Apple picker The upcoming expanded edition of the biography of Steve Jobs, the special edition of the film Avatar in iTunes or the new edition of criminals or iZloděj. You can read much more in today's pre-Christmas edition of Apple Week, your favorite overview of news from the Apple world.
Apple pokes fun at bloggers looking for references to future devices (12/12)
As soon as Apple releases a new (beta) version of its iOS operating system, developers immediately start digging into it and see if they can find any traces of new devices in the .plist files. Apple is obviously aware of this, so they took a shot at developers in the second beta of iOS 5.1. Those who looked into iOS 5.1 beta 2 found, among other things, a mention of Apple TV 9, iPad 8 and iPhone 10. The message from Apple is clear: don't trust .plist files in iOS.
Source: CultOfMac.com
iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak coming soon (12/12)
Chronic dev-team member and iOS hacker Pod2g mentioned on his Twitter that he successfully unlocked his iPhone 4 running on iOS 5.0.1 using an untethered jailbreak. On your blog it also mentions that it is coming to iPod touch 3rd and 4th generation and iPad 1. If you have an older iOS on your iPhone 4 due to jailbreak, don't worry about updating to iOS 5.0.1. Pod2g can be expected to release untethered jailbreak tools in the future.
source: CultOfMac.comApple hires iOS concept creator Jan-Michael Carta (13/12)
Jan-Michael Cart is famous for his designs of various features for iOS or the iMessages app for Mac and mostly reaped success from users. However, not only they noticed his work, it was also registered by Apple, which has now taken Carta on board.
Carto is in his early twenties and hails from Georgia, studies media, and creates videos of his iOS concepts in which he invents new features for the mobile operating system. For example, he invented dynamic icons or the implementation of widgets. How many times would they not be ashamed of his ideas even in Cupertino and now it looks like they might actually use some of his ideas.
Source: CultOfMac.com
Coffee maker almost as if from Jony Ivo's workshop (13.)
Are you a coffee lover and a fan of great design? If yes, then be sure to sharpen up and enjoy the company's feat Scanomat, which introduced a revolutionary coffee machine. A coffee maker that seems to fall out of the eye of the design of Apple products. So we can only speculate with exaggeration if the chief designer Jony Ive himself participated in The Top Brewer.
Top Brewer is a simple automatic coffee machine that should completely change the way we perceive coffee machines. Most of Scanomat's coffee machine is hidden under the table top, so we don't see any cables or mechanisms, only an elegant metal tube peeks out. In addition, the Top Brewer communicates with the iPhone, so you can, for example, simply program the coffee you want ready when you get up in the morning, and when you come to the kitchen, you no longer have to wait for anything.
Source: 9to5Mac.comForced reduction of iAds prices for advertisers (13/12)
Apple is not doing well in the advertising market. The reason is unfavorable conditions compared to the competition. If your ad is shown 1000x, you will pay Apple $10 and for each ad click an additional $2.
Another disadvantage is the minimum deposit. It was at exactly $1.000.000 when iAds was launched. After that, it was reduced to half and now even to 40% of the original amount, i.e. $400.000. The move saw Apple's mobile ad share of the US market drop 4% in terms of profit. And it will get worse. A new player - Facebook - should enter the market next year. According to provisional information, he should start his Sponsored Stories already in March.
Source: macstories.netApple released an update for iPhone 4S and Apple TV (15/12)
The iPhone update is probably not what owners expected, it doesn't fix the battery problem, but it will please those who have problems with the SIM card, where the iPhone 4S rejects it or says it was not inserted. The update is still labeled 5.0.1, so this is a new revision of this version. The Apple TV 2 update basically didn't bring anything new either, version 4.4.4 only fixes some bugs in terms of stability and performance.
