Today in iOS Podcast - The Unofficial iOS, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch News and iPhone Apps Podcast

Well at the end of the last episode I said it was likely we would find out shortly about when the iPad Mini would go on sale and I would send out a push when it was announced. And then I finished the episode - uploaded it - made it live - I sent the push notification to All the great Tii App owners that the new episode was live - that was around 3:20 AM ET On the 12th and then I opened my email to find this waiting for me.

Hi Rob,

The apple store is up and the mini retina is available!

Regards, steph

and

Hey Rob,

Its 3:16 am ET in the morning and I just ordered my Pad mini with Retina display Wi-Fi 16GB - Silver

I will be receiving it Nov 20 -23

Can't wait to get it

regards,

Jeff From Cincinnati Ohio

Thanks Steph and Jeff.

And Per their emails I said to myself Hot dig giddy - and jumped on Apple.com and ordered me one of them Silver LTE iPad Mini with Retina and 128 GB of storage. And had it engraved - This is Mom's iPad go get your own. At that time it said it ships in 5 to 10 days with delivery set for between Nov 26 th and Dec 4th.

And then I sent out a Push saying the iPad Mini with Retina was available for sale. Ummm I mean First I sent out the push about it being available and then I ordered my Wife's iPad Mini - Yeah Yeah That's the ticket. In either case - the iPad Mini I ordered has shipped from the factory in China and is in transit with the new delivery date currently set for Monday the 25th. The iPad currently is in Anchorage Alaska - so it is in the US. It had spent over 76 hours and 15 Minutes in Hong Kong - earlier this week. What it did in Hong Kong for 76 hours and 15 Minutes is something maybe is best if we did not talk about it when it gets here. Hong Kong can be a city of vices. If all goes well - Monday the iPad Mini will be here.

It was Strange for Apple to just with no fan fare make the iPad Mini Retina available for Online order. Many said this is because Apple is facing a major shortage for the holidays. An in Apples low key Press Release announcing its availability - Phil Schiller said quote we’re working hard to get as many as we can in the hands of our customers. unquote Which does not sound awfully comforting for those looking to get one. And you would think delivery times would be slipping on Apple dot com if a shortage was truly in the cards. Except when I ordered mine originally - The delivery date listed on Apple.com for all but the 16 and 32 GB wifi units was listed as 5 to 10 days - with the 16 and 32 GB wifi units listed as 1 to 3 business days. And a week later the delivery dates had not changed at all. But then on Friday the 22nd - there was a delivery date change to 5 to 10 business days for all models.

Does this mean there is now a shortage and you will not get your before Christmas? No not if you order before the 7th of December. Anything after that and it is a crap shoot at best.

As for me it will be about a 2 week delivery schedule and I ordered with in 30 Minutes of it going on line - to no advanced warning. So think how things will be after Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Definitely best to order sooner rather than later if you want it for Christmas. Because - times are starting to slip just a little bit now.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/12/tech/

mobile/apple-ipad-mini-sale/index.html

Hello Rob,

I have a question for you and your listeners.

I bought an iPad Mini with Retina for my wife today as a surprise Christmas gift. She has an iPhone 4 now with iCloud backup. When we go set the iPad mini up and it asks if we want to use her iPhone iCloud account to restore from, what do you suggest we do? I don't want her iPad to have a bunch of iPhone apps on it. Can she still use her same Apple ID but choose not to restore her apps but to start with the stock iPad Apps? That way she can download the iPad versions of the apps that she wants.

Regards,

John

Hi John,

If your wife has a whole bunch of custom settings / email accounts and other items she would rather not have to reset up - then use the back up - and just delete out all the apps she does not want.

However I tend to find starting from scratch will present less issues. Personally I gave this some thought per if I want to set up my wife's on order iPad Mini Retina from her backup of her current iPad 3rd gen - or did I want to start from scratch. And I decided it would be best to start from scratch - as it should mean a lot less likely chance of issues.

So I am literally going to give her a fresh start.

Then if she does not like the fresh start and misses all her book marks in the browsers and emails - I can then do a restore from the back up - after she asks me to - and then if anything goes wrong - well my Butt is covered.

Not that I fear the woman. But Change and my wife - are not things that go well together.

Well I don't have my new iPad mini Retina or iPMR for those so disposed to speaking in acronimish. But I can at least see some iPMR porn over a ifixit where they lifted the skirt on the iPMR.

So what did we learn with this tear down. Well first Off - it appears Apple got a really good deal on a bulk purchase of Glue - because ones again they use it liberally inside the iPad Mini Retina - which means it is not an easy device to take about or service.

We also learned as expected it has 1 GB of RAM. The Battery in the IPad Mini Retina is not surprisingly bigger - now 24.3 WHr's vs the original mini's 16.3 WHr's - this difference in battery is why the new mini is just slightly thicker than the originally mini.

The A7 in the iPad Mini is the same exact one as in the iPhone 5S - which means it is running at 1.3 GHz - and not the 1.4 GHz of the iPad Air's A7 processor. So it is not the exact same processor of the iPad Air. More on that later.

Overall iFixit gives the iPad Mini Retina a 2 out of 10 for repairability.

On the plus side - the LCD and Glass are not fused together and can be replaced independently - and the Battery is not soldered to the logic board or other components - but with all the glue in there - forget about replacing the battery on your own - unless you do repairs for a living.

Any way for those looking for iPad Mini Retina porn - check out the link in the show notes titled iPad Mini Retina teardown - iFixit.

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/

iPad+Mini+Retina+Display+Teardown/19374

http://www.digital-101.com/2013/11/

ipad-mini-with-retina-display-and-ipad.html

So now that the iPad Mini Retina is in the wild - that means Benchmark testings are being run. And unlike with Samsung that lies, cheats and manipulates bench mark testing - Apple allows for real testing of the devices. So how did the iPad Mini with the A7 processor do - Pretty much exactly how we hoped it would - And that is it smoked / destroyed / humiliated all other 7 and 8 inch tablets on the market. The only tablet that beats the iPad Mini Retina is the iPad Air. And while they are close - the iPad Air is running at 1.4 GHZ while the iPad Mini is clocked down to 1.3 GHZ - which is also where the iPhone 5S is running. For Speed benchmark tests - the iPad Mini Retina - is running about 1.5 to 2X the speed of the Nexus 7 for comparison sake.

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/11/19/

retina-ipad-mini-inferior-display-ipad-air-matter/

There is one notable difference between the iPad Air and the iPad Mini Retina - And that is in color Gamut - as in the iPad Air's display is much better in this area vs the iPad Mini - so who does this effect - basically Professional photographers -

Will every day folks notice the difference - Not from what I have read or heard back. I will compare it to the iPad 3rd Gen once I get it - with it being the iPad mini retina. There was one other issue with issue in quotes - raised by Marco Arment. Who said there was an image retention issue for some units - and he has a test you could run. Interesting thing is I have read and heard from a few people - that when they ran this test on their new iPad Mini Retina - the testing of their device showed their new device was fine - but when they ran the test on their old iPad Mini original - the unit failed the test - which is interesting in that they never saw an issue. Mind you it is being reported this image retention issue is for a small % of units - so what is the test and should you run it? Well per the later part of the question - only run it if you think you are seeing an issue - and to run it Look for the link in the show notes titled - Image Retention on Retina iPad Mini

I will run this on my iPad mini when it comes in - and if you do run it - let me know your results.

I will talk more about this once I have one - but in the mean time there are some links to check out in the show notes.

I should point out one place where the iPad Mini Retina fell behind some other tablets was in the previously mentioned color Gamut test - where the 7" Nexus and Kindle tablets had better Color Gamut. You will likely see those test results mentioned over and over and over again. Because you know if they talk about any other specs - then iPad Mini kicks the but of those devices - like where it had over 35% more screen real estate or is 1.5 to 2+ Times faster in benchmark tests. Again if color Gamut is a huge thing for you - then you don't need me to explain it - and if you do - it is not a big thing for you - and likely not an issue at all for you. More on this in the next episode for sure.

http://www.marco.org/2013/11/14/image-retention-retina-ipad-mini

INTO the email bag we go.

Hi Rob,

Well, as promised the new Mini was waiting for me when I arrived home.

You believe it still had 7.0.3 on it? I mean ..

Well, anyhow, what is there to say. It's a great device.

Of small note as I've not seen this pointed out elsewhere, the new mini ships with the full sized iPad's 12-watt charger rather than the previous Mini's iPhone charger. The new Mini has a bigger battery.

Also, I was able to get on the t-mobile free data plan quickly and easily without calling anybody. I just set it up from the Cellular submenu under Settings. No numbers were required off of the unit itself which is important to me as I am blind thus no sighted assistance was required.

With regard to the Apple $69 leather case:

It fits well and looks and feels great.

The opening to allow access to the lightning port is large enough to allow a non Apple cable like my collection of Amazon Basics Lightning cables.

Regards,

Kevin Barry

So Kevin,

Were you able to get the free 200 MB plan from T-mobile right from the iPad Mini?

Any special steps needed?

Great news about the bigger charger.

Hi Rob,

Directly from the iPad mini. Nothing more than fill in new account info, without any payment info, in the cellular settings section.

It assigned a phone number and off I went.

Really couldn't have been any easier.

Regards,

Kevin

Hi Rob,

I got your notification about the mini 2 hrs. after it went live. Ordered a 64 gig, space grey Verizon. Web site said delivery Nov. 26 - Dec. 6. Unit shipped with a delivery date of Nov. 20. Arrived Nov. 18.

I love it. It came fully charged and ready to go. I love it.

Thanks for the heads up.

Regards,

Tom

Hi Rob,

I was browsing the Apple Store app on my iPhone last Tuesday and did a double take when I saw the link to reserve and collect an iPad mini with retina display. Pickups were only same-day so I got online at 6am the next day and reserved a 64Gb black/slate wifi model from my local store in Norwich UK.

Unboxing, I was amazed at how light it was compared to my current iPad 3rd gen which normally resides at home, it's size and weight just scream - "take me with you!"

The speed of the iPad is the second shock to the system - it flies. Apps like my daily newspaper which was unflatteringly sluggish to open on the iPad3 in over 20 seconds now opens in under 5.

The speaker is louder, with more depth of sound and better base. The display has the razor sharp crispness that I got used to with the full size iPad. My only criticism is that the icon colours lack a slight depth to them and appear very slightly paler or washed out. I am being picky here but there is a noticeable difference.

I was slightly concerned about reports on Twitter of some users complaining about image burn-in but i can see no evidence of this in my unit as of yet.

Lastly, I'm just starting to get into the new free Apple apps that I have at my disposal now, iMovie for one has loads of potential - they are not pre-loaded so need to be downloaded from the App Store.

Regards,

Julian. Suffolk, UK.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/12/

new_ipad_mini_is_already_going_for_a_song/

You have to wonder sometimes what it is that Apple did to piss off the UK press - as it is rare I don't see major link bate - Apple bashing headlines - when it is an article out of the UK. The latest is the following headline from the Register in the UK - Quote Apple's new iPad Mini ALREADY set for Black Friday PRICE SLASH unquote. So does this mean Apple is slashing the price of the new iPad mini retina. NOPE - what it means are some stores are offering up gift cards to those that buy the iPad Mini on Black Friday - but that is also true for other tablets as well. In the case of Target - they are offering up a $75 gift card if you are lucky enough to get an iPad mini retina on black friday. You get a $100 gift card for the iPad Air.

Going to the email bag

Hi Rob,

I got Walmart's Black Friday ad on Nov 12th. One thing they listed is the iPad Mini (non-retina) for $299 plus a $100 gift card. There's a 1 hour in-stock guarantee, so if there isn't one available, you can still buy it for that price and pick it up later.

They are also giving $75 gift cards with the purchase of an iPhone 5S or 5C, plus discounts. The 5S is listed for $189 and the 5C is $45. With the gift card they are giving you $30 to buy the 5C.

Regards,

Myron U

Thanks Myron for that heads up. Folks if you hear of any other good Black Friday deals - please email them into the show. Or go to today in iOS dot com slash community and post up there any deals you find.

http://www.amongtech.com/ios-7-0-4-comes

-with-fix-for-facetime-bug-and-other-issues/

Apple released last week a minor update to iOS 7 going to iOS 7.0.4. As with an Dot zero dot X release it is all about the bugs man. The key one being the FaceTime Bug and there is a security patch. As always if / when updating to iOS 7.0.4 - which seems to be fine to update to - if you don't plan on Jailbreaking - more on that for jail breakers later in the show - but for non-jailbreakers - it does seem fine to update. I updated and have had no issues. As always before you update / upgrade. 1. Force quit all open apps - to - Back up / sync and back up again your iOS device - then do a reset - reset network settings - when your device reboots - make sure you reconnect to Wifi - and then go and do your update.

http://www.cultofmac.com/254839/all-the

-changes-in-ios-7-1-beta-youll-actually-notice/

So iOS 7.1 Beta 1 is out to Devs. Personally I am holding off until at least the 3rd beta before trying it out.

That said here is what is new - one is there is now a second keyboard to choose from. The new one is a dark keyboard which is supposed to really help some that are sight impaired better see the keys. There is also improved contrast overall - where you have the option to reduce transparency turning the Dock and folder backgrounds a dark grey - so there are actually two options to chose - one called Reduce Transparency and the other called Darken Colors. I know a few of you were asking for help in this area - and nice to see Apple stepping up and helping out there. There is also a new HDR auto mode. Which it then looks at all 3 exposures and picks the best one for you. And now you can choose wether or not to upload all your burst mode photos. So far those are some of the biggest changes in iOS 7.1 Beta 1 found so far - more to come on this shortly. As always with the betas - I do not recommend them for anyone other than devs and testers of apps. And really if you don't like when things break or don't go right stay away from the betas.

Hi Rob,

I just got a new iPad Air 32GB by utilizing the Target deal last week to trade in my iPad Mini 16GB for $200. I also signed up for a Target "RedCard" to get an additional 5% off my purchase AND was able to do all this at a Target in Delaware (no sales tax)- so my total out of pocket expense was about $380. That helped me justify the jump from Mini to Air.

I wasn't planning on getting a warranty on this, but after listening to your podcast today and being reminded of the SquareTrade deal you offer, I just went for it. I usually always get Apple Care warranties on my iPhones because they have saved my bacon more than once by handing me a new phone on the spot while I was traveling. I always liked this aspect of Apple Care because when my phone goes down, I need it replaced immediately.

However, it dawned on me that this is not the case for my iPad. I could live for a few days without my iPad if I had to send it in for replacement with SquareTrade. And even though I only spent $380 on this, the replacement cost would be $600- so $89 for SquareTrade's extensive coverage started looking better and better.

I just wanted to let you know that your great offer (and reminder) had me go for it. If any of your other listeners were reluctant to go with SquareTrade for their phones due to the shipping time involved, I'd suggest re-approaching the topic for iPads.

Thanks again!

-Matt G

Hi Matt - thanks for taking advantage of the offer for the iPad warranties - which folks if you go to square trade dot com slash tii 2 - that is slash t i i and the number 2 - you will get a 2 year warranty for just $89 - that is a savings of $35 off the normal price for being a Tii listener.

Per matt's comments about turn around for repairs - I contacting the folks at square trade and asked them the following.

Hi Kenny,

Quick question - When it comes to getting an iPhone or iPad repaired.

What are all the options for squaretrade customers?

And what is the option that causes the shortest amount of time without the unit?

I was thinking you can bring the device to Apple store - and then squaretrade reimburses you? Is that one of the options?

Thanks

Rob W

And their response was Quote

Hi Rob,

Genius Bar is one of the options and also one of the best. With regards to shortest amount of time that goes without the unit, it really depends on the severity of the issue and what bandwidth the repair shop has. If you’re talking about a cracked screen, my recommendation would be to do some research of local repair shops online and then call them to see how quickly they can repair your device. We’ll reimburse you for the cost as long as you can furnish a receipt.

Regards,

-Kenny at Squaretrade

Unquote.

So you can get your iOS device repaired at an Apple store or at a local repair guy. Which is really nice for those not close to an Apple store. For iPhone warranties go to square trade dot come slash t i i - and for the iPad go to square trade dot com slash t i i and the number 2. And Yes absolutely 100% I am getting a square trade warranty for my iPad Mini when it gets hear and I already have one for my iPhone 5S. It is nice having that piece of mind.

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Into The Email Bag.

Hey Rob,

In episode 287 a viewer was looking for a way to create a ringtone of a song on an iOS device without syncing it to iTunes. The only app that I can think of that can do this is GarageBand. The app allows you to not only import songs from your music library into a project but also allows you to export that same project into a ringtone.

Regards,

Michael M.

Hi Rob,

I know that you can create a ringtone and apply it on the iPhone itself using the GarageBand app. It is now free with the iOS 7 update, so that makes it a much better option. I have done it several times and I can create a ringtone from a song I import on my iPhone. I hope this helps, as I have been doing this for a while and surprised you haven't heard it before. Keep up the great work rob. I look forward to this every week.

Regards,

Ben K

Hi Rob,

How are you?

Just responding to the caller on Episode 0288 about ringtones.

I thought you already mentioned this approach, but you can create ringtones using only an iPhone and GarageBand.

I outlined it last month in this video on my site here: http://appchasers.com/2013/10/17/how-to-create-ringtones-using-only-an-iphone/

Its not the most straightforward method, but it works.

Thanks for everything Rob!

Eric Meister

AppChasers.com

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I've experienced the samen 2001 error the 2001 error and did all the advised things on the apple site and on the internet. After bringing it in at an Apple store i got the iPhone replaced. It had something to do with a damaged baseband on the iPhone during the update or restore of iOS.

