Hi_Rob,
I thought you might like my Tii retake/tribute to WWDC.
This artwork was created using InkPad for the iPad.
regards
Colin S
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Transcript Episode 272
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Thanks to Michael for this next one. Which is about AT&T changing their upgrade policy. Before it was 20 months now it is going to 24 months for a 24 month contract. This for those whose contract currently ends after march 2014. Att and recently Verizon made this decision to help you when it comes time to get a new device. Now that there is no ETF to deal with so you can move over to a new carrier with no financial reasons to keep you bound.
PC-Tablet Before Apple iOS 7 Release date, study reveals iOS 6 is on 93% of iPhones
Right after I did the last episode there was a new study released that showed 93% of iPhones were running iOS 6 in North America that is. That number should grow a little by the time iOS 7 is released - and it likely never going to be matched again. As there are so many iPhone 3GS out there - and they will not be running iOS 7 - but hey more on these later in the show. But it is amazing to thing that iOS 6 is on an amazing 93% of iPhones running in the North america - when Android's - well Android is in the low 30's for its latest version which has been out longer than iOS 6. Just sayin.
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Thanks to Jerry, Paul, Joe, Daniel and all the others that sent in answers for this - which again is you need to turn off vibrate on Ring - which Is sad - because at least for me - I need to have Vibration turned on for ring - as I keep the iPhone in my pocket a lot and I have custom vibrations for different people - and when I have my iPhone muted on the ring - I can still tell when I get important calls or ones I can probably ignore based on the vibration.
Hi Rob,
I work at a college that has the same repeated login every time you stop actively using the Internet connection. I installed chrome web browser which offers to save the login information, I do not know why but safari will not remember it. Not a perfect solution but the best one I have found so far.
Nick
Hello Rob,
Per the listener that said he had to keep filling out login info for his company's wifi. I only have a guess, but I hope it helps. Try going into settings, than safari, and tap the option "autofill" and turn on "Names and passwords" that might help you.
Regards,
Daniel,
Hi Rob,
I found a iPhone 5 black in the truck i drive at work. I thought it was mine and fell out of the pocket. I then press the wake button and the lock screen gave it away that it was definitely no my iPhone. since the iPhone was lock protected i had no way to contact the owner. I then tried siri and said call home and it instantly called the owners home. I have returned the device.
Just wanted to share with your listeners.
Thanks
dev
Hi Dev,
Thanks for the email - and that is good advice for folks to make sure you have your phone set up so someone can say call home and it calls your house.
For a second there as I read the email I thought your were going to say you said Call my Girlfriend and then your wifes phone rang - that would have been awkward to say the least.
Hi Rob,
Per the caller looking to Jailbreak an iPhone 3G - I used green p0isn to jailbreak my ipod 4.1.2
Regards,
Daniel
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0025 - Apple - Apple Events - WWDC 2013 Keynote
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Thanks to Tony, Chris and others that sent in emails about todays WWDC event - hopefully all saw the Push message from the Tii App about this in time. I do have to say WWDC did stop for me in the middle - and I had to wait until Monday evening to see the good parts.
WWDC Starts off with a video subtly slamming Android. And talking taking time to get it done right.
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If Everyone - is busy making everything - how can anyone perfect anything?
We start to confuse convenience with Joy - abundance with choice -
Designing something requires focus
The first thing we ask is what do we want people to feel?
Delight - Surprise - love - connection
Then we begin to craft around our intention
It Takes Time.
There are a thousand No's - for every YES
We Simplify - We perfect - We Start Over
Until every thing we touch - Enhances each life it touches
Only then do we sign our work.
Designed by Apple in California
Tim that starts off saying those words mean a great deal to Apple.
He then goes over some of the Rah Rah numbers. Such as
6 Million Registered Devs - with 1.5 mil new Devs since last years WWDC.
He talks about how WWDC Sold out in just 71 seconds. And 64% of attendees are first-time attendees.
Then he went into the Normal Rah Rah about Apple stores. 407 stores in 14 countries. Now plus a video of the new Berlin store.
Then he talked about App Rah Rah stuff - >900,000 Apps in the App store now with 93% downloaded each month.
