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Philp Dewitt over at Fortune has pulled together 60 anal-ists guesses on what they think the iPhone will have done in sales last quarter - which ranges from a low of 21 Million to a high of 32.3 Mil. There really was no consensus of iPhone sales this time with guesses looking evenly spread out all over the place. The average of the 60 Anal-ists was 26.5 Mil.
Per my Predictions - well I am not guessing but simply taking the Verizon numbers - per what they sold of the iPhone 4 and 4s - which was 2.5 Mil last quarter vs 2.7 Mil the quarter before - and I am multiplying that ratio by 26 mil - which is how many iPhones sold the quarter before last and then adding the 5 Mil iphone 5's we know apple sold last quarter to come to a number of 29 Mil iPhones sold last quarter. I am looking at Verizon's drop of iPhone 4's and 4S's to be indicative overall of the iPhone market globally which is a big assumption - If it is that the Actual iPhone sales are higher than 29 Mil - I think it is good news for Apple - if it is lower - it is bad news - in my opinion - how far above or below that number will indicate how wild a ride the Apple stock price will go on over the next few weeks. Of course we shall see on Thursday what the real numbers are - I will send out a push message and put up a post on Today in iOS dot com on Thursday after Apple announces all their financial goodies. Might be late Thursday as I will be in Pittsburgh for business starting on Thursday. So not sure when I will have access to the quarterly conference call. Regardless - if you are one of those that is into Apple numbers - I will get something up hopefully with a little commentary as well on Thursday evening.
There is article over at Fastcompany - where they talk to a Dell exec - and normally these are like gold for the show. I mean Dell execs and quotes for my how wrong were they segment are like peanut butter and chocolate - this time it was with SVP of Corporate Strategy - David Johnson - and I have to say - he actually made a lot of sense and was very forthcoming - So a kudos to David Johnson - not often you get to read quotes from someone at Dell that are full of common sense and logical insight and don't appear their head is buried in the sand or somewhere else. Just felt compelled to say Kudos this time - given all the times in the past I had fun on this show at Dells expense with one of their quotes.
I saw a few headlines about the Jailbreak hacker - comex - who had gone to work for Apple a year ago - being no longer employed by Apple and I was like - Yeah - He is back in the game - working on a new jailbreak - and then I read some of the articles - and quick sad trombone was played. Whattt whattt waaaa - Seems He is more interested in going to college at Brown University and you know concentrating on his classes then he is in working on a jailbreak for iOS 6. Geeze - kids these days what is the world coming to when an ivy league education takes precedence over hacking iOS. If you want to read more about Nicholas Allegra - aka Comex - there is a really good article on Forbes by Andy Greegberg titled iPhone Uber-Hacker Comex is out at Apple - link in the show notes for ep 245 over at today in iOS dot com.
Into the Email bag.
Hi Rob!
Just wanted to say I just got the tii ios app and its great. Much more intuitive to use than the podcast app for downloading and listening to your show. I couldn't help noticing the stars look like little yellow Captain America shields as the podcasts download.
I've been going through the back episodes and downloading the ones that came out around all the iPhone launches, just to see how far the phone has come in terms of features, hardware, popularity, etc. I have had every iPhone except the 4S. I will be getting the iPhone 5 soon. Oh,by the way, I think it should've been called the iPhone 6 as well.
Regards,
Jim
Hi Jim - Thanks for the kind words and for supporting the show - Folks if you would like to support the show - you too can purchase the Tii - App for just $2.99 from the App store - As Jim mentioned it is the best way to consume this show on your iOS device and a much better UI than the Podcasts App. Plus it will not cause you to use up all your data usage in a month. Just sayin.
Hi Rob,
thanks for the push. Just bought $200 worth.
Regards,
Don G
What is Don G talking about - Well with the Tii App you also get Push notifications and Yesterday I sent one out about the $50 iTunes gift card at Best Buy dot com for just $40 for just Yesterday - so he saved more than the price of the app on that one push - actually he save many times the price of the App. Just search for the Tii App in the App store and thanks for supporting the show.
