Originally posted by Cyrus King
my moms account is on my computer, and she has an ipad, sometimes her ID is asked for on my phone.
I just have one account from apple myself.
Could her ipad account been mixed with mine somehow? Her ipad account is also canadian.
im going to delete my backup tonight and backup again and restore once more to see if this retarded problem persists
Your phone will get confused with the multiple accounts sometimes. I have three and I can't update all anymore. I have to do them one at a time...
E2EK1EL
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Originally posted by VDub
Your phone will get confused with the multiple accounts sometimes. I have three and I can't update all anymore. I have to do them one at a time...
What I don't understand, why have multiple accounts on one comp? I have my account shared with my gf and I on two computers. This way I only buy one app and it's installed on both IP4s.
You can share your account with 5 comps and whatever amount of devices you like.
VDub
Two Canadian. One American.
Their store has some apps we can't get here.
I get my free Canadian apps with my acct and use my wife's for paid apps..
E2EK1EL
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Originally posted by VDub
Two Canadian. One American.
Their store has some apps we can't get here.
I get my free Canadian apps with my acct and use my wife's for paid apps..
You should unify all your apps into that one US account.
VDub
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Originally posted by E2EK1EL
You should unify all your apps into that one US account.
Don't have a cc set up on it so I wouldn't be able to buy any apps...
jester
AWESOME!
malek
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E2EK1EL
Using a 3G on FW 3.1.2 tonight, we've came a long way since 2008._
The screen actually hurts my eyes, I've even when set the brightness really low._
The curved form factor is so damn scary and going caseless with this is really bad idea. Even though I've never dropped any phones in the past, the ultra glossy rounded edges tend to get very slick after a while and our natural oil from our skin does build up fast._
Performance wise; it's very slow, the 3GS still runs smooth on _4.0 and 5.0._
So many little features missing, some could be considered minor ... It's all the little tweaks that counts. Even Safari feels slow on a fast wifi network._
Anyone here decided to give your old little buddy a test run lately?_
E2EK1EL
iPhone 5, iPad 3 parts suppliers get ready for lift off
Taiwan-based component suppliers are beginning to prepare materials that will be assembled to build Apple’s upcoming iPhone 5 and iPad 3 devices, DigiTimes reports. The report goes on to state that Apple will unveil its fifth-generation smartphone and third-generation tablet in September ahead of launches in October. Details on the devices were scarce in the report, though it was mentioned that Apple’s next iPad may be even thinner and lighter than the current iPad 2 model, and it may also include a 250dpi display. DigiTimes cites anonymous industry sources in claiming that Apple intends to begin low-volume production of the iPhone 5 in August, and production will then ramp up in September. IPhone supply volume is expected to total 24-25 million units in the third quarter, 6-7 million of which will be the new iPhone 5 model. Total iPhone volume for 2011 is expected to reach 85 million, and DigiTimes says iPad volume may break the 40 million-unit mark.
E2EK1EL
More letters to RIM; employees rally alongside anonymous exec
BGR published an open letter to Research In Motion yesterday from an anonymous high-level RIM executive who begged for senior management to take notice of all of the issues within RIM. The exec explained how the company should make some changes to focus on the talent and potential within RIM, and also to focus on end users instead of carriers. After we published the article, RIM responded. It wasn¡¯t pretty, and it really didn¡¯t address a single point that was made by the original plea. It wasn¡¯t just RIM that responded, however ¡ª we received dozens of emails from current and former RIM employees detailing their stories, and essentially all agreeing with the open letter that was published on BGR. Among the correspondence were several new ¡°open letters¡± written by RIM employees, and the BGR team has gone through them at length. There were nearly a dozen gems amid the emails we received, and while we may address various highlights in the coming weeks, we can¡¯t publish them all at this time. We thank each and every person who took the time to email us with their thoughts, but there were two in particular that stood out from the crowd. One is from a former RIM employee and the other is from a current employee, and both sources have been vetted. The full, unedited letters can be read after the break.
Letter 1
This letter brilliantly articulated just about everything I¡¯ve thought and/or heard relating to the company in the last two years.
I was an employee at RIM for a year and a half. I worked in the legal and business affairs departments, and despite having originally thought I¡¯d landed the jackpot job-wise, it took no time for me to begin planning my exodus.
My first week started with a complete change in my title and duties without anyone telling me, and when I dared ask what was happening, the director (my boss) and her BFF the OD business partner ganged up on me and threatened to let me go, setting the tone for the remainder of my time there.