375,000 Apps are iPad specific apps - vs the handful of tablet specific apps for the other guys. There are now over 575 Million iTunes Accounts - more accounts with CC than anyone else online.
Apple has now Paid over $10 Bil to Developers. $5 Bil the last year alone. That is 3 Times more than all other platforms combined.
That all took up the first 10 minutes.
Then Tim Invited a company out to do a demo. That company is Anki and the demo was for AI for toys that well they proved they had a mind of their own during the demo. As they had to restart all the devices. Doohh. Actually the demo turned out well - where they had AI cars going around a track. Pretty cool And they are guys from Pittsburghs CM U.
That demo took 5 minutes.
Next up was the Mac stuff and OS Ten - Which again is not the focus of this show so we will jump over most of what they said. I will mention Maps and iBooks are coming to Mac OS X Maverick - yup no more cat names.
My biggest surprise here was how long Apple talked about OS Ten - which was 30 minutes. Plus Phil Shiller talked about New Macs for another 15 Minutes. In all Macs and Mac OS Ten took up 48 Minutes when you Add in Tim's updates on how Macs are selling. Which was more time later spent on iOS. If found that very interesting at iOS Devices and App sales make up the lions share of Apple Revenue. Just sayin.
Ok back to Phil Shiller - he did announce Mac Book Airs with the Hasswell processors to no ones surprise. But sadly no new Mac Book Pro's announced with the Hasswell processor. Which My credit card is however happy with.
Phil also talked about a new Mac Pro that will be made in the US - I mention it here for one feature it had - Support for 4K video. I have been thinking about a Real fullsize Apple TV - and to me it does not make sense for Apple to introduce a 1080p TV - there are so many of them. Apple likes to get out in front of others in a space. So what if the full on Apple TV iTV or whatever it is called - what if it was a 4K TV - at a much cheaper price then what is on the market now for 4K TV's - that to me is what a full size Apple TV would be about. Forget a 1080p TV with easy to use controls - like Gene Munster keeps pinning for - but rather a 4k TV. And I think this little mention of it with the Mac Pro - will be the thing we look back on and go oh yeah - there it was.
After the Mac stuff Tim Cook came back - and talked about iCloud's 300 Million users. And then introduced Roger Rosner - Who talked about iWork for iCloud.
I should point out Roger is the only person at Apple that actually tucks his shirt into his pants - Just Sayin.
No new iWork version / features were talked about other than to say a new version would be out later this year. Roger was mostly talking about working on iWork documents from a browser. Not just safari but also IE and Chrome. So iWorks is now a competitor to Google Docs. And they even showed iWorks in the cloud working on dare I say it a Windows PC. If you go to beta.icloud.com you can get a beta account for this now.
Ok - enough of this - Tim came back on to talk about iOS - and he did the obligatory Marketing Hype talk with numbers.
Over 600 Million iOS devices have been sold. For SmartPhone usage - iPhone users use their phones 50% more than Android users use their phones. Tim said this was incredible but maybe not surprising. Mobile Web share iOS is 2.5X Android. iPad is over 4 times more than all other tablets for Web Market share.
Per Updates of OS's - 93% are using iOS 6 vs well the fragmented nightmare known as Android. Actually Tim had a good stats if you do the math on Major Versions of OS - then iOS 6 is the most popular OS vs 2nd place Gingerbread version of Android released in 2010. Nice Spin.
Overall iOS Satisfaction is 97%. And Very Satisfied is 73% vs just 49% for Android and 32% for Blackberry. But hey windows phone did top 50% at 53%.
So iOS is by far the most satisfying OS experience - Hey I have an idea - lets drastically change it. And on that Cue Tim Cook introduced iOS 7 Quote the biggest change of iOS since the introduction of the iPhone unquote - because you know that 3% that were not satisfied - We will assimilate them at all costs. Just kidding. Yes iOS was getting a little long in the tooth. But it servered most users well. Now apple hopes it will serve them better. And how will they do that.
Well first and foremost as expected with iOS 7 the skeumorphic elements are mostly gone if not completely gone - and there were few not so subtle jabs at the old design - like when they showed Game Center and Craig Federighi said they ran out of green felt. But per the rumor of it being flat - I guess in some ways yes - as in the icons and controls are flat - but Apple also added depth to it. So it is layered with each layer being flatter.
