii App - and that is the price - as in Free - Yup if you held off buying the Tii app - well you lucky day has come - the app is now priced for you. For those that did buy the Tii App - thanks for your support.
So search for Tii in the iTunes App store to get the new and improved and free Tii App. If for no other reason you get push notices when new episodes are released. But it is really the best way to consume the show - Really.
Actually if you never had purchased the Tii App - I would greatly appreciate you going and downloading it now for your iOS device - even if you are not going to use it - just to help it out in the iTunes rankings. Then please launch it once you download it just to check it out. That will get you set up for Push notices so going forward you will know exactly when new episodes come out. Oh and a warning - turn off the volume on the pushes if you are sleeping typically around 3:00 AM Central US time that is the typical time I put up new episodes.
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OK I AM GOING TO STOP NOW AND GO AND CHECK FOR MORE LISTENER FEEDBACK ON TODAY's EVENT.
And I AM BACK AND HERE is what was sent in.
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We are now well over 1,200 members in our Google+ community and growing.
Thanks to everyone that has joined and thanks for the great posts.
One new popular post in the G+ community this past week OR REALLY THIS PAST AFTERNOON came from -
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- And this past week there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts in the Tii Google+ community - which is an Android bois free zone and spammer free zone. Yup it is the most civil Google+ community covering iOS.
Folks Go to today in iOS dot com slash community to join in.
And thanks to all 1200+ of you already in the community and contributing.
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