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Sat, 28 July 2012
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Sat, 28 July 2012
Hi Rob,
I hope you like the attached artwork I created with my 3rd Generation iPad. I used the app "Mandala HD" to make the background and the app "Superimpose" to add the tii logo. Regards,
Greg T, in Lebanon, Missouri
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Episode 234 Transcript
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Apple had their quarterly conference call earlier this week and Per the Analysts Predictions of iPhone sales the winner was… Well No one - Everyone went over the actual number of 26 Mil iPhones sold in the quarter. Katy Huberty, T. Michael Walkley and Shaw Wu tied for closest as all 3 had guessed 27 mil iPhones would be sold last quarter. I came in 2nd worst with my what was I thinking guess of 35.5 Mil iPhones sold. Only one analyst was higher than my guess. Themelani Kewtane had a 38.50 Mil prediction. Still it is a rare rare rare event when Apple's actual performance was worse than ALL the analysts including the ones that are almost always very bearish on Apple.
Switching to the iPads sales last quarter - the winner of guess the closest was Analyst Robert Cihra with a guess of 16.5 mil which was pretty close to the 17 mil actual number. I thought it would be around 18.75 Mil - Nope - Too high this time. Guess I need to go back guessing conservatively low again.
Other bits of interesting details from the call.
Apples total cash now is at 117.2 Billion dollars up 7 Billion for the quarter.
iPods sold a total of 6.8 Mil in the quarter - per usual Apple did not break out numbers specifically for the iPod touch other than to once again say iPod touch accounted for over 50% of iPods sold.
To date over 410 Million iOS devices have been sold. There are over 650,000 iOS apps in the App store. And over 225,000 iPad specific apps in that group. The iPhone is now available at over 250 carriers in over 100 countries.
iPad is now for sale in 97 countries.
Apple to date has paid out $5.5 Billion dollars to developers.
And Apple sold 1.3 Million Apple TV's last quarter and a total of over 4 Million in the last 3 quarters.
Now there has been a lot written since the quarterly call. If you want to see if someone is an Apple fan boy or Apple basher - just look at the title of their posts. Those that talk about / mention just the iPad sales record - those are Apple Fan boys.
Those that talk about the iPhones sales and the big drop from the past 2 quarters and being below all Apple analysts predictions - yeah those are the Apple Bashers.
Here is how I look at - they are both partially correct - Apple did have great iPad sales - 17 Mil is a new record and represents over 2/3 rd of the unit sales for Tablets and over 80% of Revenue and probably somewhere north of 95% of Profits for tablet sales for the last quarter.
But the iPhone drop off was pretty significant. And that was not the bad quarter for iPhone sales - this current one is. So expect this quarter that number to dive much lower.
Now again all was not horrible on the iPhone side - we talked about iPhone sales at Verizon last episode. And since then AT&T reported their numbers - AT&T said Tuesday that it activated 3.7 million iPhones during the second quarter, down from 4.3 million in the first quarter. But that 3.7 mil represented nearly three-quarters of the total 5.1 million smartphones it sold last quarter. Or put another way - Windows phone 7 that AT&T spend more marketing money on than the launch of the iPhone - yeah it and all the Android phones and Blackberry phones it sold only added up to 1.4 Million units vs the iPhone 3.7 Mil units.
Switching to Sprint - they reported their sales last quarter and said they sold 1.5 Mil iPhones in the quarter. Of those 1.5 Mil iPhones sold - 40% were to new to the Sprint network - which Sprint was very happy about. They also commented on how the iPhone costs less than other smartphone to support. No numbers were given on Smartphone sales overall. But it is important to note that last quarter Sprint sold about the same number of iPhones - so unlike Verizon and AT&T where there was a significant drop of iPhone sales last quarter vs the previous quarter - with Sprint the iPhone is holding the line and per Sprints accolades bringing in new customers to sprint.
And by the way those that were / are down on apple - just remember this - Microsoft just posted it first quarterly loss in company history. Now granted the loss was really a paper loss due to write downs. But still at 18.06 Bil in Revenue for the quarter Apple's 35 Bil in Rev was almost double that of Microsofts. Or put another way Apples revenue last quarter was more than Microsofts, Googles, RIMs and Netflix's combined.
Ok and that is enough of the Financial stuff for now.
Play VOICE MAILS ON STRAIGHT TALK.
Hi rob
You can use the iphone on straight talk. To activate data you have to change the Apn. The easiest way i found was to be connected to wifi. After you insert the sim and activate your plan you open safari and head to unlockit.co.nz very simple sight and in 2-3 clicks you are all set with unlimited everything for $45 a month. On a jailbroke and software unlocked 3gs it took me aroun 15 min total but imessage and mms(i think) do not work. Iphone 4 it was around 10 mins total and everything works perfectly. Those 2 phones save me ~$120 a month. Now i am waiting to get out of this stupid verizon contract and straight talk will have another customer. Please pass this info on to everyone that uou can. If the big 3 notice enough people leaving maybe they will improve service instead of just raising prices.
Thanks
Dan
Aberdeen. Wa
Thanks all that called in and sent in info about Straightalk - so if you are in the US - you have one of those officially unlocked from AT&T iPhones - and want a cheap service - it sounds like a visit to unlock it.co.nz is something you want to look into. FYI - that is a site we have mentioned in the past for other updates on APN's - so it is not a site we are just hearing about for the first time - this is one many listeners used in the past.
Back to the email bag.
Hi Rob,
Regarding the question about the message "Charging not supported with this accessory" mentioned in a recent podcast:
I had not seen that on my iPhone until I installed the podcast app. Actually, the podcast app was open when I plugged my phone into a computer using the USB cord. So, I'm wondering if there is any connection between the podcast app and that message? My phone is up to date with iOS updates and I have not changed anything else lately.
Regards,
Frank P
Hi Frank - I highly doubt that is the issue - I am running the Podcasts app all the time and I have not seen that issue.
Rob, for your listener on July 19 episode asking about a good stylus that has a small point. Here is the link to a Kickstarter project I ordered 6 of them for family members & friends. We need for writing orders & signing documents. Your listener should find these to be the smallest tips! Other cool factors & features too! http://handstylus.com/ Regards, Phil C
Hi Rob,
The stylus that I use is the JOT and it is far superior to any other stylist that I have used. They make several styles like the mini, the classic, and soon to release a Bluetooth one, with two buttons that can be assigned to different types of brushes.
Regards,
David V
Thanks to John for this next one which is about a contest - which you can enter - the City of St. Petersburg Russia is planning on a monument / statue / tourist attraction featuring the late steve jobs and they want your ideas - the best idea will win some apple gear - you have until August 6th to submit your idea. Obviously submitting the idea of a naked steve jobs posed as the rodin's thinker holding an Apple - yeah - I am sure that one is taken. my first thought was that of bronze 3d version of Sistine Chapel Ceiling Artwork you know the artwork with Adam and God reaching out a finger towards each other. Except replace Adam with God and God with Steve and Steve holding an iPad and God reaching out to touch the iPad. Yeah that would be cool - and I can't at all imagine the church objecting to that Or some of you for that mater - please note that was meant tongue in cheek.
Hey - an iPod Touch 5th gen rumor. This one comes from KGI Securities Analyst Ming-chi Kuo - and he claims that Apple will be updating the iPod touch later this year with an all new design. Ok up to this point not much of stretch - as the 4th gen iPod touch is basically two years old now - so a new update this year would be more surprising if it did not happen then if it did and a new design - well year the iPod touch design is a bit dated.
ming-chi also said it would have the new in-cell touch display and 4 inch display making the rumor rounds for the iPhone 2012. So again - nothing special.
He did say the design would be one of buffed aluminum of the rear shell vs the highly reflective Stainless steel case of the current 4th gen iPod touch.
One other item that was strange is the report of a hole in the lower back of the iPod touch.
This info of course comes from un-named sources.
But if the parts about the iPod touch turn out to be true sans the hole in the lower back - it is possible the whole was just added to let Apple know which prototype it was - and track back leaked photos to those Apple new they gave it to.
Guess we will be waiting until late Sept / early Oct for more info on this one.
