Hi Rob,
My Art made with HD wallpaper on iPhone… Cydia Tweak 'MakeMyPopUp' and my Sentiments.
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Episode 232 - Transcript
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I need to do a big blog post on this next subject and will try to in the next week. This is with regards to a realization I had - or really more a clarity on the difference between iOS and Android. Simply put People get Android Phones to make phones calls - People get iPhones to do more than Phone calls. Obviously this is a generalization - there are some power users on the Android side just like there are those on the iOS side that never do anything more than make calls or text someone. The later type is my sister in laws sister - while at a party last week at my Brothers house She said about her iPhone she was thinking of getting rid of it and getting a cheeper phone because all she ever does with it is phone calls and text messages. And that kind of clicked everything into focus for me. Android users get the phones to make phone calls - iOS users get their phones to do more than phone calls. Here is some info to back up this generalization. First right now there are about 400 Million iOS and Android devices that have been activated all time - so the installed base is pretty much identical right now. Yet in June Mobile Web Traffic from all mobile devices including tablets was 65% iOS and just 20% for Android - or a 3.25 to 1 ratio. App downloads per user of iOS vs Android - 2 to 1 Ratio. Free Podcasts downloads to mobile devices there is a 10 to 1 ratio iOS to Android - 10 to 1 Yikes - and that was from data from April 1st to May 20th before the release of the Podcasts App - that ratio is going to get worse not better in the short term. A recent study by O2 in the UK found smartphone users spend about 2 hours a day using their smartphone but only 12 minutes is actually spent making calls. Text messaging was below that at 10 minutes. Above both of those use cases was Browsing the internet, Checking social networks, Playing games and listening to music. So again if iOS users are downloading 2x the number of Apps, spending 3.25 more time surfing the web and 10 times more time listening to podcasts - it seems Android users are getting their phones to make calls and iOS users are getting their phones to do much more than make phone calls - like say what you are doing right now - listening to this podcast. Just sayin
Are you an App dev? Is your app live in the iTunes App store - Do you have in app purchases in your app? Well if so you need to know that a russian hacker has figured how to get around in App purchases and it is something any user can do with out even jail breaking.
This takes advantage of any apps where the receipt verification of the in app purchase is not enabled. So if you app is not set up to verify store receipts it is vulnerable to this attack and vulnerable in iOS 3.x 4.x 5.x and iOS 6 beta.
There is a link in the show notes to an article titled iOS Hacker unlocks in-app purchases over at today in iOS dot com for ep 232 - If you are a dev with in app purchases you will want to check out this article.
Obviously - expect more - a lot more on this one in future episodes.
Into the email bag.
Hey rob just got done listing to your latest episode about how Tim made his book in iBooks author and he's looking for a way to port it to kindle fire and android well I use a program called hype html5 in the Mac app store for 49.99 it can be used to make iBooks or even html5 apps that can be converted to native iOS and android apps using phone gap that's how I make my apps
I hope this helps
Regards Chris DeBrodie
From Fulton mo
Hi Rob,
To the guy who called up about there being no music after upgrading to 5.1.1. I had a similar issue when I upgraded from ios 4 to ios 5, a note here is that the phone isn't jailbroken and never has been. So the issue could be caused my the iOS update itself. I found that when I allowed iTunes to load my music back up, everything was put on the phone but when you go to play it, nothing would happen.
My solution was to go into the music app on the iPhone and manually remove all songs, and then go to the iTunes app and then to the purchased section and bit the download button.
This will make the iPhone itself load the music up which solved the issue for me.
I don't think this is a jailbreak issue, it could be caused by upgrading from a non icloud iOS (4 and previous), to the new iCloud iOS (5+)
You could test this solution by just deleting one song and reloading it again through iTunes, if that songs then plays ok, problem solved.
Thanks for the podcast.
Gary
Hi Rob,
I just heard the caller who mentioned the issue with music under the 5.1.1 jailbreak. If you google you will find a lot of similar complaints. From what I read, the jailbreak causes a change in the way iOS indexes music and causes the music app to crash or malfunction. The solution is to re-jailbreak with absinthe, which means wipe and restore, and it doesn't always work.
