iOS Artwork - iTem 0244 and Episode Transcript

Hi_Rob
Just used my iPhone5 to take a photo of our front yard ghostly jack 'o lantern and worked it up with Doodle Buddy on my iPad2.

Regards,

PaulG in Lawrenceville

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Episode 244 Transcript

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Confirmed - October 23rd event it will be.  This per the oft rumored event for Mid October. Which the iPad Mini is expected to be the main star of said event.  Apples invite was pretty much as subtle as a brick through a window - with the words - quote We've got a LITTLE more to show you unquote. Yeah iPad Mini it is.  It is interesting that there are many colors in the invite - Red, Orange, Violet, Blue and Yellow - hey if we are going to overly read into these invites I MEAN if I was the type of person that would do such a thing then maybe I would speculate that the colors on the invite mean the iPad Mini - like the iPod touch will come in multiple colors. Orrrr it could just be that a black and white invite does not look really good - yeah - I will go with the later reason on this as well. 

 

 

I guess we should give some kudos to AllthingsD for you know predicting the October 23rd date - and by predict - I of course mean opening up the email from Simon Pope over at apple.  Just sayin.   Yeah - those of us outside the loop - are left having to look at calendars and events happening world wide to guess the dates on when Apple will do a special event.  I guess I was wrong thinking Apple wanted to show up any announcements at ITU this week - when in reality showing up Microsoft and their launch of the Surface Tablet next week seemed much higher on their list - who would have thunk. 

 

 

I really am not going to speculate on the specs of the iPad Mini - we will go over the full specs as told be Apple on the next show - We just know two things for sure now - it will be smaller and cheaper than the current iPad.  How cheap - well that depends on what rumor sites you read.  One rumor from the past week comes from a supposed screen shot of pricing from a retailer in Europe - in said screen shot - pricing roughly translates back to US - $249 for an 8GB Wifi Only model.  With 16 GB Wifi only being $299, Then $399 for 32 GB and $499 for 64 GB.  Then there are the wifi and Cellular versions - some saying there might be a Wifi, Wifi and 3G and Wifi and LTE grouping of units.  So if you have 4 storage options, 3 Wireless options and 2 colors - you have a total of 24 different versions to choose from - Brilliant.  Some other rumors have the 8GB version at $299 and 16 GB at $349, 32 GB at $399 and 64 GB at $499.  Add another $130 for Cellular or LTE versions.  Yeah - Pricing speculation is a mess.  Can't wait for the real deal on this Tuesday. 

 

 

As an FYI - Microsoft Surface RT pricing was made available this week - $499 is the low end price for the 32 GB version.  So Microsoft did not come in at the $199 price some had speculated.  Nope they did what they said they would do and come in with comparable pricing to the competition - i.e. iPad.

Pricing for the Surface Pro will likely not be released until close to the end of the year.  

Either way pricing announced by MS will do nothing to influence or threaten the iPad's position.   

 

 

Again if you want the full clip look for the link titled - SNL skit skewers complaints about the iPhone 5 in the show notes for ep 244 over at today in iOS dot com. 

 

 Speaking of pointing your iPhone 5 directly at bright light and getting lens flare - The following is what I'm sure is going to be the first of many of these type of cases - It is called CamHoodie one word and it is a $25 case that claims its helps reduce or as they say greatly reduce purple lens flare. Yup - expect a few more of these to launch any minute now.   

 

So with all the tech bloggers on their high horses throwing crap at the iPhone 5 - you would think it is doing horrible - right - well of course not - those that are bashing the iPhone 5 are a bunch of nincompoops to put it nicely.  In the real world - finding an iPhone 5 - is as tough as finding an article from Digitimes that is accurate.  And the web traffic from the iPhone 5 in less than 3 weeks is already greater than the web traffic from the Samsung Galaxy S3 - Actually quite a bit greater.  This according to data from Chitika - now don't mis understand those numbers - that is web traffic they are talking about - not sales.  I am sure the iPhone 5 has not out sold the Galaxy S3 yet - that is probably a few more weeks before that happens.  But from those surfing the web - well in that case the iPhone 5 has already kicked the S3's butt.  Of course iPhone 5 users might all be surfing the web to find out how to filter out that purple lens flair - just sayin.   

 

 

Into the email bag.

