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MacBook Pro: Too Few USB-C accessories in Bangkok
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 04/01/2017
» The disturbing lack of suitable accessories in Thailand has marred an otherwise great start to my experience with the MacBook Pro. Apart from Apple's own adaptors, there is almost nothing here for users who need USB-C connectivity.
Using health devices with the iPhone: GMate Blood-Glucose System
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 07/09/2016
» In a few hours, Apple will hold an event at the Bill Graham Civic Center in San Francisco. Most expect new iPhones will be announced. Depending on when they go on sale, we could see the next version of iOS by Friday.
Free iPhone apps aplenty
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 10/02/2016
» Several reports over the weekend had Apple as the bad guys again over the failure of some iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s models. They had had the home button replaced by unauthorised dealers and after an update to iOS there may be a report of an Error 53: the phone fails.
Quarterly financial results next week
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 21/10/2015
» Next Tuesday, Oct 27, Apple will announce its fiscal 4th quarter earnings at 2pm Cupertino Time (5pm New York). That is 4am here on Wednesday (9pm GMT +7). After the announcements, there is always a question and answer session in which Tim Cook and Luca Maestri do their best to fend off questions about future products. I expect there will be questions about the Apple Car, which may or may not exist. There will be a live audio webcast of the event at investor.apple.com.
Flexible iOS devices and a mix of speculation
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 05/08/2015
» This week, my friends have been trying out their new iPad mini devices. Neither of them has totally switched to the newer models, partly because of content. In one case, it is due to the downloaded music videos on the older iPad mini. The other friend has been exploring the ability to draw, having found Pencil by Fifty-Three: the stylus I examined in February this year.
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.
Apple's Swift U-turn
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 01/07/2015
» With its Music service becoming available this week, Apple walked into a lot of criticism over the decision to make the first three months free: from independent music labels and (to great publicity) Taylor Swift. As she noted when withholding permission for iTunes to handle her latest album: free means no royalties for performers.
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.