First off all the stock icons got a major overhaul - some are still familiar looking - but clearly the icons were all rebuilt from the ground up. Which of course mean the folks at Samsung are going to be busy updating their icons - Doooh - did I say that out loud.
Many of the changes look good - Not so sure about the Compass app - I kind of liked the old skeumorphic design - the new one looks a little complicated.
Most of what they demo'd to start was just about aesthetic changes - although there were a few small features added - like in Weather there is now a view with a list of the different cities you are following - along with the current temp in each city - there is also a clock - which is nice to know the times of some other cities around the world at a quick glance. Well at least for the cities you are checking the weather on. They also added some Animations for Weather to show rain, lightning and snow - This is what they spent engineering resources on why?
Craig showed a new gesture on the iPhone - when you swipe from the left hand edge across it moves you out of the level you are in per that app.
One nice thing they did in Folders - no longer are you limited to one screens worth of items in a folder - you can have 100's of icons in each folder - so now your Games folder can be ALL your games - No longer do you need 8 different folders for games. 5 different ones for utilities. That is a nice change.
Notifications Center is now available from the lock screen - which is nice. Some had rumored / hoped for adding Settings controls in the Notifications Center - that was a block in the Bingo Card - Umm - No - not exactly - Apple Added many new features and they highlighted 10 of them - like they did in the past. The first one relates to Settings control - and it is called Control Center. Think of Control center as the yang to Notifications Ying. You swipe up from the bottom to get to it no mater where you are and that is where the control switches are.
You can turn on Airplane Mode, Wifi, Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb, Adjust Brightness, Media Controls, Airplay and Airdrop (will get to that one later one), There is access to the camera app, calculator app, clock app and a new Flashlight app. So while it was not added to Notifications - it is what people wanted - one swipe access to your control settings from any screen. And note control center works when in landscape mode - so swiping up while in landscape will bring up control center - you don't need swipe from the normal bottom - but the bottom from how you are currently oriented. Which is how Notification center had always worked but nice to see they kept that with control center.
Next major feature was Multitasking for ALL Apps with great battery life. Craig talked about Intelligent scheduling and Opportunistic updates. That sounds a lot like It will happen when it happens - the iPhone knows better than you do when to check for stuff. Will be interesting to see how that all works out. Apps will now update in the background. No more of those red circles with number approaching 100 in the corner of your App store app. But most importantly with Multitasking is when you double tap on the home button - it will show all your open apps - but not just the icons - but also the Active screen for each app. And if you are in landscape mode and double tap - it shows your the apps in landscape mode. It does not rotate when you rotate - but if already in landscape mode - it will shows the apps you had opened in landscape mode still in landscape mode. Found that one on my own - I mean if I was using the Beta on my iPhone 4 - which of course I would not be doing. To force close out an app you now double tap to see the stream of open apps and swipe up on the app you want to close - no more tap and hold. And you can swipe up on 3 apps at a time.
Next up - are new features for Safari. First let me tell you of one thing that better get Fixed before this is out of Beta - there is no period when typing in the URL. So if you want to type say - tii dot libsyn dot com - you have to type t i i @123 button dot ABC button Dot Com button. Very annoying. Apple please add back the period button to the keyboard for Safari. One of the features mentioned for safari was the new tab view - which yes looks like chrome. You can now have as many tabs open as you want - you are not limited to just 8. So how do you close 25 open tabs you ask - Well that is simple you tap on the Private button when in tab view in the lower left and you are greeted with the question - Close all Pages - and the options to keep all and start private browsing or close all.
Next up was AirDrop - which was one item that was expected. It lets you easily find other iOS devices on your wifi network that you can easily share files from any app that supports it and as Craig said it is easy to share - just see all the other users available and tap on each one to share - no need to wander around the room bumping your phone with others. Nice little dig at Android and Samsung there. It does use Wifi - and files are securely encrypted when you are transferring them. This supports - iPhone 5, iPad 4th gen, iPad Mini, iPod Touch 5th gen. As it used the latest version of Wifi so sorry older iOS users no soup for you.