I removed the jailbreak (redsn0w) from my phone because my music kept disappearing. I didn't want to take a chance that it wouldn't work so I didn't re-jailbreak.
Myron
Regarding the caller who wanted an app to play just the audio from YouTube. I just recently downloaded an app called Just Gobble which can do pretty much just that. I'm still kicking the tires on it but so far it seems to work pretty well.
Happy and safe driving!
Rhonda in Florida
This next story comes from insider sources at Apple - namely Simon Pope and Trudy Muller - That's who does their Press releases. Well according to Simon and Trudy on Friday July 20th the new iPad will make its way to main land china. All versions and colors will be available - if you are keeping track at home for colors that is black or white. Heck even the iPad 2 will be for sale.
For the new iPad according to Apple Reservation requests will be accepted daily from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. beginning Thursday, July 19 for pick up the following day.
Apple announced when their quarterly report would be and that is Tuesday July 24th at 5:00 PM ET / 2:00 PM PT. And since Apple has announced the call - the analysts are tripping over themselves to announce or update their numbers for apple wares. Charlie wolf from Needham's seems to have taken the dart out of the dart board put the blind fold back on and threw the dart one more time. How else do you explain his prediction for iPad sales for last quarter going from 13.5 Mil when he originally guessed at the numbers in April to 20 Mil when he updated his guess this past week. Ok He says he quote hastily formulated initial estimate unquote I think that is analyst speak for I pushed the dart to the right. But this time the dart hit right at 12 o'clock on the board.
Actually Charles tried to justify his new numbers by saying the 6.5 mil original shortfall was because he did not factor in the 12 nfl teams that would be using the iPads instead of play books or That the Polish Parliament and Dutch senate have substituted iPads for paper printouts or that Unites Airlines replaced paper pilot manuals with iPads. Because you know you can see how those quickly add up to 6.5 mil iPads last quarter. Seriously - those were some of the reasons Chuck gave for changing his numbers. He gave some others - but really he lost me at 12 NFL teams.
As an FYI - My prediction for iPad sales for last quarter is 18.75 Mil - I tend to be conservative low on these things - lets see how I did come July 24th. Per the other analysts - professionals had iPads sales last quarter between 12.68 Mil and Chuckies 20 mil. With an average of 15 Mil. The Non Professionals were between 17.70 Mil and 24 Mil - with an average guess of 19.96 Mil - Like I said I tend to be conservative low. FYI - if you just did a trend analysis prediction using the average increase year over year for the past 3 quarters and applied it for the last quarter it says 22.42 Mil iPads sold last quarter. So lets see if the trend line beats all the humans. FYI - the Trend line also says there will be 33.79 Mil iPhones sold last quarter. I am going to be a little more bullish than the trend line and say iPhone sales for last quarter were up slightly from the previous quarter at 35.5 Mil. I have not seen all the analysts predictions yet on that.
Again Apples quarterly call will be July 24th and I will put up a blog post right after or maybe even during the conf call plus I will send out a push.
Thanks to John for the heads up on this next one. Which actually could have all of use predicting good things for apple eating crow. It is a report from Wintek that their sales are plunging. Wintek is the maker of touch panels for iOS devices. So their announcement that june sales were down an unusually high 33.6 % month over month signals that either A they lost the design in for the iPhone 2012 or that B the current iPhones demand has fallen off the cliff. Come July 24th we will know if this was the one piece of info we should have looked at more carefully and sold our Apple stock - rather than being the greedy bastards we are holding on for it to hit $1,000.
No offense to Wintek but lets hope it is option A.
Per rumors out there about any early August release of the iPhone 2012 that more than a few sent in links on. Let me say this phrase from the site that created this story Quote A reliable industry source who wishes to remain anonymous unquote I think they lost me somewhere between reliable and industry. As such I will say this per the rumor of an August 7th keynote to announce the iPhone 2012 - ZERO repeat ZERO percent chance of this being accurate. I will not even dignify the site this rumor is attributed to with a link or a mention of their name.
Hi Rob,
I don't need to send you any 7" iPad rumor articles. :-) But, I do want to say that I would buy one for my mom in a heartbeat. If Apple does release one, i hope it has a true 720p display (1280x720). I badly wanted this resolution for the original iPad.
