Apple PR:
“Sales for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus exceeded our expectations for the launch weekend, and we couldn’t be happier,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We would like to thank all of our customers for making this our best launch ever, shattering all previous sell-through records by a large margin. While our team managed the manufacturing ramp better than ever before, we could have sold many more iPhones with greater supply and we are working hard to fill orders as quickly as possible.”
The new Health app in iOS 8 allows users to track their activity, calories and more. With HealthKit, third-party apps can share data with each other, letting users see a more complete picture of their health.
Past all of this, Health brings something long-needed to iOS: Medical ID.
For the uninitiated, a Medical ID is a tag, bracelet or some other item that contains vital information if the owner is in an accident or unable to respond or communicate. I wear a waterproof one when cycling, and my son wears one sharing critical facts about his situation that an EMT or other medical professional may need to know if no one can communicate to them.
Rene Ritchie has dropped some serious Apple hardware eye candy with these photos.
James Dempsey:
The content of the tabs shows an interesting progression as well. The Apple logo, Store, and Support tabs are a common thread throughout with Search appearing surprisingly late in the game in 2007. These unchanging outer items are like bookends around the changing world of Apple over time.
For the first seven years, the inner tabs mainly focused on software (QuickTime, Mac OS X, iTunes) and different incarnations of online services (iReview, iCard, iTools which became .Mac). The first hardware to appear on a tab was iPod, but it had to share a tab with iTunes for almost seven years before getting a tab of its own.
Instead of running RSS sponsorships this month, I’m raising $10,000 in support of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as part of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Click here to learn more and donate.
Jackson Baker:
A child asked: Would she be willing to do a selfie with the patient group? “We’ll do a self-ie, an us-sie, a you-sie, a we-sie, whatever you guys want to do,” Michelle Obama answered.
And, at the end of her chat with the patients and their parents, she did just that, posing for a group portrait.
The letter from Tim Cook is great, but maybe the best line of this whole mini-site is this:
On devices running iOS 8, your personal data such as photos, messages (including attachments), email, contacts, call history, iTunes content, notes, and reminders is placed under the protection of your passcode. Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data. So it’s not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants for the extraction of this data from devices in their possession running iOS 8.
The Kindle Voyage is the Paperwhite’s replacement. With a glass-covered, flush-mounted 300ppi display and new — and seemingly better — controls to turn pages, this is my next Kindle.
(Condolences to the Paperwhite sitting on my night stand as I type this.)
The Paperwhite is still around, but is now the middle tier, siting above a new $69 model that sports physical page-turn buttons and a touch screen, but no backlight.
Amazon’s tinkered with their tablet line as well, but the only mildly interesting one is the $149 Fire HD Kids Edition. Dieter Bohn at The Verge explains:
Tapbots:
Since iOS8 was released this week, we wanted to give you a quick update on where we are with things. Tweetbot 3 for the iPhone will be submitted soon. We are finishing up our work fixing bugs and optimizing features for iOS8 and also want to test on the new devices before submitting. This will be a free update for Tweetbot 3 customers.
Next, we wanted to state that Tweetbot 3 for the iPad is in development.
This week on Connected, Federico and I discuss iOS 8 and some of their favorite things developers are doing with it. My thanks to our three sponsors:
The Power Slider, over on The Verge:
Before there were tech web sites there were magazines. Once a month you’d get a new one and read it cover to cover, including all the ads, trying to glean as much information as you could. I remember scouring issues of MacUser before buying my first PowerBook, trying to decide which model was exactly right for me. I must’ve read that article fifty times.
Today, iOS 8 arrived, riding on a cloud of free bits and white UI elements. I’ll be rounding up links here all day.
Busy evening in my RSS reader. Here’s what I’m checking out tonight: