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Apple Music and updated iPods
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 19/08/2015
» I have been using Apple Music a fair amount, although last week spent time catching up with podcasts I had missed while friends were here. During the week, a number of local users who connect to the internet at home via True were complaining that Apple Music was connecting badly. I had a look in iTunes on the Mac and found that "For You" -- perhaps the most significant part of the service -- would connect, but no music was being played. I also tried the Radio stations. While Beats 1 connected, the Classical and Alternative music stations connected but would play no sound (like "For You").
New ipods, new colours, with same reliable outputs
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 12/08/2015
» A number of sites this week suggest that the next iPhone will be announced during the week commencing on Sept 7.
Apple of our eye
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 29/07/2015
» I have had guests at my home all week and it has been something of a mini-Apple event. I bought iPads for the two friends who already had an iPad mini each. I gave them the latest iPad mini 3. With these we had over a dozen devices together and I could not resist a photograph that included a MacBook, MacBook Pro 13-inch (2012), MacBook Pro 13-inch (2010), two x iPad mini 2, 2 x iPad mini 3, iPad Air 2, 2 x iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and an Airport Extreme router under the table. There was also an Apple TV behind me.
Lovely New iDevice arrivals in Bangkok and elsewhere
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 22/07/2015
» Apple has been busy as of late and yesterday the latest quarterly figures were announced. I am writing this a few days before, so the results will be online elsewhere. Apple's predictions and those of Wall Street suggest that this was expected to be another good quarter. Already reports have shown that Mac sales have increased by 16% in a shrinking PC market and that Apple takes the lion's share of profits for smartphone sales.
Apple's earnings, watches and more updates
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 15/07/2015
» On Tuesday, Apple announces its Third Quarter earnings, at 2pm Cupertino time, just after Wall Street closes.
Laptop fixed, care of Apple
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 24/06/2015
» One of the 2015 Helen Keller Awards was given to Apple for breakthroughs in accessible technology. The award was specifically for Apple's VoiceOver technology that provides "spoken and Braille descriptions of items on the computer screen".
Managing storage with newer Macs
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 10/06/2015
» Last week, a proof of concept attack that could affect some older Macs when they wake from sleep was made public. The information was not shared with Apple beforehand, so there was no time for a patch, while online reports became more hysterical with each retelling. For the paranoid among us, shutting down (instead of sleep) will avoid this particular problem until it is fixed.
Updates in the approach to WWDC
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 03/06/2015
» In the eXtensions column last Wednesday, one of the applications I mentioned was Pixelmator. I wrote then that this was available for the Mac and the iPad. The next day (Thursday) the developers updated the iOS app making it Universal, so it now runs on the iPhone as well.
Synchronisation from Mac to iOS
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 27/05/2015
» Last week Apple updated its MacBook Pro range, adding a new 27-inch iMac with retina 5K display for 68,900 baht and reducing the price of the top end 5k iMac to 79,900 baht. There was also a lightning dock for iPhones. The 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro computers have the new Force Touch trackpad and there are improvements: faster flash storage, longer battery life and faster discrete graphics. The SSD in the 15-inch MacBook Pro has throughput speeds of 2GB per second.
Photos, iClouds and Apple's financial report
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 22/04/2015
» Next week, Apple will announce its Q2 2015 figures on April 27 at 2pm Cupertino Time (4am Thai time). Usually, this quarter is lower than the one at the end of the year, but sales of iPhones in China and elsewhere are reported to have boosted the numbers. Estimates of iPhone sales run between 57 and 70 million units. Figures are now being maintained throughout the year rather than being seasonal.