It is only the second day of 2015 and I am running out of “data” on my T-Mobile plan. Luckily I’m only a few days away from the new cycle of my plan. I was burning through 1GB of data in one hour, tethering my MacBook to my iPhone.
Megapixel per se
Joanna Stern, writing for WSJ.com:
A quick camera reminder: Looking at the megapixel numbers when comparing phones won’t help you at all. An 8-megapixel camera with a superior sensor can take far better photos, even more detailed ones, than a 21-megapixel camera with an inferior one.
I’m really glad to see Joanna Stern mentions this. For years, a lot of so-called Tech Journalists still measuring the quality of a camera by the pixel-count alone.
Some few years ago, a clerk/salesperson at a store that shall remain nameless adamantly told me that a 13-Megapixel point-and-shoot camera captured better image than an 8-Megapixel DSLR Camera.
On a personal note, Joanna Stern lost one point for using the term “phablet” for a product category. Just call it a big-ass phones and it would’ve sound much better.
All I see is (RED)
Apple teams up with (RED)® again on World AIDS Day, select Apps on the iTunes App Store are turning (RED).
“Free” is replaced by “Get” at the iTunes App Store
Juli Clover, reporting for MacRumors:
Apple has changed the wording for free games in its App Store, and the app purchase buttons that once read “Free” for apps with no cost now read “Get” instead. The change has been implemented on both the iOS App Store and the desktop App Store.
Because we all know that “Getdom isn’t Get”
Remember that movie, “Get Willy“?
Wrong Analogy
MCX CEO Dekkers Davidson told The Verge regarding CurrentC exclusivity:
I would observe parenthetically that I don’t think too many people complained when Apple went to market with the exclusive that you could only buy it at AT&T, which was the case for a while, and I think that was a reasonable business decision that Apple made, and they did what was in their best interest, and while Verizon customers may have been disappointed, they has made a choice as well.
That’s a wrong analogy, Dek!
Sure, when iPhone was first launched, it became an AT&T exclusive in the United States until January 2011. But AT&T did not stop selling other phones.
At this point, it is hard to believe any statements from MCX.
Google Hangouts is now Optimized for iPhone 6
Google Hangouts for iOS is now optimized for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
What’s New in Version 2.3.0
Support for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
Apple Releases iOS 8.1
Apple releases iOS 8.1 build 12B410 (iPad) and 12B411 (iPhone) with Apple Pay and Text Message Forwarding.