Hi Rob

In the last episode in your section on increasing battery life you mentioned keeping the traffic setting active if you want the traffic information on your maps. This setting refers to your willingness to provide the crowd sourced traffic data used by maps. If you turn this setting off you still receive traffic data within the Maps App but you are not providing that data. 

Regards

Chris

Hi Chris - I stand corrected - but either way good to turn that off to save battery life.

I know a couple of people asked why I did not talk about putting the phone in Airplane Mode - well that is fine on an airplane - but I am assuming most people still want to or need to get calls during the day. So that is why I did not mention that.  But yes if you don't want calls - then put the phone in airplane mode by all means - just no - it means you can't receive or make calls.  

Back to the emails - 

Hi Rob,

I just heard the latest podcast. I wanted to say that I'm having the same issue as the guy who said his podcast started playing after a phone call. 

I have had this happen many times. In fact when I'm in the other room watching TV I know someone has called even when my phone is on silent because a podcast just spontaneously starts playing. 

I have long arms but not that long! No chance that I hit the button too many times all the way from the other room down the hall.

Definitely a real issue not user error. ;-)

Kind Regards,

Darren W

Hi Rob,

Per the caller looking for a way to track data - there is a jailbreak app called WeeTrackData - one word with We spelled W E E 

Regards,

Hank J

Rob,
In response to a listener on the last show: the app Dataman will track data usage to include specific apps data usage at a particular time. It is in the App Store and requires NO JAILBREAKING. I've been using it for a while now and really like it. 

Lou V

Hi Rob,

You do not need to jailbreak to monitor data. Onavo is an App Store app that does two things; first, it compresses your data so you're using less, and second, it reports how that data is being used. 

That is how I was able to tell my wife to stop downloading apps when she wasn't at home and blowing her data limit. 

Regards,

John H

Hi,

First time listener. Listened to item 0243.

You had a listener that wanted a Contacts replacement because she could no longer select only a single group, without first deselecting everyone of the other groups. Well, which made me feel like the user tapped each group, one after the other. There is however, this simple way:

1. Tap All Contacts, which selects all groups.
2. Tap again on All Contacts, which will deselect all groups.
3. Finally, tap the group you want to see.

Regards,
Johan

 

 

Hey Rob, just want to report that the sailor is sobering up! With your help below I am now using less than 20% overnight - but still not the performance of my 4... 

Im sure it will get better in the next update. 

Did you look at the corrupt bookmark article? http://tidbits.com/article/13303 It gets a bit involved with DFU mode, and restoring, etc. Not sure if I have to resort to it. 

thanks, 
John P 

 

 

Well with the new 5th gen iPod touch shipping - it means the folks at iFixit were able to get their hands on one and open it up.  Initial findings are - it is not easy to repair - actually it will be downright a pain in the home button.  Speaking of Home Button - iFix it says the new design of the home button on the iPod touch 5th gen is not nearly as good as the iPhone 5.  Also it has just 512 MB of Ram with its A5 processor. One thing the iPod touch 5th gen does not come with is a mic on its Headphones or should we say ear pods.  Yes - it has siri - no it does not have a mic on the headphones.  Brilliant.  

One other thing the iPod touch is missing is an ambient light sensor - which means no auto-brightness.  A supposed email exchange between an iPod touch customer and phil shiller - has Phil explaining that the iPod touch 5th gen does not have the light sensor due to the thickness or lack there of of the new iPod touch.

But barring all those issues - it is a really neat device and should sell well this holiday season.  Being it is still the best MP3 player on the market - by a pretty wide margin.

 

 

Thanks to Michael for this next one.  On the last episode - I mentioned you should turn on Limit Ad Tracking - as it is something Apple should have done by default - but they did not - so you need to go to the settings app - then general - then about - then scroll down to advertising and then turn on - Limit Ad tracking - which really means it is turning off ad tracking.  Yeah - not only did apple have it set wrong from a users privacy perspective - they also worded it like Yoda would have.  Nice Apple Nice.  And by Nice I mean Limit Nice turned off.  One other thing you can do is turn off Interest based iAds - this is the heads up Michael sent.  To do this - in safari on your iOS device running iOS 6 - go to - oo.apple.com - that's the letter o - the letter o dot apple dot com.  And then turn off the toggle you are brought to.  Again that is from inside safari you do that.  

It does mean you may get more iAds for the Twilight DVD collectors set - when you really want the 2 disc collection of the Expendibles ads instead.  But hey you will rest assured no data base is tracking your ad preferences.   