File this next one away in the back of your mind for future Apple offerings - Seems Apple just purchased the company AuthenTec for $356 Million. Authentec is the leading supplier of smart sensors and embedded security devices such as Fingerprint readers. This seems to go well with rumors about NFC and smart wallet tech that might show up in a future iOS device. Anyway - that this is something Apple would do - is clear from the purchase price. $356 Million is a lot of money for an acquisition for Apple. Sure it is small compared to what Microsoft or Google do - but Apple is not one that acquires many companies. To put this in better context - This is the 3rd largest acquisition Dollar wise Apple has ever made in its entire history. And the two ahead of it. At 390 Million dollars was Anobit back in Dec 2011 - they provide tech for Flash memory - kind of an important part of iOS and now macs. And the number one acquisition was at $400 Million - and that was NEXT - which brought Apple two important things - the base code for OS ten and Steve Jobs. So yes - at 356 Mil for AuthenTec - this was not an acquisition that was on a whim - it is strategic and look for this tech sooner rather than later in Apple ware.
PLAY VOICE MAIL FROM KEVIN ON IPAD MINI
Ok this next one falls into that iPad Mini rumor territory. It is a post from Mashable - that I have to admit makes a really good point - and they make the point with a chart. They show all the price points for the iPod line up. And all the price points for the iPhone lineup. And then they show the iPad price points - and you can see there is a glaring hole below the $400 price line. Now some are saying the price point of the iPad mini needs to be in the $200 range to match the nexus - Ummmm no. Apple does not need to match the competitions price point - just be within $100 of it. So a 16 GB iPad Mini at $299 - would actually be within $50 of the 16 GB Nexus. At the end of the day most consumers will pay a little bit more for a simpler device with a much better eco system.
Plus Apple does not sell products for a loss. So I just don't see a price below $299 if and when Apple announces an iPad mini or whatever it will be called - which is almost definitely not the iPad Mini.
I have an alternative theory around the mini iPad.
I don't think Apple will make one. Instead I think the iPod touch will be upgraded to a 7 in screen.
The target demographic for the iPod touch seems the ideal one for a bigger screen.
As of now, due to the lower cost of prior generation iPhones through carriers, I don't think
it makes much sense for the existing iPod touch. Parents would typically buy the touch to
save money, but with a free 3GS or an iPhone 4 for less than $100, it makes sense for a
parent to buy an iPhone instead of a touch and have the added benefit of phone access for
the child. Now, an iPod touch with a bigger screen will introduce a new lure for the device which
is very distinct from the iPhone and the iPad without any cannibalization.
Regards,
Sergio
Hi Sergio the only hole in your logic and it is kinda a big one - is that iPhones are not quote free unquote from carriers - you still have to spend thousands for the cellular plan - so an iPod touch is a great one time purchase - no additional cost option for parents to get for their kids.
I am of the belief that there will continue to be an iPod touch similar in size to the current iPhone. Per an iPad mini - I think eventually there almost has to be something that falls somewhere between the size of the iPod touch and the iPad - what is now being called the iPad mini. Just not convinced that is a 2012 device - I think it will be 2013 - but we shall see.
One thing to remember about Reuters - They do do link bait. Which I think some people forget or do not realize - you can trust everything they say when it comes to Apple rumors - or actually most of what they say on the rumor front - Reuters does link bait - well some did not realize that and put out posts titled - Confirmed next iPhone will have a smaller dock connector.
Now it is very possible maybe at this point likely that the next iPhone will have a smaller dock connector. But at this point all it is is rumor attributed to unnamed sources at best.
Remember that when reading posts about the smaller dock connector being confirmed and they lead back to the Reuters article and their sources familiar with the matter.
Hi Rob
I have an iPhone 4, running ios 5.1.1.
Recently my battery performance has gone down significantly. I usually get at least a day and a half on a full charge. Maybe more. However over the last couple of weeks I'm lucky to get a day out of a charge. I wonder if it's caused by the new ios? I'd be interested to find out if anyone else is having the same problem. Regards
Paul M.
Hi Paul - it is likely do to an app you recently installed requiring location data - check to see if you see a purple triangle at the top on the right half of the iPhone. If so go into the settings and turn off location settings for all the apps you have that you don't feel need your location data. Actually do that even if you don't see the triangle. There are way to many apps asking for your location info - with the only reason being for ad networks.
FYI - a few of you sent in links to the Best buy page / flier showing that Verizon has lowered the price of the iPhone 4 to $49.99 - Ok - beyond what I said back in October - which was don't buy the iPhone 4 - just the 4S. What this reduction means and why I am mentioning it - it does seem to be something done to clear inventory. I was pretty much of the mindset the iPhone 2012 would not launch until mid to late October. But given the big drop off in iPhone sales last quarter - maybe a September launch is not out of the question now. And one indicator of an early launch would be when folks like Verizon and best buy and Radio shack start dropping prices. Thanks to those that sent in the emails on the lower price iPhone 4.
Back to the email bag.
Hi Rob - with the upcoming adidtion of VIP lists in iOS6 it got me thinking.
Why doesnt Apple colour code each of your mailboxes, so when viewing the Unified Inbox, you can see at a glance which email is allocated to the various email addresses i have.
My iPad currently has 6 email addresses, and the ability to link a colour or even a coloured icon on the email would make my workflow a lot simpler.
Appreciate your thoughts Rob
Thanks
Simmo (from New Zealand)
Great idea - Hopefully someone is listening in Cupertino - and if not there then a dev on the Jailbreak side hopefully is listening.
As always if you get a project you heard about here from Kickstarter - I highly encourage you to send in feedback on said projects when they finally ship. One product that just started shipping in the last two weeks is the Geode - that was the case with the finger print scanner and swipe card programmer - so you could make your swipe card look like any of your swipe cards - and this way you would not have to cary your credit cards, debit cards or any other rewards cards - well I have a couple of detailed reviews of the Geode - but since they are detailed and that means long - I will put them at the end of the episode today. So after the music at the end - stick around for the feedback on the Geode. Thanks Hector and Bob for your feedback.
Well Apple update the Podcasts App - and most of the update was to help bring more stability to the app - which you know is kind of important for an Apple App. It does appear to have worked - at lest for me with the new version of the podcasts app appearing to crash a lot less for me and pause a lot less. Still not instant access on launching - but much better.
Officially here is what changed / updated on the podcasts app.
- Significant improvements to performance and stability
- Podcasts in your library now show the number of unplayed episodes
- Top Stations now show the podcast title if artwork is missing
- Playback speed is now remembered when playing the next episode
- Fix for a problem where the Subscribe button is inactive
- Resolution of an issue where Top Stations artwork may not appear
I had the following email come in on the Podcasts App.
Hey, Rob,
I really like the podcast app after using it for just a couple days. One comment: I find it annoying that the latest episode is at the top of the list. I like the idea that one plays after another and I can keep my hands on the car's steering wheel, but I wish the order of the episodes could be reversed so last in would be the last played. Maybe
I just don't know how to do that yet.
Regards,
Frank Phillips
Hi Frank thanks for the email - yes you can do this.
Here is how you do it - Launch the Podcasts App and then make sure you are on the Library side - that is where you manage your podcast subscriptions. Select one of your podcasts - Then at the top right you will see an arrow pointing right - tap that - That brings you to the quote settings unquote screen. If you scroll down you will see the Options for Sort this podcast - just select oldest first. You may also want to change the number of episodes to keep - especially for a podcast with lots and lots of episodes. For example for Mac OS Ken - I set it to keep the last 5 episodes and sort oldest first. This way if one week I get behind I can go to the oldest episode at the top hit play and it will continue down the list. Frank I hope that helped you out.
Back to the email bag.
Good Morning Rob
It's about time the Apple Podcast App got an update! On the whole the app does appear more solid & a lot more stable but it's still very much, a work in progress.
There's still no Playlist or even Catalogue Grouping options or Push Notifications when new shows drop & more worryingly it would appear that the app WILL download new shows via 3G, there doesn't appear to be any options yet to download via WIFI only. This is a must when you only have 1 gig of data a month! Where is the app wide options? Why do I have to set up options for each individual podcast?
It's an improvement but still only a 2 star app, Downcast is still King.
Thanks for all you do
Cheers
Craig
Liverpool
Philip Elmer Dewitt over at fortune had a good article about Apples fight with the DOJ and the basic petty nature of the DOJ in this case. Look plain and simple - the US government is siding with Amazon who was basically in a monopolistic position when it came to ebooks. And well it is crazy. When public comments were allowed there was a 10 to 1 ratio of comments for apple vs the US Government. Heck even Chuck Schumer - the US senator from NY put up an op ed piece in the Wall Street Journal calling on the current administration to drop this case.
