I’m running it now on my iPhone 5. From looking over the release notes, this addresses just about every weird thing I’ve seen on my device.
Category: Apple
Apple Sending iTunes Match Auto-Renew Notices
While the service was a little buggy at first, I’ve come to really enjoy iTunes Match. I’ll be letting it renew.
iPad mini Reviews Hit
Anything that is simply shrunk down or scaled up feels amateurish. The iPad mini feels like an iPad, it’s something you can have with fun with and accomplish tasks on.
The iPad mini hasn’t wrapped up the “cheapest tablet” market by any stretch of the imagination. But the “best small tablet” market? Consider it captured.
This isn’t just an Apple tablet made to a budget. This isn’t just a shrunken-down iPad. This is, in many ways, Apple’s best tablet yet, an incredibly thin, remarkably light, obviously well-constructed device that offers phenomenal battery life. No, the performance doesn’t match Apple’s latest and yes, that display is a little lacking in resolution, but nothing else here will leave you wanting. At $329, this has a lot to offer over even Apple’s more expensive tablets.
Scott Forstall to Leave Apple, Other Executives Re-Shuffled⇢
Scott Forstall will be leaving the company in 2013 and will serve as an advisor to CEO Tim Cook in the interim. Eddie Cue is now over Siri, Maps, in addition to his previous work with the iTunes Stores, with Craig Federighi running both the OS X and iOS teams. Bob Mansfield will be running all wireless and semiconductor work.
(Interestingly, Apple’s release says the semiconductor team has “ambitious plans for the future.”)
Surface RT Teardown’d⇢
Apple’s stuff looks better, even inside.
Mini, Indeed
I have not gotten my iPad mini yet, but the Smart Cover I ordered showed up today. Here are two photos showing the size of it, compared to a notebook and the iPad 3:
The Land Before Macs⇢
Benj Edwards takes a tour through the pre-Mac Apple.
Phil Schiller, on the Mac⇢
In an interview with Harry McCracken:
It’s always been about making the best Mac we know how. Among the many benefits are making it easy to use and affordable, with great features. This high level of integration is part of delivering on that.
And on Apple’s removal of the SuperDrive in modern Macs:
We find the things that have outlived their useful purpose. Our competitors are afraid to remove them. We try to find better solutions — our customers have given us a lot of trust.
Apple: Record Fourth Quarter Revenue and Profit⇢
The Apple PR Machine:
The Company sold 26.9 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 58 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 14.0 million iPads during the quarter, a 26 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 4.9 million Macs during the quarter, a 1 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 5.3 million iPods, a 19 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.
Apple Q3: $36 Billion in Revenue⇢
Boom.
New Mac mini Proves to be a Hoss⇢
The guys at Macminicolo:
Don’t look now, but the new Mac minis are getting comparable to the last gen Xserve and 2010 Mac Pros as far as benchmarks. Tech progress marches on.
Why Apple Brought Up the Nexus 7 During the iPad mini Keynote
During yesterday’s keynote, Apple’s Phil Schiller burned the Nexus 7 several times. Here is a bit of copy from Apple’s site:
iPad mini is small enough to hold in one hand, yet it has a 35 percent larger screen area than a 7-inch tablet.
Apple also continues to make a big point out of the fact that there are 275,000 iPad apps out there, and that they are far more than blown-up phone apps. This of course is also a jab at the Nexus 7, which runs phone apps in the absence of a tablet interface.