PLAY FEEDBACK ABOUT SHORTCUT
G'day Rob,
A gentleman mentioned last episode that when he used eMail addresses through a shortcut, the websites rejected them. After you type your shortcut and the address appears, press the delete button to remove the space that appeared after your shortcut worked. This should be what causes the address not to be recognised.
Thanks,
Ian
Thanks Ian - and everyone else that sent in that tip - there were a lot of you on that one.
Hi Rob,
To the listener that was talking to apple and they said it was meant to rattle.
My iPhone 5 had that rattle too, so I googled iPhone 5 rattle and saw reports of the battery coming loose and apple store swapping it out. I made appointment at local store. My genius opened it up and sure enough loose battery. He swapped it out for a new one. No rattle on this one. So listener go see a genius it's not meant to rattle.
Cheers
Marcus
Australia
Hi Rob,
Just discovered a really cool new feature in the Find my iPhone app. When you tap on a device to show it on the map, an icon in the upper-right shows you it remaining battery. It doesn't look like you need iOS 6 on the device to do that since it worked for my original iPad, which isn't supported by iOS 6.
Lou V
Hi Rob,
I have an app for the New Zealander who needed another music player app to check out.
It's called "SoundHound". I think it's free. It's like schzam, i.e. for finding music, but has easy access to my iTunes library and basically the same controls as the iPod in the phone.
The other recommendation I have is the audible audio books app for listening to audio books. It can see the books you have in iTunes and play them just as well an audible audio book.
Regards,
- Jessi D
Hi Rob,
So, for audiobooks I use BOOKMARK, which not only ONLY lists audiobooks stored on my iphone, allows me to add book marks, keeps my place, and has a sleep timer. It's basic and it's great.
One point I thought of concerning iphone theft: I put a passcode lock with the "10 time and it erases setting" ON.
If someone steals my phone, I'm FAR less concerned about the phone itself than I am about my data, emails, phone numbers etc.
As far as I'm concerned, the phone can automatically erase itself and leave the thieves with an new phone, as long as they don't have my data.
Regards,
Dennis C
Hello Rob,
Instead of finding an app to play music I suggest your listener could use either the Audible app which is free and which allows him to also play books from his music library from the Audible app.
Alternatively, he can spend a couple of Dollars and buy an app called Bookmark and this also allows him to play audio books he synced to his iPhone via iTunes and the app remembers the playback position.
Lastly, I would suggest also that he checks how the books are synced and whether they show up in the Audio Books category under “More” in the music app or whether they just show up like all the rest of his music. If the latter is the case this can be easily fixed. Once the books are in iTunes on the computer, select all the files from a book, then right click and click on “Get Info”. Select the “Options” tab and make sure Media Kind is set to “Audio Book” and not to “Music”. As soon as this is done the books will appear in the Books library in iTunes and not in the music library and if he plays these books on his iPhone the music app will remember the playback position for a particular book exactly where he left off even if you completely turn off the phone or listen to music or another book in between.
Regards,
Sieghard
PLAY FEEDBACK ABOUT SHORTCUT
G'day Rob,
A gentleman mentioned last episode that when he used eMail addresses through a shortcut, the websites rejected them. After you type your shortcut and the address appears, press the delete button to remove the space that appeared after your shortcut worked. This should be what causes the address not to be recognised.
Thanks,
Ian
Thanks Ian - and everyone else that sent in that tip - there were a lot of you on that one.
Hi Rob,
To the listener that was talking to apple and they said it was meant to rattle.
My iPhone 5 had that rattle too, so I googled iPhone 5 rattle and saw reports of the battery coming loose and apple store swapping it out. I made appointment at local store. My genius opened it up and sure enough loose battery. He swapped it out for a new one. No rattle on this one. So listener go see a genius it's not meant to rattle.
Cheers
Marcus
Australia
Hi Rob,
Just discovered a really cool new feature in the Find my iPhone app. When you tap on a device to show it on the map, an icon in the upper-right shows you it remaining battery. It doesn't look like you need iOS 6 on the device to do that since it worked for my original iPad, which isn't supported by iOS 6.