Next was the camera and the updates there. First he talked about you camera is really now 4 cameras in one - A Video Camera, a Photo Camera, a square Camera and a Panoroma Camera - assuming you have an iPhone 4S or later.
And you now have access to Photo filters - Hey Craig - 2010 is calling they want their slide back. Ok - I guess better late then never. Well unless you have an iPhone 4 that is - because photo filters are not there - at least not yet.
Next was the Photos App. Which the new features are about organizing photos into moments. Which seems to take some features from the Photo app on the Mac. There is also the added feature of shared photo streams for sharing photos. Since this is social - expect stories about teenagers and shared photo streams with naked photos hitting the news in 3, 2, 1.. go Ok well maybe not until at least iOS 7 comes out in the Fall.
Next is Siri. And as expected there are some new features for Siri. With Siri in iOS 7 you will be able to say play my last voicemail or Increase Brightness or turn on Bluetooth. They have also integrated Twitter and Wikipedia into siri. I guess I would be something like - Siri - tell me who is talking trash about me on Twitter. They also added web search results from Bing right into siri - Hmmm wonder how much that cost microsoft.
That lead into the next feature iOS in the Car - which works with Siri. So in the cars - on the screens in the cars - iOS will be there and you will be able to control it via voice. You will be able to make calls and play music, goto maps - get directions, Get iMessages read to you and you can dictate a response all hands and eyes free. iOS integration will be introduced in 2014 by Chevy, Volvo, Honda, Nissan, Kia, Scion, Acura, Infinity, Jaguar, Mercedes and ferrari.
Next was the App store - where they added in some features to make it easier to search in Age ranges for kids apps, Plus apps near me - which is the most popular apps based on your location. Hint - it is Angry birds. As mentioned before - the App store app updates your apps automatically. No more need to go through and manually update your apps.
After that was the Music App and new features. Yada Yada. And then they got into the meat of the new Music app - which is iTunes Radio - which is the previously rumored iRadio. Simply put the easiest way to describe iTunes Radio is to say Pandora. I mean sure they have different names - but beyond that - not sure what else is different. Ok - there is the option to tap on the price for a song in the upper left to purchase a song when you come across one you like. iTunes radio is in the music app on all your iOS devices that run iOS 7, it is on iTunes on you Mac and PC. and even on Apple TV. Or it will be shortly. iTunes Radio is as also expected Free and Ad supported. Like I said can you say Pandora. However if you are an iTunes Match subscriber it is completely Ad Free. It is just starting in the US for now - and it is live now. And they will add other countries over time.
Those were the big items they talked about. They then showed a screen shot of some other new features they did not get into - they included.
Phone, FaceTime and Message Blocking - which will come in handy for the recent mom that called in about blocking calls for her daughters ex. This to me should have been in the top 10. As should the next one.
There is a new feature called Activation lock - which is a big one - as it is Apples first real step at stopping Apple Picking - so they were listening. Strange they did not make this one a top 10 feature - but they did talk about it a little. With Activation lock - Thieves will not be able to turn off find my iPhone - and if they wipe it entirely - they will not be able to reactivate it. Because it will require your iCloud username and Password. Again this should be a big theft deterrent - assuming people turn on find my iPhone.
Other new features include.
Facetime - Audio - which is as it sounds - audio calls via FaceTime. Like Skype Audio - which they then actually showed a guy in a Skype T-shirt while briefly mentioning it.
There is Notification Sync - So if you dismiss a Notification on one device it gets dismissed on all your devices.
For those in China - Support for Tencent Weibo - which is a chinese version of Twitter.
Enterprise Single sign-on - which sounds like it may help the caller from ep 271.
View PDF annotations
Improved Mail search
Wifi Hot Spot 2.0 - which will be interesting to learn more about.
New Smart Mailboxes
Night mode for Maps and more which we will be talking about over the next few month as we get closer to iOS 7 being launched and as we get to other versions of the Beta.
Craig also mentioned on the developer side there are over 1,500 new API's.
