Originally posted by Jeff Button
I've never had a virus on my Mac ( going on 4 years)
I can't tell you how many I've had on Windows / PC's.
Do you run anti-virus software on your Mac? If not, then how would you know you have a virus?
I haven't had a virus on my Windows computer in just as many years, its just about what you install.
Remember, that Mac's are always the first to fall in hacking contests...
E2EK1EL
Samsung takes smartphone title for Q3, but may not keep it long
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Samsung in the September quarter beat Apple in smartphone shipments. The South Korean conglomerate is due to announce earnings for its third quarter, which ended September 30, next week. The paper explains:
The South Korean company benefited from a push into the high end; demand is robust for phones that consumers can use to watch videos, download movies and send email. The company is also taking advantage of the popularity of Google Inc.’s Android operating system, while also stepping up production in Europe of phones using its own software and software from Microsoft Corp.
Now, looking at Google’s official video of Tuesday’s unveiling of the Ice Cream Sandwich software and Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone, they say something to that effect. Check out that segment in a clip included below or skim to mark 9:30 in the full video. If this data point is in fact true, Samsung’s title may be shortlived and not just because these things change fast in the mobile space.
iPhone 4S launch numbers are a blow-away. Apple shipped four million of them in the launch weekend and U.S. carriers are also reporting best-ever product launches (AT&T, Sprint). In addition, Apple is guiding for a $37 billion holiday quarter, a 30 percent sequential increase. It is safe to assume that lots of that revenue will come from the iPhone. iPhone and Related Products and Services accounted for well over a third (almost 39 percent) of Apple’s total $28.27 billion revenue filed for the September quarter.
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Samsung stopped divulging exact smartphone and tablet shipments this summer, citing competition with Apple, but “a person familiar with the situation” told the Journal that Samsung may report sales of more than 20 million smartphones for the September quarter. Apple on Tuesday reported 17.1 million iPhones shipped during the three-month period ended ended September 24. The figure represents a 21 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter, but also a 16 percent sequential unit decline from the 20.34 million iPhones sold in the June quarter. Finance chief Peter Oppenheimer blamed the iPhone slump on iPhone 5 rumors fueling unrealistic expectations ahead of the iPhone 4S introduction October 4, which had prompted many customers to withholding their smartphone purchases.
E2EK1EL
Android 4.0 ‘still not strong enough’ to compete with iPad, vendors fear
Google unveiled Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich alongside the Galaxy Nexus earlier this week and while initial responses have been fairly positive, vendors reportedly believe Google’s new OS lacks the innovation needed to bolster Android tablet sales. According to a report from industry watcher DigiTimes, tablet vendors were put off by Google’s focus on the Galaxy Nexus and smartphones during the unveiling of Android 4.0, fearing that the tech giant’s balance of resource distribution between handsets and tablets may begin favoring the former. The site’s anonymous sources say Android 4.0 features several improvements but it is “still not strong enough to help Android tablet PCs compete against iPad 2.” With Apple set to launch the iPad 3 as soon as March of next year according to the report, Google’s tablet-focused Android partners are said to be afraid “the technology gap between Android tablet PCs and iPad may expand further.” The report says several vendors are banking on Windows 8 rather than Android to help them gain consumer market share and mind share.
Some upset as iCloud wipes out docs from iWork apps
We’re receiving numerous reports from disgruntled users claiming iCloud deleted their documents from iWork apps on their iPhones, iPod touches and iPads after restarting devices. Worse, documents from the Pages, Numbers and Keynote iOS apps are also wiped out from the iCloud servers and cannot be found using the web interface. Sure enough, a bunch of threads on Apple’s Support Communities site (here and here) highlight the issue which affects an unknown portion of users.
A forum user NickFro describes the catastrophic bug:
I can reliably reproduce the error as follows. Create a document in Numbers on an iOS device, or upload to iCloud.com manually. Wait for sync. Restart iOS device. Launch Numbers. The document will be deleted. If you have iCloud.com open, the file will still appear but clicking on it generates a “File not present on server” error. Pretty serious bug, but I can’t tell if it’s in iCloud or the iWork apps. Or both.