Any way this is a perfect example of the US Government backing a monopoly and hurting an industry that was already hurting.
Hopefully someone in Washington wakes up and drops this case. And kudos to Apple for not caving on this.
Into the email bag.
Hi Rob,
Since I upgraded to ios 6, beta 3, Siri does not work. Do you know if anyone else is experiencing the same thing?
Regards,
Steve Appleseed
St. Louis, Mo.
Hi Steve - Nope have not heard that from anyone else. Did you do a partial update over the air - or the full update via iTunes on the computer?
If anyone else out there is experiencing the same issue - please let us know.
206-666-6364 - that's 206-moon-dog.
More emails on iOS 6 beta 3.
Hi Rob,
iOS 6 beta 3 on my iPhone 4S seems better than it ever has been in the past!
Regards,
Kevin Appleseed.
Hi Rob,
Below is a picture of my New iPad (AT&T) in the Washington, DC metro area running the SpeedTest app.
I live close to Philadelphia and can't wait until LTE comes to my area.
Regards,
Walt D.
Hi Walt thanks for the photo which showed 19 MB down and 26.26 MB up. Nice - again folks if you have an LTE iPad run a speed test and let me know what you are seeing for upload and download speeds in your area.
Back to the email bag.
Hi Rob,
We Dutch and I think the French have a problem with the addressbook of the iPhone/Ipad.
Oure full names you can split in four parts instead of three.
Example:
Jan Pieter van der Zand
"Jan" is the first name
"Pieter" is the second name
"van de"
is the insert
and "Zand" is the last name
French example:
Jean Claud e la Monde
"Jean" (first name) "Claud" (second name) "de la" (insert) "Monde" (last name)
When we put the "insert" into the "last name" field, the names are sorted by the "insert".
When we put the insert into the "second name" field they seem to be sorted well but in web forms the "second name" is ignored, because some forms you have to enter the "insert and "last name" field.
On other sites you need to enter the "insert" seperately.
OK, I know you're not from Apple, but maybe you or some users with much better English can help to get the "insert" field in the iOS addressbook.
Regards,
Marcel van de Lindt
Apple has a new Siri commercial this one starring Martin Scorsese or as Siri calls him - Marty. I love the homage to Taxi Driver - as the whole commercial is out of the back of a NY Taxi. Interestingly I saw a couple of reviews of the commercial that stated most people would not know who Martin Scorsese is? Hmmm Really guess I am out of touch with the masses on this one. But I do love movies and am from NY originally.
We talked previously about a Russian hacker that figured out how to work around in app purchases so that you did not need to you know purchase them. Well that Hacker is reporting that in iOS 6 - Apple has a fix to the exploit he used. Apple also says iOS 6 will fix the issue and then gives advice to devs on what to do in the interim to patch their apps to prevent this.
This includes being allowed to use a previously restricted API.
If you are a dev and need more info on this - look for the link in the show notes for ep 234 titled - Apple says iOS 6 to fix in-app-purchase fraud
over at today in iOS dot com.
My son recently said to me and I paraphrase Dad you can have to much ice cream and you can have to much candy but you can never have too many toys. Oh such wisdom for such a young boy. Anyway I mention that because it appears with iOS 6 you can have too many toys or in this case apps. In the past you could only see 11 screens of apps - but you could have any amount you wanted on your iOS device - as long as you had enough storage for all the apps.
However in iOS 6 beta it seems there is a limit to the amount of toys we can have on the iOS device.
Essentially what is being reported is that when you have over 500 apps installed you will begin to experience slow booting issues. Exceed 1,000 apps and your iOS device won't even boot at all.
I know some of you in the past have emailed in or called in about having well over 500 apps and a couple of you reported over 1000 apps. If you are one of these people and you are running iOS 6 - please let us know what your experience has been.
Hi Rob,
I have photos and videos in events in iPhoto. I use iTunes to sync what events I want to my iDevices. Sometimes I want the videos in the events to be synced too, sometimes it depends on the event. I know the check box in iTunes that says "Include Videos" but that is a setting that is too large for me. Do you know of a way to choose which events sync photos AND videos, and then other events not sync the videos so it doesn't fill up my iDevices with videos of stuff that I don't want?
Thanks,
Drew K
Hi Drew I think you are SOL on this one - I do not know of a way to do this - but if anyone has any suggesting for Drew - Please let us know - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or email today in iOS at gmail dot com.
Hi Rob, as far as you know, is there any such limit specifically for photos on the iPad? I have read in several discussion forums that people experienced limits restricted to 16 GB regardless of whether they had a 32 or even 64 GB iPad? And these people supposedly had way more than enough available storage left in their iPads to accommodate the photos otherwise.
Regards, Ben
Hi Ben - I know of no such limit and was able to easily get over 16 GB of photos and movies on my iPads. However I did not have of 16 gb of just photos - so I will ask if anyone knows for sure that they have over 16 GB of photos on your iPad - let us know - call or email
Hi Rob,
About Olympic apps in Canada we have the CTV Olympic London
Regards,
Kevin
Hi Rob,
Do you know if I can have one iCloud account to two iPhones (me and my wife)?
I already backup my iPhone to iCloud since it doesn't backup to the computer and I want to backup her iPhone also to iCloud because her backup to computer stuck and doesn't manage to finish (me and my wife use different computers).
Thanks for your help
Alon
Hi Alon - Don't thank me - as I am not really sure. I will send this one out to the audience - For those of you that use iCloud for backing up your iOS devices - Can you send some advice for Alon.
206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog or send an email to today in iOS at gmail dot com.
Thanks to John for this next one. In the gee never saw this one coming category comes the story of a women that brought her iPhone into best buy and handed it over to a geek squad member. This women wanted the geek squad member to transfer hundreds of photos, numbers and contacts to her newly purchased iPhone. Now you can see the issue already - yup - in those photos there were racy photos and the geek squad member copied them to his computer and not her phone and then told her to come to his house if she wanted them back.
Folks - If you put racy photos of yourself on your phone and you give said phone to a stranger - a likely under sexed geek squad type person - ummm what did you think would happen. Ok in fairness his telling her to come to his place is way way way to creepy. In most cases all that happens is the photos wind up on some amateur porn site. And this case was way worse than that - but still it comes back to the original person handing over a device with racy photos - which you should never do.
Thanks to Tony for this next article - which is more a really really really long rant about iOS v Android from the perspective of a dev trying to make money. So if you are a dev and are thinking of crossing over and developing on the Android side - well you definitely want to check out this post - look for the one titled Closed for Business in the show notes for ep 234.
This next one has nothing to do with the iOS universe other than reminding you the grass is definitely not greener on the other side. It is a post from ZDNet about malware for Android - I know nothing special there - ton of that on the android side - but this one is funny from an iOS perspective because the malware is packaged with a legit copy of the opera browser. What does this malware do - well it sends international text messages which cost the user mucho denaro. As the article points out the first sign the user is infected with this malware is when they get their phone bill. But hey on the glass is half full side - here is an example of some devs making money on the Android. Just Sayin.
I often get down on reporters - be it for blogs or mainstream media for their lack of anything close to journalism 101 behavior. And this past week saw a great example of that when WPCentral reported the Surface Tablet prices would start at $1,000 - which lets face it - it just bat dung crazy - Say what you will about Balmer - but he ain't that dumb. But that did not stop a whole bunch of people on reporting it. I think the best article I read about this was from Ed Bot at ZDNet that really called out a few on this - and I just wanted to say kudos to Ed Bot for his article - Well done. Nice to see some sanity in a see of craziness this week.
In the Oh no they didn't category. Comes the following quote - quote Both PhoneArena and App4Phone, neither of which has a proven track record with pre-release iPhone rumors unquote - This is with regards to the latest rumor of Sept 21st for the iPhone 2012 launch. That quote was from wait for it wait for it - BGR. Yikes. Talking about people in glass houses throwing stones. If not for Digitimes BGR would have the worst track record on rumors. But for now they will have to just settle for second worst record. Just sayin.