 

Hi Rob,

Long time listener - love the show.

I received a notice that my lightning adapter shipped and I should have it by tomorrow/Thursday sometime.  Not sure if you were tracking the timeline on these.

Orland

Thanks Orland.  The lack of those devices - reminds me of this past weekend - I was at Podcamp Topeka - doing one of my presentations when I wanted to show my setup of how to connect a good Condensor mic to an iPad - and I brought all my equipment sans one key part - the USB to 30 pin dongle from the Camera Connection kit.  But luckily or my predictably - one of the people in the audience said no problem and pulled out the dongle from their lap top bag.  Yeah for the next year plus - that is not as likely to happen if you needed it for a lightning adaptor.  Just Sayin.  I know know Rob get over it already.  

Hi Rob,

I had the same problem with your app not working.  But I also had this problem before with another app and I did exactly what you said, I deleted it and reinstalled it. Works Perfect now. Thanks, just thought you would want to know. 

Regards,

Robert.

Thanks Robert and others that sent in similar emails - maybe it is not our app after all - maybe it is an issue with iOS upgrades.

Hey rob, 

Just writing in response to the caller who's keyboard shortcuts do not work with iOS 6. I have an iPhone 4S with iOS 6 and I also have a lot of shortcuts. After the updates my keyboard shortcuts work pretty sporadically. Sometimes the come up if I wait an extra second or two and sometimes they never appear. My wives 4s with iOS 6 has the same behavior.  

~ Jim

Hi Rob,

I have just noticed that my lightning connector plug that plugs into the phone itself is starting to show signs on the little gold colored conectors are starting to corrode break and becoming  discolored causing me to think that there is already a bad electrical connection to the phone connectors inside the phone female socket. My Phone case has covers that go over the sockets to keep them dry and free of pocket material. I will be contacting the Genius Bar to find out what we need to do to get this resolved especially since you can't find lightning connectors by themselves aftermarket yet And I don't want to be left without my phone because it will not take a charge due to a bad lightning connector. :0(

Matthew S

Hey rob - the instore "app store" (!) crashes when you use genius ... 

Natasha 

 

 

The folks working on this next Kickstarter project reached out and asked if we would mention it.  It is the HiLo Lens for iPhone and iPad.  Search HiLo - h i l o and then lens - should get your there on kickstarter.  They have raised $6,500 toward a goal of $27,500 with pledges open until Nov 20th at 9:00 PM ET.  What this is is a $65 external periscope type lens that lets you take photos and video at a 90% angle from the normal direction you are pointing.  So now you can photo graph what is directly above your iPhone - I am not going to joke about this being purchased by all the up skirt photographers that ride the tokyo subway - because that would be you know wrong and much to easy of a joke.  Nope - rather I will say it is good for taking photos of skyscrapers in NY while also being able to watch your bags on the ground next to you. 

Well again search hilo lens in kickstarter if you are interested in this one.  

 

 

 

A while back I talked about the Color App and the craziness of the 41 Million dollars in VC funds it was given - and said hey VC's you can through money this way if you want to just throw away money - or something snarky similar to that. And well Now the company Color Labs is reported to be shutting its door or is it.  One report on the Verge had the doors being shut down and the money mostly gone.  But another report from the next web just the next day has Apple's Eddie Cue ridding in on a white horse and saving the day for VC's and founder Bill Nguyen.  If the later is true - my only questions are what type of Photos of Eddie Cue does Bill Nguyen have.  They must be pretty embarrassing to say the least - because Eddie Spear headed Apples purchase of Lala from Nguyen and now he is reported to be doing it again with Color - both questionable acquisitions to say the least - especially given apples tight fisted approach to acquisitions. In my minds eye I am guessing the pictures involve Eddie Cue, John Trovolta, Tom Cruise, a turkish bath house and or one or more domesticated farm animals because outside of that I just ain't following the logic on this one - just sayin.   

 

 

Over at Sprint - it looks like they will be getting a new over lord - in the name of Softbank - which is going to invest 20 Billion in Sprint for a 70% stake in the company. Good news to all of you that purchased Sprint stock with me back when it was just $2.19 a share in Jan - now it is at $5.70 - with a tender offer from Softbank for $7.30 a share.  Not a bad ROI in 2012 for Sprint stock.  Softbank by the way was the first carrier in Japan to get the iPhone - so if anything - this strengthens Apples relationship with Sprint. Not that it seemed like it needed it - but still it is likely good news for Sprint iPhone owners long term - as long as they don't kill off unlimited data that is.  Which is not likely - the killing of that is.  In other words - it should be status quo for a while now. 