The Genius whas nog able to repair the baseband. so he gave me a new iPhone.

kind regards,

Paulo Dekkers

Hi Rob,

On episode 288 you had a listener ask how he could stream his content from his apple tv to his iOS device. By chance I heard someone talk about this just yesterday. From how I understand it his solution did not brighter the Apple TV nor the iOS device to be jail broken. However - since it was on a iOS/Mac developer podcast it did involve downloading, compiling and installing a application from GitHub. From what I hear applications like this one sometimes also appear on the AppStore but usually get taken down again pretty quickly (like the screen recorders I keep looking for). I didn't pay attention to it because I don't have access to any Apple TV but would gladly go digging after it again. But since this requires a developer account I won't do so unless anyone actually is interested.

Greeting from Bern, Switzerland

Andris

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From email and also posted up on the google plus community at todayinios dot com / community -

Hi Rob

How about asking people to share their favorite holiday aps?

Karen H

And one response was - Grinchmas - that from Carolyn P. If you have your favorite Holiday App - let us know what it is send an email to today in iOS at gmail dot com - or put up a post in the google+ community.

Speaking of which here are a couple of the other items posted up there. From Carolyn M - she asked - What is your favorite podcast app to fully enjoy Today in iOS. There were 9 responses and they were - iCatcher, The Tii App three times, DownCast twice, the Podcasts App twice, and Stitcher. Go there and add in your own favorite podcast App for listening to this show and others.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/113410164

456070196156/posts/LVmW1bMx39d?cfem=1

There was also a post asking about is anyone has downloaded the iOS 7.1 Beta and what the new keyboard looks like - to which David D said the keyboard in iOS 7.1 beta is a big improvement and you can see the keys better and he changed over to the new black keyboard.

And there are other posts with other questions and comments and news - go to today in iOS dot com slash community to partake in that google plus community which by the way is a friendly no spam zone and no angry over compensating Android fan boy zone. I do actually look at public posts for those that apply to get in and if they have reviews or anything pro Android in their posts - I don't even let them in. I am going to air on the side of being too much of a gate keeper - as I am in other Apple / iOS Google+ communities and they are just run amok with Android Fan boys. So if you are someone that has been turned off by the name calling and vitriol found on other Google+ communities - this one is highly moderated. with a basic one strike rule. Again go to today in iOS dot com / community to request to join.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/

2013/nov/11/apple-maps-google-iphone-users

Ok - Quick redaction of earlier comments - here is a post about apple from the UK that is actually I think pro Apple - it is from the Guardian and is titled - Apple Maps How Google Lost when everyone thought it had won.

Remember last year when the world was completely killing apple over apple Maps - and I was saying - hey it is not bad at all - and I actually thought it was good. Yeah - well guess what once you took the tech press out of the equation it seems the majority of iOS users sided with me. In your face Android Fan boys posing as tech press. See Comscore did some looking at usage and when they found was that For iPhone owners - 35 Million in the US used Apples Map app in September compared to just 6 Mil using Google maps - and of that 6 mil - 2 mil were using iPhones that could not upgrade to iOS 6 and Apples maps app. So just 4 mil of iOS 6 and 7 users use Google Maps vs 35 Mil for Apples Map. Google clearly lost that battle. I know personally I can't remember the last time I opened the Google Map app - I use the Apple Map app and have for a long long time now.

Don't feel bad for Google - it was their refusal to allow turn by Turn that got them booted from iOS to start with.

And now it is very clear - Apples Maps is by far and really not surprisingly the clear winner of Maps on iOS. Not surprisingly - because people like using the default apps. Which is why the Podcasts App is the number one Apps for consuming Podcasts - more so than all the other apps out there combined and times by a few.

And while the Podcasts app much to my chagrin is not pre-installed - it does get installed in the group of free apps including Find My iPhone and iBooks. Why Apple does not make all their apps pre-installed apps can probably only be explained by an Accountant.

There is an article with Article in quotes and italicized - by Henry Blodget titled Come on Apple fans its time to admit that the company is blowing it. - and well The only thing it is time to admit is Henry Blogdet is an idiot. I mean Blind Monkeys throwing typewriters at broken clocks would be right more often then Mr Blodget and his link bait Apple loathing articles.

No sorry no link to his article in the show notes - because it is poppy cock to put it nicely. So for those asking for my thoughts there they are. He is basically calling for Apple to get in line with all the Android manufacturers and sell product for a loss so they can make it up in Market share. And then he skews and misrepresents market share - talking about the latest quarters numbers like they are installed base numbers - which they are not - and they were the quarter leading up to the launch of new iOS devices - this quarters numbers will be significantly different. So either Mr Blodget is an idiot in that he does not know better or he is for some reason purposefully misleading. Based on his past articles - I would guess it is a combo of both.

Hi Rob,

Jon from Orange County CA here. This is a link to a YouTube video i stumbled on which gives another reason Why NFC is a bad idea.

keep up the good work.

Jon

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/11/17/uk

-primesense-apple-idUKBRE9AG03I20131117

On the rumor front Apple is said to be either buying PrimeSense - or has already bought Primesense. The rumor of the deal being done comes from Calcalist in Israel - which is where Primesense is located and this is the company that makes the the 3D sensing tech in the MS Kinnect. Now if this all sounds vaguely familiar that is because the source Calcalist reported the same thing back in Mid July - at that time Apple was supposedly paying $280 Mil. This time they are supposedly paying $345 Mil. All Things D is saying their sources are saying it is in the works - but no deal is done yet. However the Guardian is reporting it now as a done deal. But they are giving Calcalist as their source. With Primesense stating the do not comment on rumors or recycled rumors - oh Touché.

Thanks to Tash and Dr John for this next one. Which also fits in the Rumor category - or the rumor of a delay to a product that have been overly rumored to be coming next year for the past 4+ years. And that of course is the Full on Apple TV. Seems NPD display search Analyst Paul Gagnon thinks the main reason for the delay in the full on Apple TV is Apple inability to secure deals for Proprietary content.

Now that is a reason I can believe - Apple would not want to launch an Apple TV with out the best ecosystem around it. But other rumors say the delay is because Apple is focusing on Wearables - yes because you know Apple has 146 Billion and 10's of thousands of employees and they do not have the resources or bandwidth to develop both a smart watch and a full on TV at the same time. Yeah not buying that either.

Per a full on Apple TV being delayed because of content - Well at some point Apple just needs to get it out there - let us Apple fan boys buy our new 4K apple TV and then Apple use the installed base to help convince studios offer up the content Apple needs - Of course if Apple had purchased Netflic a year ago when the stock was at $55 instead of $350 - it would have helped on that whole content thingy issue a bunch. Just sayin.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/11/5091696

/apple-hdtv-plans-reportedly-delayed-over-content-issues

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/11/22/

apple-china-mobile-iphone-2/

Seems the iPhone and iPad appear in an ad by China Mobile showing many devices. While not direct confirmation of the iPhone going to China Mobile - it is starting to look like it will be sooner rather than later for the iPhone on China Mobile.

Seems there is some text about December 18th and Jan 18th being potential dates for some sort of launch.

http://www.tuaw.com/2013/11/12/

android-to-iphone-trend-accelerating/

Interesting data out of the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners or CIRP - they looked at new iPhone buyer and what they found was that 20% were coming over from Android. That is up from 16% a year earlier.

They also found that 65% of iPhone buyers were upgrading from another iPhone. That is up from 55% a year earlier. Where there was a drop off was in owners of a feature phone - because there are a lot less of those folks who never owned a smartphone out there.

http://www.gsmarena.com/mobile_malware_on

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A new report about Mobile Malware is out or put another way - another report about Android is out. 97% of Mobile Malware according to the latest report from F-Secure targets Android. That is out of the 259 total Mobile Threat Families and variants that have been detected - 252 out of the 259 are found on Android. The remaining 7 are found on Symbian OS. And no threats as in zip none nada - were reported for iOS, Blackberry or Windows Phone 8. Which brings us back to the laughter at the Gartner conference when Eric Schmidt said Android was more secure than iOS. F-Secure gives a bunch of advice on how to secure your Android device and best practices and where to go to get apps. Or you could you know just get an iPhone or I guess a Windows Phone

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/your

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Here is an interesting Hack done on a Galaxy S3 - Researchers - put software on an S3 and also a Nexus S - which allowed them to use the camera and microphones to figure out what passcode you were entering on your device. They created a side channel PIN Skimmer. With this they could get into devices over 50% of the time after just five attempts. Granted it is just by researchers at this time and likely never will be in the field - but it seems like it is much more likely for someone to hack your security that way then via a finger print hack. Actually it makes touch ID look more attractive -- especially when you think of the future of mobile payment options.

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Hi Rob.

As in most recent podcast 31m46 from shavan ; mentioning a great app to report crimes, potholes etc.

I found this app very similar to a fantastic app I've been using here in Australia called "Snapsolve" it doesn't let you report crimes per say but basically let's you report anything council related ; eg. Damaged street light etc. with the handy feature of letting you take a photo tagged with gps coordinates. I've used it to report a pothole and within a week the problem was fixed.

Regards Matthew

Hi Rob,

Per other applications like the one in Hawaii to report civic issues and problems.

I have an app called “PublicStuff”. Information at <www.publicstuff.com>. The description on the app store is as follows:

Communicate directly with your community leaders to resolve issues in your city and neighborhood from anywhere in the United States!

Here’s how it works:

1. See something that needs to be fixed?

2. Submit a request and even attach a photo.

3. City Staff receives the request.

4. The City fixes the problem!

5. You get notified when the request is completed.

You can also monitor requests, provide comments and follow other requests in your community. Download the app today to get started!

It does not have every city in it but the list is growing. They suggest you make your community aware of it and they do have information for municipal administrations on the web site.

Regards,

Michael R M

Hi Rob,

I’d like to react to the caller to your show that told about an app on Kauai to help signal things to the police. Something similar exists in The Netherlands, where the app “Buiten Beter” (pronounced roughly like “beytuhn baiter” and literally translated to “outside better”) can be used all over the country to signal a wide range of issues to the local government. It requires a registration, so it is not anonymous, but once you’ve registered you can use the app anywhere, and based on your location the information is automatically sent to the right authority within the area where you’re reporting from. Followup is through e-mail. Things that can be reported through the app are varied, and nicely categorized into groups lilke, street lighting, garbage, broken water draining, or problems with the pavement. Like Kauai, The Netherlands is a small place, but it is less exotic and you may have other listeners there that can benefit from this app.

Best regards,

Rob Hooft

Hey Rob,

I've got a 5s running 7.0.3, I ordered 4 lightning cables from cellphoneshop.net and all 4 have been working perfectly. I'm guessing that some third party cables must still be working.

-Luke

Indianapolis

Hi Rob,

I have had my iphone 5s now for about 5 weeks and I can not get my thumb print to work good. I can get other fingers to work but not the thumb( either right or left). I have tried deleting it and adding it back several times but it just seems to work good for half a day and then gets harder and harder to have the fingerprint recognized. I have even tried to install the same thumb print in two different memory locations ( say finger 1 and 2).

Other than that one problem, I really like the 5s.

Any suggestions?

Regards,

Jim from Lakewood CO.

Hi Jim,

When you are setting up your thumb print - are you making sure to touch with all the different parts of your thumb - the sides, middle, top and bottom of your thumb print?

The more of your thumb print you give it when setting it up the easier it should be to unlock.

For me it works great - no issues at all.

Hi Rob,

I will try it again but the setup kind of coaches you to register all parts of your finger. I would be interesting to see if any of your listeners have had any problems.

Thanks

Jim

Hi Rob just heard the episode where one of your listeners was reporting problems with disappearing email account passwords and being asked to reenter them every few days.

I have had this issue myself prior to iOS 7 in since its launch as well. It happens infrequently and seems to happen to a number of my accounts. I currently have five different IMAP account that my phone accesses and it seems that this issue can happen with any of them. Typically restarting the phone for completely shutting down the mail app and relaunching takes care of this but I also do not know why it happens in the first place

Regards,

Chris

VOICEMAIL - PAUL_TIP_CLEANING_LINT

Well I received one of My Kickstarter Projects - this is the RECAP project - actually I received it twice. Well he sent me the one I funded - and I tested it out and it did not allow you to record on iPhones - but he had another version - the RECAP 2 - and he sent me a prototype of it to test out and it works great. This device is a little smaller than the Square - and I can connect the output of it from my iPhone to an iOS device and then record that call right in the boss jock app. This will work for a phone call, a Skype to Skype call, a FaceTime audio or other voip call. And the good news is he is launching a new kickstater project of the RECAP 2 - and this one is to support iOS device recordings. I talked with Igor the project lead a little this past week and will do an interview with him this weekend for podcast411 for my next episode and I will also try to get some of that audio over here on the next episode as well. And will of course mention it once the next Kickstarter project kicks off.

Again this is a very small and portable device and all you need is an iPhone and another iOS device and one 1/8" to 1/8" cord.

I want to say Kudos to Igor the engineer / designer of this - not just for getting me the iOS device to test - but also for hitting his date targets and for having a really good sounding device. And if all goes well - I will have an episode of Podcast411 where you can hear how well it works. I Probably will do something on an upcoming episode of the Feed as well. This really is a great device for anyone with two iOS device and is looking to record phone calls.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/

igorramos/recap-record-calls-on-pc?ref=live

Hey Rob,

Just came across this combo charger which looks interesting. It's an

Indiegogo campaign and it's already funded.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/thingcharger-the-awesome-new-charger-for-all-your-things

Take care,

Kevin

Thanks Kevin for the heads up on this one. Thingcharger - one word - is a unique / ingenious way to get charging modules for your iOS devices. Essentially what it is device about the same dimensions as a face plate cover for a single / two prong out cover. and about the depth of 3/4 of an inch. And you plug this into the outlet so it covers the outlet and at the top is a charging connector for your device.

The cost of this is $29 for one Thingcharger or or $58 for 3 ThingCharger or $87 for 5 Thingchargers or - well there are a bunch of options.

There is also a $9 adder for a lightening Tip. And a $5 adder for shipping in the US.

The goal on this was $25,000 - they blew way through it - and are currently at over $200,000 with 21 days left.

And you can stack these too - so you can plug a few into the same outlet - say in the kitchen - so in the morning your phone and your significant others phone and your iPad are all charged up.

Say at the office you can spread them around. Where there is an out let it can now be a charging station - with no cords.

Search for ThingCharger - one word in the show notes for ep 289 or search for it over at indiegogo dot com.

By the way I really really did not do this device justice - it is a really great idea and it looks great and they even have a power button so it is not drawing power when not in use.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/

thingcharger-the-awesome-new-

charger-for-all-your-things

We have a USell back this week as a sponsor - and that is Usell spelled U S E L L - who is an aggregator of buyers of mobile devices. You know you have some old mobile devices - be it iPhones, iPads, or dare we says it Android devices laying around that are collecting dust. Don't be your own little island of misfit mobile devices - sell them off to someone that will love them and use them and touch them all over. You remember how happy that The Charlie in the box was and the spotted elephant was when they found new owners - well that mobile device you have collecting dust or stuck in a draw can feel the same way. And when you go to today in iOS dot com slash usell - you can put a smile on your face too by getting cold hard cash. For example an iPhone 5 64 gb Verizon version right now will get you a top offer of $315 - that is $25 more than the same device would get you at that company that has the name of cheetah food.

Again go to today in iOS dot com slash Usell that is slash U S E L L - to get a bid and sell your old no longer being used mobile devices.

Thanks to Tash for the heads up on this next one.

Which is an article from TUAW looking at calculator accuracy. Essentially it is a test where you take the square root of 2 and multiply it by the square root of 2 - an accurate calculator gives you an answer of 2 - a not so accurate calculator gives you an answer of 1.9999 something. So when you do this with the Apple stock calculator the answer you get is 2 - so that is a pass for Apple. There were some other tests - which well are sooooo exciting I just don't want to spoil what they are - but I will let you know the results - iOS Stock Calculator passed the tests.

So go ahead and turn that calculator to Landscape mode and take advantage of the 16 digit multi function and as we now know very accurate calculator.

By the way in iOS 7 - Memory plus went away in Portrait mode - so if you want to use the memory of the calculator you need to turn it to landscape mode.

http://www.tuaw.com/2013/11/12/

calculating-the-difference-a-look-at

-calculator-accuracy-in-ios/

Thanks to Tash for this next one which is also from TUAW and it is about the App Roman Ruins HD for iPad.

So lets say you are a fan of the most excellent History of Rome Podcast - but you don't have the coinage to plan a vacation to Italy to visit the ruins of some of the places Mike talked about in his podcast series. Well now for less than Ten bucks. You can virtually visits the ruins of many Roman sites - with over 1,500 images and lots and lots of text to explain those images and the ruins they are showing. It is actually at the time I put the show notes together on sale for $4.99 - down from the normal $9.99 price. Again for all you History of Rome fans - this sounds like a nice complement to what you learn from Mike. Or if you are planning to visit Italy - you can use this to scope out where to go before hand.

Search for Roman Ruins HD in the App store.

http://www.tuaw.com/2013/11/08/

roman-ruins-hd-for-ipad-is-a-terrific

-way-to-explore-ancient-rom/

PLAY VOICEMAIL _ JEFF_QUEST_SEARCH_GLOBALLY

Hi Rob,

I have an issue that I thought you or your listeners could help me resolve. When my kids were young we had only one Apple ID that we shared to buy apps, music, and games to a shared iPod. Now that my kids are older and have their own iTunes account and phones, I would like to transfer the iTunes credit to another account but can't seem to figure out how to do it. Everything I have researched comes back to "your just out of luck". I would appreciate any help or suggestions on how to use the iTunes credit so I can delete that account and be done with it.

Thanks for the help and love the show.