Curious to see what some iPad and iPhone prototypes that were created and rejected by Apple look like - well normally you would never get to see said prototypes - unless one winds up on ebay - and then yanked shortly there after.
But thanks to Apple v Samsung - some photos of different iPhone and iPad prototypes have made the light of day - the Verge has a nice post showing a bunch of photos - which they got from the legal docs filed in the case. One has octagonal corners - kind of looks like something you would have seen in Battlestar galactica - and interestingly it had no doc connector. There are some others sans the home button. There is even a thinner iPhone barely wider than the 30 pin doc connector - Over all - it is pretty clear why many of these never made the cut. But still interesting to see none the less.
Into the email bag.
Hi Rob,
I noticed I had never submitted a review of the Tii app so I have corrected this oversight.
Perhaps you could mention that others should also write a review so they can post your rating for the most recent version.
Hi John - Well I think you just did mention it on the show - Thanks. Folks - if you have the Tii app and like it a positive review in iTunes would be great - if you don't like - then yeah - ummm - well we are working on it. But if you don't have the Tii App - it is just $2.99 in the App store and it is the best way to consume this show. Forget Instagram or the Podcasts App - only the Tii App gets you Push messages from me and only the Tii App lets you email or call in to the show directly from the app. Just search Tii in the App store.
As mentioned earlier - here is some of the feedback on the Geode Kickstarter project that just started shipping.
Hi, Rob -->
I backed the Geode on Kickstarter and got mine last week. Here's a very early review:
The Geode is an iPhone case that is supposed to be a digital wallet. It contains a card with a magnetic strip that can be configured to be all of the credit/debit cards you currently carry in your wallet. Additionally there is an e-ink window on the back that can display your so-called loyalty cards. Mine arrived late last week and I followed the instructions to download the app and let the app walk me through the setup. The setup was very well done. In putting the case on the phone, I noticed it didn't quite fit...there are two clam shell pieces that don't slide together as nicely as they did when there was no iPhone in the case. That left a small gap, but it doesn't seem to affect the operation.
I managed to get all of my debit/credit cards scanned in easily. They provide you with a small magnetic strip reader that temporarily attaches to the base and it works well. Likewise, using the phone's camera I was able to scan in my loyalty cards. There is a fingerprint scanner at the base of the unit and it works well. I scanned in my right thumb in setup and the scan seems to work every time. I tried to trick it using other fingers and it wouldn't let me into the app.
When I first tried to magnetize the Geode card I got an error message stating that there was no card in the slot. I contacted iCache and they got back to me immediately and FedEx'ed a new card, acknowledging the fact that some other users had a similar problem. The new card arrived today along with a $15 iTunes card for my troubles. Nice touch.
Now, here's the problem. The Geode card is thicker than a credit card. Today when I went to use it at an ATM it wouldn't fit! Not good. I'm sure it will swipe just fine at point of sale scanners, but not if you have to insert it into a slot. I haven't used the e-ink feature yet, but it appears that it should work. I'll let you know more soon, but I'm not sure if I'll be using the Geode much. From the time you launch the app and scan your fingerprint and the card is magnetized and the e-ink is updated takes about 25 seconds. I can pull a card from my wallet in 2-3 seconds. Additionally the 30-pin connector is swallowed up in the case, negating any peripherals such as the custom phone holder/charger on my dashboard. They give you a mini USB cord to charge without removing the Geode case, but that doesn't help much with peripherals, so I have to continuously put on and remove the Geode. Not sure how the plastic case will hold up to that.
I'll keep you posted. Hopefully they can address some of the issues that make the Geode not nearly as convenient as a wallet and actually unusable in some instances.
Regards,
-Bob Stewart
Hi Rob,
I received my Geode from Icache one week ahead of the scheduled delivery date and right of the bat I found an issue. I received a faulty card that would not activate and show a data error with card not found. It turns out that they had a few reports already so they are going to ship me a new card on Monday. The device seem great but the right side seam where the top and bottom meets does not like to stay flush not to much of a big deal but I wish it would get and stay together like the other side. I found that you can charge the phone with the geode on but you can’t sync via the micro usb, and being that the geode will always be on for most people you would figure they would find a way to make it sync with out having to remove the geode (Time for me to look into air sync). Overall I like the feel and look of the geode on my phone, it feel like it is more firmly and secured on my hand and I don’t feel like it's going to fly out of my hand at any minute.
The fingerprint feature it great, it allows you to setup more than one finger to be use with the geode. It is pretty sensitive, my thumb had a little dirt on it which I had wiped away with a cloth and it would not recognized my thumb until I washed my hand.
All buttons are easily accessible they did a good job with that. The barcode generator looks great but I have not had a chance to use it yet.
Battery, yes it does make your battery diminish a little quicker not too much so I don’t mind it but do expect a change in how long your battery last. It would be nice if in the future they came with a battery backup also but that could be little bulkier.
The geode software very nice, you can tell they took the time to plan all the extra details like the credit card images and they way they would display on the screen. The cards when generated get a color assigned to them and I wish there was a way to assign a color of your choice maybe in the next release that would be an option.
Well that's all I have for now I am liking the geode a lot.
Regards,
Hector From Auburn NY.
Hi Rob
Hector again, I found that the goede will sync via the micro usb connection. What I found is that it depends on the micro usb cable you use if it will sync. I have a few of those cables so opted for using one of my own instead of the one that came with the device, while using the phone I had a another cable at work which was from samsung and that showed the phone on the computer actively connected but I did not have itunes at work.. So once home I tried the cable included with the unit and we have sync, the cable is branded monoprice and I bough from them before but I wonder what is different able all this 3 cables. The samsung will connect but will bot do a full sync it will disconnect half way through and the other cable only charges while the one that came with the unit from monoprice will work just fine. Can this be a propertary thing where we have to get the cables from the makers of the geode? In any case I wait ti hear what others say about the geode.
Thanks Hector from auburn ny.
Hi Rob,
icache sent me two geode cards so far and my geode fried both of the cards so now I have 3 useless geode cards. They are going to ship me a hole new unit with a new geode card so lets see how this one works out. They sent me a 15 dollars Itunes gift card with every piece of mail they sent so far so I am very happy with support plus they responded with in hours every time you send them a message. Just trying to keep you in the loop on my geode experience.
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Hi rob
You can use the iphone on straight talk. To activate data you have to change the Apn. The easiest way i found was to be connected to wifi. After you insert the sim and activate your plan you open safari and head to unlockit.co.nz very simple sight and in 2-3 clicks you are all set with unlimited everything for $45 a month. On a jailbroken and software unlocked 3gs it took me around 15 mins total but imessage and mms(i think) do not work. Iphone 4 it was around 10 mins total and everything works perfectly. Those 2 phones save me ~$120 a month. Now I am waiting to get out of this stupid verizon contract and straight talk will have another customer. Please pass this info on to everyone that you can. If the big 3 notice enough people leaving maybe they will improve service instead of just raising prices.
Thanks
Dan
Aberdeen. Wa
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Here is a very quick summary of the latest quarterly numbers from Apple:
Rev = $35 Billion (up from $28.6 Billion in the year ago quarter)
Total Cash = $117.2 Billion (up $7 Billion for the quarter)
Last Quarter Sales
iPhones Sold = 26 Mil (vs 20.34 Mil year ago quarter and 35.1 Mil last quarter)
iPads Sold = 17 Mil (vs 9.25 Mil year ago quarter and 11.8 Mil last quarter)
iPod Touches Sold = Not given as usual but over half of the 6.8 Mil iPods sold
All iPod's Sold = 6.8 Mil (vs 7.5 Mil in the year ago quarter)
Misc Notes
Over 410 Mil iOS device sold to date.
Over 650,000 iOS Apps available in the App store.
Over 225,000 iPad Apps available in the App store.
iPhone is available at over 250 carriers world wide.
iPads for sale in 97 countries around the world.
Paid out over $5.5 Billion to Developers to date.
1.3 Mil Apple TV's sold last quarter and over 4 Mil combined the last 3 quarters.
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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.
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.
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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 consider Verizon 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.
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Direct download: tii_0232.mp3
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Hi Rob,
My Art made with HD wallpaper on iPhone… Cydia Tweak 'MakeMyPopUp' and my Sentiments.
