mdoeff.com » Apple http://www.mdoeff.com/blog Mike Doeff's blog Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:51:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Good Advice From Steve Jobs http://www.mdoeff.com/blog/2011/12/01/good-advice-from-steve-jobs/ http://www.mdoeff.com/blog/2011/12/01/good-advice-from-steve-jobs/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:26:07 +0000 mdoeff http://www.mdoeff.com/blog/?p=1721 I saw this on Twitter earlier today. Very inspiring.

When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money.

That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

- Steve Jobs

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Google Music

The introductory video from Google:

 iTunes Match

iDownloadBlog.com created this iTunes Match Ultimate Walkthrough.

Kindle Fire

Amazon shipped the Kindle Fire earlier this week. Kevin Tofel from GigaOm has a good write-up on the mixed reviews for this product.

Positive reviews:

Negative reviews:
Other news this week

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A couple of weeks after his death, Steve Jobs continues to be a huge topic. On Wednesday, Apple celebrated the life of Steve Jobs at the Apple campus in Cupertino. Apple has posted a video recording of the celebration on the Apple.com web site.

The biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson was released on October 24th.

 

 

Lots of speculation out there about the final project(s) that Steve Jobs was working on.

Tech News

Other tech news this week:

Sergey Brin at Web 2.0 Summit

Apps

 

Music

Radical Face – Mountains (video by YouTube user celmannn)
Sports

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Vor dem Münchner Apple Store hat sich eine Schlange gebildet.... on TwitpicThe iPhone 4S went on sale on October 14th. Despite lukewarm reaction to the announcement of the 4S, initial sales number appear to be very healthy. As usual, people were lined up at Apple Stores. Pre-order sales were very strong – over one million pre-order units in the first 24 hours – and AT&T’s activation servers were overloaded when everyone tried to activate their phones at the same time. Some analysts predict that Apple will sell 4 million phones over the weekend and another analyst estimates that Apple will sell 24 million iPhones in Q4 2011. Apple stock closed at an all-time high ($422 a share) on Friday.

iPhone 4S launch at Apple’s 5th Avenue Store:

Reviews of the iPhone 4S were very positive, especially for the new Siri personal assistant.

Speech recognition. Crazy good, transformative, category-redefining speech recognition.

David Pogue, New York Times – New iPhone Conceals Pure Magic

Here’s a roundup of other iPhone 4S reviews:

People are having a lot of fun with Siri.
Siri Demo from SlashGear:

A few days before the iPhone 4S went on sale, iOS 5 was released.

Other tech news this week:

Apps
Music
Sports

Television

San Francisco Restaurants
Suppenkuche Biergarten in Hayes Valley (photo by terrapin_sf on Instagram)

Suppenkuche Biergarten in Hayes Valley

The Week Ahead

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It feels like a month ago, but it was just earlier this week that Apple announced the iPhone 4S earlier this week. I posted a roundup of links from that event. The 4S will be on sale in stores at 8 am on October 14th and you can pre-order it now.
Other Tech News
Apps
New Music
Television
San Francisco Restaurants
Sports
  • Raiders owner and NFL icon Al Davis passes away at age 82
  • The Yankees and Phillies are eliminated from the MLB playoffs. Remaining teams: Rangers, Tigers, Cardinals, Brewers. Incredibly, Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard tears his achilles tendon when he makes the last out of the game.
  • The Raiders get an emotional win over the Houston Texans.
  • The 49ers are for real. They destroy Tampa Bay 48-3. Three TD passes for Alex Smith. The Niners haven’t scored this many points in a game since December, 2003.

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“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.”

-Steve Jobs

More Steve Jobs quotes here.

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More coverage on TechMeme.

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This post is over three years old but it’s still getting traffic, so here’s a quick update based on my experience. I’ve been able to access email from Exchange with the standard data plan. This is across three different companies over a 3+ year period. According to this post on a MacRumors forum, the only thing that the enterprise data plan provides you is additional help support – i.e. technically there is no difference.

Here’s the original post but, keep in mind, this is from July 2008…

Today AT&T released details on their iPhone3G pricing plans for consumers. Many people are upset about the $10 increase on the data plan and the extra fees for SMS. I’m finding it odd that almost nobody is talking about the Enterprise Data Plan. According to the AT&T web site (click on the RATE PLANS tab), it will be $45 per month for “when using iPhone to access corporate email, company intranet sites, and/or other business solutions/applications”.

If I’m understanding this correctly, I will need to pay a $15 per month premium over the consumer data plan (a $25 per month premium over the current consumer plan) if I want to take advantage of push email from my company’s Exchange Server. Is this right?

