Yearly Archives: 2012

Apple responds to Maps criticism

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While Maps has worked well for me so far, not everyone has been so lucky. Complaints starting coming in today about various problems with the new app. Apple vows to make it better. “Customers around the world are upgrading to … Continued

You can still use Google Maps on iOS 6

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A couple of readers have written to point out that you can still use Google Maps on your iPhone running iOS 6. Just go to http://maps.google.com in Safari and add it to your home screen. That will give you directions, transit and many other features.

It’s not perfect, but for those having issues with Maps, it’s something.

The trouble with Maps

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iOS 6 is out. Check your iOS device — as long as it’s not the iPad 1 or iPod Touch 3rd generation or lower — and download it. Except, don’t if you use Google Maps. The new Maps application, Apple Maps, is awful.

I’ve heard from a lot of people about Maps after writing my review on the iPhone 5 and iOS 6 on Wednesday. In the places I tried Maps — Cupertino and Halifax, Canada — it worked flawlessly. However, it seems not all areas, countries and users are having the same experience.

iOS 6 release causes huge Web traffic spike

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This massive increase in traffic was then sustained throughout most of the day, and actually escalated as people got home from work in the evening. This resulted in traffic from Apple’s servers yesterday being over 9 times their average traffic levels.

I can’t even begin to imagine how much traffic and data Apple pushed yesterday.

Samsung confirms it will sue Apple over iPhone 5 LTE

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Florian Mueller:

In a case management statement filed late on Wednesday with the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Samsung expressed its belief “the iPhone 5 will infringe [the eight patents that Samsung is already asserting in a California lawsuit against Apple, two of which have been declared standard-essential] in the same way as the other accused iPhone models”, and that it “plans to file a motion to amend its infringement contentions to address the iPhone 5 as soon as it has had a reasonable opportunity to analyze the device”.

We knew that was coming.

iOS 6 features you may not know about

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Chad Williams put together a nice list of lesser known features from iOS 6. Sometimes the coolest things aren’t always the most talked about.

American Airlines gives flight attendants a Galaxy Note

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A more personalized inflight experience will become a reality later this year as American Airlines flight attendants begin using the sleek, new Samsung Galaxy Note® as part of American’s innovative tablet program designed to put invaluable customer data at their fingertips.

So American hates its flight attendants then?

[Via BGR]

Retina strategy

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Josh Centers has some interesting thoughts on Apple’s strategy for Retina displays and which products we should expect to see them in.

NFC disappointment

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This is where Apple’s market dominance becomes so important. The truth is that NFC won’t take off without Apple — at least not nearly as quickly as it would with Apple. So the critics’ “disappointment” is in fact just a sad realization that the elusive NFC promise is at least one more year away from being kept. In the meantime, Apple keeps solving real problems it knows it can solve right now.

Smart article from Matt Drance.

Want to stand out? Do what Alton Brown does – hand write tweets

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Wired:

Alton Brown of Food Network had strong feelings against Twitter, but an even greater aversion to Facebook. When his agent demanded he choose one, he picked what he felt was the lesser of two evils and began tweeting.To spice up his twittering, he began hand-writing notes, then posting pictures of them. Sometimes he’d doodle a message in Morse code. Or draw a sketch. Or set half of a paper message on fire, then tweet a photo of the remnants.

You gotta love Alton Brown.

iPhone and robotics

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Om Malik:

It is hard to imagine that it has only been five years since the smartphone revolution started in earnest. The sensor driven modern marvels are not only redefining how we interact with the world, but they are also having unintended consequences. Like helping make cheaper robots.

Something I never really considered before.

Office for Mac 2011 Retina display support

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We’re happy to announce that Office for Mac 2011 (version 14.2.4) now supports Retina display for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Text everywhere is incredibly crisp and all key areas of the interface are now sharper than ever. We hope you enjoy this fantastic software experience!

iOS 6

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Apple released iOS 6 this today. You can plug your iPhone into iTunes and click “Check for Update” or go to Settings > General > Software Update on your iPhone.

OS X 10.8.2

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You can download it from the Mac App Store.

Review: iPhone 5

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When Apple concluded its iPhone 5 event in San Francisco last week, I walked past the hands on area where Apple had devices for press to use, and went to meet with Apple executives to get an iPhone 5 of my own. […]