Jun 12 2011
CNN Money has an article on the WWDC conference and people noticed Apple stock set to 376 a share in the iOS 5 demo. In reality the price was lower, and due to the poor performance of the stock market, Apples shares were down over 5% which was average for the rest of the market as well.
Jun 7 2011
According to this tweet. iOS 5 has already been Jailbroken. It’s not really a bad thing that jailbreaks happen, because it forces Apple to close security holes that could otherwise be used to attach the phones.
By Corey • iOS, Security • 0 • Tags: ios, iOS 5, Jailbreak, Security
Jun 7 2011
A few websites are saying that Apple stole OTA updates from Google. This is simply not true. Feature phones before Android and even the iPhone were released were able to do OTA updates. It was not something that was generally public from the carriers as it was a new process. However it is a safer way to update since carriers have the ability to restrict how many people at once do updates. This allows them to push an update to say 10,000 random customers and monitor their support systems for bug reports. Say if a few days and no complaints go by that are show stoppers then they move along and push 100,000 and wait a day. Then they begin pushing to rest of their customers. It’s a great feature.
Other things that were added such as wireless media sync have been a requested feature for years. Apparently Zune HD had this, but I knew one person who ever bought a Zune and they returned it a few months later and bought iPhones. Is it really stealing an idea when it’s a common sense thing?
Camera from lock screen. People have been asking for faster ways to take pictures, and that’s what Apple has provided. Apparently Windows 7 Phones can do this, but manufacturers have been slow to adopt the feature. Nobody ever made a feature popular by not implementing it. Windows 7 phone users should thank Apple that other carriers may finally take note and begin to implement it more. This is exactly the reason that competition is good. If there’s a great feature out there, somebody is going to implement it.
By Corey • iOS, iTunes • 2 • Tags: ios, iOS 5, iTunes, iTunes Wireless Sync, OTA
Jun 6 2011
With iOS 5, your phone became that much more powerful as a camera. First we finally have a hardware switch to take pictures (Volume Up), second the camera app is instant along with being able to launch it while the phone is locked. There’s a slew of other features, but the biggest one is Photo Stream. This free iCloud service will upload your last thousand photos to iCloud where they are stored for 30 days. This is long enough for your other devices to pick them up including the Apple Tv. If you put a photo inside an album then it’s saved indefinitely up to our account limit which is currently set to 5Gb, but I’m sure you will be able to buy more space.
Why is this cool? We’ll ever take a photo on your iPhone and wanted to show people on your iPad or your Mac? Yep that’s why it’s such a big freaking deal.
By Corey • iCloud, iOS • 0 • Tags: apple, iCloud, iOS 5, Photo Stream
Jun 6 2011
There’s a lot of features that are coming with iOS 5 it’s almost impossible to tell which one is the best. Out of the list I would say no longer needing a computer to activate your iPhone and iTunes Wireless Sync are at the top of my list. With iCloud if you purchase a song through iTunes on your Mac, it will also download to your iPhone, iPad, or other sync’d devices as well. This is a welcome feature, and you can have up to 10 devices to Sync to. Which is 2 devices per member of a 5 person family. Your music is also stored in the cloud. I had guessed right that Apple would not be doing any streaming as that would of caused some angst with cellular carriers, and probably would of made the CEO’s of several carriers cry.
Another great feature is that you can access your purchase history and re-download songs finally.
Finally there’s iTunes Match. This will save people some time. iTunes Match will check your library and match those songs against a database of Apple songs, if a CD you ripped in 128k Mp3 then if there’s a match for those songs, Apple will copy a 256k AAC file up into your iCloud library and you can sync that back down to other devices. Not only does this not kill your broadband caps, it saves you a ton of time, although you will have to manually upload any song that’s not matched. Currently this is a fee service for 24.99 a year which is pretty cheap along, but there is a limit of 25,000 songs. Most will not be anywhere near that limit.
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By Corey • iCloud, iTunes • 0 • Tags: apple, iCloud, iOS 5, iTunes, iTunes Wireless Sync
Jun 6 2011
We’ll the Steve has spoken and now it’s time to digest all the information that has washed over our eyes and into our heads, it’s going to be an interesting few months for sure. After the jump you will find information compiled about the various topic Steve has covered. We’ll be updating sections as needed as we clarify more details.
By Corey • Events, Uncategorized • 0 • Tags: ios, iOS 5, lion, OS X, WWDC 2011