60 fps video capture, New Multitasking API's, Barcode scanning, Directions API, Inter-app audio, and many many more. Like MFI game controllers - hmmmm - wonder if that will make its way to Apple TV - already had a few people emailing in about this one saying that Apple TV with game controller API's makes Apple TV a powerful game machine. We shall see. Kind of need that Apple TV app store that again did not happen - maybe at WWDC 2014.
iOS 7 will be available for the iPhone 4 and later, iPad 2 and later, iPad mini, and iPod touch 5th gen officially in the fall.
It is available today for the iPhone for developers for iOS 7 beta 1. Note if you have an iPhone 4 GSM version - there are two to choose from. The Rev A one is the 8 GB version released when the iPhone 4S was released. So if you have an iPhone 4 on AT&T when it originally launched or soon there after - do NOT select the Rev A ISPW.
And Apple ended the Keynote with this
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Ok - So we had a bingo card as those with the Tii App know and those that visited the site prior to WWDC and how did the Rumor Bingo card do?
First up - iOS 7 - yup that was announced.
Flat UI for iOS 7 - ok - I will give that one a yes. I still think it is both flat and layered - but each layer is definitely flatter. And part of that rumor was the killing of Skeumorphic design and that is a big Yes.
AirDrop to iOS - that is a big Yes.
And iRadio - well I give it a yes - even if it is called iTunes Radio - but the basic rumor is correct - a Pandora clone - and that is sure looks like.
And those 4 plus the middle square get us bingo. I think those were the 4 most obvious rumors going in and none of them surprised at all.
Other rumors that hit on the bingo card.
Expanded Siri Features
More Gesture controls / All iOS devices - Sure - they demoed some in the presentation for the iPhone.
iOS 7 for iPhone 4 and later
Audio Ads for iRadio
Apple Picking Prevention Feature - which was my own rumor added.
Those were all big yes's
Some Mostly / partially yes include
iWork 2013 - while now features were announced Roger did say it was coming later this year - so kinda a Yes in letter of the law - but not really spirit of the law.
Flickr and other Yahoo integration into iOS 7 - while not mentioned that I noticed sure enough Flickr integration is there in iOS 7 beta - along with Vimeo integration - kudos to Kevin crossman for calling both of those.
Settings toggles in Notification Center. Ok - letter of the law is a no - but spirit of the law would be a yes - as what people really wanted is swipe access to controls - and we have that now.
Dev access to Private API's - well there are 1,500 new API's including multitasking APIs - so it seems Apple did lift its skirt up a tad bit more with this version of iOS - so a kinda maybe yes.
And then there are the things that are strong no's like
Apple TV Apps / store - Nope
iPad 5th Gen announced - as expected NOPE
iPhone 5S - also as expected Nope
iOS 7 for A5 and later only - Nope - not that it was likely. Would have pissed off too many iPhone 4 owners.
Widgets on the Lock screen - While there is Control Center - I don't count that - so Nope
iMoney / Apples version of PayPal - which was a last minute rumor that popped up and that would be No.
Allow 3rd party Keyboards - Sadly Nope
Finger Print scanner Tech - Nope - but we will see that square back in the fall on the next bingo card.
Quote "over 200 new features in iOS 7" nope those words were not used.
iLife 2013 - nope never mentioned
iWatch - as expected - a Big Nope - but that will also return for the next bingo card.
Again don't feel bad for those labeled as No - as they will likely be back on the next bingo card.
Ok so what did some of you think of WWDC announcements and iOS 7 beta - since some of you already downloaded - well to the email bag we go.
First from the Email bag.
Hi rob
I jumped on iOS 7 after watching live wwdc… what a mistake i had 6.1.2 jailbroken. ios7 just feels light and unpolished. the icons look like they are designed by samsung. I think it was a mistake firing scott. also spotlight is missing on home screen but its there under settings…?
thanks dev
Hi Dev - I put yours first - because I want to point out - that iOS 7 Beta 1 - is a beta and the first beta - and as warned - don't upgrade to it if you need your iOS device for work or personal safety. Really it is just for devs - and I only would put it on an extra device. That said - I have found it pretty stable compared to past beta's - And by the way if your device is jailbroken - you do need to upgrade to iOS 6.1.3 or 6.1.4 first and then do the install of iOS 7 beta 1. I showed my Wife the new beta and she actually really liked the new look. Per spot light - I would imagine that is just not in yet but will be added in a future beta.
