The death of Steve Jobs did more than rob the tech industry of a visionary. It also robbed some people of confidence in Apple as a company.
It’s fair to wonder if Apple can remain the same company long term. The most important thing) Steve Jobs really gave to Apple (and the tech industry and our culture), in my opinion, was the ability to look beyond the status quo and start pushing computers and portable technology into the future. Yes, he was finicky about product refinement and details, but I think there are plenty of other people at Apple who can do beautiful design and obsess over those details. What’s not clear is whether any of them could have envisioned the iPad, or stopped in their tracks to go make the iPhone, or to have known what projects to say no to along the way.
Yesterday I read a blog post written by a friend of mine that detailed a number of problems he’s had with Apple products lately. The list was lengthy and included issues with the iPhone 4S, OS X 10.7, Apple TV, and iCloud. I’m not going to address them here, save to say that he’s seeing some things that I’ve never seen (apps crashing on iPhone and OS X 10.7, iPhone freezing, Apple TV not wanting to work with AirPlay). Nevertheless, I will admit I’ve had enough of my own issues with OS X 10.7, iTunes on the Mac, and iTunes Match to agree that not everything is perfect in Apple land in December 2011.
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iTunes Match is a service from Apple that allows you to put all your non-iTunes purchased music into the cloud for sharing across your Apple devices. This is a great option for people with lots of music that they’ve ripped from CD and put into iTunes, for example.
The following video shows how to purchase iTunes Match and start setting it up, as well as how to see what’s happening with your music as the service attempts to match songs that are available in the iTunes store, or upload copies of your songs that are not in the store.
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Peter commandeers App Folder to talk about Bookman, Scott and Tim talk about the mythical Fire Phone, and whether or not it might someday be revealed, and John Nemo brings the Just Mobile AluPen + AluCube and the Bracketron Style-iT 2-in-1 stylus and ballpoint pen. Scott also talks briefly about the new iTunes Match service.
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Steve Abernathy of SquareTrade joins us to take the fear out of Halloween iPhone Busting. John Nemo goes back to school, with more technology than most of us old timers had when we were in college. And Suzé Gilbert talks about the state of iPhonography with the iPhone 4S.
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Guy and Gaz left the studio door unlocked, and the podcast has been hijacked by Scott, Peter, and Patrick. Since Guy and Gaz always proclaim each new episode of MyMac as one of the longest ever, this time it really is! We talk about our experiences with Lion upgrades, Final Cut Pro X, and the iPhone 4S, iOS 5, and iCloud.
It’s the mother of all hijacks, with something from just about every recent Apple product discussed, whether it needs discussing or not.
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Scott has an iPhone 4S, and he wants to talk about his feelings about it. Sam Negri Booms along with the Scoshe boomCAN. John Nemo points out the interesting Griffin Stylus + Pen + Laser Pointer. Scott also has a new way of listening to podcasts on his iPhone, and it will leave you Downcast. Continue reading »
One of the many promises of iOS 5 was that it would lead us out of the wired wilderness and into the modern world of over the air updates, syncing, and backups. Anyone with iPhones and iPads knows the pain of constantly having to tether their devices to their computer just to update things like podcasts, and to make sure apps and settings are backed up. Now those things can be done over Wi-Fi, provided a few conditions are met.
Two of those elements, syncing and backups, do or can involve iTunes running on a Mac or PC. Unfortunately, how this works isn’t immediately clear. I noticed another person in my Twitter stream who was equally confused about the backup portion of the equation, specifically as to when backups would occur when syncing an iDevice over Wi-Fi. I’d also seen some comments that Wi-Fi sync would only happen when the device was connected to power, which I personally knew wasn’t true. So I decided to do some testing to figure out exactly what the requirements for Wi-Fi syncing and backups were.
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A new iPhone is born, and some people are angry that they don’t get a free pony with it. Scott is joined by Owen Rubin and eventually Peter Nikolaidis to talk about their feelings about the iPhone 4S and iOS 5. Listen in as they sidetrack their way through an entire podcast!