Lou V
Hi Rob,
I have an app for the New Zealander who needed another music player app to check out.
It's called "SoundHound". I think it's free. It's like schzam, i.e. for finding music, but has easy access to my iTunes library and basically the same controls as the iPod in the phone.
The other recommendation I have is the audible audio books app for listening to audio books. It can see the books you have in iTunes and play them just as well an audible audio book.
Regards,
- Jessi D
Hi Rob,
So, for audiobooks I use BOOKMARK, which not only ONLY lists audiobooks stored on my iphone, allows me to add book marks, keeps my place, and has a sleep timer. It's basic and it's great.
One point I thought of concerning iphone theft: I put a passcode lock with the "10 time and it erases setting" ON.
If someone steals my phone, I'm FAR less concerned about the phone itself than I am about my data, emails, phone numbers etc.
As far as I'm concerned, the phone can automatically erase itself and leave the thieves with an new phone, as long as they don't have my data.
Regards,
Dennis C
Hello Rob,
Instead of finding an app to play music I suggest your listener could use either the Audible app which is free and which allows him to also play books from his music library from the Audible app.
Alternatively, he can spend a couple of Dollars and buy an app called Bookmark and this also allows him to play audio books he synced to his iPhone via iTunes and the app remembers the playback position.
Lastly, I would suggest also that he checks how the books are synced and whether they show up in the Audio Books category under “More” in the music app or whether they just show up like all the rest of his music. If the latter is the case this can be easily fixed. Once the books are in iTunes on the computer, select all the files from a book, then right click and click on “Get Info”. Select the “Options” tab and make sure Media Kind is set to “Audio Book” and not to “Music”. As soon as this is done the books will appear in the Books library in iTunes and not in the music library and if he plays these books on his iPhone the music app will remember the playback position for a particular book exactly where he left off even if you completely turn off the phone or listen to music or another book in between.
Regards,
Sieghard
From the could have seen that one coming even in the middle of the night with video shot from an iPhone 3GS - there comes news that Apple is cutting back - has been cutting back in their orders of iPhone and iPad screens from Samsung. Shocker. Oh and can you believe this - they are also cutting back on orders of some memory chips from Samsung as well. It is almost as if you know the two companies are no longer buddies and locked in some epic legal courtroom death match. While Samsung claims in some comments not care about the cutbacks saying they are shifting manufacturing capacity to their own internal needs - from a basic accounting perspective - this is bad news for Samsung - it is always great to have an external customer to help cover your fixed costs of you manufacturing line - thus bringing down the overall costs for manufacturing for components you will use internally. And Apple was not just any customer to Samsung - Apple was Samsung's largest external customer. They can say all they want about shifting capacity to their own needs - reality is this will hurt Samsung's bottom line - will be interesting to see their financials long term. For Apple it is best to get those orders over to those that are not a competitor - like LG or Sony or ummmm - hmmmm - ok - lets just say less of a competitor are they than Samsung turned out to be. Sorry folks I come from a electronics Component manufacturing background - and this stuff I tend to geek out on.
Hi Rob,
App review; 1BGraves in the app store is the mobile app for BillionGraves.
Users take pictures of grave stones and upload to billiongraves from inside the app.
At the website www.billiongraves.com volunteers transcribe grave stone information.
Rating: Awesome!
Regards,
Kevin S
Hi Kevin - thanks for the heads up on that - I am one of those people that likes going to old grave yards and looking around at the names and dates of those in there - especially the older grave yards. I will be downloading this and bringing it with me next time I go to one of the older grave yards near me. Sure beats bringing tracing Paper and tracing over the cool head stones.
Hi Rob,
I recently went to Europe with my unlocked iPhone 4 running iOS 6 for the first time and had a couple of surprises.