 

 

Ok - so Verizon gave us the first look at iPhone 5 sales last quarter.  Overall Verizon sold a total of 6.8 Million Smart phones in the quarter.  50% were Android for 3.4 Mil units and 45.6% were iPhones for 3.1 Mil units.  Leaving just 4.4% for Blackberry or Windows Mobile / Phone 7 phones combined. Of the 3.1 Million iPhones sold last quarter - just 651,000 were iPhone 5's.  So really the iPhone 5 did not get a chance to fully impact the quarter for Verizon - as they stated that number was heavily constrained due to lack of iPhone5's.  Last quarter - Android sold 2.9 Mil units vs 2.7 Mil iPhone units for comparison sake.  

 

 

In the next week we will be getting news from AT&T and Then Sprint - on how iPhone sales went for them.  In the case of AT&T - they usually give a break down of not just iPhone sales but smartphone sales over all.  It does not look like the anal-ists have much to say here - but either way it will be interesting.  Once all three of them get out their numbers - then Apple will give theirs.

But so far based on initial numbers from just Verizon - Wallstreet was not too happy with Apple shares down over $12 in morning trading. Now I do think Investors are over reacting.  As I think the Verizon numbers are lower for two reasons - 1. Constraint of available inventory.  2. With Verizon if you want to keep unlimited Data and go to LTE - you have to pay full price for the iPhone 5.  I think you will see much better numbers for this quarter in Jan for AT&T then you will from Verizon because of that 2nd point.   

 

 

Hi Rob,

You mentioned a few stories about how Find My iPhone saved the day in a few recent cases of iOS theft. Find My iPhone can be great if you misplaced your phone, or say, left it in a taxi- cases of non-malicious iOS Device loss. 

However, I've always wondered, in the case of theft, what's to keep the thief from turning off locations services for Find My iPhone? Has it just been the case that these thieves don't know enough to do that on stolen iOS devices?

Also, if a thief were to immediately do a "Reset All" and wipe your phone as soon as it was stolen, would Find My iPhone still work for the original if it were restored as a new phone with a different user (assuming that after the restore, they did leave location services on for Find My iPhone)?

Thanks,

Matt

Philadelphia, PA

Hi Matt,  Thanks for the question.  One you are correct if the device is not pass lock protected - they could go in and do a full wipe / restore or even turn off find my iPhone.  That is if it is not protected.  But if it is pass lock protected - and it is an iPhone - even if you quote turn off the phone unquote - it is not fully turned off - it still gets a wireless connection.  This is the brilliant part about the iPhones - you can't remove the battery.  One of the first things knowledgeable robbers do when they swipe a Galaxy Smartphone - other than curse because they though they were grabbing an iPhone - is to remove the battery - now the phone is un-trackable - with the iPhone they don't have that option.

With a wifi ipad - tracking is not as easy - you need for the device to be turned on and scanning wifi locations that have their geolocation submitted to the data base Apple uses for location info to gets its approximate location.  If the iPad is turned off - you can't find it.

Again - Find my iPhone works best when you have the lock code on your iOS device so the bad guys can't turn it off or wipe the device. I mean sure I am sure there are some dumb criminals that don't know about wiping the iOS device for those that are unlocked - but they are probably the smaller subset of criminals.  Key is if you are traveling - put in a passcode for your iOS device.  Remove it when you get back from your trip if you must.  

 

 

I keep getting questions on Jailbreaking iOS 6 - and I will say this - there is NOT - repeat NOT currently an untethered Jailbreak for iOS 6. There is a Tethered Jailbreak for iOS 6 kinda sorta - but only for select iOS devices running on an A4 processor - ie iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and 4th gen iPod touch . So No - in my mind there is not a jailbreak available for iOS 6. And until there is an un-tethered jailbreak - there will be no tutorials from me - as I do not ever recommend doing the tethered jailbreak - that is just for devs to test out.

The other question people are asking is when will there be a jailbreak for the iPhone 5 with iOS 6 - and well at this point it is really hard to say - it is not an easy thing - It is looking however - less and less likely an untethered jailbreak for iOS 6 for the iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S will be available this year - and maybe not even in Q1 2013.  

