Why Did Jon Snow Wait in Line for Hours Outside of Apple Store ?

  

    Why did Jon Snow wait in line for hours outside of Apple Store ?

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Apple's 9:41 Factor, iPhone Clocks in Apple ads Always Set to 9:41

Have you ever thought that why sky is blue ?
Left it here, we're asking a new Question : Why Apple Clocks are Always Set To 9:41 ?
I hope, you all are curious to know. Well, a post on The Atlantic find out why it is. The Atlantic spills beans on that.

Actually for that we have to go a long way back in January, 2007 launching event of iPhone in Macworld conference in San Fransisco, where Apple CEO, Steve Jobs steps on stage at 9:00 am. After a presentation about iPhone when he announce : "Today, Apple is going to reinvent the iPhone" and there on the screen iPhone flashes and it was 9:42am.

 iPhone Siblings

Till then Apple is continuing it, and in 2010 when the iPad was launched, its clock time was 9:41am so now all the latest iPhone is following  their ancestors.
In post at The Atlantic, former iPhone Executive Scott Forestall explained,

"We design the product launch keynotes so that the big reveal of the product happens around 40 minutes into the presentation. When the big image of the product appears on screen, we want the time shown to be close to the actual time on the audience’s watches. But we know we won’t hit 40 minutes exactly. And for the iPhone, we made it 42 minutes. It turned out we were pretty accurate with that estimate, so for the iPad, we made it 41 minutes. And there you are—the secret of the magic time."

 That's it.
Do think... Why Sky is Blue ?

Source : The Atlantic
Via : BGR

Apple's next event on 16th October, invitation with "It's been way too long"

It’s here, Apple has just announced a invitation for Thursday, October 16th which is going to held on Infinite Loop Campus in Cupertino, California. Invitations to select members of the media and special guests indicate that the event will. New iPad models will be main attraction of events. 
According to 9to5mac the event will "begin at 10 AM Pacific time/1 PM Eastern Time". 
As in this event Apple is going to launch new iPad with Touch - ID and Sensors to support its Mobile Payment through iPad but, the tagline on invitation : "It's been way too long." suggests that it will also going to launch some another Product ( may be that is iMAC ). Apple is supposed to announce the launch date of OS X 10.10 Yosemite in this event.
However, the company could also launch Beats Music in same event which was aquired in earlier 2014 by Apple.

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Wednesday 8 October 2014 22:25 IST
Author - Tanmay Baranwal

iPhone 6, 6Plus Live Booking is going Crazy in India

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As iPhone decided to launch its iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in India on 17.10.2014 and it is surprising that it got craze between retailers and consumers. Infibeam is the sole authorized online retailer in India and the site listed iPhone 6 at 53500/- Rs. and iPhone 6+ at 62500/- Rs. Flipkart also listed iPhone 6 and 6+ and have button “Prebook Now” and says to deliver it by 17th October in Metro Cities including some other cities.
The three major e-online stores are trying to attracting customers with there different plans as Spice Hotspot have the pre-booking charge of 500/- where as Mobile Store asks its customer to pay 1000/- for pre-booking. Infibeam says that it received 1550 pre-booking orders till yesterday. It’s going fair in India for iPhone and Apple after Bendgate. Well-done India .

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A Message From Apple CEO Tim Cook about Apple's Privacy Concern

Recently a message was published on Apple's Privacy page and it was from Apple CEO, Tim Cook.
As the Privacy Section is also a new part of Apple's Website. The page is containing the details about your data and it's handling. Mainly it also contains some useful "Can Do" like what Apple users can do to protect their data of iCloud and iTunes.

In WWDC 2014 while a launch of OS X Yosemite these Privacy Concern had been raised by Tim Cook in an interview talking to featurs of iOS and OSx Releases.
After iCloud Scandal it's one of the most requirement from Apple to revise their iCloud Security Settings. By this message Apple either want to distract their customers from iCloud Scandal or it want to compete various companies like Google, Amazon etc. by comparing their Data Privacy Management.

 In this letter Mr. Cook wrote "Our commitment to protecting your privacy comes from a deep respect for our customers. We know that your trust doesn’t come easy. That’s why we have and always will work as hard as we can to earn and keep it." which leads us to a believe Apple a Mos concerned about our Privacy.

The most important lines from this letter, which seems to target many of Social Networking sites or competitor of Apple as - "Our business model is very straightforward: We sell great products. We don’t build a profile based on your email content or web browsing habits to sell to advertisers. We don’t “monetize” the information you store on your iPhone or in iCloud. And we don’t read your email or your messages to get information to market to you. Our software and services are designed to make our devices better. Plain and simple." 

The complete letter is written as "A Message from Tim Cook about Apple's Commitment to your Privacy" is remembering me the letter of Steve Jobs "Thought on Flash".

You can see letter below and also the link is attached. 

A message from Tim Cook about Apple’s commitment to your privacy.