He also offers this remedy:
Delete the iCloud account at both the main level of Settings (i.e., by selecting iCloud) AND by deleting the account in the Mail, Calenders, and Contacts section of Settings. Have it remove everything from your device. Once it’s done. Go to the main level, select iCloud, and re-enable your account there and set all settings there for sync. Let the sync happen.
If that didn’t help, try the solutions described here and here.
If you backup your iOS devices with iTunes instead with iCloud, you’re in luck: Just restore to a device backup containing your files and launch Pages, Keynote or Numbers on your device – but don’t enable iCloud in any of those apps. As you know, iTunes creates a device backup at each sync (unless iCloud backup is enabled in iTunes or Settings on your device). This lets you use Time Machine to go back in time and retrieve a specific backup file containing your device’s settings, app data, documents and more. The affected users who enabled iCloud Backup on their device (Settings > iCloud > Storage and Backup) are in a much worse situation as any document created on their device and synced with iCloud gets deleted from both places without a warning, as shown in the below clip.
For some, the problem stems from migrating MobileMe accounts to the iCloud ones so deactivating the “old” MobileMe account on every iOS device, Mac or PC should help.
According to a forum user Felix Leiter:
As long as there is still one machine with a functioning “MobileMe” in the System Preferences, this will erase all files on startup. I found it out when I turned on my wife’s machine, having forgotten that I had created a temporary user account there to store some of my MobileMe information. As soon as I switched to that user account, zap!, all iWork files disappear. Now that all former MobileMe panels have been deactivated, the remote reset is no longer occurring. or at least so it seems.
For others, iWork documents are disappearing upon syncing with a computer, too. This happens after a document has been created on an iOS device or uploaded from the computer. Here’s one possible remedy…
If you uploaded documents to iCloud using the web interface or iWork apps on your Mac, use the Finder’s Go To Folder option in the Go menu and type in /users/USER/Library/Mobile Documents/ (replace USER with your user name in Mac OS X). You should see com~apple~appname folders, each containing documents from iWork apps on the Mac that have been shared with iWork.com and accessible via the iCloud web interface. Note the iWork suite on the Mac has not been updated with iCloud integration for seamless syncing between mobile and desktop. If it’s any help, make sure that the latest iOS 5 version is installed on all your mobile devices, that you run iTunes 10.5 or higher and have updated iWork apps on your Mac and iOS devices via Mac App Store and App Store/iTunes.
Another handy tip:
Whatever you do, don’t edit iWork documents simultaneously and always close the document on one device (and let the app sync it with iCloud) before picking it up on the other. We’ve seen incidents like this happen to other online services. Each time, we’re reminded that one should never trust the cloud exclusively for one’s daily productivity. A prudent backup strategy should always involve a clever combination of cloud syncing and backing up your devices locally, through iTunes. This allows you to use Time Machine (you’re using Time Machine, right?) to browse a timeline of device backups should you ever need to roll back to an earlier state.
E2EK1EL
iOS Messaging Database Is Limited To 15 MB Of Storage In iOS 5
It looks like Apple has introduced a new 15MB limit for the SMS mailbox in iOS 5. So if you exceed this limit then you won't be able to receive new messages and will get the following error message:
"Your SMS mailbox is full. New messages cannot be received until you delete some messages."
Apple reveals this new limit in the knowledge base article that was published on October 15th. It reads:
iOS messaging database is limited to 15 MB of storage, which is about 75,000 messages. If you have updated and your iPhone displays the following message:
Apple has provided the following solution to fix the issue (which is not an ideal solution if you ask us):
1.Delete message conversation threads by swiping left or right over a conversation and tapping Delete.
2.Restart your iPhone.
It is not clear why Apple has decided to limit the SMS mailbox size to only 15MB, but based on this Apple Discussion thread, it looks like quite a few users are getting the message after upgrading to iOS 5.
(I have a strange habits from my Treo 680 days, I clear my call logs and SMS messages instantly)
Picked up my 2nd 3GS, this thing is brand new. Those micro scratches are on the screen protector.
Too bad my other 3GS can't upgrade to iOS5, due to that moron who loaded the iPad baseband!
GGM
Are picture/video messages included in that 15MB? If so I don't think that would be hard to fill up at all...
