Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss the iPhone 6 and 6 plus.
Also: Product picks.
Todd’s picks:
– CipherShed forks TrueCrypt
– Wolfram Tweet-a-Program. Twitter account @WolframTaP
Category: Apple
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MobileViews Podcast 96: Apple 6 rants
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MobileViews Podcast 92: Google Docs/Slides/Photosphere Camera, iPhone 5 battery recall, iWatch
This podcast was recorded on Aug. 23, 2014. Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:
– Google Docs/Sheets/Slides offline
– Google Slides for Android
(Google Play Store link)– Google Photo Sphere Camera for iOS
– Limited Battery Recall for iPhone 5 (Can check serial number for eligibility)
– iWatch may be pushed to 2015 on supply chain rumors
– Fun look back: Gizmodo iPhone mockups prior to 2007 launch
– HP iPAQ h6315 (old Windows Phone phone)
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MobileViews Podcast 84: WWDC 2014, Sprint/T-Mobile merger, Amazon smartphone on June 18
In MobileViews podcast 84 Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:
– Apple’s 2014 WWDC announcements (nice roundup in The Verge)
– The rumored Apple health gadget (iWatch?) launch in October
– The $32B Sprint/T-Mobile merger (Reuters)
– Amazon’s presumed smartphone announcement scheduled for June 18.Apple developer links (may require developer account)
– What’s new in iOS 8
– What’s new in OS/X 10.10 (Yosemite)
– Apple Swift language sample code -
Note to comiXology/Amazon: Hawaii has two “i”-s
Amazon upset a lot of people by disabling the ability to buy comic books in comiXology’s iOS apps (Amazon bought comiXology earlier this year). My ComicsViews podcast cohost, Jay Stone, was so upset by this change that he deleted the app from his iPad. He was not the only person incensed by this change to avoid paying Apple its 30% iTunes in-app-purchase cut. Amazon tried to appease comiXology’s customers but offering a $5 credit after the app change and, more recently, offering a free digital comic book every day for 20 days starting this past Memorial Day (May 26, 2014). However, I discovered one more annoying aspect to this change for iOS device users who can no longer purchase through the app: Forced to use comiXology’s web browser interface to make a purchase, I noticed that my home state’s name is spelled incorrectly – It is “Hawaii” with two “i”-s, not one. With the understanding that I make spelling errors/typos like everyone else, you would think comiXology or Amazon would have staff checking for this sort of error.
FYI: You can hear Jay and I discuss the comiXology iOS app issue in ComicsViews Podcast 51.
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88% of iOS devices running latest version. Android? 8.5%
Apple’s App Store Distribution page reports that 88% of iOS devices are running the current version. Google’s Android Developer Dashboard reports that 8.5% of Android devices is running the current release (Kitkat 4.4).
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MobileViews Podcast 80: Amazon phone, Windows 8.1 Update, HeartBleed, Apps of the week
In this podcast, Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss.
– The rumored Amazon smartphone. Refs: WSJ & Recode
– Windows 8.1 Update: Microsoft Surface RT update experience is different from the Asus T100 even though both have hardware connected physical keyboards
Apps of the Week
– Todd: An oldie but a goodie: Sky Map. Was Google Sky Map. Now an Open Source community driven project– Jon: An oldie but a goodie as well: TrueCrypt (Yep, not mobile, but it does protect data on the go)