There are updates to Redsnow v0.9.15b1 - that will help some to do a tethered jailbreak - but again that really is only for those devs that need to do testing.

There are some other features - with that version - but really it is rather confusing on what exactly you can and can't do with it - and if you need blobs or not - so lets just say this - An untether jailbreak for iOS 6 and the iPhone 5 specifically - yeah - that is not going to happen any time soon - if you are holding off getting an iPhone 5 for the jailbreak - time to stop holding your breath - it is going to be a while. Sorry

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Thanks to Thomas in Tuscaloosa for the heads up on his Instructable post about his modifying a ProClip iPhone 4/4S car cradle so that an iPhone 5 would fit.  Link is in the show notes for ep 244 - look for the one titled - Mod iPhone 4 Car Cradle for iPhone 5.  Thanks Thomas for the heads up.  

 

 

Not sure how big a fish story this next one is - but here goes - A person 6 months ago - accidentally dropped his iPhone 4S in a lake - well I am assuming it was an accident.  The lake was murky and dark - and he could not find it.  6 months later the water levels have lowered and the water is clearer - and there is his iPhone in the lake.  He plucked it out - dried it off - was able to power it up.  Now it is not without issues - but at least when connected to a power source he could power it up - I don't recommend testing out this urban myth on your own.   

 

 

Hi Rob,
Looks like if you don't have a Mac you have lost the ability to share new Reminder lists via iCloud or to stop existing shared reminders. 

Have you heard anything about this?

Javier

Hi Rob,

In episode 243 you mentioned going to the iBookstore to find the iPhone User Guide for iOS6. Just wanted to let you know that this is also available from your iPhone by opening Safari>Bookmarks>iPhone User Guide.

Tim, Wisconsin

Thanks Tim. Brilliant.

Rob,

In Australia all cell phones start with 04 and then eight digits after that. Unfortunately my iPhones don't always correctly look up the names of the person who is calling you, because it appears the iPhone only looks at the last six digits for matching.  I get the first person on the list with the matching last six digits, while in some cases it's an entry of another person with the same last six digits, so incorrect entry is displayed. Storing number in full international format does not help.

I wondered if you knew of a way around this problem?

Regards,

Serge in Australia

Hi Rob.
I have an odd request,
I tend to listen to audiobooks, played on the ipod app.
But sometimes I would like to listen to music, but here's the problem, if I listen to anything from my music library, I instantly lose my place in the audiobook (the app keeps the played information, yes, but not which chapter I was up to).

So I'm basically looking for an extra app that will allow me to play music from my library on the iPhone but doesn't use the native player.

I need the native ipod app to be the audiobook player, as I use another app to play the audiobook when I go to sleep, and I like the way the app works (NodBot).

I have found an app called LouderLogic, but I really don't like it. I just occasionally want to play music, don't need flashy display and detailed controls, basic is just fine.

I honestly thought it would have been easier to find something, but who knew!

Paul

New Zealand 

 

 

So Apple as you may remember lost a case in the UK where it said Samsung copied the iPad with their tablet.  In that case the Judge said the samsung tablets were not as cool as the iPad and no one would mistake them as copies - and later ordered Apple to put out print ads apologizing to Samsung for saying Samsung Copied the iPad.  And now that judge has said those apologies - need to be in at least 14 pt Arial font.  So I ask you what wording meme can you come up with for this apology - send me your thoughts.

My initial thought is to use the judges own words in the apology. Some thing like this.

Dear Samsung,

We at Apple are sorry we accused you of copying the iPad when you designed your tablet.  If we had been thinking more clearly we would has seen what Judge Colin Birss saw when he said quote Galaxy Tablets do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design.. They are not as cool. unquote.  I guess when we said you copied what we really meant was you attempted to copy but fell way short.  Again per the Judges ruling we just wanted to say we are sorry we accused you of copying. Reality is you give real copiers a bad name.  We should have said you vainly tried to copy the iPad but came up with a shallow shell of a device whose sales are a joke and now sit ideally in the draws of those few poor souls that were unfortunate enough to have purchase one.  

Again sorry for implying your successfully copied the iPad - you definitely did not.  

Regards,

Tim Cook

CEO Apple Inc

Again - if you have a short and sweet apology for Samsung - in 14 pt and arial - let me know.