My mom has a 3rd gen iPod touch which she mainly uses for Facebook and email plus a few games. The screen is a tad small, though. The 9.7" would be too big and somewhat heavy for her. A 7" iPad would be perfect!
Benefits:
- Fit in a purse,
- Easier to read than iPod touch,
- Easier typing than iPod touch,
- Lighter weight than current iPad, and
- Cost less than current iPad, maybe $100 to $150 less.
I will keep using my new iPad.
Enjoy life!
Steven (in Houston)
Hey Rob, a few months ago on one of your podcast you explained how to reset the home button and I tried it and it calibrated and been working great. But now my home button isn't working again consistently. I wanted to reset it again but I looked on the app and searched but can't find what episode that was.
Do you remember what episode that was so I can listen to it again?
Regards,
Charlie
Charlie - that was ep 221 I had those instructions in - per recalibrating the home button.
Hey Rob,
I would love to be able to have specific voicemail messages assigned to specific numbers.
There are tons of uses for this, aside from obvious uses such as, dumping your girlfriend.
Regards Nicko
Hi Nicko - that would be a nice built in feature - but if you can't wait or if you do wait and it does not happen - there is alway YouMail - they have been doing that service / feature for the past 5 plus years.
Rob,
Here is a Kickstarter project called the Smarter Stand for iPad which gives owners of the iPad Smart cover/case a few new positions for viewing/using.
Regards,
Thomas
Tuscaloosa, AL
Hi Thomas - thanks for the heads up on this. This one had a goal of $10k - well done on keeping the goal low - and to date they have raised 90k - so this one is funded and if you want it - you have about 30 days to get your pledge in. August 13th at 8:10 AM ET is when this one ends. As per what it is exactly - well it is two basically tabs that when placed on the edge of the smart cover locks two sections of the cover in place so that hinge does not you know hinge. It is one of those things once you see it - you go damn why didn't I think of that. Anyway if you have a smart cover and are looking for some extra ways you can position the cover - this really is a good solution. And at $11 bucks right now for early bird special number 3 it will not break your bank.
Search for Smarter Stand at kickestarter. Or look for the link in the show notes for ep 232.
Thanks to John for the heads up on this next one from Kickstarter - and it is a very cool physical keyboard for the iPhone - actually there are two of them the Spike 1 and spike 2. Ok first they have a goal of $75k - and right now with about 28 days to go they are at $65k - so you know after mentioning them on the show that should push them over. Pricing for this product is kind of - ok really confusing - They have two products Spike 1 and Spike 2 as I mentioned and each has different price levels and future proof options - you really need a flow chart to figure out which one to pledge for. That said if you are someone that still can't let go of that need for a physical keyboard - no honey I am not talking about you - but I could be. Anyway if you are someone that still pines for that old Blackberry type physical keyboard then this product is for you - I watched the video and of the two options - Spike 1 and Spike 2 - I would only recommend spike 2. Spike 1 requires you to pull off the case and rotate it to get the keyboard full put away - that to me is way to big a pain in the butt to do. The Spike 2 the keyboard flips around from its storage position in the back and overlays the bottom of the screen for a nice typing experience. So fighting through the 18 different Pledging options - yes 18 different levels. Yikes. It looks like for the spike 2 the pricing is $50. Which for a case with a keyboard - that is a pretty good price. And it looks like looking at the pledges - it is the spike 2 that is getting all the pledges.
Search for Spike at Kickstarter for this one.
FYI - to those of you looking to do a kickstarter project - look at their pricing options on this one and learn what not to do.
Don't get me wrong this looks like a great product and I am thinking of getting it for my wife for Christmas for our extra iPhone again not saying she is hung up on the physical keyboard or anything. But guys come on don't make it so confusing on the pricing options.
Thanks to Levi for the heads up on this next one. Which is one more Kickstarter project for this week. This one is called the Gamedock for iPhone, iPad and iPod devices - yikes sounds like they stole the name from my listing in iTunes for this show. Just sayin. Anyway - this project is at 70% of its pledge goal - which is a goal of $50k - and they have $35k and change. This project runs until August 16th at 10:56 PM ET - so you have some time on this. From the description quote Just plug the dock into your TV like a video game console and your iOS device into the dock like a game cartridge. The GameDock is designed to be compatible with existing iCade games and for dock-ready games that include two-player support and full 1080p HDTV output. unquote.