Over a year an a half, the four of us in the same position dwindled to just me and yet I was responsible for getting all four jobs done for the better part of a year, since this is how long it took the department to hire other entry-level people. Two individuals who had less education and experience (not to mention drive or intelligence) than me were promoted several times while my boss continued to tell me up and down that I had reached my ceiling at RIM due to my lack of education (two degrees!) and experience (5 years!)¨Cas an administrative assistant. Rather than attempt to fight this system I figured I could transfer departments, only the company policy requires the supervisor to act as a liaison and reference for internal applicants. The insanely high turnover rate meant the department head wouldn¡¯t let anyone go, in addition to refusing to promote from within (pets excepted). People were pitted against each other and an incredibly tense and hostile work environment was fostered. People around the office started referring to the office politics as ¡°Survivor: RIM edition.¡± And we all remember the great movement to make recycling physically impossible across the entire company because one person let some confidential information slip.
Then, as I was saving up to return to school and make a better life for myself, I received a series of nasty emails from HR letting me know that since my boss had failed to log my vacation time a year earlier on SAP (despite my insistence on her doing it at three different times), I would have two full paycheques deducted to ¡°pay back¡± the company for what was being portrayed as my mistake. I never received an apology and almost had to drop out of school due to the loss of a full month¡¯s pay. On my last day my boss deliberately avoided me at all cost. The best part is that I recently heard that my boss just got promoted to the VP of the business affairs department.
I write this not to rant about my discouraging situation (it was a few years ago), but rather to relate that my experiences seem (even now as I maintain contact with many work friends) to be the rule rather than the exception across the company. Individuals who have fresh ways of thinking and who try to do things in new ways are not only reprimanded, but demoted (did I not mention I was also demoted at one point for asking too many questions?). Passive-aggression fills the halls where collegial interaction should thrive. The amount of red tape required to get just about anything done is exhausting, slowing progress and removing all incentive for employees at any level to innovate. Success cannot be borne of a 2005 status quo when the world looks a lot different now than it did even 12 months ago.
Despite what I endured at the company, I continue to support RIM as I love its products and sincerely wish it the best. Perhaps if it can take the recommendations from the employee¡¯s open letter to heart, change will be ignited sooner rather than later, and employees and consumers alike will gain as RIM refines its most crucial relationships.
Letter 2
Inside RIM there is a small-ish (maybe 200-300) group of employees who¡¯s only focus is keeping the BlackBerry services (Email, Browsing, BBM, the network, etc) running for our customers. We¡¯re a 24/7/365 organization, maintaining 10¡äs of thousands of servers, network devices, services and basically anything that keeps devices working with our service. Keeping this massive service running smoothly, and keeping visible downtime to a minimum is a monumental task, made worse by the poor management decisions we deal with every day.
If I could have time with Mike and Jim to talk about the problems I see, I would happily reinforce what your executive said, and add a few things:
1) No longer ¡°In Motion¡±: The operations teams are full of extremely skilled and talented individuals who are excessively good at what they do ¡ª they were hired for that reason. We have pulled in resources from many of the best companies, from literally around the world. Many come with years of experience in the industry, and a lot of ¡®been there, done that¡¯ knowledge that is invaluable. However, each one of us has been handcuffed by overdone, poorly planned and every more poorly executed process. It can take weeks of time to make small changes, and months to make major ones. Whenever something goes wrong (incident, problems, even non-customer impacting) a lengthy and involved process of finger pointing starts, and without fail, a new process is born. And, sadly, since the announcement came out about the financial problems and layoffs, it¡¯s become worse. Many of the managers are saying we need to rely more heavily now than ever on process. To those of us who need to deal with this process, which consumes days of work generating documents that no one will read, it¡¯s an obvious case of CYA on the managers part. If they say ¡®but we followed the process!¡¯, they seem to hope their heads won¡¯t be on the line. We are no longer a company that is innovative and energetic, we are drowning in paperwork. RIM needs to capitalize on the resources they have ¡ª hundreds of very smart, dedicated and driven individuals that can solve problems without needing a flowchart or document. We need to get out of this process paralysis, and back ¡°In Motion¡±.
2) AT&T: Internally, there¡¯s a large joke that we should be called ¡°RIM-T&T¡±. A lot of our senior leadership has come from there, and they come in with ideas from an old, stodgy, process driven industry. Having worked in a telecom like position in the past, I know how much paperwork and process they love ¡ª AT&T (and Bell, and other carriers) are dealing with a century of regulation, knowledge and process. Maybe they have some great best practices, but you don¡¯t see ¡®new and innovative¡¯ happening a lot at AT&T. It also opens up a lot of questions about business directions when many senior leaders came from one of our carrier partners. RIM is not AT&T. RIM is not Microsoft. RIM is not Google. RIM is not Palm. RIM is RIM, and needs a RIM created focus, RIM ideas, and RIM leadership.