Source: 9to5Mac.com
Selective thieves rob students only of iPhones, they are not interested in other platforms (16/12)
A pair of thieves are on the rampage in New York's Manhattan, focusing on robbing the students of the local Columbia school of their phones. However, they are not interested in just any phone, they are only looking for the iPhone. In the latest incident, thieves stepped on a group of students demanding their phones. When two of the students pulled out Blackberry and Motorola Droid Android devices, the thieves refused to take them.
"I think that speaks volumes for the price of second-hand iPhones," says one of the students. Another assaulted student even objected: "It's insulting that they don't want my Blackberry.On the other hand, owners of the most expensive phones need not worry, and those who own an iPhone should buy a second, fake phone of another brand, which thieves will then refuse to take.
Source: 9to5Mac.comWith the new iOS 5.0.1 revision, porting Siri to other devices is legal (16/12)
Siri is the most interesting and essential innovation in the new iPhone 4S. Therefore, many users of the 4S's older brother, the iPhone 4, demanded that the assistant's voice be accessible on their devices as well. This was primarily due to various videos and articles showing that several hackers had already succeeded. At first, Apple rejected this possibility, most likely because it could have problems with the law. However, Apple worked on this problem and ported Siri in the iOS 5.0.1 update. This update offers access to files that were previously encrypted.
MuscleNerd, a leading figure in the hacking community, recently tweeted that the iOS 5.0.1 update decrypts the RAM disk, making it possible to obtain the necessary files to access Siri without violating Apple's copyright. He stated: "This is the first public iPhone 4S ipsw file where the main file directories can be obtained."
Before these files were made available, there were several ways to get Siri working on older devices, but they were all either illegal or impractical. For example, one method required access to a unique code from an iPhone 4S, but it had to be refreshed every 24 hours to avoid detection. As more devices started to connect like this, the code was noticed and was scrapped. Therefore, you could no longer start Siri. It is not yet clear why Apple made these files available, especially to hackers, when Siri was a novelty and the main attraction for the purchase of the new iPhone 4S. In addition, the release of iOS 5.1 is approaching, which may encrypt these files again. So either Apple made a mistake and didn't make the files available on purpose, or maybe there's an unknown move. Either way, however, Apple has made Siri available on older devices — at least for now.
Source: CultofMac.comIn Brazil, you will pay almost 1850 dollars for an unsubsidized iPhone (16/12)
In the second half of November, we learned that the iPhone 4S will be manufactured in Brazil's Foxconn factories in addition to China. Brazilian apple fans now have even more reason to look forward to the first pieces, because the iPhone 4S imported from China will be very expensive. Specifically, it is 2 Brazilian reals for the 599GB version, 16 for 2GB, and 999 for 32GB. Converted to US dollars it is approx 3/399/64. Compared to the prices in the USA, they are more than double.
The reason is high taxes on electronics imports, so the arrival of "Brazilian iPhones" should significantly reduce prices. There are also significantly higher prices for older models, the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4. The extreme prices of iOS smartphones also prevail in India, where they are priced at 865/990/1120 dollars, where they probably do not sell like hot cakes considering that 41,6 % of the population does not even earn $1,25 a day.
Source: 9to5Mac.comDevelopers Received New Build of OS X 10.7.3 to Test (17/12)
Testers (not yet developers) have received another build of OS X Lion 10.7.3 available to Apple. The third build, labeled 11D33, should fix issues with Address Book, iCal, Mail, Spotlight, and Safari. Apple doesn't mention any other problems, so it's possible that this is the last version before OS X 10.7.3 is officially released to the general public.
Source: TUAW.com
Walter Isaacson wants to expand the biography of Steve Jobs (17/12)
Walter Isaacson, who is responsible for the official biography of Steve Jobs, revealed that he could expand his work even further. Currently, the English version of the book has 630 pages, but it might not be the final state. According to Isaacson, it is not yet a final concept, the book could expand on the period after Jobs' death. The American writer is also considering publishing a more detailed version with more details about Jobs' life.