John in Lee's Summit, MO

Hi rob. Love your show. I have an iPhone 4, 4s and iPad 2 running iOS 7.0.4 and every now and then on the 4s my contacts in both the phone app and contact app disappear for no good reason. After turning off and on contacts in the icloud account page the contacts will reappear but then I have to reassign all the ringtones. Have you or any of your listeners have this problem or know of a solution

Again love your show

Scott Moore

Northlake IL

Hi Rob

I know Apple says the iPad Air should get 10 hours of battery life, but since my last full charge, mine is showing nineteen hours and 27 minutes of usage with 9% still left - and, yes, I ran it completely empty before the full charge. Can this be right? That usage has included watching a couple of shows on Netflix as well as a lot of gaming.

Regards,

Jon

Hi Jon - Yes sounds right. One thing Apple has always done is be conservative in their Battery Life estimates for their iPad line up. So for you to get 19+ hours is not a shocker. I am really looking forward to seeing what the iPad mini with retina does for battery life testing. If my wife lets me test it that is.

Hi,

I wonder if yourself or the listeners could help me.

I have moved from a Windows PC to a MacBook Pro. When transferring files I used HomeSharing on itunes to transfer the music and apps from my old laptop to my Mac and I think that is where I stuffed up.

I de-authorised the itunes on the old laptop, which has since gone. When I authorised the itunes on my Mac, it would not sync with my iphone 5, ipod touch and ipad. I managed to get the music to sync but I can not sync the apps. I have deleted them on the devices and then reinstalled them via itunes, I have also tried resetting the devices but still itunes will not sync the apps.

Am I doing something wrong, or is there some setting on itunes that I can not see?

Thanks for any help that you can give.

Kindest regards

Greg

VOCIEMAIL - BEN_IOS7_SIRI_ISSUE_Location

Hi Rob,

I'm curious if you or any of the listeners have an issue with the touch id sensor on the new 5s not working well after either swimming or taking a long shower/doing dishes, etc.? I swim frequently, and whenever I do, the touch id sensor has a lot of trouble with my thumb print for quite a while afterwards. I tried adding a new fingerprint during this stage hoping it might work better, but it does not. Overall Im not really pleased with how good the sensor seems to work for me, as I frequently throughout the day have trouble getting into my phone, taking 2 or 3 tries, and sometimes having to enter my code instead. I would appreciate your thoughts on this, and any suggestions you might have.

Love the show!

Thanks,

--David

Hi David,

I have not had that issue - but I have not tried it after a long swim or bath yet.

I would suggest if you are having issues in none water induced wrinkledge cases - that you remove all your finger prints or at least the ones you have issues for and retrain the finger you are having issues with.

When retraining - make sure to move your finger around to get the sides and the tip - not just the center.

For me it works great - it is rare I have to try a 2nd or 3rd time - and I can't remember the last time I had to enter the code - out side of after a reboot.

Rob W

Hey Rob:

Seem to have a problem on a iPhone 4S where the wifi turns off and would not turn back on. I'd go to settings and no matter how I tried I could not switch it on. Did all the usual things. Reset network, force quick apps, restarted and other things. Also affected was Bluetooth. I saw that several people had a problem with this and one of the fixes was put it in a zip lock freezer bag and then in the freezer for 15 min. I did this once and no help. Did it a second time and it worked. Is it a hardware or software issue? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Conrad

Hi Rob

I'm looking for an English keyboard for the iPhone that has a question mark on the first screen, with the letters. It is tedious to switch to another screen to access the ? mark. I have set up a shortcut where qq = ? but that leaves an awkward space after the last word and before the question mark.

If you are not aware of a solution please toss this one to the crowd.

Regards,

Matt S

VOICEMAIL - CHRIS_SWEDEN_ANSWR_WIPE

VOICEMAIL - AZ_ANSWR_SEMI_RESTORE

https://twitter.com/musclenerd

For those looking to Jailbreak or are Jailbroken - what does Muscle Nerd of the iPhone Dev team say about iOS 7.0.4 and 7.1 beta.

Well first if your are jailbroken - avoid both.

If you are not jailbroken but running iOS 7.x already - then best to avoid both - but if you did update to 7.0.4 - no biggie - you are ok.

Per 7.1 beta 1 - he says just avoid it as it is buggy anyway. And basically if you are someone that wants to JB - don't do beta's any who.

But good news for those that might have updated to 7.0.4 - it will not effect your ability to jailbreak or so say MuscleNerd.

Hi Rob,

I have a IPad Mini with 6.X ios and jailbreak. since the jailbreak community reported that it is ok to upgrade to 7.04. Should I do so now before ios 7.1 gets released?

Regards,

Jeremy

Hi Jeremy,

No - not unless you want to be without a Jailbreak for a while.

There is no current jailbreak for iOS 7.x

Muscle Nerd is just saying later on when there is one - it is ok to be at 7.0.4 now. So they are not saying there is a jailbreak available now for 7.0.4 - just that going to 7.0.4 - will not exclude you when they finally release a jailbreak. Which will be sometime in the future.

Thanks to tash for the heads up on this next one - which is that the ereader app - Marvin - is free right now.

http://www.tuaw.com/2013/11/22/marvin

-celebrates-its-first-birthday-by-going-

free-for-a-limited/

http://techland.time.com/2012/04/11/

unlock-an-att-iphone-in-5-easy-steps/

For AT&T customers that recently upgrade to an iPhone 5S - especially those that paid the extra $250 to upgrade from a 5 to 5S. If you want your old iPhone unlocked so you can sell it for more money. You need to call AT&T at the following number - You might want to pause here while you get the Notes app open and ready - ok - here is the number - 800-331-0500 - again 800-331-0500 - That is the number you call to ask to get your old AT&T iPhone unlocked - it needs to now be off contract - which if you upgraded to the 5S it is. You will need to provide the IMEI number - which you can find by going to Setting - General - About and then scroll down to find the IMEI number.

I bring all this up because listener David W - had an issue where he upgraded from the 5 to 5S - paid the extra amount for the Upgrade and AT&T was telling him No Soup for you - on the unlock. But once he called that number - AT&T treated him a little different and were there to help him out. Granted they did not unlock it yet - but that was an issue with their system. But calling that number they said they would help - and that is the number I called to unlock my old AT&T phones.

NOTE - this will involve a restore and upgrade on the software - or at least it did the last time I did it - and if you are jailbroken you will loose the jailbreak. Something to consider if jailbroken - But I think you will find you get more for an unlocked phone than a jailbroken phone anyway.

I will repeat the number again - 800-331-0500

VOICEMAIL - STEVE AZ FREE APPS

Hi Rob,

I must disagree with your statement from your item 288 podcast when you said that Apple should do away with the 16 gig version in the next iPhone release. I buy and will continue to buy, if still offered, this smallest size offering. I send all my photos to Dropbox and only keep about 200 songs from my iTunes library on my phone at any given point and then simply switch out what I'm not listening to and replace it with newer songs. I have lots of apps, and I always seem to have at least 4 gigs or more free on my phone at any given time. Lastly, the 16 gig is the cheapest phone to purchase. I like getting the top notch phone, but I think over $200 is unreasonable for a new top notch phone if you don't need larger storage space. I suppose if Apple wanted to offer 32, 64, and 128 as their new 3 size options but then made the 32 gig the $200 phone then fine. But that's probably unlikely.

Anyways, I just thought I'd share my perspective on how nice the 16 gig size phone can be.

Regards,

Tom in Raleigh, NC

Hi Tom,

What I was and am saying is that 16GB is too small for the current pricing. It used to be 4G - then was 8 GB and now 16 GB for the low storage option.

I think it should be upped to 32GB and the price should be what it is now for the 16 GB - $200 with subsidy.

I just think with the current size of apps - 16 GB quickly runs out if you have a bunch of apps.

So from my perspective I think the 16 GB - iPhone and iPad should be killed off and at the current pricing points everything move one notch up for storage. with 32 / 64 and 128 GB iOS devices matching the current pricing for 16 / 32 and 64 GB iOS devices.

Thanks for the feedback and for listening to the show.

Rob W

Hey Rob,

love the show. I am hoping that you or one of your listeners can help with this. I have set up quite a lot of keyboard shortcuts on my phone. Four example if I type my initials and the @ sign the keyboard shortcut inserts my email address. Now I am looking for a way to move these shortcuts to another device. This other device will not have the same iCloud ID so they will not transfer automatically. Is there any easy way to move these from one device to another

Regards,

Andy R

VOICEMAIL - SCOTT_WI_VOICEMAIL_not_deleting

Hi Rob,

I don't expect an answer to this question at this time. But, I find myself in a strange quandary. Do I get an 128GB iPad mini now or hold off until March in case the 128GB+ 12.9" iPad pro comes out?

It seems fairly clear that Apple is working on a pro version since "Air" was added to the iPad name.

I have a 64GB 3rd gen. iPad now. It does seem ironic trying to decide between a smaller sized iPad now or wait four months for a larger sized iPad.

I definately want an 64-bit based iPad. And, it will likely take at least three months for apps to start taking advantage of the new 64-bit architecture.

Regards,

Steven W

Hi Steven - ah yes the age old Question do you get the known and for sale technology of today or do you hold off for the unicorn riding, mythical and magical device of the future that has not been announced - but is surely going to make you rue the day you purchased the current top of the line device - for getting about how cool today's top of the line device is and how much you will enjoy it from now until when said mythical device is announced. Given there are no pictures of said mythical device - I think you are best getting the device you need when you need it - and that is available. So if you need an iPad today - get the best one available today and don't think or fret about what may or may not be in the pipeline.

VOICEMAIL - DRT_LA_EXPERIENCE

VOICEMAIL - JEFF WA QUEST ISSUE MAIL

Hi Rob,

I recall from a few weeks back that when you installed IOS 7 you ran into a problem with the counter on your email…it was showing multi-thousands of emails. What I don’t recall is whether/how you solved that problem.

When I got my new 5S two weeks ago, I had no problem restoring from my last backup of my old 4S, including the email counter. However, I passed that 4S on to my wife (wiped clean, of course) and when we restored from her last backup of her iPhone 4, she got a 10,000+ counter one her email icon.

Any help to be had?

Thanks in advance,

Jeff Grossman

Redmond, WA

Hey Rob,

Some listeners complained about iOS 7 in the last episode. My take on this is that people wanted *something new* from iOS and apple gave them a completely new OS. and now , the same people are crying we didn't want such a big change in iOS. Humans are always inertial to change and I feel as they spend more time with this version of iOS, they will start hating the way things are in iOS 6.

Plus a lady said that apple copied from android, i would like to say that apple hires people from the jailbreak community and those people work on making iOS more efficient.

So rather than saying that apple has copied android, it would be better to say that incorporated some jailbreak tweaks.

And she said that Steve wouldn't let apple copy anything if he was alive, I bet she hasn't read about Steve. He was never against stealing. He famously stole Xerox PARC and quoted Picasso that "great artist always steal" and present that thing in a better way.

Regards

Sanchit

VOICEMAIL - JOE_PHILLIP_FDBK_OK

Thanks again to our sponsor Squaretrade. Remember for your iPad warranty - just $89 for a two year warranty - you save $35 by going to square trade dot com slash t i i 2 - that is slash t i i and the number 2. the iPad Mini 2 with Retina is so light and easy to take with you it is truly a mobile tablet you will want to take everywhere - and that means the potential for accidents. Squaretrade dot com / tii 2 for your $89 iPad Mini and iPad Air warranty.

I also want to thank our other sponsor Usell - go to today in iOS dot com slash Usell that is the letter U s e l l - to get a bid and sell your old no longer being used mobile devices.

If you want to know when new episodes go up - look at the Tii app - not just the best way to consume the show - but also a great way to get a push message when a new episode goes live or there is other iOS breaking news. Just $2.99 in the app store - it helps you get the most out of the show and it helps support the show at the same time - plus it makes it really easy to email or call the show with your feedback. Again just search for Tii in the iTunes app store.

And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. And don't forget to check out our new Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community.

And that folks is going to do it for us today.

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Tue, 12 November 2013

Tii - iTem 0288 - Its Going to be an iPad Christmas

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

iPad Air Warranty - Squaretrade.com/tii2

iPhone 5S Warranty - Squaretrade.com/tii

USELL - http://www.todayinios.com/usell

Twitter - JeffJ6 - Music

Five Year Old Genius Arden Hayes on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Adoption Of Apple's iPad Air Is Already 5 Times That Of The iPad 4

IDC retroactively discovers ten million tablets sold in the year ago quarter

iPad Air release sparks rise in tablet trade-ins - Telegraph

AnandTech | iPad Air Delivers 24 Hours of Battery Life as LTE Hotspot

Tablet Display Shoot-Out - Displaymate

iPad Air Teardown - iFixit

iPad Air is definitely lighter on Apple's wallet

Finding Your Next iPad Just Got Harder, Thanks To Apple

Takedown: Apple invokes the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

iPad Air fails torture test against soft dirt?

ForeignFilmcast.com 49 Headhunters - YouTube

Estimote Bluetooth Smart Beacon - iBeacon-compatible - YouTube

Why Apple's 'indoor GPS' plan is brilliant - Computerworld

Did Apple Just Kill NFC?

Apple gains regulatory approval to finally work with China Mobile

Next year's iPhone needs to include these 5 things

More Sapphire Coming to iPhone 6 | The iPhone 6 News Blog

High-end US smartphone buyers 5x more likely to pick Apple over Samsung

Only one third of Samsung's smartphone sales are in the class of Apple's iPhone

Samsung Galaxy S4 may be the worst phone I have ever owned

BlackBerry calls off sale, will replace CEO

Amazon takes a dig at iPad Air with Kindle Fire HDX ad

Backing up your iPhone's text messages

UVindeSir: The Tiny UV Index Meter for iPhone | Indiegogo

Slope iPad stand

9 Apps Optimized for the iPhone 5s' A7 Processor

Using an iOS 7 device to set up your Apple TV 3rd Gen

How To Access iTunes Radio Outside The US

iPhone 5s, 5c repairs coming to an Apple Store near you

Apps Mentioned in this Episode:

Direct download: tii_0288.mp3
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Tue, 12 November 2013

iOS Artwork - iTem 0288 and Episode Transcript

Hi_Rob,

Here is a photo I took from my car using my iPhone 5 and the 360 camera app to take a panorama. I used the built in photo editor to crop the photo and then the photogene2 app histogram tool to enhance the picture. Finally I used the photogene app on the iPad to put the Tii text in.

Regards,

Jim from LAKEWOOD Colorado

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Transcript for Episode 288

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PLAY VOICEMAIL Question_about_music_in_show

https://twitter.com/jeffj6

Hi Rob,

In Episode 286, the music.... I like it! Can I buy it on iTunes?

Regards,

Judy

Hi Judy - That music was from Jeffrey Jackson - who you can follow on Twitter at jeffj6 or by going to jeffreyjacksonmusic.weebly.com

Links in the show notes.

http://jeffreyjacksonmusic.weebly.com

On Jimmy Kimmel last week they had on Arden a 5 year old wiz kid - that knows all the countries in the world and all their capitals. He is definitely one smart 5 year old - but he showed what a genius he was at the end of the segment. This is when Jimmy is offering him some free gifts - lets play that segment.

PLAY AUDIO

Brilliant.

Luckily I pulled the audio on this as soon as I found out as I did not think it would be around long. And well I find it interesting that Sony was soo pissed about this clip that they had Kimmel's team cut the end of the recording - so now when you go to the official version of that video on Youtube you will no longer see the part where Arden disses the Sony Tablet and says he is getting an iPad for christmas. Which is great news for me - because once Kimmels team edited the original and reposted the version sans the Pro iPad comments - the segment then became covered under fair use - as it became a newsworthy. So NOPE no need for me to take down this segment. Thanks Sony - and hey don't give Kimmels team such a hard time - it is not their fault you wanted to give a 5 year old genius one of your tablets - what did you think he was going to say?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFxjy7f9RpY

Hi Rob,

I purchased a 32GB white/silver WiFi only iPad Air on launch day, and I am absolutely blown away. I must confess that even though I have used the iPad many times in the past, I am a first time owner of the tablet, so I may be a little biased due to the "noooob" factor. The first thing you notice when taking the device out of the box is how comfortable it is to hold. When naked, the iPad Air is so thin and light that you can hold it for long periods of time with ease and without fatigue. I went with a black Smart Cover, and highly recommend keeping this device as light as you possibly can by substituting a full case for some combination of a back skin, Smart Cover, or even a back snap case. In an attempt to keep this short, the last two features I drool over are the graphics performance and the wifi speed...WOW. Just play your favorite game, load your favorite app, or browse Safari and you will be pleasantly surprised with how sharp, smooth, and swift the device runs.

One final note, I have an iPhone 5S and have fallen in love with TouchID, so I am missing it somewhat on the iPad Air. It is not a huge deal, but it would be a cherry on top of the proverbial sundae.

Thanks for all that you do, love the show, and can't wait for the next episode!

Regards,

Bruce W

University of Virginia - Class of 2012

Thanks to Michael for this next one - which is about data from Fiksu which has a chart showing iPad Air adoption in the first few days of its release vs that of the iPad 4th gen and the iPad Mini. And well it is about 4 to 5 times greater after the first 3 days than it was in 2012 for the launch of the iPad 4th gen or the iPad Mini as well. Now this is not all that surprising at the iPad 4th gen really was not a big deal at launch - as it just upped the processor one gen and then added the lightening port - and came 8 months after the launch of the 3rd gen iPad. But still nice to see adoption of the iPad Air is greatly above that of the iPad 4th gen to the iPad mini vs similar time periods after launch. The data Fiksu crunched comes from data of millions of iOS device using the Fiksu silent apps. So looks like it is going to be an iPad christmas just like Tim cook said.