3) Poor leadership: My small team of people has over 75 projects assigned to us right now. Why? Because leaders are afraid to say no. And we¡¯re not the only ones ¡ª if you polled the various teams around operations, you¡¯d probably find each and every team / individual has a list that is completely unattainable. But, no one is putting a foot down to say ¡°ok, enough¡±. No one wants to upset someone above them by saying ¡°no, we don¡¯t have the time¡± or ¡°no, that¡¯s not valuable¡± or ¡°no, you clearly don¡¯t understand what it is we do around here¡±. Instead, there is (again) a lot of CYA and placating going on. Add to this a lot of process, and you have a workforce that is unable to deliver things quickly, properly, or with any degree of pride in their work.
4) Morale: Being swamped by process, led by poor leaders, and buried in too many projects understandably leaves all of us feeling hopeless. When there isn¡¯t a light at the end of the tunnel, but you are still expected to work 12 hours a day (and only paid for 8), it becomes difficult to stay focused on what needs to happen to make things better. Then, throw in notice of layoffs without any discussion internally, defer promised raises, and cut out expenses that may have been used to bolster morale (staff social events, travel, professional conference attendance), and you have a large workforce of people who are disillusioned about their future. And we¡¯re supposed to be working harder to make the company strong right now.
5) Guts: As the other writer said, there are far too many people sitting back and letting others do their work, and nothing happens to them. Everyone knows who these under performers are, but no one does anything about it. Having spoken very directly about this matter with a number of managers, the common thread is that it¡¯s more work to try and get rid of them than to simply put up with them. A combination of laziness and poor OD processes is causing RIM to rot from the inside. We are actually happy to see layoffs here (assuming they don¡¯t target us), because we¡¯re hoping the right people are pulled out and that will open room for us to work properly, or even replace them with someone skilled and who wants to work hard.
6) Products: If you walk around and talk to RIM employees (in operations, I¡¯m sure the development teams are better) about the products we make, you¡¯ll find most of us a) don¡¯t know anything about our new products, b) don¡¯t like our current products and c) pine for the old products. There is so much secrecy in the company, no one knows anything about new things until we see it on the news. That means we¡¯re not able to tell our friends and family anything about new things, and that reflects badly on RIM. The current products are slow and underpowered. It¡¯s generally acknowledged that our devices are inferior to other devices, and indeed, many people have personal devices from our competitors. Our old devices, when we were leading, are snappy, nice to use and highly functional. We need to get back to that. Bells and whistles are nice, but when reading email on the device is difficult, I don¡¯t care if I can play podcasts. Internally, the feedback we can provide is ignored or filed as a ¡®bug¡¯ and then ignored. RIM has a big set of internal testers, but ignores their feedback to their own detriment.
7) Sales channels: I heard someone telling this story around the office. Their sister went in to a local carrier store to buy a new BlackBerry, replacing an Android phone they didn¡¯t like. They walked in with $400 in hand and wanted a BlackBerry, and walked out with an iPhone. When the sister asked the carrier sales rep for a BlackBerry, they talked her out of a BlackBerry by telling her how bad they are, then offered her an iPhone for $39. How could the sister resist, after having the Blackberry trashed (slow, useless, hard to use), and then a price like that for a competing product dangled in front of her? When our only avenue to selling our devices is through a ¡®neutral¡¯ 3rd party, and is just as happy to sell someone a competitors product as ours, we are at their mercy.
8) Marketing: My friends love to poke me and make fun of our ads. Sure, BlackBerry seems to be sponsoring a lot of concerts and baseball games, but looking at my circle of friends and family, no one cares about that. Our marketing is boring, our ads are plain, and completely uninteresting. The whole campaign around the Playbook seems to be ¡°IT DOES FLASH! LOOK!¡± ¡_ but honestly, my mother doesn¡¯t know or care about that. She wants to know ¡®can I play Angry Birds?¡±.
If I could only tell Mike, Jim and the rest of the C*O crowd one thing, it would be this: stop keeping the incredible pool of smart, talented and capable people handcuffed by poorly thought through process. It¡¯s destroying the company, and destroying those of us that have to manage it. Being able to move quickly and innovate is what will save the company, and that goes completely opposite all our process.