This one is definitely for the more serious or retro serious gamer - pricing is $150 - that gets you The GameDock plus two retro USB controllers and an HDMI Adapter. And also you get a bundle of games.
If you are a gamer search for GameDock at Kickstarter or just look in the show notes for ep 232 over at today in iOS dot come.
Good luck guys on this one.
On a past episode we mentioned the Kickstarter project TouchFire - word is they are now finally shipping those. If you got one please send in your thoughts of this product - please as always be brutal tells us what you liked and did not like about this product or any other you get from kickstarter.
Thanks to all that sent in this next one. Actually when I saw the first email come in on this I moved it to the do not use folder and then I got about 5 or 6 more come in right after that. So you guys win. This is a story about the Opus Hotel in Vancouver Canada. What they did was pull out all the old in room land line phones and replace them with iPhones. If you are a guest you then get to take the iPhone with you around town so you can make local calls at no extra charge. This is great for those traveling into canada from another country - no need to use your phone to make local calls. They do state all personal data and info on the phone is wiped clean after the customer checks out. Still if you start Sexting with someone using that number - and then the next person gets the phone - they may be in for a surprise when they get a text to that number.
The Olympics are just around the corner - and normally unless you are actually there you wind up missing out on a lot of the great events and drama like say Badminton - but good news because for this olympics you will not need to travel to London to see all the badminton action - See NBC just released an app - the NBC Olympics Live Extra app
And this app appears to be more exciting than a hairpin net shot - this app will allow you to watch all the events unfold - including Badminton.
- Not that anyone really has a shuttle cocks chance in heck of beating Super Dan. But still being able to see the drama unfold as Wei and Yihan battle it out for silver - well that gives me goose bumps faster than a well place drop shot. Personally I will be rooting on Denmarks Peter Gade for that silver metal.
Anyway the app does require you to have a cable or satellite provider of TV content to work - and that means for me with Surewest I need to set up an account - so don't wait until the last minute get the app now and get everything set up ahead of time or else you may miss one of those classic wood shots you see in the early rounds.
Hello Today in IOS.
I am a listener from Denmark (Europe-Scandinavia)
I make a weekly video & audio podcast About iOS and Apple in Danish.
One question I get all the time maby you can help me, Do you know when iTunes Macth come to Denmark?
Charliey Desezar
Hi Charliey - I have not heard anything on that and likely it will not be announce until right before it is ready - but if anyone knows an answer on this please let us know.
Hi Rob,
Was listening to you talking about the new Apple Podcast app and I got to wondering... By Apple removing the podcast feature from the built-in music app and moving it to a dedicated app that people must download, won't that actually "lower" the visibility of podcasts? I mean how many average users will actually download the app? Every iOs user had the music app by default.
Dan Tivadar
Good question - I hope to get an answer on that shortly. But that is something I worry about - I am hoping the Podcasts App becomes one of those pre-installed you can't delete even if you want to apps and not something you need to install manually.
I am optimistic it is the former and not the later since you now get the pop up in iOS 6 that say Podcasts have moved in the music app. But I have been optimistic about other things in the past that left me with the sad trombone feeling.
Staying with this theme.
Rob, if they remove podcasts from the music app will that affect my ability to get podcasts on my gen5 iPod? Doesn't seem to have updated them this last time I sync'd. :-(
Laurie B
iPhone 4S
Actually on iOS 5.x the podcasts stay in the Music app and the Podcasts app - it is not until iOS 6 that when you install the podcasts app does all your podcasts get removed and moved to the podcasts app only.
Hi Rob,
I just tried the new podcast app and discovered something
disappointing. When using the dock connector to send to a TV set it does not appear to send the video only the audio. The same podcast when played with the video app does send both video and audio. sad face
Regards,
Jeff
Jeff thanks for the heads up - please note word is the Podcasts App is not finished - as I said before think of the app as in beta right now and once iOS 6 launches at gold master - that is when it becomes a 1.0 app.
Hello Rob,
I just wanted to ask your opinion on which is the official and or best iPhone/iPad app for Craigslist? There are quite a few of them in the app store and from the reviews it's not clear which one is the official or best to use via mobile devices.