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/11/adoption-of-apples-

ipad-air-is-already-5-times-that-of-its-ipad-4

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/10/idc-retroactively-discovers-

ten-million-tablets-sold-in-the-year-ago-quarter

Speaking of Tablet numbers and data - Kudos to Apple insider for doing some fact checking on numbers from IDC for Tablet shipments - seems a year ago for Q3 2012 IDC said there were 27.8 Mil tablets shipped. Then when they released Q3 2013 numbers and compared to Q3 2012 - Somehow between the cushions IDC was able to find an additional 7 Mil Tablets raising the number to 34.8 Mil tablets shipped in Q3 2012 - that after they lowered their numbers for Sammy from 5.1 Mil to 4.3 Mil. Seems you can just move numbers around all you want on these things - because you know other than Apple no one ever report their numbers.

I did send an email to Tom at IDC who has talked to us in the past to find out how this 25%+ increase for Tablet shipments happened and why the 15%+ decrease for Sammy - plus why they are no longer breaking out Amazon tablet sales.

Thanks to Dr. John for the heads up on this one.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/10417565/

iPad-Air-release-sparks-rise-in-tablet-trade-ins.html

Which is a story about a 585% increase in tablet trade-ins to resellers. One of the rebuyers in the UK did a survey of 1,000 tablet owners and 15% plan on trading in their current tablet in the next three months to get a new one. And the new one they want - well 38% said it would be an iPad air with another 9% saying the iPad Mini. Which I find very interesting - because in the past it seemed the iPad mini sold as many if not more units that the iPad 4th gen. So to see a 38% vs 9% number - something seems off - even if this is a UK centric survey - you would still expect the numbers to be higher for the iPad Mini and close to on par with the iPad Air. Especially this time around with the iPad mini actually be the much better upgrade vs the last gen device. As the iPad mini jumped two processor generation going from the A5 to the A7. Guess we will need to wait for Fiksu to update with their iPad mini data as well.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7477/ipad-air-

delivers-24-hours-of-battery-life-as-lte-hotspot

A nice test of the iPad air was done by Anand over at AnandTech to see the battery life of the iPad Air acting as a mobile hot spot - and he compared his results per the same test he did over a year ago on the 3rd gen iPad LTE. The 3rd Gen LTE iPad lasted 25.27 hours on a single charge - and the iPad Air lasted 24.08 Hours. So while not identical it is still pretty darn impressive. Mind you this was just testing the two devices as a LTE hotspot. How they both do in real world day to day use will be a little different - But Apple is claiming the same battery life for both. Which us up to 10 hours of surfing the web on wifi, watching video or listening to music.

If you remember from my first gen iPad testing - I found the original iPad lasted 13.5 hours of video play back - vs Apples claim of 10 hours.

It seems Apple has done a few things in the iPad air to help with battery life - with the A7 being a key part of that - as well as the new touch screen.

FYI - there was a report out of Australia that was picked up and up and up and well mis-reported and mis-reported and mis-reported - it has to do with an iPad at a Vodafone store catching on fire and forcing people to evacuate the store. Well the mis-reporting part was were many many many sites reported it as an iPad Air that had caught on fire - it was not - it was either an iPad 3rd or 4th gen - but definitely no an iPad air. Apple does have said unit - or at least its charred remains and they are doing a post mortum on it and maybe we will or will not hear from apple what happened with said unit.

We need to Thank Binh N for this next one which is about the Screens in the new iPad Air - which the site Displaymate dot com - which is all focused on display tech - did a display shootout with the iPad Air, Google Nexus 10 and the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9". And what they found was in a nut shell the Amazon fire HDX was the best performing display over all they ever tested - with the iPad Air very close behind. And then the Nexus 10 - which was not close to the first two - but still better then most anything else out there.

In some tests the iPad Air was best - but over all the Fire HDX was just a little better over all.

Now one test they did not do - after doing ton of really technical tests was that for battery life.

They say not available yet - because to most users that one is kind of important - because no matter how good your display is - if the device is out of power - there is no color tests to be done.

Will also be interesting to see how the iPad Mini does - as it is the same number of pixels as the iPad Air - but in a smaller area. So much better pixel density.

Hopefully they update these tests with the iPad Mini - and also include the battery life tests.

If you want to geek out on the specifics of the tests look for the link in the show notes for ep 288 titled - Tablet Display Shoot-Out - Displaymate

http://www.displaymate.com/Tablet_ShootOut_3.htm

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad+Air+Teardown/18907

Whenever there is an iOS device launch of late it is quickly followed by iOS device porn - in the way of iFixit stripping a device down and doing a full dis-assembly to see what makes it tick. And with the iPad Air launch - iFixit did not disappoint.

First thing we find out is the Battery has been reduced from a 43 WHr 3 cell battery to a 32.9 WHR two cell battery. Thus the big % of the weight savings between the 4th gen iPad and the iPad Air. But as mentioned before the battery life is on par with the past gens. So same battery life - just lots less battery. The LTE iPad Air supports 14 LTE bands, DC-HSPA+, UMTS, GSM/Edge, CDMA and EVDO. Whew. So one device to work around the world - or put another way when you buy a iPad Air for a specific carrier - the only thing different about it vs an iPad Air for another carrier is the sim card inside.

Per iFixit's repairability rating - not surprisingly it is low - just a 2 out of 10 - thanks to all the components that a glued in place. Don't expect anything different for the iPad mini 2.

Thanks to Dr. John for this next one. Which is a story at NBC news about the iPad Air being lighter on Apple's wallet. Now mind you take this report and the one it is based on with a grain of salt - as they are talking about findings by iSuppli on the value of the components inside. And since there is an A7 and M7 processor and a few other items specific to Apple - it is hard to get a true BOM cost. As some items are not on the open market. That said - we can definitely say a battery that was 3 cell and 42 WHr's and gets reduced to 2 cells and 32.9 WHr's - well you can expect a roughly 20% reduction in cost on the battery. Now iSuppli says the low end wifi iPad Air costs Apple $274 to manufacture vs $316 for the iPad 3rd gen when it was released. What this means to Apples bottom line - well we will get more of a feel for that at the end of January. But if these numbers are close to accurate - it means Apple makes about $42 more per unit sold. Or about an additional $1 Bill in profits. Hey a Billion here - a Billion there and before you know it - it starts to add up to real money.

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Hi Rob,

I just finished activating the T-Mobile SIM card I ordered on-line. I'm beyond shocked, as it really is a free 200 mb plan.

The difficulty is getting to the right department. After dialing their contact us number, one needs to tell the menu system that you want to do a pre-paid account, but get to a live person. After that, they will verify your device model number (the number printed On THE DEVICE, not in the About section in Settings), transfer you to a pre-paid person who assigns a phone number and activates the SIM card.

They didn't need my name, my credit card, my nothing. Ten minutes later the iPad was connected to T-Mobile and getting data.

This will be great for me as I will not have to activate tethering with Verizon on my iPhone for $20 just to get email to my wife's iPad 2 when we go on trips.

Astounding!

Regards,

Harold

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/ipad-air-definitely

-lighter-apples-wallet-8C11535566

favicon_1.ico http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/06/apple-products-tracker_n_4225753.html

Do you remember previously on the show I mentioned a site you could go to to check the availability of the iPad Air at your 20 closest Apple stores. Yeah - Apple did not like that service all that much and actually sent the own of the site - Apple-tracker dot com a DMCA take down notice. And as the owner of the site said per why he shut down the offering quote - I'm not really interested in picking a fight with Apple unquote. Shame that it comes to this - he was offering up a service to Apple's customers - Apple should have been offering on their own - a simple quick and easy way to see if the iOS device you wanted was in stock at a local Apple store near you.

I guess Apple did not like that any tech blogger or podcaster could quickly check to see availability of devices at any time - so that must be why they killed this service to their customers. Shame on you Apple - because all this info is still available - it just means more jumping through hopes with tech bloggers and Anal-ists will still do. The only one this really hurts is the consumer.

My thanks goes out to Mordy at Apple-Tracker dot com for offering this service. Hopefully Apple will buy the code from Mordy and put up this offering on the Apple site - Ummm Yeah.

My Guess is someone at one of the Anal-ist houses will be hiring Mordy on the down low to get them set up to check this info privately. IT is not that Apple turned off the ability for his code to work - just that they sent him a DMCA take down notice.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57611310-1/

ipad-air-fails-torture-test-against-soft-dirt/

If you want to see an iPad Air Snuff film - there is one from Richard Ryan for RatedRR on Youtube. Where the iPad Air gets dropped on to dirt , Concrete, into water and then pelted by a 500 fps Airsoft bb machine gun and then finally shot by high powered rifles. They do lots of slow mo video - so if you are into iOS snuff films - you will not be disappointed by this one.

What was surprising about the video was not the damage the Cement or BB gun or the rifles did - but what happened when it was dropped from about 3 feet on loose dirt - that is what actually shattered the screen. Something to think about and remember when you are walking around with your iPad Air or give it to your kids to walk around with.

Look for the link titled - iPad Air fails torture test against soft dirt? in the show notes for Ep 288 at today in iOS dot com.

Into the Email bag -

Hey Rob,

I ended up getting a 32GB iPad Air in space gray. I got 32GB because I do use a lot of apps. I was amazed on how light and thin this thing is. For once I am actually worried about breaking it. I got it on Friday and here we are on Monday, and have yet to take off the plastic on the iPad. I am getting a case to ease my fear. This is by far the greatest iPad to date.

Regards,

Or AJ you could get a square trade warranty - and put your mind at ease.

http://www.squaretrade.com/tii2

And with that I want to thank our sponsor today which again is square trade. For those of you that just dropped $500 to $900 on a new iPad Air - you will be happy to know there is an iPad warranty for you - go to square trade dot com slash tii2 - that t i i the number 2.

When you go to that page it will initially show the warranty at $99 - but once you click through - it will then show the actual price as $89 - that's right for Tii listeners for a Squaretrade warranty for your iPad - you can save $35 off the normal price and get 2 years of coverage for just $89. It is almost a half pound lighter and that means you will want to take it more places and more places means more chances for accidents - and that is where squartrade comes in. It gives you a nice piece of mind. I have my squatrade warranty on my iPhone 5S - and will get one for my iPad Mini 2 when I get that as well. And you can get your warranty by going to square trade dot com slash tii2 - that is slash tii and the number 2 for your iPad discount of $35.

If you have a new iPhone that just arrived and is less than 30 days old - time to get a warranty for it as well - go to square trade dot com slash tii - for your iPhone warranty - links in the show notes for both those.

Thanks Squaretrade for sponsoring this show.

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Hi Rob,

In response to Charde in ep 287.

She is looking for a solution to make a ringtone and apply it without a computer. This cannot be done (though I wish it could be). Yes "Ringtone Maker", and "Ringtones" are good apps but you still have to sync the ringtone to iTunes then back into the phone.

Regards,

David T

If you updated late last week or this week to the new version of the Facebook app - and now it is crashing on you - just delete the app from your iOS device - and then from your iOS device - re-install the app. That should fix it. Thanks to all that emailed in about that one. Actually any time you update an app - and then it starts crashing - that is the fix for it. We have seen this issue with the Tii app in the past - and I have seen it with other apps - and it is just a strange bug that has to do with corrupt data during the update. Don't blame Facebook to much on this - it is a strange bug to trouble shoot.

Hey Rob,

You asked for feedback on iOS 7.0.3 in regard to crashing and blue screening. Yup, iOS 7.0.3 does seem to completely fix my problems.

Regards,

Dan P

PLAY VOICEMAIL - Shavan_app_review

Hi Rob,

I have a great recommendation for a list app that will come up when you enter a store for the person who wanted it 2 episodes back. It's called "Any.DO". You can create one to-do item that will pop up when you enter the store, then add notes, and each line of the note can be crossed off as you get each item, and cross off the top item when your done with the whole list.

It's a good free to-do app and I highly recommend it.

Regards,

- Jessi D.

PLAY VOICEMAIL - Fraser_answr_filters

Hi Rob-

As you requested, I'm sending a link to a video showing a few new features of the new iMovie for iOS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vxtjkUfaYY&sns=em

At 30 seconds, the audio was split to set a lower volume.

A new feature seems lower the volume of added music if video audio is left on and raise music volume if the video's audio track is muted. I like that.

At 3:34, I used a new animated text feature (new to me, anyway) and used slow-motion.

At about 4:03, I slowed video speed.

6:55, new animated text.

Jonathan

ForeignFilmcast.com

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vxtjkUfaYY&sns=em

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUIqfjpInxY&feature=youtu.be

Rob love the show and wanted to give my thoughts on this Apple doesn't innovate BS. 1st every time I hear someone say it they never give a reason why and how.

Every step Apple takes is copied one way or another, thats proof of innovation right there, from the iMac right down to airplay. Here is a link to show why there is no NFC on iPhones and why we all from Leo to Jesus should leave the thinking to Apple.

Regards,

James W

Thanks James - and let me play the audio from the link.

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Why Apple's 'indoor GPS' plan is brilliant - Computerworld

Mike Elgan at Computer world also had a nice post on Apples plans with regards to iBeacons. The key feature about it is this - Every iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, 5C and 5S already support iBeacons if they are running iOS 7. So that means there are plenty of devices out on the market that support the use of iBeacons today. Some other a pplications for iBeacons - Self Service Check out - say at Costco or Sam's Club, EZ Pass style building access. Theme Park Family tracking and access to rides. And because of its very good accuracy - down to 1 or 2 inches - it can offer up Navigation aids for sigh impaired users inside a building. And of course just simple use as an ewallet type check out at the register.

The key though behind all this - is Apple has a critical mass of devices in the field that are ready to go today. Users of Apple devices are proven to consume / spend more then Android users. And Well it is not NFC - which Apple seems to be on the way to killing as a mobile payment option.

I guess one real question is how active or should I say involved is apple going to be with iBeacons - are they going to act an enabler of Tech only - or are they going to get in there and provide a payment system - where transactions go through Apple - with Apple taking a small cut - but in exchange offering up payment support from a company everyone knows of.

Regardless - how Apple participates - It does look like once you hear what iBeacons can do - you realize there is very little reason for Apple to support NFC - Apple likes to go with the best tech - and it does look like iBeacons is better than NFC.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/09/11/

apple-gains-regulatory-approval-to-finally-work-with-china-mobile/

Thanks to Chris in London for this next one - which is about Apple Getting Regulatory approval for their devices to work with China Mobile - now this did happen back in September - and there has not been any official announcement yet with China Mobile - but I had heard some other rumors that said announcement might be coming in the mid to Late November time frame - so I will through this out there now and see if in the next few weeks there is finally an Apple / China Mobile deal announced. With 740 Million subscribers - it represents the vast majority of the untapped and unaddressed global market.

Next year's iPhone needs to include these 5 things

Is it too soon to start talking about the next gen iPhone? I know many sites are doing so - and I will not even touch on the one rumor going around this past week - as well it is just plain link bait.

But one article I will lead off from - is an article back on Sept 17th I have been holding onto. It is from into Mobile - and it is not really because of anything he said specifically about the next gen iPhone or that he had any insight - Charles west simply put forth - 5 things the next iPhone needs to have.

Some of which I agree - some I don't.

Such as 1 - Battery Life - I agree - it needs to get better. The 5S had good battery life - but I would love to have 2 day battery life. 2 full days. IE undock on Monday Morning and not need to charge it again until you go to sleep on Tuesday.

He mentions NFC - Sorry not only is that not a need - that is something it seems like Flash and removable batteries and SD card slots - that you are just not going to see on iOS devices.

3 Bigger Screen - I think we are most likely going to see some sort of bigger screen in the iPhone 6 - along side the same screen size in the iPhone 5S - I am guessing at Apple they will want to A/B test so to speak a big and regular size screen and see how sales go. Maybe Apple goes all the way to 5 Inches on the iPhone 6 - or maybe we then go to iPhone Air - current design and iPhone Pro - 5 inch design.

4. More Memory and eliminate the 16 GB version - Amen on that - Why is there a 16 GB version of the iPhone 5S - I don't get that - almost as much as I don't get why there is no 128 GB version. Next year - 32 / 64 and 128 GB should be the storage sizes for the top of the line iPhones

5. Solar Powered Charging - This is one of those - well Apple has a patent for it - so they must be getting ready to do it items. I just don't see it. Apple has many many patents that never get implemented - I think this is one of those.

So I ask you what features do you want to see in the iPhone 6. If you have been listening to this show - you can pretty much guess - top of my list is support for 4K video recording and playback. Shot me an email to today in iOS at Gmail dot com or call the show - you know the number - and let me know what features you really want to see in the iPhone 6 that might even get you to upgrade from the iPhone 5S - and definitely would get you to upgrade from any other version of the iPhone.

More Sapphire Coming to iPhone 6 | The iPhone 6 News Blog

I was going to talk about GT Advanced Technology ticker symbol GTAT - and about Saphire Crystals and 578 Million dollars in advanced payments from Apple and a new factory in Arizona and more - but then Dr. John - sent me an article right before recording this - and I pulled what I wrote and need to touch base with some friends in the Quartz Crystal world to get their thoughts on this - as it could change my initial thoughts on if we will or will not be getting a Saphire screen on the iPhone in the future. Hope to have more on that for ep 289 or 290.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/smartphones/23091/

high-end-us-smartphone-buyers-5x-more-likely-pick

-apple-over-samsung

Interesting article from Jonny Evans at Computer World. In a nut shell - it is found that High End US smartphone buyers are 5X more likely to pick Apple over Samsung. Hmmm - that is not what the Fandroid boys would have you believe. So how does he come to this conclusion - well by going by what Samsung said. See Sammy said only about a 1/3rd of all their smartphone sales are to Higher end customers which are ones that compete with the iPhones. So if you take the latest Comscore data - which had Apple at 40.6 % of US smartphone sales - and Samsung was at 24.9% and you divide that by 3 - then it is a ration of 40.6% for apple vs 8.3% for Sammy or a basically 5 to 1 ratio.