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Scott and Tim continue their conversation, this time talking about who will rise out of the jungle of iPad would-be competitors. John Nemo plugs his iOS gadgets into your TV with the Macally HDMI Audio/Video Adapter for iPod, iPhone, and iPad. And Peter sends his regards while neither eating donuts nor gravel.
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Tim Robertson of MyMac.com, TechFan, and Mac Specialist talks with Scott about fanboys, writers, the success of the iPad, and the iPad’s competition. Suzé Gilbert collaborates with us using Clibe, and Arri Gaffer shows us how listener feedback can be organized with Wünderlist and CarbonFin Outliner.
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It’s amazing how Scott has made it this far in life without being able to handle a simple time zone calculation. Sam Negri teaches us how to Throwback the headphones. John Nemo talks with Nathan of Seagate about a cool new product that will make you GoFlex your Satellite Wireless Storage. HP goes all Bernie by selling the corpses of their TouchPad for $99, and plans to make MORE to sell at a loss. And Suzé Gilbert brings back the joy of the Daily Journal.
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It’s App Catch Week at the old Nickel and Dime podcast. Suzé Gilbert joins me to help toss out app recommendations based on apps currently on our iOS devices.
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Scott and Peter both like to bike, and sometimes their iPhones like to go along and track their inferior performances for them. John and Ken Nemerovski contemplate Ken’s Motorola Droid X
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Scott admits to an anger problem when his iOS devices do not play nice. Howard and John Nemo revisit the way the New Yorker treats their iPad readers, as well as recent changes to Netflix subscriptions. And Suzé Gilbert captures Dallas with TtV Camera for iPad 2.
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Scott and Owen are still not done talking about iOS 5. Suzé Gilbert teaches us how to master Zen and the Art of Calligraphy. And John Nemo brings Bob Nemerovski on to prove both that John has many interesting relatives in his family and that Nike Plus GPS is an app worth considering for your outdoor activities.
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Scott and Owen Rubin contemplate the upcoming iOS 5. Suzé Gilbert teaches how vectors and drawing can be terms suitable to the iPad. John Nemo talks equalization. And Scott begs you all to go on a diet with an app from MyFitnessPal.
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Scott and Owen Rubin talk about the past, the present, and the future, and blame battery technology for all of their problems. Suzé Gilbert sautés up a great review with iCookbook. John Nemo and Martin Taylor bring us a Nano sized World’s Shortest Reviewcast with NanoStudio. And a voicemail from a Peter on the lam accuses Scott of completely misreading trends in modern computing.
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Scott brags about some ineffectual writing he’s done using Storify.com, and later does a mini demo of the iRig Mic by IK Multimedia. John Nemerovski demos his interviewing skills and the depth of knowledge in his family with a conversation with his cousin, Jim Nemerovski, about managing and viewing blogs and web sites on iOS devices.
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Peter is off AGAIN as he flies out towards Iceland. Scott rants fiercely about Twitter clients, and why the official one from Twitter should be punched in the code. Suzé Gilbert takes a well deserved vacation. John Nemo visits special guest Owen Rubin of MyMac and other fame, as well as reviews the SFBags Keyboard Traveler Express. And Sam Negri returns with another iPad 2 case, this one the Innopocket SeeThru Folio iPad 2 Clear Case.
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Scott has a Wunderful idea for task lists that sync across the iPhone, iPad, and the Mac. Suzé Gilbert finds the right depth of field with iQuikD.o.F for iPhone. Sam Negri does not drop the new Gumdrop case for iPad 2, but thinks it would handle it just fine if he did. And John Nemo asks you to listen to something else for a bit, and picks The Tin Roof Blowdown as the book you should chose to listen to.
Pocket Sized Podcast is sponsored by MCE and the MCE Optibay Drive (http://mcetech.com)
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