Regards,
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Episode 232 - Transcript
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I need to do a big blog post on this next subject and will try to in the next week. This is with regards to a realization I had - or really more a clarity on the difference between iOS and Android. Simply put People get Android Phones to make phones calls - People get iPhones to do more than Phone calls. Obviously this is a generalization - there are some power users on the Android side just like there are those on the iOS side that never do anything more than make calls or text someone. The later type is my sister in laws sister - while at a party last week at my Brothers house She said about her iPhone she was thinking of getting rid of it and getting a cheeper phone because all she ever does with it is phone calls and text messages. And that kind of clicked everything into focus for me. Android users get the phones to make phone calls - iOS users get their phones to do more than phone calls. Here is some info to back up this generalization. First right now there are about 400 Million iOS and Android devices that have been activated all time - so the installed base is pretty much identical right now. Yet in June Mobile Web Traffic from all mobile devices including tablets was 65% iOS and just 20% for Android - or a 3.25 to 1 ratio. App downloads per user of iOS vs Android - 2 to 1 Ratio. Free Podcasts downloads to mobile devices there is a 10 to 1 ratio iOS to Android - 10 to 1 Yikes - and that was from data from April 1st to May 20th before the release of the Podcasts App - that ratio is going to get worse not better in the short term. A recent study by O2 in the UK found smartphone users spend about 2 hours a day using their smartphone but only 12 minutes is actually spent making calls. Text messaging was below that at 10 minutes. Above both of those use cases was Browsing the internet, Checking social networks, Playing games and listening to music. So again if iOS users are downloading 2x the number of Apps, spending 3.25 more time surfing the web and 10 times more time listening to podcasts - it seems Android users are getting their phones to make calls and iOS users are getting their phones to do much more than make phone calls - like say what you are doing right now - listening to this podcast. Just sayin
Are you an App dev? Is your app live in the iTunes App store - Do you have in app purchases in your app? Well if so you need to know that a russian hacker has figured how to get around in App purchases and it is something any user can do with out even jail breaking.
This takes advantage of any apps where the receipt verification of the in app purchase is not enabled. So if you app is not set up to verify store receipts it is vulnerable to this attack and vulnerable in iOS 3.x 4.x 5.x and iOS 6 beta.
There is a link in the show notes to an article titled iOS Hacker unlocks in-app purchases over at today in iOS dot com for ep 232 - If you are a dev with in app purchases you will want to check out this article.
Obviously - expect more - a lot more on this one in future episodes.
Into the email bag.
Hey rob just got done listing to your latest episode about how Tim made his book in iBooks author and he's looking for a way to port it to kindle fire and android well I use a program called hype html5 in the Mac app store for 49.99 it can be used to make iBooks or even html5 apps that can be converted to native iOS and android apps using phone gap that's how I make my apps
I hope this helps
Regards Chris DeBrodie
From Fulton mo
Hi Rob,
To the guy who called up about there being no music after upgrading to 5.1.1. I had a similar issue when I upgraded from ios 4 to ios 5, a note here is that the phone isn't jailbroken and never has been. So the issue could be caused my the iOS update itself. I found that when I allowed iTunes to load my music back up, everything was put on the phone but when you go to play it, nothing would happen.
My solution was to go into the music app on the iPhone and manually remove all songs, and then go to the iTunes app and then to the purchased section and bit the download button.
This will make the iPhone itself load the music up which solved the issue for me.
I don't think this is a jailbreak issue, it could be caused by upgrading from a non icloud iOS (4 and previous), to the new iCloud iOS (5+)
You could test this solution by just deleting one song and reloading it again through iTunes, if that songs then plays ok, problem solved.
Thanks for the podcast.
Gary
Hi Rob,
I just heard the caller who mentioned the issue with music under the 5.1.1 jailbreak. If you google you will find a lot of similar complaints. From what I read, the jailbreak causes a change in the way iOS indexes music and causes the music app to crash or malfunction. The solution is to re-jailbreak with absinthe, which means wipe and restore, and it doesn't always work.
I removed the jailbreak (redsn0w) from my phone because my music kept disappearing. I didn't want to take a chance that it wouldn't work so I didn't re-jailbreak.
Myron
Regarding the caller who wanted an app to play just the audio from YouTube. I just recently downloaded an app called Just Gobble which can do pretty much just that. I'm still kicking the tires on it but so far it seems to work pretty well.
Happy and safe driving!
Rhonda in Florida
This next story comes from insider sources at Apple - namely Simon Pope and Trudy Muller - That's who does their Press releases. Well according to Simon and Trudy on Friday July 20th the new iPad will make its way to main land china. All versions and colors will be available - if you are keeping track at home for colors that is black or white. Heck even the iPad 2 will be for sale.
For the new iPad according to Apple Reservation requests will be accepted daily from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. beginning Thursday, July 19 for pick up the following day.
Apple announced when their quarterly report would be and that is Tuesday July 24th at 5:00 PM ET / 2:00 PM PT. And since Apple has announced the call - the analysts are tripping over themselves to announce or update their numbers for apple wares. Charlie wolf from Needham's seems to have taken the dart out of the dart board put the blind fold back on and threw the dart one more time. How else do you explain his prediction for iPad sales for last quarter going from 13.5 Mil when he originally guessed at the numbers in April to 20 Mil when he updated his guess this past week. Ok He says he quote hastily formulated initial estimate unquote I think that is analyst speak for I pushed the dart to the right. But this time the dart hit right at 12 o'clock on the board.
Actually Charles tried to justify his new numbers by saying the 6.5 mil original shortfall was because he did not factor in the 12 nfl teams that would be using the iPads instead of play books or That the Polish Parliament and Dutch senate have substituted iPads for paper printouts or that Unites Airlines replaced paper pilot manuals with iPads. Because you know you can see how those quickly add up to 6.5 mil iPads last quarter. Seriously - those were some of the reasons Chuck gave for changing his numbers. He gave some others - but really he lost me at 12 NFL teams.
As an FYI - My prediction for iPad sales for last quarter is 18.75 Mil - I tend to be conservative low on these things - lets see how I did come July 24th. Per the other analysts - professionals had iPads sales last quarter between 12.68 Mil and Chuckies 20 mil. With an average of 15 Mil. The Non Professionals were between 17.70 Mil and 24 Mil - with an average guess of 19.96 Mil - Like I said I tend to be conservative low. FYI - if you just did a trend analysis prediction using the average increase year over year for the past 3 quarters and applied it for the last quarter it says 22.42 Mil iPads sold last quarter. So lets see if the trend line beats all the humans. FYI - the Trend line also says there will be 33.79 Mil iPhones sold last quarter. I am going to be a little more bullish than the trend line and say iPhone sales for last quarter were up slightly from the previous quarter at 35.5 Mil. I have not seen all the analysts predictions yet on that.
Again Apples quarterly call will be July 24th and I will put up a blog post right after or maybe even during the conf call plus I will send out a push.
Thanks to John for the heads up on this next one. Which actually could have all of use predicting good things for apple eating crow. It is a report from Wintek that their sales are plunging. Wintek is the maker of touch panels for iOS devices. So their announcement that june sales were down an unusually high 33.6 % month over month signals that either A they lost the design in for the iPhone 2012 or that B the current iPhones demand has fallen off the cliff. Come July 24th we will know if this was the one piece of info we should have looked at more carefully and sold our Apple stock - rather than being the greedy bastards we are holding on for it to hit $1,000.
No offense to Wintek but lets hope it is option A.
Per rumors out there about any early August release of the iPhone 2012 that more than a few sent in links on. Let me say this phrase from the site that created this story Quote A reliable industry source who wishes to remain anonymous unquote I think they lost me somewhere between reliable and industry. As such I will say this per the rumor of an August 7th keynote to announce the iPhone 2012 - ZERO repeat ZERO percent chance of this being accurate. I will not even dignify the site this rumor is attributed to with a link or a mention of their name.
Hi Rob,
I don't need to send you any 7" iPad rumor articles. :-) But, I do want to say that I would buy one for my mom in a heartbeat. If Apple does release one, i hope it has a true 720p display (1280x720). I badly wanted this resolution for the original iPad.
My mom has a 3rd gen iPod touch which she mainly uses for Facebook and email plus a few games. The screen is a tad small, though. The 9.7" would be too big and somewhat heavy for her. A 7" iPad would be perfect!