Seems the S4 sales have not been going as well as Sammy had hoped for too.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/samsung-

galaxy-s4-may-be-worst-phone-i-have-ever-owned?source

=NWWNLE_nlt_review_2013-09-13

Thanks to Gerry for the heads up on this next one. Which is a post from the site - Network World dot com - where the author of the post Alan Shimel had this to say about the Samsung Galaxy S4 - quote Samsung Galaxy S4 may be the worst phone I ever owned unquote - which is also the title of the post. Essentially he goes over how bad a phone the S4 is when you look at the idea you might actually you know try to use it as a phone - which seems to be something he struggled with a lot with the S4. Funny early on I used to complain the iPhone was great at everything but being a phone - but that is no longer the case - at least for me - the iPhone is a really good phone and I rarely if ever have a dropped call anymore - which is something that for me was an issue for the Original iPhone and the 3GS - but since the 4 it has gotten better and the 4S was great - as is the 5S.

Under the category of how low can they go - Blackberry has called off their search for someone to buy them - presumably because anyone with enough money to buy them and dumb enough to hand over that money - is still stinging from loosing so much to Bernie Madoff. In addition to calling off their search for a buyer - they are getting rid of their current CEO - Thorsten Heins. The New Interim CEO - as if any CEO of Blackberry at this point is not an Interim CEO is John Chen. Or as I said back on Ep 267 - That in Waterloo they like to refer to them as CEO Du Jour.

favicon_3.ico http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/04/us-blackberry-offer-idUSBRE9A30GI20131104?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

thanks tash for this next one. Which is about Amazon looking a little desperate in one of their ads - where they try to take a shot at the iPad Air - by saying the Fire HDX is lighter than Air. umm - yeah it is also smaller - a 8.9" screen vs 9.7" screen for the iPad - which actually when you look at real estate the difference is much more - as the iPad is wider.

So screen area for the HDX is 35.6 square inches vs the iPad Air's 45.2 Square inches. So it is a screen reduction of 21.2% for the HDX - but There is a 18% difference in weight.

So yes the HDX is lighter - but it is not proportionately lighter - ok - yes getting overly geeky with numbers. But seemed an odd ad from Kindle - when you consider the iPad Mini is coming out and it is lighter than the HDX - although again its screen size is smaller at 7.9 Inches. which is 29.6 square inches. vs the 35.6 square inches of the HDX and the 45.2 square inches of the iPad Air.

Wow - never did that comparison before - 29.6 vs 45.2 inches. So the iPad mini is 65.4% of the iPad Airs screen size.

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Hi Rob,

Just thought you'd like to see my new iphone 5s that was ordered on launch day and delivered by Apple store 2 weeks later.

After a week I noticed a slight bulge in the screen, overnight whilst on charge stand it got worse until this 2 days later….

Which is a picture of the screen bowed up at least .1 to .15 inches - which is close to half the thickness of the device.

I called apple care In uk and was told that its a known problem with faulty components on the battery making it expand! Do NOT use the phone and bring it into an apple store for a new replacement ASAP.

Regards,

Mike G, Brighton, England

Hi Mike thanks for the pictures. Folks if you notice any bowing of your device - do not repeat do not plug it in to the charger and immediately call your local Apple store. You don't want to mess around with Lithium iON batteries because after they expand then tend to ignite and that obviously is not what you want to have happen in the middle of the night when charging.

Yo yo Rob,

On your latest podcast someone asked about how to send apple feedback. For anyone, developer or not,apple.com/feedback is the place to do it. I am not a developer and I have used this frequently.

I plan to use it for the same issue another caller mentioned about albums not having their own folders in the music app. When you have a band or artist's complete catalogue, it's annoying to scroll through them all to find the album you want. If apple doesn't change this, I'll look forward to a jailbreak tweak.

Regards,

Tracy H

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Hi Rob,

I first noticed this bug on iOS 7.0.2, but remains in 7.0.3: The standard Calendar app shows those from 1921 and back wrongly (calendars from 1922 and up show just fine). In 1920 for example the months show at Dec, Feb, Mar - there is no Jan and Dec is listed twice.

Regards,

Fabio

Hi Fabio - unless you are planning on traveling back in time to 1921 or earlier - I am guessing this would be what they call a minor bug. Besides if you are able to travel back in time to 1920 - I am doubting that Apples calendar saying the month is December - when it should be Jan is going to through you off much. My guess is you will just be hoping you don't get small pox or worse yet the Spanish flu. You know maybe Apple messed up the calendar on purpose so time travelers would not go back to 1920 - so they would avoid the spanish flu.

Hi Rob,

I know someone who would like to buy an unlocked iPhone 5s in the US to gift to someone in their home country. The Apple store said they don't carry them. Any options?

Regards,

Ken

Hi Ken - You want to get the Verizon version of the iPhone 5S - off contract - as that is the one that is unlocked and can be used anywhere.

Hi Rob,

Could you put up a survey question seeking how many days people have been waiting for their gold iphone 5s phones? I'm on day 48 with no end in sight and att likely botched my order some how (others who ordered after me on the same model have already shipped).

Regards,

Peter E

Hi Peter - sorry to hear your Gold iPhone 5S is MIA. If anyone else order 40+ days ago and is still waiting for their Gold iPhone 5S - please send and email or call in with when you ordered.

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Thanks to Tash for the heads up on this next one.

Which is an article at TUAW about how to back up your iPhones Text Messages.

For business or personal reasons I can see strong reasons to want to get a copy of all your text messages backed up on your computer. And this article goes about how to do that - for both Mac's and dare I say it PC's as well.

Look for the link titled - Backing up your iPhones Text Messages in the show notes for Ep 288 over at today in iOS dot com.

favicon_4.ico http://www.tuaw.com/2013/11/05/backing-

up-your-iphones-text-messages/

Hi Rob,

Cool project to help parents, outdoors or sun lovers.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/uvindesir-the-tiny-uv-index-meter-for-iphone-and-android

Thomas

Tuscaloosa AL

Thanks Thomas - and what this is is a project called UVindeSir - The Tiny UV index Meter for iPhone. And it is over at Indiegogo dot com. And well as the name indicates - it is a device you plug into the head phone port and it gives you a reading of the UV index and recommends what SPF protection you need. Price of this is $25 right now for early birds - this project has until November 29th to get funding - the Goal is $20,000 and so far they have raised just $3,700 - so they are a bit behind where they need to be. Seems people are more interested in funding RF ID chips to find their remote then they are about measuring the harmful UV rays from the Sun.

Search for UVindeSir at indiegogo dot com - or look for the link in the show notes for ep 288

favicon_5.ico http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/uvindesir-

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PLAY AUDIO FROM KEVIN_Crossman ABOUT SELLING DEVICE

http://www.todayinios.com/usell

We have a new sponsor this week - and that is Usell spelled U S E L L - who is an aggregator of buyers of mobile devices. You know you have some old mobile devices - be it iPhones, iPads, or dare we says it Android devices laying around that are collecting dust. Don't be your own little island of misfit mobile devices - sell them off to someone that will love them and use them and touch them all over. You remember how happy that The Charlie in the box was and the spotted elephant was when they found new owners - well that mobile device you have collecting dust or stuck in a draw can feel the same way. And when you go to today in iOS dot com slash usell - you can put a smile on your face too by getting cold hard cash. For example an iPhone 5 64 gb AT&T version right now will get you a top offer of $266 - that is $26 more than the same device would get you at that company that has the name of cheetah food.

Again go to today in iOS dot com slash Usell that is slash U S E L L - to get a bid and sell your old no longer being used mobile devices.

http://dekke.net/slope.html

Thanks to Tash for this next one. Which is an accessory that is not an indigogo or kickstarter project - rather it is something you can buy now. It is the Slope - which is a stand for your iPad. What is special about this one is it uses a unique suction tech with microscopic suction. Essentially it is a nano foam. So you simple push your iPhone onto the stand is it stays stuck to it. And stays put - but is easy to remove and reposition. It really is a very elegant looking stand - which will set you back $60 bucks. Look for the link titled - Slope iPad Stand in the show notes for ep 288.

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9 Apps Optimized for the iPhone 5s' A7 Processor - Slideshow from PCMag.com

PC Mag had a nice article about 9 apps that have been optimized for the A7 Processor.

1 is Infinitely Blade 3. Which runs $6.99.

2. Is the free App - Argus - it is an activity monitor - that takes advantage really of the M7 processor.

3 is the free app - Pixlr Express Plus - from auto desk - which is an image editing program. Which by the way if you have an iPhone 5S - this is a must get app. Search in the app store app for pixlr express plus - three words with pixlr spelled P I X L R

4. Another free app is 123D creature - Also from Autodesk. Essentially this one lets you put 3D creatures into your photos. Yes gimickie - but cool none the less. And did I mention it is free.

5. Sketchbook Mobile is a $0.99 app - and it is the update to the old none optimized version of Sketchbook - and you guessed it - it is also from Autodesk. This is one app in the past that has been used multiple times for the show album artwork - and if you are looking at your iOS device as a creation device - and artwork is your thing - then sketchbook is a good tool to have in your tool chest.

6. djay 2 for iPhone - this app is $1.99 - and it is for all you iOS dj's that want to mix your own sets. And the new A7 version offers a new feature called Harmonic match for key detection and pitch shift which helps when you are doing a mashup - but if you knew what I was talking about you knew that already.

7. vjay for iPhone - which is $2.99 - because you know video is worth more than audio. Not. But anyway - vjay for iPhone comes from the same people that did djay 2 for iPhone. This app allows you to mashup videos, music and other media on your iPhone.

8. Total Conquest - which is a free game from Gameloft. If you are a fan of the history of rome podcast - this is the free game for you - as well this game is a social strategy game about the roman empire - and did we mention it is free.

And

9. Sing Karaoke by Smule - which is free - but there is an optional premium subscription - so it is a free-mium app. So if you are a karaoke bar fly - this app is for you.

So there are 9 apps optimize for the A7 and there are plenty of others out there now. I hope to talk about more for the new iPad's shortly.

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And yes folks Mark has tried putting it into DFU mode and recovery mode and nothing. He sent over a screen shot showing it with an Error 2001 occurred. He tried what Apple suggests for Error 2000 to 2009 and error 1604. So if anyone has experience of an iPhone 4 giving an error 2001 and you were able to get the unit unbricked - please let us know what you did - 206-666-6364 - that's 206-moon-dog or send an email to today in iOS at gmail dot com.

Hi Rob,

Wanted to give you my take on iOS 7.0.3 from the point of a

legally blind person. Although a lot of the features are great,

I feel Apple could've done more for people with visual

disabilities. I know I'm in the minority of the minority here, but a lot

of the backgrounds are too whited out for people like me.

Even with the Bold Text and Contrast buttons "ON" it does little to

provide contrast. The keyboards in particular for

Mail and Messages are nearly impossible to read without

VoiceOver being activated. I prefer the older iOS versions

with gray menu and keyboard backgrounds, and letters on the keyboard in bolder fonts, but I digress. Also, the invert colors in the

Accessibility menu can have the some effect conversely. I've

also heard normal sighted users say they don't like the plain, whiteout

look. My question is, "Are there any apps that can

provide some kind of overlay remeniscent of the older

iOS versions? If you or your listeners could help I'd be grateful.

Thanks for being the heads up for disabled listerners! Your

show is slammin'!

Rick-East Haven, CT

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Hi, Rob.

I want to give my son my jailbroken iphone 5 running iOS 6.1.2 on ATT. What is the best way to remove all of my content and info while still maintaining the jailbreak?

Also, how do I go about getting the phone activated with his number? Do I have to take the phone into ATT or can I just get a new SIM card?

Regards,

Chris

Las Vegas

Hi Chris - first to delete out all the porn links history - umm I mean info from your old iPhone - go to Settings -- General - Reset - then choose - Erase all content and settings.

That will clear out any potential embarrassing or confidential web browsing history and chat history and emails.

Hi Rob,

Can I play in anyway from an Apple TV 3rd gen to a iPad air in anyway?

Regards,

Michael

Hi Michael - not unless you Jailbreak your Apple TV at a min - and likely both devices. Does anyone out there know if there is a jailbreak app for Apple TV and an iOS device - that allows you to stream content from your Apple TV to your iOS device.

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Apple TV (3rd generation): Using an iOS device to set up your Apple TV

If you have a 3rd Gen Apple TV - and an iOS 7 device - you can now set up our Apple TV using your iOS 7 device. Apple TV software needs to be updated to the latest version. More info in the show notes for ep 288 - look for the link titles Using an iOS 7 device to set up your Apple TV 3rd Gen

Speaking of which we sure are over due for a new Apple TV.

Not that I am really sure what a new Apple TV should offer for new features - other than the obvious - having an app store. But hopefully said Apple TV App store would be available for the Apple TV 2nd and 3rd gen units as well.

Thanks to Tash for this next one - which is an article from Lifehack on how to get iTunes Radio outside the US with out a Proxy server - which is also basically the post title. I will not go over how to do it - beyond saying it involves creating a US app store account and knowing a specific US address. So make sure you have a valid US address with zip code before trying this.

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-access-itunes-radio-outside-

the-us-without-a-pr-1417005225

Thanks to Tash for this next one as well - which is titled iPhone 5S and 5C repairs coming to an Apple Store near you.

Seems they will soon be able to repair screens, fix or replace volume buttons, rear cameras, speakers and vibration motors on the iPhone 5S and 5C. Home buttons for the 5C will be on the menu as well - but the touch ID for the 5S is an off menu item due to the complexity of it. Expect more about this on future episodes - as right now it is all speculation and he said she said.

http://www.tuaw.com/2013/11/07/iphone-5s-5c-

repairs-coming-to-an-apple-store-near-you/

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Hello rob

Starting with ios 7.0.2 and continuing with 7.0.3 I am getting asked for my apple id password everytime I access Reminders, calendar, settings, mail apps it seems to go away about 2 weeks after the update comes out but reappears after next update. Anyone have this problem and know how to solve this and keep it from appearing? Regards,

David M

Hi Rob. In ep. 287 you talked about the free iLife & iWork apps with new iOS and OS X devices. At about the 43:30 mark, you mentioned that free OS X iWork apps apply to Macs purchased Sept 1.

The iWork apps for OS X - Pages, Numbers, and Keynote - are free for Mac computers purchased after October 1, not Sept 1. OS X Mavericks is required for these. The download process is a little different as compared to the iOS apps; the OS X apps should show up in the Mac App Store on the Purchases screen - looking for them in the normal store will still show prices. If someone purchased a computer on/after Oct 1 and does not see the apps in their Purchases screen, they should use the “Up-To-Date Program” link on this page to request that they be added to their account: http://www.apple.com/creativity-apps/mac/up-to-date/

Also I’d like to point out that as with all iOS or OS X App Store apps - even though the apps are free with the purchase of a device, once installed the apps will show up in the Purchases section of your iTunes Store account in the App Store and can then be installed on any compatible devices that you own & use that same Apple ID on - so in my case, when I bought an iPhone 5S and got the free apps, I then installed them on my wife’s iPhone 5 and on my iPad as well - all free of charge.

Thanks Rob, I love the show!

"The Freakin Eurekan"

Hi Rob,

I think the "New" Mail app's red numbers are now correct and if we can call it a 'bug', it did really 'bugged' me! It seemed to have gone away with the most recent update to iOS 7.0.3 I'm very happy those very large New mail numbers are gone at least for now!

Did your 100,00+ number go away also?

I can't thank you enough, you're the best for iOS fans, you just make sense of all this complex and a bit confusing stuff we call Apple...!

Loren from 'not yet winter' Colorado

Hi Loren - now my iPhone is showing 93,518 unread email messages - Ugggg. But on the plus side the imap account I had issues with started working again - with me really not doing anything other than creating a duplicate account for that email address and then deleting the new duplicate account - which somehow caused the original one to start working again.

Hi Rob,

I'm in Sheffield, UK and purchased the iPhone 5S running iOS 7.0.3. Around twice a day when unlocking using Touch ID the screen goes black, the Apple logo spears then it seems to "soft boot". A springboard crash registers in Diagnostics and the usage statistics since last charge revert to hyphens. Any ideas?

Regards,

Alfred C

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Thanks again to our sponsor Squaretrade. Remember for your iPad warranty - just $89 for a two year warranty - you save $35 by going to square trade dot com slash t i i 2 - that is slash t i i and the number 2. the iPad Air is not really as light as air it is still a pound and subject to the laws of gravity - and square trade is there to help you when your iPad becomes part of a newtonian science experiment. Squaretrade dot com / tii 2 for your $89 iPad air warranty.

I also want to thank our other sponsor Usell - go to today in iOS dot com slash Usell that is the letter U s e l l - to get a bid and sell your old no longer being used mobile devices.

And that folks is going to do it for us today.

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Tii - iTem 0287 - JD Powers Jumps the Shark

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

iPad Air Warranty - Squaretrade.com/tii2

iPhone 5S Warranty - Squaretrade.com/tii

Shortened Battery Life Found in Some New iPhones - NYTimes.com

2013 U.S. Tablet Satisfaction Study--Volume 2 | J.D. Power

Apple Q3 2013 Quarterly Report

How many iPhones did Apple sell last quarter? -

Spreadsheet of the day: Final estimates for Apple's Q4 2013

AT&T's Management Discusses Q3 2013 Results

Sprint's CEO Discusses Q3 2013 Results

Apple is either terrible at designing charts or thinks you won’t notice the difference

Apple’s record quarter in education: iPad has 94% of tablet market

iPad Air Supplies Expected to Be Plentiful

iPad Air Availability - Apple-Tracker.com

Apple iPad Air reviews are in:

iPad Air beats the iPad 4 by 80 percent in benchmark tests

iPad Air Reviews: 5 Complaints From the Critics

Apple's iPad Air, iPad mini launch

Apple iPad Air Networks - Tablet Coming to Various Regional Telcos

200 MB of Free Mobile Internet Data for new Tablets Starting at $0 Down | T-Mobile

Addition by subtraction?

