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TOTA - APPLE iPHONE & iPAD & Mobile News Thread PT1 (CLOSED) (pg. 308)
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| E2EK1EL |
Apple terminating free case program September 30
This afternoon, on Apple’s official iPhone 4 Case Program website, the company released the following statement:
We now know that the iPhone 4 antenna attenuation issue is even smaller than we originally thought. A small percentage of iPhone 4 users need a case, and we want to continue providing them a Bumper case for free. For everyone else, we are discontinuing the free case program on all iPhone 4s sold after September 30, 2010. We are also returning to our normal returns policy for all iPhone 4s sold after September 30. Users experiencing antenna issues should call AppleCare to request a free Bumper case.
There has been no official word on whether or not the Cupertino company has made any internal adjustments to the iPhone 4’s antenna design.
(Thank you Apple for the amazing customer service, got mine a while ago and it's still sealed in the package. No Antenna issues in Canada for Rogers - I'll pass mine to someone who "needs" it and will be doing a very strict test to confirm he or she "has" that issue.) |
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| E2EK1EL |
Microsoft celebrates Windows Phone 7 RTM with funeral parade for BlackBerry and iPhone
The iPhone's dead, long live the Windows Phone. That must be the genius proclamation that incited Microsoft to celebrate Windows Phone 7 reaching RTM status with the incomprehensible procession you see above. An elaborate parade, replete with hearses and black capes, was organized last week to denote the passing of the BlackBerry and iPhone into the land of unwanted gadgets. We'd say this is done in poor taste, but we don't enjoy stating the obvious. We will, however, enjoy the fallout from this poorly judged stunt. See our favorite image after the break and lots more at the source.
(Wow, that's the biggest low blow I've seen. Being overconfident is the key to any company's failure) |
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| Nerologic |
| quote: | Originally posted by VDub
I'm finding that if I'm typing a post, the phone has a hard time keeping up and it misses letters...
Anybody else??? |
I had that issue with my 2G and when my 3G was bogged down... |
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| VDub |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nerologic
I had that issue with my 2G and when my 3G was bogged down... |
I've now realized that it only happens if I don't wait for the page to load fully before I start typing... |
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| E2EK1EL |
Cydia Acquires Rock.app
(NO MORE ROCK.APP!!!! Maybe I'll come back to jailbreaking now!)
It's been a year and a half since Rock Your Phone first made live their Rock.app store for 3rd party iPhone apps. Over the past few months, the folks who own both stores (Jay Freeman and Mario Ciabarra) have been working through a huge deal, which has come to public fruition tonight - Cydia is acquiring Rock. Well, technically, SaurikIT, LLC is acquiring Rock Your Phone, Inc (let's use correct business names here).
Details of the acquisition have not been made public, but here's what it means to you: Rock.app will essentially dwindle away. There will be a transitional period for the next 10 days where users can purchase/download apps and licenses in Rock. After that, users will use their Cydia Store login to retrieve their purchased apps. The large majority of themes/apps from Rock will be moved over to Cydia (most are already there right now). Rock will have a notice on it's first page, and APT updates will discontinue in the near future (so Rock would be useless even if you had it). I chatted with Mario Ciabarra (CEO and founder of Rock Your Phone) and he had this to say about the acquisition:
"It's been a fun ride. We set out to change the landscape and I think we were very successful. I think we contributed to attracting more business professionals to the iPhone jailbreak community, and added some great functionality to the platform. The current transaction with Cydia is a great opportunity for us. We're going to miss some of the excitement, but no reason for anyone to worry. I, personally, will be spending even more time in Intelliborn apps development (both existing and exciting new projects). A few months ago, Jay and I sat down together and we realized, I enjoyed making apps more (and was better at it), while Jay enjoys providing platform functionality. It was a win-win for both groups and we're excited about the transition."