Benefits:
- Fit in a purse,
- Easier to read than iPod touch,
- Easier typing than iPod touch,
- Lighter weight than current iPad, and
- Cost less than current iPad, maybe $100 to $150 less.
I will keep using my new iPad.
Enjoy life!
Steven (in Houston)
Hey Rob, a few months ago on one of your podcast you explained how to reset the home button and I tried it and it calibrated and been working great. But now my home button isn't working again consistently. I wanted to reset it again but I looked on the app and searched but can't find what episode that was.
Do you remember what episode that was so I can listen to it again?
Regards,
Charlie
Charlie - that was ep 221 I had those instructions in - per recalibrating the home button.
Hey Rob,
I would love to be able to have specific voicemail messages assigned to specific numbers.
There are tons of uses for this, aside from obvious uses such as, dumping your girlfriend.
Regards Nicko
Hi Nicko - that would be a nice built in feature - but if you can't wait or if you do wait and it does not happen - there is alway YouMail - they have been doing that service / feature for the past 5 plus years.
Rob,
Here is a Kickstarter project called the Smarter Stand for iPad which gives owners of the iPad Smart cover/case a few new positions for viewing/using.
Regards,
Thomas
Tuscaloosa, AL
Hi Thomas - thanks for the heads up on this. This one had a goal of $10k - well done on keeping the goal low - and to date they have raised 90k - so this one is funded and if you want it - you have about 30 days to get your pledge in. August 13th at 8:10 AM ET is when this one ends. As per what it is exactly - well it is two basically tabs that when placed on the edge of the smart cover locks two sections of the cover in place so that hinge does not you know hinge. It is one of those things once you see it - you go damn why didn't I think of that. Anyway if you have a smart cover and are looking for some extra ways you can position the cover - this really is a good solution. And at $11 bucks right now for early bird special number 3 it will not break your bank.
Search for Smarter Stand at kickestarter. Or look for the link in the show notes for ep 232.
Thanks to John for the heads up on this next one from Kickstarter - and it is a very cool physical keyboard for the iPhone - actually there are two of them the Spike 1 and spike 2. Ok first they have a goal of $75k - and right now with about 28 days to go they are at $65k - so you know after mentioning them on the show that should push them over. Pricing for this product is kind of - ok really confusing - They have two products Spike 1 and Spike 2 as I mentioned and each has different price levels and future proof options - you really need a flow chart to figure out which one to pledge for. That said if you are someone that still can't let go of that need for a physical keyboard - no honey I am not talking about you - but I could be. Anyway if you are someone that still pines for that old Blackberry type physical keyboard then this product is for you - I watched the video and of the two options - Spike 1 and Spike 2 - I would only recommend spike 2. Spike 1 requires you to pull off the case and rotate it to get the keyboard full put away - that to me is way to big a pain in the butt to do. The Spike 2 the keyboard flips around from its storage position in the back and overlays the bottom of the screen for a nice typing experience. So fighting through the 18 different Pledging options - yes 18 different levels. Yikes. It looks like for the spike 2 the pricing is $50. Which for a case with a keyboard - that is a pretty good price. And it looks like looking at the pledges - it is the spike 2 that is getting all the pledges.
Search for Spike at Kickstarter for this one.
FYI - to those of you looking to do a kickstarter project - look at their pricing options on this one and learn what not to do.
Don't get me wrong this looks like a great product and I am thinking of getting it for my wife for Christmas for our extra iPhone again not saying she is hung up on the physical keyboard or anything. But guys come on don't make it so confusing on the pricing options.
Thanks to Levi for the heads up on this next one. Which is one more Kickstarter project for this week. This one is called the Gamedock for iPhone, iPad and iPod devices - yikes sounds like they stole the name from my listing in iTunes for this show. Just sayin. Anyway - this project is at 70% of its pledge goal - which is a goal of $50k - and they have $35k and change. This project runs until August 16th at 10:56 PM ET - so you have some time on this. From the description quote Just plug the dock into your TV like a video game console and your iOS device into the dock like a game cartridge. The GameDock is designed to be compatible with existing iCade games and for dock-ready games that include two-player support and full 1080p HDTV output. unquote.
This one is definitely for the more serious or retro serious gamer - pricing is $150 - that gets you The GameDock plus two retro USB controllers and an HDMI Adapter. And also you get a bundle of games.
If you are a gamer search for GameDock at Kickstarter or just look in the show notes for ep 232 over at today in iOS dot come.
Good luck guys on this one.
On a past episode we mentioned the Kickstarter project TouchFire - word is they are now finally shipping those. If you got one please send in your thoughts of this product - please as always be brutal tells us what you liked and did not like about this product or any other you get from kickstarter.
Thanks to all that sent in this next one. Actually when I saw the first email come in on this I moved it to the do not use folder and then I got about 5 or 6 more come in right after that. So you guys win. This is a story about the Opus Hotel in Vancouver Canada. What they did was pull out all the old in room land line phones and replace them with iPhones. If you are a guest you then get to take the iPhone with you around town so you can make local calls at no extra charge. This is great for those traveling into canada from another country - no need to use your phone to make local calls. They do state all personal data and info on the phone is wiped clean after the customer checks out. Still if you start Sexting with someone using that number - and then the next person gets the phone - they may be in for a surprise when they get a text to that number.
The Olympics are just around the corner - and normally unless you are actually there you wind up missing out on a lot of the great events and drama like say Badminton - but good news because for this olympics you will not need to travel to London to see all the badminton action - See NBC just released an app - the NBC Olympics Live Extra app
And this app appears to be more exciting than a hairpin net shot - this app will allow you to watch all the events unfold - including Badminton.
- Not that anyone really has a shuttle cocks chance in heck of beating Super Dan. But still being able to see the drama unfold as Wei and Yihan battle it out for silver - well that gives me goose bumps faster than a well place drop shot. Personally I will be rooting on Denmarks Peter Gade for that silver metal.
Anyway the app does require you to have a cable or satellite provider of TV content to work - and that means for me with Surewest I need to set up an account - so don't wait until the last minute get the app now and get everything set up ahead of time or else you may miss one of those classic wood shots you see in the early rounds.
Hello Today in IOS.
I am a listener from Denmark (Europe-Scandinavia)
I make a weekly video & audio podcast About iOS and Apple in Danish.
One question I get all the time maby you can help me, Do you know when iTunes Macth come to Denmark?
Charliey Desezar
Hi Charliey - I have not heard anything on that and likely it will not be announce until right before it is ready - but if anyone knows an answer on this please let us know.
Hi Rob,
Was listening to you talking about the new Apple Podcast app and I got to wondering... By Apple removing the podcast feature from the built-in music app and moving it to a dedicated app that people must download, won't that actually "lower" the visibility of podcasts? I mean how many average users will actually download the app? Every iOs user had the music app by default.
Dan Tivadar
Good question - I hope to get an answer on that shortly. But that is something I worry about - I am hoping the Podcasts App becomes one of those pre-installed you can't delete even if you want to apps and not something you need to install manually.
I am optimistic it is the former and not the later since you now get the pop up in iOS 6 that say Podcasts have moved in the music app. But I have been optimistic about other things in the past that left me with the sad trombone feeling.
Staying with this theme.
Rob, if they remove podcasts from the music app will that affect my ability to get podcasts on my gen5 iPod? Doesn't seem to have updated them this last time I sync'd. :-(
Laurie B
iPhone 4S
Actually on iOS 5.x the podcasts stay in the Music app and the Podcasts app - it is not until iOS 6 that when you install the podcasts app does all your podcasts get removed and moved to the podcasts app only.
Hi Rob,
I just tried the new podcast app and discovered something
disappointing. When using the dock connector to send to a TV set it does not appear to send the video only the audio. The same podcast when played with the video app does send both video and audio. sad face
Regards,
Jeff
Jeff thanks for the heads up - please note word is the Podcasts App is not finished - as I said before think of the app as in beta right now and once iOS 6 launches at gold master - that is when it becomes a 1.0 app.
Hello Rob,
I just wanted to ask your opinion on which is the official and or best iPhone/iPad app for Craigslist? There are quite a few of them in the app store and from the reviews it's not clear which one is the official or best to use via mobile devices.
Thanks for your time!
Mike Sunnyvale, Ca.