Find My iPhone, Podcasts, Movie Trailers apps all updated

iMovie for iOS projects no longer work on the Mac

iPhoto For iOS Saves Edits Back To And Deletes Photos From Camera Roll

iOS daylight savings time bug strikes again

Sharepod | iPhone & iPad Music Transfer for Mac & PC

How to disable nicknames for Messages, Phone, and Mail in iOS 7

iPhone Backup Extractor for Windows and Mac

Lock the iPad to just one app | How To - CNET

Apple's 2014 Capex Rises to $11 Billion

Apple Under-Spends Its Forecast

Siri to Gain Translation Features in Near Future

Russian carriers that ditched the iPhone last year want it back

The fear is palpable as Microsoft exec blasts Apple iPad and free software

BlackBerry denies fake BBM reviews as Samsung fined

Genneo - Kickstarter

GameCase brings a full-size, natively supported gamepad to iOS 7 devices

BBM for iOS and Android Downloads Hit 10 Million+ Download First Day

Twitter / MuscleNerd: @iphonesteven If you've already

How to get unlimited talk, text, and data for $30 a month on an iPhone

iPhone Touchscreen Accuracy

OptoFidelity TPPT tester proved significant fails in Apple iPhone touch accuracy

iPhone 5s vs. Nokia Lumia 1020: Camera Shootout | DustView

Google Fiber app gains new DVR features, now on iPhone and iPod Touch

Apps Mentioned in this Episode:

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iOS Artwork - iTem 0287 and Episode Transcript

Hi Rob,

I made this artwork using Pages for iOS in order to create the text, and Photoshop for iOS to piece everything together. It was, of course, inspired by the new iOS 7 game center and also uses the iOS 7 font (Helvetica Neue - Ultralight).

Regards,

Paul S

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Transcript for Episode 287

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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/shortened-battery-life-found-in-some-new-iphones/?_r=1&

I mentioned on previous episodes how to improve battery life on your iOS 7 device - and that if you have the new iPhone 5S - you should be getting great battery life - well it seems a few unlucky iPhone 5S owners may actually have units that have real issues with battery life and Apple acknowledged that yes there was a manufacturing issue. Apple said quote “We recently discovered a manufacturing issue affecting a very limited number of iPhone 5S devices that could cause the battery to take longer to charge or result in reduced battery life, We are reaching out to customers with affected phones and will provide them with a replacement phone.” unquote

So if you have a new iPhone 5S - and no matter what you do to improve battery life you can't - there is now one thing you can do that will definitely improve the battery life - take it your local apple store and get a new unit. As always - make sure you back up your iPhone to your computer prior to heading off to the Apple store. That is one nice thing About Apple - they are quick to replace a defective unit - and quick to get out updates to fix issues as well - iOS 7.0.3 fixed the level not being level. How long would it take for a fix like that to get out to the masses of an Android unit. Ok granted that is me trying to make lemon aide out of lemons - but still the nice part about iOS - is apple can get out updates to all users very very quickly - with no delay because of carrier versions of the OS.

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http://www.jdpower.com/content/press-release/Czb4Aa9/-2013-u-s-tablet-satisfaction-study.htm

Something is seriously wrong with the results of JD Powers latest Tablet Survey. Seems they have Samsung's tablet beating the iPad 4th Gen in customer satisfaction.

http://www.jdpower.com/consumer-ratings/telecom/ratings/919201690/2013-Tablet+Satisfaction+Study/index.htm

So lets go over the numbers.

Overall Satisfaction - iPad & Samsung = 5 stars

Performance - iPad - 5 stars / Sammy - 3 stars

Ease of Use - iPad - 5 stars / Sammy - 3 stars

Physical Design - iPad 5 stars / Sammy - 4 stars

Tablet Features - iPad - 5 stars / Sammy - 4 stars

Cost - iPad - 2 stars / Sammy - 4 stars

Something just does not add up.

How can sammy get 3 and 4 stars in each category but get 5 stars overall.

Apple gets 5 stars in everything but cost and is behind Sammy how????

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http://tii.libsyn.com/apple-q3-2013-quarterly-report

Here were my predictions for the Apple quarterly call - I said on the last episode.

Quote I will pin the number at 34.8 Mil iPhones sold. With at least 2.5 Mil being listed as Channel inventory fill.

I will say I think the iPad numbers will be lower than a year ago - which was 14 mil. I think Apple will actually report around 13.6 Mil iPad's sold last quarter. unquote.

So How did I do or more importantly how did apple do.

on the iPhone side - they sold 33.8 Mil (vs 26.9 Mil a year ago quarter and 31.2 Mil last quarter)

14.3 Mil in Channel inventory that is +3.3 Mil iPhones in Channel inventory for the quarter. 1.8 Mil in Transit.

So my predictions of 34.8 Mil iPhones sold with +2.5 mil in Channel inventory were not far off.

When you take out the 1.8 mil in transit - that leaves +1.5 Mil added to channel inventory which is 1 mil off from where I thought it would be and why I was exactly 1 mil high - or at least that is how I would spin it if I was Uncle Gene or one of the other Anal-ists out there.

On the iPad side Apple sold 14.1 mil units which was 0.5 higher than I expected.

Some of the other bits and pieces from the quarterly call - Apple had total revenue for the last quarter of 37.5 Bil vs 36 bil last quarter and 35.3 Bil in the yr ago quarter.

Cash is now at 146.8 Bil up just 0.2 bil for the quarter - the small increase in cash is based on the fact apple has been working over time to give money back to shareholders as dividends and to also buy back stock.

Apple really did not mention iPods on the call - but in their release info - they shows iPod sales at 3.5 Mil units down from 4.6 mil last quarter and 5.3 mil in the year ago quarter.

International sales for Apple were 60% of all sales.

And one point Tim cook tried to drive home in the Q and A section - was that the iPhone 5C - is not Apples low cost entry - today the iPhone 4S is the low cost entry to the iPhone world - and the 5C was never intended by Apple to be that 3rd world BRIC nation low cost entry all the ANAL-ists want it to be.

Overall I think it was a really strong quarter for Apple - but how did wallstreet see it - by End of Day on Tuesday Apples stock was at $516.68 vs $529.88 which is where it ended Monday prior to the call. So Apple stock changed negative 2.49% for that day. However it did go up a little during the week ending at 520.03 per share. The titles of blogs and newspaper articles ran the full spectrum - right after the call - but most were definitely slanted negative And many saying Apples Profits were disappointing. Now Mind you Apple came in at the high end of their guidance and above Anal-ist estimates - but some how the numbers according to a whole lot of articles disappointed. Of course those saying Profits disappointed - are also the same ones yelling for Apple to do a low cost iPhone. Hmmmm - So they want apple to buy market share at all costs - just as long as you know it does not hurt Profit margin. I really don't get and understand what these people are looking for.

Apple reported numbers better than any other tech company by a wide margin - yet they somehow disappointed many. By the way the iPhone only part of Apples revenue was $19.5 Bil - that is more than Googles $14.89 Bil last quarter - for all of Google. And it is also more than MS $18.53 Bil for the quarter. Yes for 2013 - a year people have been down way down on the iPhone and Apple.

Queue in REM's End of the world as we know it - well if that was legal in a podcast - Yes The iPhone product line alone beat out Google in each of the first 3 quarters in Revenue - and Apples best quarter for revenue will be this quarter by far.

Actually the numbers for 2013 are the following - and please please please keep these numbers in mind when you hear from the tech press and wall street about Apples disappointing numbers. In calendar year 2013 - Google has a total of $43 Billion in Revenue. MS has a total of $58.2 Bil in rev - and the iPhone line alone has a total of $60.6 Bil in revenue. Apple over all has $116.4 Bil in Revenue. Which is exactly 2X that of MS. And over $15 Bil more than MS and Google combined. Yes so keep those numbers in mind when you read about the demise of Apple this week and next week and the rest if 2013.

I was just thinking about this. Apples iPhone revenue last quarter was greater than Motorola Mobility, Blackberry and Nokia Cell Phone and Smartphone revenue combined last quarter. And by a pretty big margin at that. If someone had said in Jan 2007 - that Apple would have greater revenue from the iPhone sales - than any one of them - they would have been laughed at - to say the iPhone would be greater than all 3 combined would have been just crazy talk. And that it was actually about 3 times those three combined is simply unthinkable to the Rob of 2007 that started this show - even as big of a fan boy as he was back then - which you can hear by going back and listening to those old episodes some time.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/10/25/apple-iphone-unit-sales-q4/

Per how the Anal-ists did on their predictions for iPhone sales.

Closest to the hole was Bill shop of Goldman Sachs - with a guess of 33.73 Mil units sold vs reality of 33.8 Mil - so pretty much dead on.

The biggest muff goes to Ben Reitzes at Barclays Capital with a what was he thinking low guess of 29 Mil iPhones sold. And the biggest hit over the green was Mani Ghaesmlou with the Braeburn group with the overly optimistic guess of 38 Mil units.

I figured it would not be fair to go over iPad numbers - since Apple kind of gave away the basic range and definitely the max range - when they said they hit 170 Mil iPad sales this month. Which meant last month and quarter they were under 170 Mil and that meant the most they could have done was 14.8 Mil - but on 10/23 - a day after apple gave out that info - Alexander Pterc of Exane BNP Paribas - predicted 15.64 Mil iPads - Hello Mc Fly - anyone home. This is a quote Professional unquote anal-ist - that you know gets paid to cover these things. Yikes.

So given that and that most anal-ists gave their guesses before 10/22 - the closest to the hole was Turley Muller with Financial Alchemist with a hole in one guess of exactly 14.1 Mil units sold. The biggest muff is a tie between Matt Lew of the Braeburn Group and Mani Ghaesmlou with the Braeburn group with the low guess of 11.5 Mil sold - and yes that is the same Mani that was the furthest off too high for the iPhone. So basically he is just throwing darts at a dartboard.

On the way to overly optimistic side was Speculative Fiction writer and part time Professional Apple Anal-ist - Peter Misek from Jefferies - with a way over the green guess of 18 Mil units sold.

It is funny how the quote Pros unquote can be so far off - even though most are paid crazy amounts to be so inaccurate.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/1787062-sprints-ceo-discusses-q3-2013-results-earnings-call-transcript

Sprint had their quarterly call and it is usually nice to check in on these things.

This last quarter Sprint sold 5 Mil SMART Phones of which only 1.4 Mil were iPhones. That is 28% of smartphone sales are the iPhone on Sprint. If those numbers sound familiar - it is because they are identical to the previous quarter where Sprint also sold 5 Mil smartphones and 1.4 Mil were iPhones. I had to go and do a double and triple check to make sure I was not reading an old transcript. But nope - they really did duplicate numbers.

In all the iPhone was mentioned 3 times in the call - all in one short burst. But that is 3 more times then the iPhone was mentioned in the AT&T quarterly call. Oh well. Gone are the days when it gets mentioned a dozen plus times on these calls. Sprint did say they were in a constrained inventory position with regards to the 5S and had a waiting list for some models.

http://qz.com/138458/apple-is-either-terrible-at-designing-charts-or-thinks-you-wont-notice-the-difference/

I do need to slap Apple on the wrist for their very poor graph in their Oct 22nd presentation - when they showed all time iPad sales. I thought it looked off - but did not realize how off until David Yanofsky at Quartz super embossed the real graph over the one Apple showed. Apple kind of made it look a little like a hockey stick - but it really was more linear. when you look at the Apple chart at some points it would be as much as 30 mil units off. Yes their graph is smooth and curvy - but that is not actually how it is in real life.

Shame on Apple for putting up that chart. And kudos to David for being overly anal and calling out apple on it. Your my Hero.

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one other interesting comment from Tim cook during the conference call - is that in the education market for tablet sales - Apple is at at 94% market share for the iPad vs all other tablets. Which makes you wonder who those brainiacs are that wasted their money on that 6% of non-ipad tablets.

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/28/ipad-air-supplies-expected-to-be-plentiful-at-launch-with-in-store-pickup-available/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

Hi Rob,

According to this article, it won't be necessary to stand in a long line to get the iPad Air on Friday. It will be possible to order online with the ship-to-store option. I hope that's true because I have been making plans to show up at either the Apple Store or Best Buy a couple of hours before they open Friday so I can get the one I want. Now I may just need to wait until online orders are available and have one waiting for me at the store when I get there.

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/28/ipad-air-supplies-expected-to-be-plentiful-at-launch-with-in-store-pickup-available/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

The other good news I got yesterday was that Logitech announced their new line-up for iPad Air. They weren't specific on when they would be available other than November but it means I may not have to use my older keyboard case with my new iPad air for too long.

http://blog.logitech.com/2013/10/28/logitech-unveils-lineup-of-products-for-new-ipad-air/

Regards,

Myron U

Myron - thanks for the heads up - yeah it does seem from what is being reported about this Friday November 1st launch of the iPad air - that no one is really expecting it to sell out. However the iPad mini which does not have a ship date yet - that seems to be the one most are expecting to be in short supply until at least some time in 2014. If you are looking to get an iPad Air and live near an apple store - best to go on line at 12:01 AM PT on Friday and order you iPad mini for in store pickup later in the day on Friday.

Folks if you do get a new iPad Air this weakend - make sure to call into the show and let us know which version - wifi only or Wifi LTE and what storage level and why on the storage level - and also tell us your thoughts of the new iPad Air.

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http://www.apple-tracker.com/ipad-air

For those that want an iPad air - the folks at Apple dash tracker dot com have a tool to check for iPad airs in inventory at your 20 closest Apple stores. It sure does look like the 128 gb version is either in demand or no stock was delivered.

For example the wifi only unit in space gray 128 gb - was only available at 5 of the 20. Where as 16 and 32 gb were in inventory at all 20 stores and the 64 gb was available at 17 of the 20 as of late Saturday evening.

It does change a little for the silver version. 13 of 20 stores had the 128 gb version, and all 20 stores had the 16, 32 and 64 gb versions.

For the Cellular version the Silver version for Tmobile was available at 10 of 20 stores which is better than the 1 of 20 for ATT version and 0 of 20 for Verizon. The Sprint version was at 17 of 20 stores for the 128 gb version. Things look worse for the Space Gray version. In short it looks like Silver iPad Airs have better availability as do the lower storage options and the wifi only options. If you are looking for a Space Gray 128GB Verizon version - no soup for you - at almost any store in the US when I checked on a bunch of Zip codes. Actually of all the apple stores I could check on over 100 - only the Fifth avenue store in NY had one.

I point all this out not just for those looking for the iPad Air - but for those planning on getting the iPad mini 2 like me.

Look for the link in the show notes titled - iPad Air Availability - Apple-Tracker.com for ep 287 at today in iOS dot com

Hi Rob,

I arrived at the Apple Store in Canberra, Australia just after 8a.m. for the iPad Air launch. There were about 50 people in the line and Apple staff were handing out cards for the items people wanted to buy.

They were already out of 128Gb/cellular iPads so I looked elsewhere in the centre and on the phone but with no luck.

I have now ordered online, with engraving, and should receive it late next week or early the week after.

Thanks heaps for the show - always interesting and entertaining.

Cheers, Bert

Hi Rob,

In line at the Glendale galleria For the IPad Air I'm the 1st person here at 6am it's 7am and there is 6 people now across the street 600ft there the new Iphone store at the Americana there is 30 people in line. I will. E getting The silver 64GB iPad air today.

This is Tony from Burbank the only person who watches podcast on Apple TV signing off

Hi Rob,

I woke up early drove 45 minutes my local Best Buy store only to arrive at 7:30 and no one else was parking lot or even waiting in line. so I went to breakfast with next Best Buy at five after 8. I was in the store buying an iPad 32gig, I bought one for myself one for my mom for Christmas gift got two covers and left the store in about three minutes.

Regards,

Jim

Valdosta Georgia.

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http://www.zdnet.com/apple-ipad-air-reviews-are-in-worlds-best-tablet-gets-even-better-7000022589/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539

The new iPad Air reviews are out. And they are all for the most part very positive. Look Apple took a device in the iPad that had a basically 99% favorable rating and well made it faster and lighter. Duh of course the reviews are going to be positive.

ZDNET has an article to a bunch of the reviews. But the one article I liked was from LapTopmag dot com. They took the time to go through the many different pre-release reviews and come up with 5 complaints that were brought up from all the reviews.

1. No Touch ID - I agree with this - I was hoping they would have had touch ID - especially As I now find myself holding my thumb on my wifes iPad all the time waiting for it to unlock.

2. Cameras don't Wow - I find this a nit pick more than a complaint - I mean well I guess some are complaining - but really - don't you know what a tool you look like taking a photo with a tablet - just sayin.

3. A bit Pricey - again a nit pick. You get what you pay for and if you want to pay less - there is lots and lots of crap to choose from out there. Just make sure you make room in the draw in your desk - because that is where non iPad tablets quickly find themselves living.

4. Runs Warm - but then they note that it is not as warm as the 4th gen iPad when it is running full tilt. So it runs a little warm - but not as warm as the last gen. This is bad how?

5. No Display innovation. Umm it is already a retina display - where did they think Apple was going to go with it? Someone actually complained that when the iPad mini 2 launches the iPad Air will not be the best pixel density iPad. Oh My is all I can say - well All I can say on a G rated show.

Essentially for the iPad air it comes down to this for you. Do you want the 9.7" display or the 7.9" display. If you want the bigger display and you don't have a 3rd or 4th gen iPad - then the iPad Air will be a good choice for you. If you are like me and have a 3rd gen iPad and are looking for something a little smaller and a lot lighter - then the iPad mini will likely be your cup of tea. But I am biased as that is what I want. And yes putting the same number of pixels in the 7.9" screen that are in the 9.7" screen - means the pixel density is greater. So the mini while lighter and cheaper - will have a better display then the heavier and more expensive iPad Air.

