New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

i.e. i can now receive imessages sent to my phone number on my desktop computer, which was the big thing it was missing

yeah sorry that was me i texted you on behalf of steve jobs

I got alerts as soon as I added anything to any device

i got an alert that said max's phone number was now tied to his desktop app

yeah sorry

could you set that up for me? mine doesn't seem to be tied yet. don't tie it to max's account, though. thanks.

Hey can anyone tell me why Sprint plans are so much cheaper than AT&T and Verizon? Is there something I'm misunderstanding?

their service sucks?

Google's Schmidt: We've not done anything yet about putting Google Maps back on iPhone

:(

slightly annoyed that my wife's phone is already in the US and mine is still in Korea

DTMFA

hey look at it this way, your wife doesn't get to travel to korea to pick up her iphone

Ugh, ios 6 update ota is now taking up 2gb of my iPhone 4. presumably no way to get rid of it w/out installing?

Schmidt did reveal that Apple and Google do talk “every day”, however.

aw

whatre you doin?

oh i dunno mappin stuff i guess

http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/25/3407614/apple-over-a-year-left-on-google-maps-contract-google-maps-ios-app

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/09/google-may-have-an-ios-mapping-app-in-the-works-after-all/

doesnt really seem like something that should take a company w/the resources of google until the end of the year to finish

what do they have one guy working part time on it

my wife is delighted by her phone and she hasn't even turned it on yet

FYI, got phones for Carl and I yesterday and neither had any scuffs.

Guys I just used apple maps to go somewhere and i got there.

Also the cache meant I could use it on the underground. Maybe everything will be okay

what if you only have four rows of icons? :-(

If you live in London you should buy the A-Z app and then you'll have all the offline mapping you need (no directions, mind).

yeah I think apple maps is fine when it works, it's just those moments when it doesn't

I've been psyching myself up to upgrade, I feel it coming soon

Alba otm re the A to Zed. for "directions" i tend to figure out which road i'm on, look at the map, and then figure out which road to turn onto next in order to get where i'm going. call me loco??

And that sounds cra...wait.

Tracer - I have a terrible visuo-spatial faculties, so the (old) Maps app drawing a nice little line that shows the whole route is enormously useful in helping me navigate this crazy city on foot without having to stop at every turn (for too long).

lol my wife got her phone delivered to her at work today and she hasn't even taken it out of the box yet

I salute her

she's waiting for you to *present* it to her and then prostrate yourself in front of it.

haha

she actually just told me "you can open it when I get home, you're more excited about it than I am" to which I was all "wtf no I'm not" and I'm not because hers is white and I am waiting on the black one

did she do the same thing with a macbook air? or am I thinking of my wife?

because hers is white and I am waiting on the black one

Live together in perfect harmony.

"Ebony and DJP..."

did she do the same thing with a macbook air? or am I thinking of my wife?

She got a MBP and left it in the box for 6 weeks

Step one.

no!

hahahaha

she locked the phone in a drawer at work and left it there

argh, finally decided to upgrade to 10.8 from 10.6.8 to do a clean install, download time is 5+ hours
WTF Apple

which I was all "wtf no I'm not"
ahahaha she has your number. she knows you wrote that blog, Nicholas.

The iOS 6 update just showed up on my iPod Touch this morning. Should I go ahead and I upgrade or are there any issues to consider?

I'm kind of confused about the whole Google Maps hullabaloo. I understand that it isn't built in with the OS, but can't you just get it from the App Store. If that's the case, what's the big deal?

You can't just get it from the App Store; it is not a standalone app as of yet. Instead best thing to do is essentially 'bookmark' maps.google.com to the desktop, which you can do in Safari.

is that true for YouTube also or is there a downloadable app for it now?

There's a Youtube app.

so other than losing Google Maps, what are the benefits of upgrading on an iPod Touch? Or is it pointless?

there are some performance improvements on older iphones, not sure about ipods

http://www.macworld.com/article/2010286/lab-tests-ios-6-and-ios-5-performance-differences.html

http://www.apple.com/letter-from-tim-cook-on-maps/

At Apple, we strive to make world-class products that deliver the best experience possible to our customers. With the launch of our new Maps last week, we fell short on this commitment.

Tim Cook OTM.

Google notably not mentioned once.