Before landing in london, i popped in a sim from o2 that i had previously used in an unlocked iPhone 3g. In the past, I had to change the APN before it would connect to o2's cellular data network by finding a hotspot and going to unlockit.co.nz. However this time changing the APN wasn't necessary. Out of curiosity, I wanted to see if the APN had automatically changed to the correct settings. When i went to check the Network Settings, it was not where it used to be in General/Network Settings, nor could i find Network Settings anywhere in Settings. From what i saw in some forums, being able to view the Network Settings is dependent on what carrier you are using, but maybe someone else can confirm that.
On the other hand, my wife who was running iOS 5, did need to change her APN in order to connect to o2. When she did try to useunlockit.co.nz it would not allow her to create a profile without first deleting the previous profile in Settings/General/Profiles. That step wasn't necessary before using our iPhone 3g's running iOS 4.2.
Regards,
paul
mill valley, ca
Hi Rob,
I am about ready to buy a sprint iPhone 4s from a friend that just upgraded to an iPhone 5. The iPhone 4s should be off contract and legally unlock-able. I am interested in trying Straighttalk but wanted to make sure that I can move this phone over to it. On one of your shows you mentioned a website that you can log on to with the web browser ending in .nz but I could not find it in a search of your site. Is that site still valid. Will it work with iOS6. Shouldn't I be able to walk into any Sprint store and unlock this phone? If straight talk does not work I would like to be able to move this phone on to my existing ATT account. This should be feasible correct?
regards David
Hi David - First off - the site is per the previous email unlockit.co.nz to get the APN's needed or maybe not needed with iOS 6.
Second per taking an unlocked iPhone 4S from Sprint to Straight talk - it will greatly depend on if you can get Sprint to truly unlock it. In theory - you can run an unlocked iPhone 4S from Sprint on a GSM carrier in Europe - so you should be able to run it on Straight Talk in the US - in Theory - however my searching I could not come across anyone that actually has done this - if anyone has done this - please let us know - and more importantly let us know exactly what you needed to do to get your Sprint iPHone 4S on Straight talk.
FYI - those listening - no you can't take the iPhone 4 from Sprint to Straight talk - as that is a CDMA Phone - vs the iPHone 4S which is both a CDMA and GSM phone.
Hi Rob,
Is there an app that works with the gps feature of the iphone via bluetooth? It seems so possible. I'm hoping you or your listeners can help.
Cindy E
Hi Rob,
Listening to your show last week I heard that some other iPhone 5 users are experiencing problems with the lightning connector I have recently had an issue with my lightning connector when it decided to stop altogether whilst charging.
The symptoms were as follows:
- The phone started to alternate between charging and not charging.
- I removed the charging lead and needed to shut the phone off completely.
- When I reconnected the lightning connector it didn't charge the phone at all.
Fortunately I had purchased a micro USB to lightning adapter as a back up, which I was able to use in the meanwhile.
Strangely enough the failure of the cable occured without any stress on the cable whatsoever which is puzzling?
After contacting AppleCare they were able to send me one out to replace the faulty one , although I'm left a bit puzzled as to what caused the failure?
regards
Steve S
Hi Rob,
I tried to charge my iphone 5, and nothing happened when I plugged in my phone. My lighting cable was broken. Thankfully, my tech shop at KU had some in stock. Will be stopping by att or an apple store and attempt to replace my broken cord.
Regards,
Brent
Hi Rob,
I have had some issues with my Lightning connector.
The Genius Bar employee told me right away that they don't cover corrosion or normal wear and tear. I stated I've had it less than 30 days and it hasn't been subjected to water or chemicals. And if they are true gold connectors then they shouldn't corrode. I told him I believe this was an issue with how they adhered the gold to the conductors in the plug its self. He was still persistent that I pay service price of $17 for a new cord. They were out of the retail cords that hung on the shelves in pretty lil boxes for approximately $30. When he came back out to sell me the new service cord he told me his manager said not to charge me. I was happy. Lets see how long till this one wears out. Lets keep our fingers crossed that this is a one time incident.