E2EK1EL
iPad 2 Jailbreak leaked by beta tester
@comex, a member of the Dev-team has been working hard on an iPad2 jailbreak since the device was released. The jailbreak will use another PDF exploit via jailbreakme.com and support iOS 4.2.1-4.3.3. Last night, however, one of the jailbreak beta testers leaked the exploit online. This version of the JailbreakMe 3.0 exploit has not been confirmed by the Dev-Team or @Comex himself. Many users have reported that this exploit only works with WIFI-only iPads and issues with Safari crashing. (Sounds wonderful!)
We must reiterate that this Jailbreak has not been confirmed by the Dev-Team to be working or even safe. Several iPad2 Jailbreak related malware have been distributed recently, so proceed with caution if you must attempt to use this leak. Hopefully we will hear from the Dev-Team or even receive an official iPad2 Jailbreak soon. Screenshot below:
Comex Responds to Stolen iPad 2 Jailbreak, Warns iPad 2 Users to Save SHSH Blobs
Comex has responded to the leaked iPad 2 jailbreak that was apparently stolen using a possible dictionary attack.
Congratulations, some moron used a dictionary attack(?) to leak a buggy version and put me on a useless time limit.
Let's hope the time limit isn't too short... hasn't been in the past but could always change. Everyone use TinyUmbrella and save 4.3.3.
Hopefully, Apple isn't able to close the exploit before comex finishes the jailbreak. To be safe please follow comex's advice and save your SHSH Blobs using one of the tutorials below...
How to Save Your SHSH Blobs: (Windows) (Mac)
E2EK1EL
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Originally posted by E2EK1EL
The Story of How the iPad 2 Jailbreak Got Leaked
Ryan Lobbins, the person who found the iPad 2 jailbreak files, explains how they ended up being leaked by Will Sayer.
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This all started late one night on the 27th of June. I was playing Star Craft with some friends reading Comex's twitter updates like every other person waiting for the jailbreak. That is when I had a crazy idea just to search a site he posted in a previous tweet. That site was www.qoid.us , during my initial search, the main thing that came up was comex's bannerbomb exploit for the wii. This lead me to believe even more that the site was his. The next thing I did was just do a search for directories on his site and that is when I stumbled upon it. I saw a folder called saffron that grabbed my attention, mainly because jbme 2.0 was star.
So what would you do if you stumbled on a website that had all the data for the jailbreak people have been waiting months for? At first I wasn't sure what to do, let alone believe I found the files. The only true indication that I found them was all the pdf files, deb files named after different iOS devices, and a php file. The last thing I wanted was to just send out all the files saying here they are. As someone who has worked on a project for years in the past I would hate for my work to leak out before my self or the team was ready. Comex had been working on this for almost a year.
The first thing I did was the obvious, test the files. From comex's tweets at the time I figured they were close to completion and wouldn't completely brick my iPad. The next was I made a copy of the files for my own purpose of trying on other devices, not to leak them. I didn't know if comex would have the files moved before I woke up the next day. Then as proof to my friends who had no reason to even want the jailbreak, but wanted to see it I uploaded them to this site. Worst mistake ever.
Now comes the next day, what would you do with the information you gained from decompiling and decompressing the files. You don't want to leak them, but there has been no information on any updates. People are starting to doubt the jailbreak is even real. What I did was just spread information about the jailbreak, no pictures, no files, just me posting on forums what I know. Of course there were people calling me names saying I am a troll and other names. Next I sent off private messages to two people on the forums I was posting on. At that point after a few messages the only thing I sent was a picture. That was the first and only thing I sent. The picture was of the new jailbreakme website, with the url removed so the site didn't get out. That was the end of it on June 28th.
I went on vacation on the 30th and won't be home until July 15th, but my curiosity started to get the better of me last night. I have these files that didn't work on my iPad, but I wondered if they would work at all. I contacted another person on the forums who was multimediawill aka appreviewer will aka Will Sayer. He tried one of the pdf files and it jailbroke his iPad. I was surprised, he was surprised. He swore up and down he wouldn't leak it, and I went to bed. That is when I woke up and saw my list of emails streaming in. Immediately the files were deleted, I felt stupid and horrible that my curiosity got the best of me and caused this. I never intended for it to get leaked out this big. In all I apologize to comex for my actions. I don't want attention, and never wanted to spread his work like Will did. I was just curious, and this curiosity caused this. So in the grand scheme of things the leak was probably 10% my fault, I found the files, made a copy and re-hosted them, but Will was the exact opposite. He wanted attention and spread the news to tech blogs made videos and even spread the links to the files on my site.
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Lobbins has since deleted all the files in his possession and Comex is now working as fast as he can to get the jailbreak completed before Apple releases an update to iOS 4.3.3.