Update:
I’m adding links to other blogs / forums that are discussing this issue:

  • everythingiCafe: Enterprise Data Plan($45) vs. Personal Data ($30) question
  • Superstitionist: The 3G iphone and corporate email confusion
  • MacRumors: Enterprise data plan NEEDED for Exhange access?
  • SFgate: Technology Chronciles: AT&T says get ready for iPhone
  • TUAW: Eight 3G iPhone Plan Pricing Details You Need to Know

    • So far, the TUAW link is the most informative. Here’s an excerpt:

    Exchange costs $15/month more beyond that. The normal 3G iPhone data plan costs $30/month. Enterprise data costs $45/month. This buys you access to all the standard Exchange features. If you need to get Exchange mail, or access data inside your firewall, you’re an enterprise user. AT&T isn’t saying they’ll disable ActiveSync and Exchange on normal iPhone plans for non-corporate users so we’re unsure how they’ll police this policy. Our Christina speculates that the enterprise plan sets up the server to accept exchange support; you could do IMAP from your exchange account but if you want non-MobileMe push, you gotta be on the enterprise tier plan.

    More updates:
    Ryan Kim from SFgate: Technology Chronicles made this update:

    AT&T said that if you’re using Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync to get your push corporate email, calendar and contacts, expect to pay $45 a month. That’s a bit of a bummer because it just adds another $15 a month if you’re just trying to get your corporate email.

    7/15/2008 Update:
    I’m successfully connecting to my company’s Exchange Server via ActiveSync on my non-3G iPhone running the 2.0 software. I made no changes to my data plan and everything is working just fine.

    Yet another update:
    I found a very good explanation on Howard Forums from someone named RF9:

    AT&T will not be blocking Activesync. There really is no way to do it.
    The $30 iPhone 3G personal data plan is the same thing as $30 PDA personal (for all other PDAs.) And the $45 Apple business data plan is the same as the $45 PDA business data plan.

    You can use Activesync on ALL AT&T data plans with windows mobile and Palm OS PDAs as of now. This includes $15 media net, $30 PDA personal, $45 PDA enterprise, $60+ laptop connect, even on all blackberry plans.

    So unless AT&T or Apple concocted some way to restrict activesync based on data plan specifically for iPhone, then it won’t be restricted. Furthermore there’s no reason to.
    Exchange Activesync is for personal use as much as it is for business use.

    The “business” or “enterprise” data plan for $45 will be required if you’re on a corporate paid plan, or if you have a business account. They will consider those businesses and require the business data plan.

    If you pay your own individual bill, you won’t be required to get the business data.

    If you call AT&T, they’ll tell you “yes, you must have the $45 plan” but those people are just repeating what they were told, which is flat our wrong. It’s nothing new, they’ve been doing it to AT&T reps for years.
    Maybe it’s that the people who do the training don’t understand it, or that they’re just being greedy jerks. I don’t really know.

    I’ve been following this topic closely for the last two weeks and I can assure you you won’t need the business data. I also know AT&T data plans and pricing very well and for several years and just based on what I know they won’t be trying to block it.

    Finally, the reason it’s so vague is for this very reason. They don’t want to come out and say “you can use exchange on personal or business” because they don’t want you to question them when they tell you you must have a $45 business plan to use exchange if you’re a business customer.
    They’d rather you just assume you need it and pay for it.

    7/18/2008 Update:
    A couple of people have commented here saying that they tried to get the 3G iPhone to work with the consumer data plan with no success. When they upgraded to the Enterprise Data Plan it worked. On the other hand, there are reports on various forums from people who have gotten it to work on their 3G iPhones on the consumer data plan.

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    ]]>     http://www.mdoeff.com/blog/2008/01/15/steve-jobs-macworld-2008-keynote-in-60-seconds/feed/ 0     iTunes 3 billion songs purchased on a graph http://www.mdoeff.com/blog/2007/07/31/itunes-3-billion-songs-purchased-on-a-graph/ http://www.mdoeff.com/blog/2007/07/31/itunes-3-billion-songs-purchased-on-a-graph/#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:39:35 +0000 mdoeff http://www.mdoeff.com/blog/2007/07/31/itunes-3-billion-songs-purchased-on-a-graph/ It took a little less than a year to go from 1 billion to 2 billion songs sold on iTunes.  It took a little over six months to go from 2 billion to 3 billion songs sold.  Will we see 4 billion songs sold by the end of the year?

    Date

    		 Songs Purchased (millions)

    Source
    05/15/2003 1 Apple
    06/23/2003 5 Apple
    09/8/2003 10 Apple
    12/15/2003 25 Apple
    03/15/2004 50 Apple
    07/12/2004 100 CNN
    12/16/2004 200 Apple
    07/18/2005 500 Apple
    02/24/2006 1000 Apple
    01/09/2007 2000 Apple
    07/31/2007 3000 Apple

    Analysis elsewhere:

    graph created using NCES Create a Graph

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