Thanks for your time!
Mike Sunnyvale, Ca.
I mentioned Navigon's sale previously on the show - well now Mapquest has done them one better by offering a FREE app with turn by turn navigation for the iPhone. One downside to the Mapquest App vs navigon - is with navigon the maps are on the phone as part of the app - but with Mapquest - you need a data connection to keep pulling in info for the map.
But on the plus side did we mention it was free - as in zero dot zero cents - and that does include voice navigation - which is not repeat not a paid upgrade like some other apps do.
Happy 4th of July Rob,
With many getting ready to sell their old iOS devices with the release of the new iPhone
(and yes, that is what it will officially be called) this caught my eye (even though I'm not
a Grindr or a Blendr user).
Any thoughts about this? Does the Tii Podcast app use the UDID? Just 'askin'.
Regards
John
And what John is referring to is that some apps use your UDID info for identifying the user - something Apple has shunned for some time. One of those apps that did this is the app Grindr. See really it is about advertisers here and that Ad networks were using the UDID info to figure out some sort of profile for the user so they could better target ads to that user. So if the original own of the iPhone in this case was inclined to use the grindr app quite a bit - and the adnetworks knew that - then when the user went to other apps with with banner ads from the network the user would see ads for things that would appeal to a someone that likes the content of the grinder app. Now say that person sells his iPhone to gazelle and some well intentioned grandchild buys that iPhone for grandma in IOWA and she hits an app which is part of the ad network - she might be wondering why she is getting ads for gay dating sites. And that is what people are trying to say could happen and what is the issue. Of course grandmas iPhone could end up in the hands of a gay 25 year old and he would be stuck seeing ads for murder she wrote DVD collections or Joyce Myer books - so I guess it is equally shocking when UDID cross from one spectrum to the other in society.
I would assume that quickly the ad network algorithms will adjust. But if you are getting your kids used iPhones - you might want to double and triple check the parental controls.
Apple has had a little bit of an issue lately with some app upgrades crashing upon install - This included Instapaper and Angry Birds Space and well anything that effects the Angry bird empire has to be taken seriously. Actually it was Marco creator of Instappaper that brought this issue to the publics eye and Apples did acknowledge the problem and is working with devs to fix the issue. So if you have an app you recently updated and it is crashing when you try to launch it - well you are not alone.
The solution if you do have one of those apps is to try to update that app - do not do the delete and re-install - but rather do the update. That is if that app has been fixed.
Hi Rob,
Cydia app, browser changer, defaults my iPhone to chrome nicely.
Regards,
Serge
Hi Rob
Here's a question for you or your listeners:
Do you know of an iPad app that allows you to not only annotate PDFs but also insert and or append blank pages (like PDF Annotator for Windows) that will allow me to do this?
If you or your listeners cannot help me I will be forced to buy a tablet Windows PC and my Windows-free life will be over. It will be a very dark day ;)
Please help!!!
Regards,
Danielle
Pemberton, BC, Canada
Hi Danielle - I am going to say this one will be answered by the listeners - as I do not know of an app for the iPad that allows for adding in blank pages into a pdf doc - but hopefully someone listening does. Please folks Help Danielle from going over to the dark side.
Last episode I did an interview with Tim Street on his iBook VIDS - which is just for the iPad running iOS 5.x or later. But one thing I did not play after the interview was the trailer - here it is.
Hi Rob. Got Octopus Keyboard Jailbreak Tweak and it Works great. Using it as I type this.
Regards,
Chris
Chris Thanks for the heads up on that. The Octopus Jailbreak tweak is one that is supposed to imitate the Blackberry 10 keyboard - so you can actually play with that keyboard you know 8 to 9 months before blackberry users. This is a pay for tweak and costs you $4.99
There is an article at AppAdvice that Chris sent that has more info on the repository you need to add to get this. Link of course in the show notes.
Ok for all the unlockers out there - well unofficial unlockers that is - the Dev Team put up a post on July 4th talking about Redsnow 0.9.14b2 - and how it improves the baseband downgrades for the iPhone 3G and 3GS. If this is something you have been looking for - check the link titled Dev Team blog - Baseband freedom in the show notes.
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