Per speed tests - the iPad Air and iPad Mini should have identical results as they are basically identical internally.

http://www.zdnet.com/ipad-air-beats-the-ipad-4-by-80-percent-in-benchmark-tests-7000022607/

So Rob you ask how did the iPad Air do on the bench mark tests. Well I am glad you asked - because that brings us to another ZDNET article that goes over some bench mark tests of the iPad Air vs past iPads. And well it blows the other iPads out of the water - as is to be expected based on the new A7 64 bit processor. On the Multicore Geekbench 3 test the iPad air was 88% faster than the iPad 4th gen and 432% faster than the iPad 2nd and 3rd gen and iPad Mini. It was even a little bit better when the single core test was done. Now mind you the iPad 2nd, 3rd and 4th gen and the iPad Mini all seem very snappy as it is. So while raw processing / bench mark tests show the iPad Air is much faster 2 to 5 times faster than those older iPads - you will not likely see that raw performance improvement with most day to day use. But it is alway nice to know you have it under the hood for those times you do actually need it. I am stoked to get the iPad Mini and see how it works with BossJock and exporting as an MP3 and see how that changes vs the iPad 3rd gen. Actually with the A7 chip on the 5S - encoding to Mp3 for a 60 sec recording takes 41 seconds. But on the iPad 3rd gen - a 60 sec recording takes 53 secs. So while the A7 is much faster you really need the apps optimized for the 64 bit architecture to see the real speed improvements - and for most apps you just will not see that. So if your main reason for getting an iPad Air or iPad Mini is you want to see great performance increases compared to your older iPad - unless said older iPad is the first gen - you are likely going to be disappointed for some time. Keep that in mind when buying the iPad Air - it is about the future when more and more apps are optimized for the A7 - not the present when only the apple apps are.

http://www.zdnet.com/apples-ipad-air-ipad-mini-launch-6-not-so-obvious-takeaways-7000022338/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539

Oh and one other thing to remember - Apple changed the name of the iPad full size to iPad Air for a reason - it is so they can introduce at some point in the future - the iPad Pro. Come on you know it is true. So if you look at 9.7" and go I want it bigger - there is likely something in the pipeline that will make you happy.

http://wccftech.com/apple-ipad-air-networks-tablet-coming-to-various-regional-telcos/

One bit of good news not highlighted or mentioned or hinted at at the Oct 22nd event is that for those of you looking for a cellular version of the iPad air - but not on one of the big carriers - well the iPad Air is going regional. Some of the carriers that already confirmed they will be getting the iPad Air November 8th are - GCI, Bluegrass Cellular, C Spire Wireless and US Cellular - with US Cellular saying and you know what we are getting the iPad Mini as well. No date on the iPad mini availability as well Apple has not even announced that yet beyond the later in November mention at the Oct 22nd event.

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T-Mobile is offering up a data plan starting on Friday November 1st where they claim - Free Data for life. Well 200 MB of free data every month.

I called t-mobile to try and figure out exactly what type of plan I would need for this and sadly the person I talked to did not know but kept trying to get me to sign up to some other plan.

What I do know from the site - is you can bring your own tablet that has cellular. So if you buy the iPad Air or iPad mini 2 with cellular at the Apple store you can bring it to T-Mobile and get this offering.

And to get the free 200 MB starter data as they call it you need to have an active mobile internet account with t-mobile - which it seems can be a $0 a month plan. But likely will cost you $10 to set up with their sim if you do not buy the Tmobile version of the iPad Air. So if what I understand to be true on this - is you set up your device to work with t-mobile by going to your local tmobile store and getting a sim card kit for $10 and creating an account which you set up as an On Demand data plan as a post paid customer. And then going forward you get 200 MB of free data each month. Now this is a good offering for those that don't do much away from the house surfing and when they do it is just checking emails or tweets. But if you are someone that plans on watching netflix at little suzzies Dance class on Monday / Wed / Friday for 2 hours a night - yeah this offer of 200 MB is meaningless to you.

I will try to get more info on this for the next show.

Hi Rob - I hope the delay getting out a new episode doesn't mean you are under the weather.

SIDE NOTE - Not me - I had a dog that was - she is a 16 pound pug and she ate an entire bag of oreos. She was touch and go but seems better now. To put that in perspective - that would have been like me eating over 12 bags of oreos. Yeah not good. Ok Back to his email.

I purchased a T mobile iPad Air at my local Apple Store. I turned off wifi and created a new TMobile account under settings and cellular. I am a new customer and don't have any existing service with them. I selected the default "On Demand" plan with zero minutes and zero charge. They only ask for the standard personal info, but no credit card needed. I then received an email welcoming me to T Mobile and saying I will receive 200 mb free from now until 12/02/13. I assume at that time I will get another 200mb. I expect if I use the 200 mb, they will push frequent notifications trying to get me to buy more. That will be fine for me and not a bother. If a person gets decent coverage, I think the T Mobile iPad is the way to go.

Also, if you pay for a plan on T Mobile and you use up your allotment of data before the end of the month, according to their web site, they don't just cut you off, they simply drop you to a lower speed. I had Verizon and when I reached my limit, I was cut off completely. This IMO is another reason to go with T Mobile.

Another also, I read on line, on any old iPads, if you get a new T Mobile sim, you can sign up and get the free promotional data. It doesn't have to be on a new iPad or one specifically targeted to T Mobile.

Regards,

Darrin

Darrin - Thanks for that info - It does sure sound like when I get my iPad Mini - it will be the t-mobile version. As I just need the cellular part for occasional use.

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Hi Rob.

I have been syncing my iPhone 5s via iTunes by clicking the choice to sync with iPhoto on versions 7.0.1 and 7.0.2 but now it has disappeared as a choice on iTunes syncing setup.

I did update iPhoto to version released yesterday (9.5) and I have installed the most recent iTunes 11.1.2

and am on Mavericks.

It shows the choice to sync to Aperture which I also have and another choice to sync directly with my Pictures folders but no more iPhoto.

Can you please offer any assistance or insight?

Regards,

Fraser

Ontario Canada

Hi Fraser - I am running iTunes 11.1.2 and iOS 7.0.3 - but not Mavericks - but what I am seeing is when my iPhone 5S is connected - and you go to it in iTunes on my computer and then go to the Photos tab - I am seeing iPhoto listed as an option to sync to.

From what I read - Mavericks still supports direct from computer to iPhone sync of Photos via iPhoto - as long as you are not set up to sync photos via iCloud. So check to see if you have iCloud sync set up for your iOS device or your Mac. I will say there is a lot of back and forth on the support forums about this issue and there are a few people that did say 100% they could still do this with Mavericks - and a couple saying 100% they could not. I tend to feel in those cases - the ones that can't have something set up wrong. But if no one could then I would say it was a mavericks issue.

Thanks to Tash for this next one - and this is an article more for the Mac OS X users - than iOS users - and it is about how some of the Mac Apps for iWork and iLife actually saw some features removed with their quote updates unquote. Seems what Apple decided to do is make the Mac Apps and the iOS apps more similar in feature sets - and they did this by moving the feature set up a little with the iOS apps and down a little with the OS X apps - so they are kind of moving to meet in the middle - which well sucks if you use the iWork and iLife apps mostly on your lap top. Hopefully Apple quickly adds back missing features on the OS X side and at the same time add those features to the iOS versions.

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Hey Rob, my wife and I both just upgraded (her 4 and my 4S) to 5Ss and couldn't be happier! I LOVE THIS DEVICE. Also went with square trade warranties on both devices, thanks for the discount!

You mentioned in episode 286 that iWorks comes free if you buy a new iOS device. How do I take advantage of this? Is it iWorks for my device only or for my MacBook as well?

Thanks Rob! Updating to Mavericks now…

Regards,

Aaron M

Hi Aaron, Kyle and all the others that asked about this. To get your free iOS apps - Pages, numbers, keynote, iPhoto, iMovie and Garageband - on your new iOS device purchased after September 1st. On said new iOS device - launch the App store app. You should see a popup about Apples Apps - and you are then presented with the option to download All - for the Apple apps - and that includes the apps I just mentioned plus the Podcasts App, iBooks, iTunes U, Find My iPhone and a few others. Click download all to get them all. Again these apps are free on the iOS device you purchased after Sep 1st running iOS 7 or later. If you do not see the pop up when you launch the App store app - go to bottom of the screen for the App store app and select - Apps made by Apple. And you should see Free next to all those not installed already. Just tap on Free and start the install process. For those that see a price next to any of the apps from Apple - it means said device was purchased before September 1st.

Thanks to Tash for this next one.

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I do want to talk a little about what you really get with the new Apple Apps that just updated.

From the release notes lets start with the Podcasts app.

First it is designed for iOS 7 as all these updates Apple apps are. The Podcast store is now in the feature tabs at the bottom - no more flipping over to the Podcast store and then back to your library.

Search is much much improved.

Podcasts now automatically update with new episodes - even while the app is not open.

You can also choose how often the Podcasts app checks for updates to your feeds.

And iCloud now keeps your subscriptions, stations and play position in sync with iTunes and Apple TV.

And as mentioned - the lyrics tab / show notes now show up.

Overall - I think the update to the Podcasts app was a very good update.

With the Garageband App - You can now create a song with up to 32 tracks using touch instruments, Audio recording and loops - This does require the A7 Processor. 16 tracks are available for the any other iOS 7 device except the iPhone 4.

It supports AirDrop and full 64 bit processing.

And you can record compatible 3rd party music apps using inter-app audio.

For Numbers - There are new Apple design templates - YAWN. You can animate data with new interactive column, bar, scatter, and bubble charts.

You can use AirDrop to send your spread sheet to anyone nearby.

You can share a link to your spreadsheet via Mail, messages, Twitter and Facebook - and anyone with a shared document link can have access to the latest version of the spread sheet and can edit it with you at iCloud.com You can export to .csv. And there is some coach tips for guided in app help you can turn on.

iMovie saw a bunch of additions. Share Clips and movies to iMovie theater. Adjustments bar for easy access to video and audio controls. Three new transitions - Slide, wipe and fade through black or white. Slow Motion - Cutaway - Picture in picture - and split screen effects. You can add the audio portion of video clips to a movie - i.e. you an strip out and use the audio from a movie.

You can duplicate audio or video clips. You can trim - split and reposition music and sound effects. Adjustable audio fade in and fade out. Share via AirDrop to send video clips and iMovie projects. Nice I am sure for sending video from your iPhone to your iPad.

If you have a movie you have created with the new iMovie and it uses some of these features - please email me a link to the video to share with the audience.

Keynote - my favorite Apple App - also had some changes. There are some new animations and effects - including updated Magic Move, Clothesline and more. New Apple designed themes.

You can animate data just like with numbers, you can use AirDrop to send your presentations. And like with Numbers - you can send a link to your presentation - and anyone using iCloud you send it to - can get access to view and edit it with you. And there are also coaching tips for guided in app help.

And not surprising of all the Apps - iPhoto seemed to have the most new features / changes. Not surprisingly because - Photos are such a big thing with the iPhone. You can order pro-quality prints and create and order professionally printed hardback photo books. So now you can totally blow off your entire family on the flight back from a vacation - as you work to get a book created of your vacation and all your significant other can remember is you played on your iOS device the entire flight and did not notice your 5 year old kicking the seat in front of him or that your 7 year old asked the flight attendant when they removed the weight limit for "stewardesses" and after that they did not get their drinks. Ok maybe best to create that photo book - at night when all are asleep.

Some other useful features of the new iPhoto - actually the most useful is the ability to delete Photos in the Camera Roll from iPhoto - something no other app can do as well as save edits back to your photo roll you just made. Which when combined with the advanced search controls - will hopefully make managing your photos where you keep the ones you want and delete those you don't need a little easier. You can share photos from iPhoto directly via messages. There is improved support for Panoramas in web journal layouts. And of course there is AirDrop support.

And Finally there is the Pages App - Now over 60 templates to choose from. Text formatting options added to your keyboard, There is the same animated data that is in Numbers and Keynote. There is also the same share a link and collaborative options via iCloud. You can now turn your documents into ebooks by exporting to ePub. This is one I am looking forward to using on my new iPad mini if and when I get that.

Apple realizes to keep people looked in - they need to offer up the best productivity apps - so I would expect we will see updates to all these apps on a rather regular basis going forward. If you find any neat new features in any of these apps - Podcasts App, Pages, Keynote, Numbers, iPhoto, iMovie and Garageband - let us know 206-666-6364 - that is 206-moon-dog or email us at today in iOS at gmail dot com.

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Its back - The iOS daylight savings time bug that is. Yes in the US this weekend is Daylights savings and in the past that has usually meant some sort of issue. because I guess everyone that works on the code for this part of iOS lives in either Arizona or Indiana. Seems this year in the UK when they hit their daylight savings time - the wrong current time line in day view was the bug this time around. I guess expect the same in the US. Just becarefull looking at your day view in the calendar app on Sunday. And yeah definitely make sure when you get up Sunday all your alarms are still working. Who knows what else will pop up this weekend.

http://www.getsharepod.com/

Hi Rob,

Levi needed a way to access notes in an old backup and the program I use is iExplorer by Macroplant. It's for both Mac and PC and I've been using their other program Sharepod for years. Which allowed me to copy music out of a defunk iPod, iPhone, iPad to your computer. It even would import the music into iTunes after it checked to make certain you didn't already have said music in your library. iExplorer is a newer offering which works for devices running iOS 7 and allows you to extract data from any old backup. Notes, Voicemail, Texts, etc... It does it all and you can download and use it for free (with some limitations) then buy it later if you like for $35. Here their website www.getsharepod.com Hope this helps, love the show

Dave Tarantelli in little Rhody

Hi Rob,

I heard a listener was wondering how to retrieve notes from an old iOS backup...well, I found this software that looks promising. Just thought I'd share it.

http://www.iphonebackupextractor.com/

Regards,

Richard

http://www.getsharepod.com/

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Hey Rob, I sent the email to you about the maps app lagging and Yes iOS 7.0.3 Did fix it.

Regards,

Robert

Great to hear the 7.0.3 fixed that issue.

Hi Rob,

I was wondering why my mail app keeps having me enter my password for my individual accounts? It seems it does this every 3 days? I fine this puzzling. Thanks

Regards

Jonah

Hi Jonah - I have not seen that issue with my mail on my iPhone - but my imap account stopped working on Thursday night so I am guessing something changed with imap and gmail and the iPhone on November 1st. Still trying to get it to work again - but my other accounts which are working fine are set up as pop accounts. Hopefully I will get that fixed sometime today after this episode goes live.

If others have been having issues with email and their iPhone since iOS 7 - please let us know. 206-666-6364 - thats 206-moon-dog or send an email to today in iOS at gmail dot com.

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Hi Rob,

Ringtone app with music already on your phone "RMaker"

Ringtone app to find already made ringtones "Ringtones"

Regards,

Simeon F

Hi Rob,

Ben here from productivitypad.blogspot.com, just listening to 286 and heard the caller ask about the "other" category. As you said most of this is real but some of it is not, particularly if you have had downloads such as podcasts abort and leave half finished files floating around. There is an app for PC and Mac that is free called Phone Clean that will clear that out for him. It works really well and has sped up several of my devices by freeing up memory.

Regards,

Ben N

On the last episode I had a question about tipping Apple store employees - and here is what I received back from an Apple store Blue shirt.

Hi Rob,

I work in Redacted at the Apple store.

I don't know if you got any feedback yet, but current apple policy states that no employees are allowed to accept any financial bribery. I've been offered for carrying a computer out to a car a car for an elderly man and turned it down. Also We regularly have our one to one members give us things like fruit and stuff (apples, bananas and oranges) when they come in for a training session. I think this is potentially a grey area. Though It may be okay because there isn't a direct exchange of goods (aka a bribe of discounted hardware, sessions) since there is not an actual two way transaction.

Regards,

Redacted

Hi Rob,

If anyone misses the flying icons in iOS 7.0.3 - Turning off "Reduce Motion" brings back the flying icons.

Regards,

Steven in Houston

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Rob,

Here is A handy tip. It might be true your nickname is Big Boy but you might not want everyone to know.

The tip is - How to disable nicknames for Messages, Phone, and Mail in iOS 7

Chris in London.

Thanks chris for the heads up on this. Yeah seems in the Message thread if you have a nickname applied - it is what is shown. Ok to kill this "feature" off go to Settings App --> Mail, Contacts, Calendars --> Short name (under contacts) then scroll down to Prefer Nicknames and turn it off. Which is exactly what I did. Because yeah that could get embarrassing.

http://www.imore.com/how-disable-nicknames-ios-7

Lock the iPad to just one app | How To - CNET

There is a nice article on Cnet titled Lock the iPad to just one app. I know we talked about this when iOS 6 came out - but it is worth mentioning it again for iOS 7. essentially how it works is you first set up guided access feature. Setting - general - restrictions - guided access turn it on and set a 4 digit passcode. Then go to the app you want open it and quickly tap the home button 3 times. You can then pick places in the app where they can not touch. Note to self - need to do a tutorial on how to lock Netflix App into just kids mode. Seems someone was watching a few minutes of breaking bad recently and it was not me or the wife. Then after you do that and select with buttons to turn off - you hit the start button in the top right. To get out of guided access - triple click the home button and enter your 4 digit passcode. Did not catch all that - well look for the link in the show notes for ep 287 over at today in iOS dot com titled - lock the iPad to just one app - and check out the video link they have in the article. For parents with kids who like to get into apps on Mom's iPad you don't want them to - this is a nice feature. Especially on a long car ride and they are in the back seat and you don't want to worry about what they are getting into while you drive.