I mentioned Navigon's sale previously on the show - well now Mapquest has done them one better by offering a FREE app with turn by turn navigation for the iPhone. One downside to the Mapquest App vs navigon - is with navigon the maps are on the phone as part of the app - but with Mapquest - you need a data connection to keep pulling in info for the map.
But on the plus side did we mention it was free - as in zero dot zero cents - and that does include voice navigation - which is not repeat not a paid upgrade like some other apps do.
Happy 4th of July Rob,
With many getting ready to sell their old iOS devices with the release of the new iPhone
(and yes, that is what it will officially be called) this caught my eye (even though I'm not
a Grindr or a Blendr user).
Any thoughts about this? Does the Tii Podcast app use the UDID? Just 'askin'.
Regards
John
And what John is referring to is that some apps use your UDID info for identifying the user - something Apple has shunned for some time. One of those apps that did this is the app Grindr. See really it is about advertisers here and that Ad networks were using the UDID info to figure out some sort of profile for the user so they could better target ads to that user. So if the original own of the iPhone in this case was inclined to use the grindr app quite a bit - and the adnetworks knew that - then when the user went to other apps with with banner ads from the network the user would see ads for things that would appeal to a someone that likes the content of the grinder app. Now say that person sells his iPhone to gazelle and some well intentioned grandchild buys that iPhone for grandma in IOWA and she hits an app which is part of the ad network - she might be wondering why she is getting ads for gay dating sites. And that is what people are trying to say could happen and what is the issue. Of course grandmas iPhone could end up in the hands of a gay 25 year old and he would be stuck seeing ads for murder she wrote DVD collections or Joyce Myer books - so I guess it is equally shocking when UDID cross from one spectrum to the other in society.
I would assume that quickly the ad network algorithms will adjust. But if you are getting your kids used iPhones - you might want to double and triple check the parental controls.
Apple has had a little bit of an issue lately with some app upgrades crashing upon install - This included Instapaper and Angry Birds Space and well anything that effects the Angry bird empire has to be taken seriously. Actually it was Marco creator of Instappaper that brought this issue to the publics eye and Apples did acknowledge the problem and is working with devs to fix the issue. So if you have an app you recently updated and it is crashing when you try to launch it - well you are not alone.
The solution if you do have one of those apps is to try to update that app - do not do the delete and re-install - but rather do the update. That is if that app has been fixed.
Hi Rob,
Cydia app, browser changer, defaults my iPhone to chrome nicely.
Regards,
Serge
Hi Rob
Here's a question for you or your listeners:
Do you know of an iPad app that allows you to not only annotate PDFs but also insert and or append blank pages (like PDF Annotator for Windows) that will allow me to do this?
If you or your listeners cannot help me I will be forced to buy a tablet Windows PC and my Windows-free life will be over. It will be a very dark day ;)
Please help!!!
Regards,
Danielle
Pemberton, BC, Canada
Hi Danielle - I am going to say this one will be answered by the listeners - as I do not know of an app for the iPad that allows for adding in blank pages into a pdf doc - but hopefully someone listening does. Please folks Help Danielle from going over to the dark side.
Last episode I did an interview with Tim Street on his iBook VIDS - which is just for the iPad running iOS 5.x or later. But one thing I did not play after the interview was the trailer - here it is.
Hi Rob. Got Octopus Keyboard Jailbreak Tweak and it Works great. Using it as I type this.
Regards,
Chris
Chris Thanks for the heads up on that. The Octopus Jailbreak tweak is one that is supposed to imitate the Blackberry 10 keyboard - so you can actually play with that keyboard you know 8 to 9 months before blackberry users. This is a pay for tweak and costs you $4.99
There is an article at AppAdvice that Chris sent that has more info on the repository you need to add to get this. Link of course in the show notes.
Ok for all the unlockers out there - well unofficial unlockers that is - the Dev Team put up a post on July 4th talking about Redsnow 0.9.14b2 - and how it improves the baseband downgrades for the iPhone 3G and 3GS. If this is something you have been looking for - check the link titled Dev Team blog - Baseband freedom in the show notes.
Category: vip_Artwork
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Thu, 12 July 2012
Is there any easy way to tell which wall and car chargers will work with iPods, iPhones, and iPads?
I know I have a few older devices (for my old iPod), which came out BEFORE the iPhone, that won't work on an iPhone or an iPad, so I have buried them deep in my old computer hardware closet.
But recently I purchased a charger for my car outlet, which works fine on my iPhone, but when I plug in my iPad on the road the device specifically tells me "not charging." Similarly, the real small wall charger from Apple (the model they recalled a couple years ago) seems to be able to charge the iPhone but not the iPad, while somewhat larger plug the cord into the charger at one end and into the iDevice at the other end doohickeys will work on both (this may be a simple case of size matters).
Also, the connecting cords themselves seem to vary quite a bit. Of course, they vary in length, but that's not all. Some of these have thicker wires, others thinner; some have release buttons on the sides of the large end, others don't. Almost all (but not all) have a USB icon on the USB end and an icon of a thin rectangle with a line in the middle at the large end.
On eBay and sites that sell accessories and gadgets, sometimes they say specifically what their charger and connector will charge, other times they don't.
I'm a pathologist by profession, so I make my living looking at stuff (admittedly most of the time through a microscope) and predicting how it will act, but on this subject I'm not a good prognosticator. Can you help me improve my diagnostic skills.
Thanks,
Gil
Hi Gil,
For the usb charger to work with the iPad's - you need to have a 10W USB charger.
And by work - what I mean is it will charge the iPad while it is being used.
When you see the message "not charging" that really means it is not charging while it is running.
It will still charge the iPad when it is asleep - albeit at a much slower rate than the iPad's own 10W charger.
Regards,
Rob W
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Thu, 5 July 2012
Hi Rob,
I've finally decided to give sprint the boot because of my horrible service on my 4s. AT&T is really the only other option around my neck of the woods (rural Oklahoma). My question is whether i should wait the few months for the new iPhone or get another 4s and not be able to upgrade for 2 years. It looks like the 4s will be fully compatible with io6 so the only other real difference i can see is if the new iphone will be LTE enabled. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Adrian
Hi Adrian,
I would look to see what LTE looks like in your area - some areas LTE is better than others.
If possible you may want to wait as you are this close.
In your shoes - I probably would hold on to the Sprint phone until the new iPhone is launched and then jump to AT&T.
While it may look like the iPhone 4S is fully compatible with iOS 6 - the iPhone 4 looked fully compatible with iOS 5 at this time last year - then the iPhone 4S came out with Siri - and the iPhone 4 did not look quite as good anymore.
Regards,
Rob W
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Wed, 4 July 2012
Direct download: tii_0231.mp3
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Wed, 4 July 2012
Hi Rob,
I am no artist but the iPhone has allowed me to channel what little artistic flair that I have. I like to experiment with the multitude of available camera and photo editing apps in the IOS app universe.
The photos that I am sent employed Instagram and so many other apps that I lost track of what they were.
Regards,
Matt, Winston Salem NC
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Episode 231 - Transcript
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Into the email bag.
Hi Rob
You can add non-Apple approved podcasts into the Podcasts App by pasting the feed into the search field.
Regards,
Marcel
Hi Marcel - Thanks so much for the heads up on that - and testing on versions running on iOS 5.1.1 and iOS 6 Beta 2 - did confirm that you can manually add in any RSS feed. To do so you ned to be on the library side of the Podcasts App - which you know you are because it says Catalog in the upper left. Tap on the Podcasts tab in the lower left. Then enter in the RSS feed into the search box and tap search. The app will give you a pop up box that says - Subscribe to Podcast Question mark - with the options to tap on cancel or subscribe.
So it is great to see that apple is not keeping users from adding in any podcasts feeds that might not be in iTunes for what ever reason. But more importantly if you are a podcaster and launching a new show - this is a way to manually subscribe to a podcasts to test the feed - prior to submitting to iTunes. Or if you have a private RSS feed you did not want in iTunes - but want your employees to listen to - they can now manually subscribe. Or in the case of Podio books - you can use one of their custom RSS feeds. Again Marcel - thanks for the heads up on this.