Source: TUAW.com
Exclusive edition of Avatar to appear on iTunes (17/12)
A blockbuster film by James Cameron Avatar will receive very exclusive content on iTunes. While the film is laced with tons of special effects, you'll be able to watch the 17 scenes in this special edition simultaneously as they were created against a green background. The tool "X-ray green background" will be used for this, which you will control with the mouse. The exclusive edition will also include Cameron's scripment (a book with scene layouts, dialogues, etc.), a gallery of 1700 photos and more. This special version will be available on iTunes on December 20, 2011
Source: 9to5Mac.comThey prepared the apple week Ondrej Holzman, Michal Ždanský, Daniel Hruska, Jan Pražák a Tomas Chlebek.
* Did you get paid to advertise that coffee shop? I can't explain it otherwise, because it certainly doesn't look like something from Jony Ivo's workshop.
* Do I still need a jailbreak to have Siri on iPhone 4? Or will it be part of a new revision of iOS?
1) No. We mentioned the coffee maker mainly because of the ability to control it with an iPhone
2) Yes, still only with jailbreak
1) then it's okay ;-)
2) That's a shame, it should be updated sometime in the future :))
1) We are happy ;-)
2) Maybe we'll see
and IOS 5.0.1(.2)
Who will guarantee that the "new" version 5.0.1 won't break my iPhone 4S again (when my claim finally ends and I get a new one)?
After this horrible experience of mine, I'm really afraid to believe that Apple hasn't released another iPhone "spoof" :(
and OSX 10.7.3
I hope Mail will finally stop crashing when writing emails and the whole OSX when using SONY BT headphones :(
hh... iMovie always fails me again... They could fix it, well.
Opera still crashes for me, it sometimes bothers me, but that probably won't be a problem, right? hhhh
So I didn't wait, and with iP4S, after a disastrously long time when I kept reading that I had no signal, etc., I stopped waiting for UPDATE. I paid for a DEVELOPER account and installed BETA 5.1. NOTHING HAS CHANGED! I started to get depressed and thought about buying the iP4 again. Even before the complaint and purchase, I had the SIM card replaced and it works!!! Oh and by the way, on the day I paid for and installed the BETA Apple released the patched 5.0.1 Advice: If you still have signal problems, a sim swap with your carrier should fix it - It helped me. (I have T-Mobile)
Maybe changing the SIM will help someone, it didn't help me.
And I've been reading the English newsgroups and I have to say that there are loads of people who have problems with iP4S. I really don't understand how Apple could release something like this into the world...
I just wasted a lot of time (it's about 30 km to the nearest authorized T-Mobile store, so I had a new SIM sent to me by mail, and after a few days of waiting, they delivered me a normal micro SIM instead, so I started over). And now I'm waiting for a claim for the second week... :(
But that's service :(
It always took a maximum of 4 days for the iP7 complaint with VF. I always mean 3 times :-) bad luck with swaps. So I secretly hope that within those 2 years there will be some kind of 4 problem and bye and bye... As far as I know, according to the protocol in Britex, the phone sits for 1-2 days, so I see it on the T-Mobile extension. Drive with Xperia X1 also took me 2-3 weeks to claim, and they have it from Prague to Kladno in a stone's throw. My phone had it through the pool of the Republic.
The coffee maker is the bomb, and besides, it's controlled by an iPhone. I have no words.
I like the coffee maker too. And the whole ad looks beautiful on him.
The coffee maker is perfect.. Does anyone know where and how much it can be purchased?
I tried to find out but failed. It's a hot new product, it's probably not even on sale yet, but it would make quite a splash in any company. It will probably be quite a luxury for home use, try making coffee once or twice a day. And the price will not be below 100 thousand CZK.
The coffee maker is nice, but due to its size, I'm afraid that there won't be anywhere to put it at home :) and I think the price will be damn high.
Untethered jailbreak - what does it mean? If I buy a locked iPhone from the US, will that unlock it? Thanks for the reply…