Ciabarra, aka psuskeels, has been making jailbreak apps since very early on in the scene (Intelliscreen came out in May of 2008) - just a couple months after Cydia's February 2008 release. And while Intelliborn will still be a big player in the iPhone 3rd party apps scene, Rock will not. All the Intelliborn apps, like MyWi, Tlert, MyProfiles, My3G, Intelliscreen, etc will all remain available and development will be continued on them. They will all be available solely in Cydia now. In fact, this move means a total of over 21,000 iPhone extensions, apps, and themes are now in Cydia which are not available in the Apple AppStore.
There's been a fierce undercurrent in many communities this past 18 months of "loyalty" to one of the two major jailbreak AppStores, with conversations in high gear lauding one or the other, bringing up this point or that point, etc. Many had both installed, and everyone had a preference. One thing can be said - it was a good run. You can't argue that Cydia wasn't a more technically thorough solution, but the user experience of Rock.app was preferred by many. And the numbers are impressive - check these out from the Rock Your Phone news post about the acquisition:
Number of Developers with apps listed in the Rock Store: 124 (from 19 countries)
Unique iOS devices that installed Rock: 4.6 million (from 220 countries/territories) - Wow that is a lot of places!
Registered Rock Users: 2+ million
Number of App licenses sold: 500,000
Users of who took the plunge and bought something: 280,000 (from 185 countries)
Users who said screw it and installed a hacked version instead: 38 billion (please send us $1)
Total Rock Your Phone Store revenue (March 12th, 2009 - September 2010): $3.3+ million
Number of Rock Employees (we are using the word employee loosely here but, hey, it is our company): 9
After jailbreaking was officially declared legal in late July, there's been an even larger focus on the jailbreak community, or 3rd party iPhone developers. This acquisition makes Cydia and Cydia Store the clear leader in iPhone 3rd party package management. Exciting times ahead... |
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| Nerologic |
| quote: | Originally posted by VDub
I've now realized that it only happens if I don't wait for the page to load fully before I start typing... |
Ahh yea makes sense too.
But I had that issue a ton with texting and web pages in the past... |
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| E2EK1EL |
| It's 9:18am, wonder who went to Newmarket to grab their IP4? |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by E2EK1EL
It's 9:18am, wonder who went to Newmarket to grab their IP4? |
Im going to the upper canada mall later this afternoon (tho not to buy an iphone, lol)
Ill let you know if i see any line ups :) |
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| E2EK1EL |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jem_hadar
Im going to the upper canada mall later this afternoon (tho not to buy an iphone, lol)
Ill let you know if i see any line ups :) |
We know you ain't gonna buy an IP4, which is good b/c we need ppl on the Android side too.
Snap some pics or videos if you see a line dude, thanks. |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by E2EK1EL
We know you ain't gonna buy an IP4, which is good b/c we need ppl on the Android side too.
Snap some pics or videos if you see a line dude, thanks. |
Cool, ill see what I can do ;)
Think there's really gonna be crazy ass lineups in NM though?? |
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| Brennen |
I went to buffalo last week for some shopping and went to the AT&T store to check out the BB Torch...
What a pile of crap that phone is. Its slow as , the screen is horrible and its feels flimsy in your hand.
Anyone who thinks that the BB is the "iphone killer" needs to give their head a shake. |
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| E2EK1EL |
Telus SMS Update:
For the past 2 years, Telus has been suffering from a SMS bug. Random number displays within a convos, delays, failures and the worst of the worst has started today ... Sending out any type of SMS will not work at all.
The Future is surely friendly w/ Telus
Official excuse "FaceTime is causing network congesting and SMS msgs are stuck in the server"
FaceTime only uses a carrier's network for activation, from there it's Wifi only. Imagine FaceTime was allowed over 3G data?
Now, hope everyone understands Apple's limitations on data restrictions for certain apps and functions.
Update:
"TELUS HSPA customers experiencing SMS delays due to 3rd party iPhone app"
http://mobilesyrup.com/2010/09/11/telus-hspa-customers-experiencing-sms-delays-due-to-3rd-party-iphone-app/
(check the time lines, i knew about this @ 12;17 and the official excuse was changed) |
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