Hi Rob,
I can download .dmg file but not the .ispw
Regards,
Name omitted to protect the emailer.
Actually a DMG file is apples version of a Zip file - once you download a dmg file double click on it to launch the folder and then drag out the ispw file to your hard drive - then in iTunes hold down the Option key and click on update in iTunes and you will see a pop up finder - select the ispw file from your desktop and off you go to the update. Again if you are jailbroken - first update to iOS 6.1.3 or 6.1.4 first. Then after that do the above. And once more - you do need a dev account to download the beta. It is not available to the public yet.
Hi Rob - watched WWDC today & I'm wondering why they would launch iTunes radio when for years they've built the business of selling songs thru iTunes. If I can listen on iradio now, why would I ever buy another song?
Thanks!
Laurie B
Hi Laurie - The same could be said about regular radio - there is a difference to listening to Pandora and Live radio - then listening to the specific songs you want in the order you want. With iTunes Radio like Pandora - you create a station around an artist or genre - and then you get music that is picked for you - not the specific songs you want. Apple at least now makes it easier for people to purchase the new songs they may hear on the stations they set up - something they were not getting easily from Pandora. It just made sense for them to do a pandora clone - My guess is it just took this long to launch because of rights issues and contracts. I bet Apple would have wanted to launch this a year plus ago.
Rob,
With AirDrop and new photo/video iCloud sharing, doesn't this make Facebook and other social media sites redundant for people who value their privacy more than being social?
I have a few friends who have already quit Facebook because of privacy concerns.
Tony L
San Francisco
Yup - Many people only use services like Facebook, flickr, instagram and Youtube to easily share videos and photos - That said - I still think for the majority of people those services will still be their first choice. I think for many average users of iOS devices - iCloud is still this mystery meat so to speak. And people kind of go with the devil they know in those other services.
Hi Rob,
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iTunes radio looks cool but it reminds me of yahoo launch from 7 years ago to make your own station like that
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Hi Rob,
Did you see in the keynote just now, the second hand for the clock icon was going round. It looks like it must now show the real time rather than a static 10:15.
All the best,
David, from York, U.K.
Hi David - confirmed the clock on your desktop - yup it is now at the current time with the second hand moving accordingly. Interestingly they remove skeumorphic elements - but add other real world elements - like the clock mentioned here and the Weather animation mentioned earlier. By the way nice catch on the clock - I did not notice it until I read you email - even after playing with iOS 7 for a while.
Hi Rob.
I thought Apple did a great presentation today unveiling cool stuff from hardware to software and services... I just don't get and understand Wall Street. even with all the great stuff announced today Apple's stock is down!? Really? Are they nuts? This is just getting beyond ridiculous! Thanks for listening! Keep up the great work and can't wait to get my hands on OS Mavericks and iOS 7 this Fall.
Cheers,
Eli from Virginia
Hi Eli - Wallstreet will take a couple of days to make heads or tails of this announcement. And I also don't get them either. That said - I think iOS 7 announcement was a solid announcement - there was more meat announced then I thought - of course I had the bar set pretty low in my mind. That said - I think Apple did a lot of what they could to take that 97% satisfaction number they mentioned and move it to 98% satisfied. And the 73% very satisfied - I think that number will pop to the upper 70's maybe even the low 80's. Did Apple take some cues from Android and Windows Phone - sure looks like it - and hopefully they prove to be the right ones. I think one comment made today that stuck out to me - is that iOS 7 is like getting a whole new phone - but one you already now how to use - lets see how much people agree with that. But I think apple did a good job over all - even if I gave them some grief earlier.
Hi Rob, I loved the 2 min video at the beginning and the ios 7 video. That did I guess deserve a standing "o' since John Ive had to work on software which is new to him I think plus work on hardware & all in less than a year after canning Scott F! Finally we catch up to android or palm having cards and toggles! Its just a bit frustrating waiting a whole year to try and catchup . I still believe there should be more than a .1 update just like there are many little fixes/updates for the mac which were quite impressive like the maps link to phone and location in calendar and location aware in app store suggestions
I also love all the humor and jokes, that Frederigi guy is funny. Also felt the speakers had more personality like jobs did especially when Phil said theres no more innovation My Butt, loved it!!!