One issue with the Podcasts app that is showing up is that if you are visiting a web site and you see the iTunes link for a podcast and you click on that link - thinking it would subscribe you to that podcast - nope you would be wrong. You need to find the RSS feed link - so for example on Today in iOS dot come website - there are three buttons for subscribing toward the upper right of the site. The first with the curvy lines - that is the RSS feed link and it is the Feedburner feed URL for the show - the second button is the iTunes store page URL - and the last is the zune URL. Before if you wanted to subscribe in iTunes you clicked on that iTunes link - which still works from a desktop or laptop computer. But if you click on that with an iOS device and the Podcasts app installed - you get a pop up that says open this page in Podcasts Question mark. With the option to tap cancel or open. If you tap Open which is the path most will take - it then launches the Podcasts App and give you a pop up that says Subscribe to Podcast question mark. It shows the URL - which in this case is itms-podcast://itunes.apple.com and a bunch of more stuff. And then you have the options to tap cancel or subscribe. Again tapping subscribe is the path most will take. To which they would then see the message - Unable to subscribe. The provided link is not a valid podcast. and then a button that says OK - oh sure now you have no options. I see how it is apple. Anyway - for now if you want to subscribe to a show when you visit their site with a browser on your iOS device - you would need to tap on the RSS feed URL - not the iTunes URL. Tapping on the RSS button on my site does get you subscribed to the show. Hopefully Apple will fix the app so it continues to work with the iTunes store feed URL.
Into the email bag.
First up some more feedback on the Podcasts App.
Hi Rob,
I Would like to say I think the new Apple app is great, the forward 30 second feature is great, but, it's slow & unresponsive at times. I'm starting to think Apple is treating us like Beta testers.
Regards,
Michael
Hi Rob.
Episode 229 made reference to a group email app called "Mailshot". In episode 230 it it was referenced again suggesting a free app called groupmessenger instead. While Mailshot is not free it does have a free version that limits you to 5 small groups to check it out.
I tried groupmessenger and it's ok but it is nowhere near as capable as Mailshot and it is drop dead simple to use. I've been using it for months and it is fantastic. As an aside I emailed the developer a couple of times and the support I got from him was unbelievable.
Safe to say that I love this program and if you do group emails from the iPad, then this is for you!
Regards
Bob (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
Hi Rob
In response to the caller re a way to 'push things to her phone' ..
I use the "I-Pusher" app but you need to use firefox. Basically you are able to right click on an image, a link or a file in the firefox browser on your PC and send it to this app which is installed on your phone..
Hope that is of help..
Tash
I want to thank today's sponsor which is Audible. If you go to audible podcast dot com forward slash today in iPhone - you can get a free audio book of your choosing.
Audible is the internets leading provider of audio books - with over 100,000 titles to choose from. As you may recall I am we bit partial to PHilip K Dick novels - the audio versions of which I listened to when I used to commute 8 hrs each way at least every other weekend when I moved from CT to Erie PA. So Audible is the savior of many a road warrior. But rather mention all of the PKD books I thought I would see who wins the iPhone / Android war at Audible - And a search for iPhone had 4 results - while a search for Android came up with 6. But actually none had anything to do with Googles android - there was How to Build an Android the true story of Philip K Dicks Robotic Resurrection, And of course Do Android dream of Electic sheep from which Blade runner came from. There was also Dr. Who's The Androids of Tara. Actually a search for doctor who resulted in 193 hits. If you like Sci-Fi or really any other genre - Audible has you covered - and if say you wanted to get Doctor who's the Androids of Tara - well you could do so on us by going to audible podcast dot com / today in iPhone - thats audible podcast dot com / today in iPhone for your free audio book download - offer good to just those in the US and Canada. Thanks Audible for sponsoring the show.
Remember that Apple v Proview fight over the name iPad - and how Proview accused Apple into tricking it into selling the name or that the division of preview that sold the iPad name did not have the right to sell it - depending on what argument Proview was using on that specific day. Well it seems the fight is over with Apple shelling out 60 Mil to make this headache go away. While that is a far cry from the 1+ billion that Proview was asking for - it is significantly higher than the original $55k Apple thought they had legally purchased the naming rights for. As in most of these cases - the real winner was the lawyers - as Proview really is not a company anymore - as it goes through bankruptcy.
Hi Rob,
Here are my findings for LTE & 4G speed test in downtown Knoxville, TN Sat 6/30 on the 12th floor of the Crown Plaza.
New iPad showing AT&T LTE, three test run average.
14.590 Mbps download
2.987 Mbps upload
iPhone 4s showing AT&T 4G, three test run average.
3.663 Mbps download
1.219 Mbps upload
Regards,
Thomas
Tuscaloosa AL
Ok this next one is a kickstarter project - it already hit its goal of $5,000 - way to go guys on keeping the goal low. And I mention this one as it is a cool looking iPad cover called the origami slate case. Three words. It will close funding on July 8th at 7:39 AM ET - so get on this quickly if you want it. As I said this is a cool looking case that per its name offers a neat way of folding the cover. This will cost you $39 for the case. Again search for Origami slate case at kickstarter dot com - or look for the link in the show notes for ep 231.
And here is one Kickstarter project that has not hit its goal. It is called the Tablift - t a b l i f t - This is a stand for the iPad when you can use in bed or on your lap or on a table - it is a very cool solution for using on a coach or in bed. And it is portable so you can take it with you. They currently have raised over $40k toward their goal of $78K - so they are over halfway there. Their funding ends on Jul 12th at 8:04 PM ET - so if you have an iPad - Any of the three versions and you like to use it in bed or on the coach - this could be a good solution for you - at a min check out the video. Pricing on this is set at $60 for the black one or $65 for the all white version. Guys good luck on this.
Rob,
I know you don't use Chrome. But new iPhone Chrome comes with its own keyboard format. This Tweak ChromeURL sets back the Safari Keyboard using Chrome.
Try out the Chrome Browser. It's number one for a reason.
Oh, thanks for the mention as always.
Chris in London
From the email bag.
Hi Rob,
I heard of a jailbreak app, that when trying to shutoff the iPhone/iPad,
asks for your pass code. This would be great since thieves have to do is
shut it off and renders find my iPhone useless.
Why didn't apple think of this!
Regards,
Kevin
Hi Kevin - I agree - a passcode to turn it off would be a nice feature - especially if you are like me and have your iPhone to never go to sleep. Just wonder how long it would be before the crooks started to invest in faraday bags and cages.
Hi Rob,
Been having a few issues. With my Slide to unlock. Sometimes it takes several strokes to unlock.
So found a great App/Mod/Tweak called Move2unlock. In Cydia $0.99
Lots of settings
Adjust ammount of movement
Hide Clock
Add clock to status bar
Animations
Translucent effect
Two finger Vault
And more
Does not interfere with zephyr animations after.
Fixed my issue. Worth a Try.
Just Saying.
Chris in London
Thanks to tash for the heads up on the update and price reduction of the Navigon App. The update includes an in app purchase for Navigon cockpit which gives you info like speed along with G-forces and horizontal and vertical position. Also included is a dedicated off-road screen with compass and altitude info. Right now the Navigon cockpit in app is priced at $3.99 - but will go up to $5.99 after July 16th. The price of the Navigon app is also on sale at $29.99 down from $49.99 which will again be the price after July 16th - that is the price for the whole US version. You can get a regional version for $19.99. Any way those whose iPhones will not be getting turn by turn with iOS 6 or just can't wait for iOS 6 - can get Navigon to fill that need for you.
Interview with Tim Street
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Hi Rob
You can add non-Apple approved podcasts into the Podcasts App by pasting the feed into the search field.
Regards,
Marcel
Hi Marcel - Thanks so much for the heads up on that - and testing on versions running on iOS 5.1.1 and iOS 6 Beta 2 - did confirm that you can manually add in any RSS feed. To do so you ned to be on the library side of the Podcasts App - which you know you are because it says Catalog in the upper left. Tap on the Podcasts tab in the lower left. Then enter in the RSS feed into the search box and tap search. The app will give you a pop up box that says - Subscribe to Podcast Question mark - with the options to tap on cancel or subscribe.
So it is great to see that apple is not keeping users from adding in any podcasts feeds that might not be in iTunes for what ever reason. But more importantly if you are a podcaster and launching a new show - this is a way to manually subscribe to a podcasts to test the feed - prior to submitting to iTunes. Or if you have a private RSS feed you did not want in iTunes - but want say your employees to listen to - they can not manually subscribe. Or in the case of Podio books - you can use one of their custom RSS feeds.
Again Marcel - thanks for the heads up on this.
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