E2EK1EL
Steve Jobs: “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”
I have a feeling the next couple days are going to be busy as the Steve Jobs bio comes out in bits and pieces. Next up, according to the AP, which bought a copy Thursday (where can I get one?), Jobs had extremely harsh words for Eric Schmidt and Google after Android started looking more and more like iOS.
Isaacson wrote that Jobs was livid in January 2010 when HTC introduced an Android phone that boasted many of the touch and other popular features of the iPhone. Apple sued, and Jobs told Isaacson in an expletive-laced rant that Google’s actions amounted to “grand theft.”
“I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,” Jobs said. “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”
Jobs used an expletive to describe Android and Google Docs, Google’s Internet-based word processing program. In a subsequent meeting with Schmidt at a Palo Alto, Calif., cafe, Jobs told Schmidt that he wasn’t interested in settling the lawsuit, the book says.
“I don’t want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won’t want it. I’ve got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that’s all I want.” The meeting, Isaacson wrote, resolved nothing.
So it is fair to say Jobs is not a fan of Android. While I can see why he’s upset about Android, the jab at Docs doesn’t see be as obvious.
But there is moar…
According to the account, which will be Monday before we can get our hands on it, Jony Ive was Jobs’ spiritual partner and, at least while Jobs reigned, no one could tell him what to do.
He called Jonathan Ive, Apple’s design chief, his “spiritual partner” at Apple. He told Isaacson that Ive had “more operation power” at Apple than anyone besides Jobs himself — that there’s no one at the company who can tell Ive what to do. That, says Jobs, is “the way I set it up.”
Steve Jobs’ harsh words for Bill Gates and his biological father
Before Steve Jobs’ biography drops Monday, many news outlets have already gotten their hands on excerpts from the book. Huffington Post has posted tonight some excerpts from the biography regarding Steve Jobs’ harsh comments on Bill Gates. Steve said:
“He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.”
Bill said regarding Steve:
“He really never knew much about technology, but he had an amazing instinct for what works.”
Steve said:
“Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he’s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas.”
When it comes to Steve Jobs’ biological father, who we profiled a few months ago, Steve also harshly said..
“I had been to that restaurant[That his biological father had owned] a few times, and I remember meeting the owner. He was Syrian. Balding. We shook hands.”
Later Steve said, “ ”I was a wealthy man by then, and I didn’t trust him not to try to blackmail me or go to the press about it.”
Anyone with a Smart Cover can break into your iPad 2
jester
What is funny, that Apple-Samsung are almost attached at the hip. Seeing Apple uses Samsung for components :haha: Yet Apple hates Android.
iPhone 4S (16GB) costs $188 for the components.
Toshiba showing off its 6.1" display that blows away Retina Display, with 498 ppi.
2012 should be an interesting year for mobile devices.
E2EK1EL
Stilez
A friend of mine just just jumped the RIM wagon for iPhone. She transferred all here contacts & pics from her Blackberry successfully, but now she has no option or way to delete specific folders or pics for that matter? Wondering if anyone else has had this issue?
I've googled it & see there are many similar issues online, but no solutions that I've found as of yet. Any tips that I could send her way would be great. Thanks.
malek
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Originally posted by Stilez
A friend of mine just just jumped the RIM wagon for iPhone. She transferred all here contacts & pics from her Blackberry successfully, but now she has no option or way to delete specific folders or pics for that matter? Wondering if anyone else has had this issue?
I've googled it & see there are many similar issues online, but no solutions that I've found as of yet. Any tips that I could send her way would be great. Thanks.
You cant delete a folder from the iphone, tell her that in itunes to unselect the folder(s) that don't need to be on the iphone.
Prometheus Xex
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Originally posted by E2EK1EL
Skype, works over 3G .... last year.
Are there any data flow restrictions like they did/do with YouTube that may diminish quality that you're aware of?
Orko
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Originally posted by Prometheus Xex
Are there any data flow restrictions like they did/do with YouTube that may diminish quality that you're aware of?
Skype over 3g can be touch and go. I use it on my Nexus S. Sometimes it is flawless, better than a phone, sometimes lots of echo, and delay. I've actually been able to use it for meetings.
But hey, it beats paying rogers long distance to Korea to speak with my friend.