Regards,
Michael
Hi Rob,
Tim Cook was freaking awesome - He was as close to channeling Steve Jobs as he could get. And iTunes Radio is simply great - it blows away Pandora. Apple really upped their game today.
Regards,
Steven D
Steven - there you go again being a little too much of an Apple fan boy. Time to calm down a bit. I think iTunes Radio is an adequate clone of Pandora - and really that is all apple needs - as the Music app is installed on all iOS devices by default.
Hey folks I would love to get your thoughts on iOS 7 - especially if you downloaded it as a beta. What are some of the features you like the most - what are the ones you think are still missing that should have been in iOS 7. 206-666-6364 - that's 206-moon-dog - or send an email to today in iOS at gmail dot com.
Thanks to Thomas in Tuscaloosa and Danielle in Pemberton BC for the heads up on this next one - which is a Kickstarter Project called - Smart Cargo for iPad.
This is one that is already funded in a really short time - in less than a day - and it had a goal of $10,000 - not high - but really impressive it funded in a day. This one has until August 9th for you to be part of. Sadly the early backer option is all gone. So this one will set you back $20 instead of $15. What this is is a container that works with your Apple Smart Cover - which offers you a place to store accessories - like a short charging cable, earphones, a stylus, a camera adapter, a pack of gum and a lipstick case. It attaches via magnets to your Smart Cover and then folds up with the cover - it really is one of those - doohhhh why did I not think of it ideas. Of course that is what people said about his first kickstarter project - Smarter Stand - yup - this is the same guy - hence one of the reasons he hit his goal so quickly. I recommend you check this one out before August 9th. Search for Smart Cargo - two words at kickstarter dot com. or look for the link in the show notes for ep 272 at today in iOS dot com.
One More Kickstarter Project - Thanks for the reminder on this one from Kirk G - this is yes another SmartPhone Watch - called Agent - The World's Smartest watch. This one had a goal of 100,000 dollars and has raised over $872,000. You have until June 20th at 4:00 PM ET to get this one. It will set you back $149 - which is a good price for a smart watch. Delivery is set for December 2013 - but by then who knows what Apple will have released. One near feature about this one is that it has inductive charging - so no need to plug in your power charger - just lay it on the charging stand. And the battery is replaceable. Which they also claim will give you 7 days of battery life with a full charge in Bluetooth mode. And if your device and your phone loose connection - IE someone walks off your your iPHone or more likely you walk away from your iPhone by accident - it lets you know with an alert. The front of it is glass - so it should hold up against scratches - and there are other cool features - if you are into collecting smartphone watches - the Agent is another one for your collection - or if you have been holding out for an iWatch - and want to hedge your bets for this years holiday season - check out Agent at kickstarter dot com or look for the link in the show notes for ep 272 at today in ios dot com.
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Hey rob,
I'm wondering if you or the audience know of a camera app that let's you not only take a video, but also pause the recording of the video and keep on recording to the same video, like it does on android.
Regards,
Daniel from California
Hey Rob,
I wanted to warn you and the listeners.
There is a fake survey being sent around that tries to get your identity from AT&T this is really not from AT&T is from someone outside masking themselves as AT&T do not take the survey. And they are offering you $20 or more if you take the survey do not take it.
Regards,
Ray W
Thanks Ray for the heads up.
Hey Rob,
I recently finished building my new PC running Windows 8 and I'm having issues with my iPhone 4S syncing to iTunes. iTunes is the latest version. I can plug my iPhone in but iTunes doesn't recognize it. The PC recognizes it but it doesn't pop up in iTunes saying that the iPhone can't be found. Any help would be great!
Regards,
Alex in Connecticut
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Don't forget about the App give aways over at todayinios dot com - a new one is going up every day - and they stay active for 5 days - so check out the site now and check it out often to see if there are any apps you are interested in. I will take a little pause in doing those - and start up with just a couple a week - probably in the July time frame - each lottery takes up about one hour of my time to manage. So that is a lot of time each week when you do one a day. But I will do more - just need to dial it back a little.
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And that folks is going to do it for us today.