Matt S
Hi Matt - thanks for the feedback - Do not repeat do not let Apple charge you for a bad Lightening cord or ear pod for a new iPhone 5 - definitely not this soon after release. Overall Apple is much much much better than any company out there on replacing bad product for no cost. But as with any store - some employees will give bad advice or service compared to others. Just make sure you hold your ground - politely and ask to speak to a manager. Again - overall - I think you will find Apples service is 2nd to none at the Apple stores.
Hi Rob,
Someone at my office recently travelled with their iPhone, put it on "airplane mode", and left it in a taxi. After realizing it was lost, they called me to use the "find my iPhone" app.
Well, guess what? With the iPhone still in "airplane mode", the "find my iPhone" app is useless; that is until the iPhone finder or thief turns "airplane mode" off!
Without a taxi receipt, this person could not even try to find the taxi where they left their iPhone 4S! Oh and by the way, this person did not have a pass code on their Iphone, which means the iPhone finder/thief (who never tried to find its rightful owner), had full access to this attorney's photos, memos, contacts, emails and anything on the iPhone that could be confidential!
I set the "find my iPhone" feature through www.icloud.com to WIPE the lost iPhone but this ONLY works when "airplane mode" is turned off and it starts using wifi. Sadly, we will never know if any of this iPhone's confidential attorney/client privilege information ever got into the wrong hands!
If the listeners have bosses who, while very smart in their profession, are not very tech-savvy, please stress the importance of putting a pass code on their Iphone! Especially when they store various usernames & passwords in their contacts! Hopefully the information on the iPhone is not used against this person or any if their clients. While using the pass code is a "PIA", the peace of mind is priceless.
By the way, this attorney had backed up their phone to the iCloud, so when they paid full price for a new iPhone, they didn't lose any information. But sadly, they still haven't put a pass code on their new iPhone.... Can you really teach an old dog new tricks?
~ "SALLY"
Hi Rob,
Is there anyone else that is frustrated with the WiFi issues with iOS
6? On my family's 3 iPads and 2 iPhones we always get spotty wifi on
areas we have never had issues before. I have spoke with a few apple
Geniuses that say this is a known issue but it amazes me that a fix
isn't put yet when we are over a month since iOS 6's release. Any
feedback from you or audience on this would be interesting to hear.
Regards,
Jeff B
Hi Jeff,
I had some wifi issues with my wifes iPad when it first was updated to iOS 6 - I mean some really really slow or spotty wifi - the trick that worked for me after trying multiple resets of the iPad - was actually to reset the Wifi Router - once I did that the iPad was humming along with no issues. So I would suggest trying a full reset of your router and see if that helps.
Into the email bag one more time.
Hi Rob,
Per the announcement on the 23rd - How about iPad Jr? And Why don't people be more optimistic & round up & say 8" since 7.85?
Regards,
Michael.
Well Michael per your prediction this is a good time to virtually pause and then transition into the October 23rd announcement.
For those with the Tii App - you received a push earlier on the 23rd letting you know the good news - that Apple was live streaming the event - along with the URL for the stream on Apples site.
Ok and now per the live event for those that did not see it. Tim Cook came out first and started with what is the traditional overview slash chest bumping slash back patting segment. He Repeated the 5 Million iPhone 5's sold opening weekend and a PR video from launch weekend that put those samsung line waiting commercials to shame.
He said Apple has Sold over 3 Million of the new iPods already.
And there are 200 Million iOS devices running iOS 6 after just one month.
Then some other yada yada numbers about iCloud docs, iMessage messages, Game center accounts and Photo Stream photos. Yeah we get it - people are actually using their iOS devices.
He Repeated App numbers - over 700,000 iOS apps and over 275,000 iPad specific Apps
There have been over 35 Billion App downloads from the Apps store. Not bad for something apple did not originally plan on doing.
And Apple has paid out over $6.5 Billion dollars to devs.
Tim Talked about iBooks - hmmm - set up for iPad Mini Maybe. We shall see. There are 1.5 Million Books in the iBooks store. Including 2 from me. Just Sayin - and Over 400 Million book downloads to date. The New iBooks version now has continuos scrolling - finally. And the new version of iBooks is available today for a free download.
Then Tim had Phil Shiller come out on stage to talk hardware.