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A few different posts out there about Apples plans to spend $11 Billion in Capital expenditures for fiscal year 2014 which started at the end of September. The first post I read said this would be a 57% increase from what they spent in 2013 - which got me all excited. until I read another post that said in 2013 Apple planned to spend $10 Billion - but only spent $7 Billion on new buildings and equipment. Seems the 11 Billion planned for 2014 is only 10% more than the 10 billion planned for 2013. The reason for the shortfall in spending for 2013 according to apple is quote largely due to a combination of some timing changes and efficiencies we were able to achieve unquote. In reality what most of the capital expenditures winds up being spent on is equipment that apple buys and puts in their suppliers factories. This is how Apple gets ahead of the competition - by enabling their supply chain to out perform the competition and by also restricting their suppliers from using that equipment for anyone but them.

When Carl Ichan talks about giving all that money back to investors - this is something he misses - Apple uses their capital very wisely - they buy the best supply chain in the world.

So back to 2013 - and the short fall - the comment about timing changes - really sounds like some product line was pushed out. And that in part will explain the 2014 expenditure increase - there is also the spaceship campus construction - ok - maybe not a good a use of capital as bolstering the supply chain.

I should put the expenditures into perspective in 2012 - Apple spent 10.3 Billion - 11 Billion is only 6.7% increase from 2012. Yeah - 11 Billion in that context and considering the space ship campus - it does not sound as impressive.

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Hi Rob,

I have a question for you or for the listeners, I am looking for an app that can do speak detection and auto language detection. I mean that I want to let it hear some kind of a language and the app will tell me which language is it and do a translation for it. Is there any app like that?

Regards,

Alon for Israel

Hi Alon I am not sure if there is an app like that - but it may be coming to siri in the future.

ASK SIRI WHAT LANGUAGES SHE UNDERSTANDS AND RECORD THAT.

The interesting thing in the sentence is the SO FAR comment.

One rumor about what is next for Siri is a basically she becomes a universal translator. You say something to her and than ask her to say it in another language. The other person says something in the other language and Siri says it back to you in your language.

That would be a nice built in feature for iOS 7.1 - but likely it will be iOS 8.x. Why is this likely going to happen - well Apple did a hire a bunch of multilingual cloud experts and it is rumored that is what they are working on.

ASK SIRI WHAT IS THE GERMAN FOR New Features coming soon

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We talked some time back about a couple of Russian Carriers no longer carrying the iPhone. MTS and Vimplecom. Well now seems they are back. Vimplecom signed an agreement with Apple and MTS acquires its iPhones through a 3rd party distributor to get around some rules laid down by Apple.

While their decision in the past to drop the iPhone was headline news - it seems their decision to go back with the iPhone was relegated to page 23 right next to the community happenings section.

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Some great quotes out of MS about the free offering of iWork Apps to iOS and OS X users. “Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for communications, also argued that Microsoft’s tablets were better than Apple’s new iPads,” Pimentel reports. “Reacting to news that Apple was dropping its fees for its iWork suite of apps, Shaw said in a blog post, ‘Now, since iWork has never gotten much traction, and was already priced like an afterthought, it’s hardly that surprising or significant a move.’”

“He also downplayed Apple’s rollout of new iPad devices, saying Microsoft’s Surface and Surface 2 ‘are less expensive than the iPad 2 and iPad Air respectively, and yet offer more storage, both onboard and in the cloud,’” Pimentel reports. “‘When I see Apple drop the price of their struggling, lightweight productivity apps, I don’t see a shot across our bow, I see an attempt to play catch up,’ he wrote. ‘I think they, like others, are waking up to the fact that we’ve built a better solution for people everywhere, who are getting things done from anywhere, and who don’t have hard lines between their personal and professional lives. People who want a single, simple, affordable device with the power and flexibility to enhance and support their whole day. ‘ He did not discuss Apple’s surprising move to make its new Mac operating system known as ‘Mavericks’ available free of charge. “

When Apple offers a reduction in price to ZERO - for some of the best selling apps in the iTunes app store - it is not about trying to ship product collecting dust - like when MS reduced the price of the Surface tablets - nope this is about Apple improving the user experience of the Apple Ecosystem. Something clearly those at MS don't get or don't want others to get. So the quote is either one we can just as easily in this case blame on incompetence as we could on Malice.

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http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/blackberry-denies-fake-bbm-reviews-as-samsung-fined-50012597/

Well seems Samsung was just fined by Taiwan's FTC - for paying for both Fake positive reviews of its product and for also paying for fake negative reviews of its competitors products. I mean it is bad enough to pay for fake positive reviews - but they went the extra mile and paid for fake negative reviews.

So to quickly go over Samsungs recent actions - 1. Fake paid reviews, 2. Cheating on Benchmark Tests 3. Continued copying of Apple products. 4. Admitted to sharing documents from lawyers to engineers the courts said they could not share.

Seems Samsung just keeps raising the bar on how sleazy they can be as a company. Makes you wonder how any one could be pro Samsung - I mean anyone not getting paid to be pro Samsung that is. I know the next time I hear or read anyone saying something nice about samsung - I will think they are just being paid under the table to say something nice.

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Hi Rob,

With the new iPads that are coming out, I wonder if there's any reason to not get the iPad mini, since it has the same specs as the MAIN iPad. Is it really worth the $100 for the bigger screen? I mean the mini is technically a better screen with the same pixels. It has everything the bigger iPad does internally. It's weird people want a bigger phone and a smaller tablet. One thing that really stuck out to me as a sore thumb was this quote from the Oct 22nd event, quote The biggest request we've gotten is a retina display for the iPad mini, and we listened unquote that to me was a bad omen. I miss the days when apple didn't do what consumers wanted, rather they showed consumers what they wanted. Like Steve Jobs would say people don't know what they want because we haven't showed them yet. Apple shouldn't respond to customer requests, it's done so well telling customers what they want.

Anyways, I would love to hear your response on this, and I still hate the smaller side bezels even tho I'm in the less than 1% on that I'm sure

Regards,

Jason Higley

Hi Jason - First up if you don't like the smaller side bezel then the iPad mini will be a better solution - as I am guessing the smaller side bezel will be less noticeable on the Mini than the iPad Air.

I agree with you on that quote - That seemed like the most un-apple quote I have heard in a long time and I agree with you - I hope Apple gets back to showing us what we want rather than giving us what we ask for. No company gets ahead of the competition or stays ahead by listening to their customers. I am not saying they should flip the bird to us - but don't tell us you added it because we asked for it. Next they will be adding a micro-USB connector and a SD card slot plus a removable battery if they keep on that path.

Hey Rob,

You might already know this...

You can now use your iPhone camera to scan the numbers on the back of gift cards. It immediately recognizes the little box around the code and locks it in. It's actually pretty neat! And sure beats dealing with reading and entering each character.

I'm on 7.03, I haven't used a gift card for a year so I don't know when they implemented this..

Regards,

John P

Indian Harbour Beach Florida

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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2139966387/genneo-power-through-motion?ref=live

Here is a Kickstarter project I have been waiting to mention it is the Genneo - G E N N E O - and it is a Mobile generator that you put in your backpack or laptop bag or jacket and as you walk the motion generates power used to charge USB devices i.e. iOS devices.

I have been waiting on this one I mentioned as I met the lead designer of this at a 1 Million cups event here in Kansas City.

Sadly right now they are a little behind their goal of $100,000 - Yup you know what I think about that high a goal. They currently have around $11,000 in pledges so they are 11% of the way there roughly. This one has a pledge period running until Nov 20th at 3:01 AM ET.

Pricing on this is $175 for the 2900 mAh version and $225 for the 3,400 mAH version, If you walk around campus or back pack - this is a nice solution to allow you to charge your devices just from the movement of you walking about.

He did a good job explaining how it works - they have some patents - and why they will be able to produce this in a production environment and why they will hit their time lines. Which would be very unique for a kickstarter project. They have an estimated delivery of Feb 2014.

Look for Genneo - spelled - G E N N E O - at kickstarter dot com or in the show notes for ep 287

Yeah delivery dates and Kickstarter are more a if all the stars align just right type date. Take the earphones I mentioned early in the summer - the Soundband. I think it originally had an October ship date for the first 100 - that date has now slipped to some time in Q2 2014 - probably best case at this point. So much for that being a Christmas or Valentines day gift. Maybe if we are lucky it will be a mothers day gift. But I would not be surprised at this point if it became a 4th of July day gift or Labor day gift. Oh well. Maybe Christmas 2014 is now covered. At least they keep sending updates. The Other two Kickstart projects I funded and am waiting for are the SOS Charger - Original ship date August 2013 - updated ship date Late November. The last or first one of the three I am waiting for is the RECAPs project that lets your record phone calls from your iPhone - they shipped out the initial 10 units at the end of September and are supposed to ship out the rest in November - so hopefully I have that to report on shortly - which by the way - Sep / November is what they original said they would do - so - really that one has stayed on schedule so far. Kudos to iGor Ramos the lead on that project.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/19/gamecase-for-ios-7/?ncid=rss_semi

Thanks to Chris in London for this next one. Which I kept pushing out to the next episode. It is about the GameCase - which brings a full size natively supported Gamepad to iOS 7 devices.

This is made by the folks at Clamcase - Now this is not supposed to ship until late 2013 or early 2014 - but if the folks are listening at Clamcase - You know I would love to get a review unit. For those that like to play games and like the use of physical controls - you can sign up for notifications at game case dot com - which I did and also requested as press eval units as well. We shall see.

http://www.appsngizmo.com/bbm-for-ios-and-android-downloads-hit-10-million-download-first-day/

Hey

I got bbm on day 1 and I am noticing huge battery drain since on my iPhone 5. Just a heads up since 20 million users joined bbm. I prefer iMessage.

Regards,

Dev.

Hi Dev - thanks for the heads up on the issues with BBM - so if you just installed BBM and your battery life is dropping faster than Market share for blackberry smartphones - now you know why.

Oh and I guess I should mention for those that did not know - Black Berry Messenger finally is available for iOS devices. Just search for BBM in the iTunes app store or look for the link in the show notes for ep 287.

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Hello rob, I have an ipod 5th gen and my gmail whenever I launch it it just says "no offline messages" , but on all my orther gmail accounts, it works, any suggestions?

Regards,

Daniel

Hi Rob,

For years I've used the Reqall app & web service to send short voice transcription emails directly to my email. When the app is running only a single tap to record and another tap when done and the message is sent to their server where it can be routed as an email, reminder, or text message. I simply use it to send to my email and the transcript shows up in the subject line.

Reqall no longer works in iOS 7 and the service is being shut down. I'm looking for any alternative that is easy to use. Using the mail app with microphone button, dictation to siri, or dragon dictate all take much more time, many more taps, and can be a huge distraction. I'd love to hear of any alternatives that TIO listeners may know of.

Regards

--Ed in Lenexa

Dear Rob,

I upgraded to the iPhone 5S on launch day and I was extremely happy with the overall performance of the phone.

However, last weekend I broke my right collar bone during a bike accident and I lost the use of my right hand. Being right handed, this was a huge inconvenience. But because of the design of the iPhone 5S, I could still use the phone with my left hand and reach every corner of the phone. I also happened to have set up my phone to recognize both left & right thumb prints.

Being an Apple fanboy has it's benefits! I couldn't imagine any Sammy phone user trying to use one of those FAT phones with just one hand!

Tony L

San Francisco

Hi Tony - Sorry to hear about your accident - and I hope your recover quickly. And yes you are correct one handed operation on one of those phablets or 5" smartphones would be difficult at best.

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For those asking about iOS 7.0.3 update and the ability to jailbreak in the future - At least according to Musclenerd - it is safe to upgrade to iOS 7.0.3 assuming your are already running iOS 7.0.x already. So Yes it seems ok to update. Which makes sense because in the past when a new Jailbreak came out - it worked for whatever was the latest and greater version - so if you just came home from the Apple store with a new iOS device - the day a jailbreak was made public - it would jailbreak your device. That by my definitions is a public jailbreak - and one I would promote.

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Hi Rob,

I think this article will be very interesting for your listeners in the US who are interested in dropping their high cost plans with the big carriers.

Thank you for the great job you do in helping us get the most out of our iOS devices.

Dr. John M

And this is an article titled How to get unlimited talk, text and data for $30 a month on an iPhone.

Hint you will need the following - 1- T-mobile Prepaid plan, 2 - google voice - 3 - talk-a-tone App.

And then well 4 - the link to the article per the title previously mentioned which goes over how to tie items 1 to 3 together.

Thanks Dr. John for the heads up on that.

http://thetechblock.com/get-unlimited-talk-text-data-30-iphone/

http://www.neglectedpotential.com/2013/10/iphone-touchscreen-accuracy/

I had a few people asking my thoughts on the testing done by OptoFidelity - testing the accuracy of the iPhones Touch screen vs that of the S3 and found the S3 more accurate across the entire screen with the iPhone being less accurate around the edges.

Sadly so far I have not see an official response from Apple. Some have said this inaccuracy on the edges is on purpose by Apple - so that when you touch at an angle towards the side of the screen - it purposefully off - kind of Apples way of Kentucky windage for you.

Apple has said in the past - as in the way distance past of 2007 - that they already change the target size for keys on the keyboard based on what the iPhone thinks you are trying to type. So if you are typing the word slow - by the time you get to the w the target areas for the W is bigger than that for the Q or the E or the S around it. Making it easier for you to hit.

My guess is the inaccuracies measured by the robots at OptoFidelity are on purpose and not a bad design - why else would there be a pattern for the inaccuracies. This is also the thinking of Nick Arnott over at Neglected Potential who wrote a really nice blog post on this.

It would be nice is Apple put out something official about this. If they do I will make sure to mention it on a future episode.

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I saw a nice blog post for the blog - Dustview. The post was titled - iPhone 5S vs Nokia Lumia 1020 Camera Shootout.

As the article mentions the 1020 has the camera called by many as the current leader of the pack in smartphone camera. HOWEVER - once you read this article and see the side by side shots - you will see that not only does the 5S hold its own - over all - the 5S is really the better camera.

They did 10 different side by side photos - where each photo had some different condition to it. Some were about colors - some clarity some low light - some about zooming in. And in the end the score was 8 to 3. One of the categories they tied. So they could have really scored it 7.5 to 2.5. It is hard to audibly explain the difference in pictures - because you know a picture is worth a 1,000 words and there are 10 different photos with 2 versions of each - and that would mean 20,000 words are needed. Or I could just say look for the link to the post titled - iPhone 5S vs Nokia Lumia 1020 Camera Shootout - in the show notes for ep 287 at today in iOS dot com. But yes I was really surprised by the out come of this test as a few certain tech podcasters seem to be so high on the Nokia Camera - doubt they ever did a side by side test like this. That's ok - we realize it is fashionable right now to be negative about Apple - I am sure once the wind blows in the other direction they will be back in Apples camp again. Just Sayin

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Long time listener Tash in Australia has been having a bugger of a time with her iPhone 4S since updating to iOS 7. It has slowed down and the battery life sucks - and she seems to have tried everything. Seems this is a wide spread issue in Australia.

Again for me in the US - upgrading to iOS 7 on my iPhone 4 - and it seems to be working better and faster and battery life is much much improved. I get a much longer charge out of my iPhone 4 running iOS 7.0.3 - then I do with my iPhone 4S running 6.1.2.

Any way if Anyone in Australia was having issues with sluggish performance and horrible battery life after updating to iOS 7 - and were able to fix the issue - please please please let us know.

206-666-6364 - 206 -moon-dog or send an email to today in iOS at gmail dot com.

Hi Rob

I am planning on getting the iPad mini with Retina Display. I would love to save money and get thee 16GB version. I know iCloud saves apps, music, and photos, but do you recommend using cloud apps such as DropBox for an iOS device? If not 32GB will be my choice

Regards,

Hi AJ,

Even with iCloud and Dropbox and Flickr - which are all great for getting some content off your iOS device to free up storage space - there is another issue.

Are you an App junkie ?

If so - go with 32 GB as a min - apps are getting bigger and bigger size wise due to the requirements of retina specs for images.

So if you have more than 50 apps on your iOS device now - go with 32 GB - if you just use the stock apps plus a half dozen other apps - and don't care about apps - 16GB when used with icloud, dropbox and flickr should work for you.

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http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/30/google-fiber-app-dvr-iphone-ipod/?ncid=rss_truncated

For this next story - First I need some paper.

(CRINKLE SOME PAPER)

Now I need a couple of paper cuts - Check. And now the lemon Juice. Ok - adding that to the paper cuts. CHeck - and I am ready for this next story. Which is for those lucky few that have google fiber. Google just updated their iOS app so it now works on the iPhone and iPod touch as well - and they added new DVR features. Per the aforementioned lemon juice in my paper cuts - that relates to the fact I live in the only city in america whose city council was incompetent enough to say no to Google Fiber and then when they were ready for Google fiber - Google said No Fiber for you. So now I am living in the only city in Kansas City metro area that will be with out google fiber. All I can say is everyone on the City council up for election in the spring of 2015 will be gone. And I am seriously considering running. Yup Overland Park made it so hard on Google to get approval - that Google picked up their ball and went home. Ok I am ranting - but I am still pretty upset about it. Anyway if you have google fiber or are getting ready to get it good news for you - you can take the Android tablet they supply with each hook up and put it under the kitchen table leg to balance out the table - and download the Google fiber app for any of your iOS devices and control it with a device you don't have to feel embraced to be seen using.

Thanks again to our sponsor Squaretrade. Remember for your iPad warranty - just $89 for a two year warranty - you save $35 by going to square trade dot com slash t i i 2 - that is slash t i i and the number 2. the iPad Air is not really as light as air it is still a pound and subject to the laws of gravity - and square trade is there to help you when your iPad becomes part of a newtonian science experiment. Squaretrade dot com / tii 2 for your $89 iPad air warranty.

And that folks is going to do it for us today.

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