First new products Phil talked about were Macs - And as expected he introduced the new 13" Mac Book Pro with Retina display. And then he went over the new iPad Mini - which I mention for App devs that need a new Mac to dev apps on. Then he went over the new iMacs. And handed the remote back to Tim.
Tim then started talking about the iPads. They have now sold over 100 Million iPads as of two weeks ago. Which means last quarter there were about 15.5 Mil iPad's sold - which is below most anal-ists expectations and below the 17 Mil in the Quarter previous. The Anal-ists had a range of 14.80 mil on the low side to 23 Mil on the high side. With an average estimate from Indie's of 19.23 Mil iPads sold vs Pro Anal-ists guessing at 17.57 Mil iPads sold - and per Tim cooks comments - of hitting 100 Mil iPads sold a couple of weeks ago - that means as I said only about 15.5 Mil iPad sold last quarter. But we will save the in-depth number speak until the next episode.
Tim then talked about the iPad web traffic - which represents 91% for all Tablets. And said the main reason the iPad is used so much vs others - is that people love the iPad. Kinda sorta implying people don't love those others.
Tim then talked about iBook Textbooks - saying there are 2,500 US schools with iBooks Textbooks already. Tim announced an updated version of iBooks Author which is available today for free from the Apple Mac App store - need to download that after this episode goes live.
Tim then brought Phil back to talk about iPad Hardware. First up was the announcement of The 4th Gen iPad - Yup - The 3rd gen is no more. Key changes from the 3rd gen are the A6X processor - Twice the speed - Phil claimed. But it keeps the Same 10 Hour Battery life. FaceTime HD front camera 720p HD.
There is an Updated LTE and new Carriers. Sprint in the US for example.
Updated Wifi - Now matches the Wifi on the iPhone 5. which is 802.12 a b g and n 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. Bluetooth 4.0 as well.
Of course it is updated to the Lightening Port.
And there are new Lightening to USB and Lightening to SD cables replacing the old Camera Connection kit.
Black and White - same storage - Same price - 16 GB - $499
And then Phil showed the worst kept secret the iPad Mini - per what had been shown in image leaks. And it is the iPad Mini.
It is 7.2 mm thin
the iPad Mini weighs just 0.68 lbs
It Comes in white and black.
Screen size is 7.9" vs 9.7 on the iPad.
The screen resolution of the iPad Mini is 1024 x 768 - which is the same as the screen on the iPad 1st and 2nd gen. So apps for original and 2nd gen iPads will work with it.
Phil then compared it to the Android comp - and really it was about showing how while the devices are about the same size on the outside - the screen is much bigger and the apps for the iPad Mini are a much better user experience vs the scaled up phone apps you find on Android Tablets.
The Mini uses the A5 Chip - FaceTime HD front side camera - 5 MB iSight rear camera. 1080p HD video. Actually the Cameras on the Mini and iPad 4th gen are identical on the front and back. The Mini does have LTE and Cellular connections. Faster wifi and Lightening port as well And of course 10 hours of Battery life.
The iPad Mini Starts at $329 for 16 GB Wifi Version. $429 for 32 GB and $529 for 64 GB.
iPad 2 sticks around same pricing as before which is $399 for the 16 Gig wifi version.
The iPad 4th gen pricing is same as 3rd gen. $499, $599 and $699 for 16, 32 and 64 gig Wifi only versions.
Add $130 to any of the aforementioned versions if you go to Wifi plus cellular.
Pre orders for the new iPad Mini and iPad 4th gen start on October 26th - and then November 2nd they start to ship to a whole bunch of countries for the Wifi Version. Those countries include:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the US. That is 34 different countries at launch.
The Cellular version ships on November 16th to the aforementioned countries as well.
If you plan to pre-order - remember to use the Apple Store App to do the pre-orders - expect pre-orders to start some time early in the morning on October 26th east coast time - just like they did with the iPhone pre-orders.
But that is the new iPad Mini and iPad 4th gen in a nutshell - more detailed info is up now at Apple dot com.