At Apple, your trust means everything to us. That’s why we respect your privacy and protect it with strong encryption, plus strict policies that govern how all data is handled.
Security and privacy are fundamental to the design of all our hardware, software, and services, including iCloud and new services like Apple Pay. And we continue to make improvements. Two-step verification, which we encourage all our customers to use, in addition to protecting your Apple ID account information, now also protects all of the data you store and keep up to date with iCloud.
We believe in telling you up front exactly what’s going to happen to your personal information and asking for your permission before you share it with us. And if you change your mind later, we make it easy to stop sharing with us. Every Apple product is designed around those principles. When we do ask to use your data, it’s to provide you with a better user experience.
We’re publishing this website to explain how we handle your personal information, what we do and don’t collect, and why. We’re going to make sure you get updates here about privacy at Apple at least once a year and whenever there are significant changes to our policies.
A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product. But at Apple, we believe a great customer experience shouldn’t come at the expense of your privacy.
Our business model is very straightforward: We sell great products. We don’t build a profile based on your email content or web browsing habits to sell to advertisers. We don’t “monetize” the information you store on your iPhone or in iCloud. And we don’t read your email or your messages to get information to market to you. Our software and services are designed to make our devices better. Plain and simple.
One very small part of our business does serve advertisers, and that’s iAd. We built an advertising network because some app developers depend on that business model, and we want to support them as well as a free iTunes Radio service. iAd sticks to the same privacy policy that applies to every other Apple product. It doesn’t get data from Health and HomeKit, Maps, Siri, iMessage, your call history, or any iCloud service like Contacts or Mail, and you can always just opt out altogether.
Finally, I want to be absolutely clear that we have never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services. We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will.
Our commitment to protecting your privacy comes from a deep respect for our customers. We know that your trust doesn’t come easy. That’s why we have and always will work as hard as we can to earn and keep it.
Tim

 

iOS 8 : Apple Releases Upgrades With Cool Features

Apple, today just launched a major upgrades of iPad and iPhone the iOS 8. There are also some hidden but cool features which were not disclosed that time. The updates are started distributing after 1PM ET. Below previous iOS upgrades iOS 8 requires much more space seems to be 5.7GB according to The Verge, it varies device to device.
So, if you're planning to install iOS 8 on a 5C 8GB or iPhone 16GB Models then you would ran into Problems. Here are some tips to clean your iPhone for some space -

Either you can upload your data on Air or you can use iTunes to store your data. The Journal publish an article as, you can delete some private stuffs as Photos and Videos which can help to free up memory. If they don't work then you should go for some rare used app to clean and also not forget to get some space for your old iMessages.

 Now, we should take a look on what are the hidden features of iOS 8-

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Battery Monitor 

Apple make it more conscious about battery life as it is the major problem of smartphones. So it now comes with Battery monitor where you  can see which app is taking how much memory. So we can know whether Facebook is juicing our battery or we are playing to much candy crush

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Smarter and Faster Spotlight and Safari

Apple makes it more clear about searches within safari or with widgets. Yeah!! Apple Makes a perfect spotlight and personalized searches. If you type a query, it will show you results from wiki, suggested website, results from iTunes, App Store and Various places.

In safari you can give preference to your search engines and also can request a desktop site.

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Siri : The Best Thing I have known

Though this update about Siri is just a clone function of Android but with an upgrade. You can activate Siri by just pronouncing "Hey Siri" unlike "Ok Google". May be it requires more amount of battery because Siri will always be ready to listen from you. Even in stand by Mode.

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Customize your sharing Values 

iOS 8 also provides you chance to customize your Sharing Preferences so you can put right notification in-front of you. It provides you the option to swap among them.

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Save Your Life

 By upgrading to iOS 8 we would suggest you to update your Medical ID. The sounding health feature from Apple which would help you to store Allergies and Blood Group some other medical conditions and can be accessed from Emergency Dialer Menu.

Images are from there respective owner - The Verge

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Go Grab a Download and Enjoy those Little and Cool Features.

Apple iOS 8 : Everything You Should Know

As said in WWDC (World Wide Developer Conf) in Cupertino Apple unveils it's iOS 8 with new features such as Keyboard improvement and Notification Area etc. Before we're not confirmed about the dates when it's going to release though we know, it will be either August or September of 2014.
Apple says that, iOS 8 would be available for Apple iPhone 4s and after and then iPad 2 and all iPads launched after by.
Would you like to see what new Apple is provided - 

Interactive Notifications - 

So finally Apple got that thing, previously, if any notification is there you have to exit your app.But now you can reply to that notification without exiting your current ongoing app, you can respond to them directly via notification center.

Shortcuts - 

Apple provided Contact shortcut on every screen and also can be accessed by double tapping home screen. It has also added widget for application shortcuts and fun look which is really more interesting.

Messages -

Now Apple would let you create Message group within itself and you can also remove numbers from that group. You can also attach voice and video from this app itself.

Keyboard - 

Apple improved its keyboard as it predicts the word according to your previous usage and also gives you facility to install third party keyboard. (Swift Keyboard is ready to Launch though in India)

Integration with MAC -

Improving integration service between iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite Apple now allows user to receive or make calls from MAC itself ( if they are on same network ) and you can access directories, mails and many more.

iCloud Photo Library - 

Apple introduces iCloud also, and with it Photos works smoothly to save your devices space. iPhone app Photos now let all the high resolution pics to be uploaded on iCloud Photo Library and will keep simple thumbnails in your phone so it will make your phone lighter than ever.

  So, Apple puts it up with every missing feature it has to support it's iPhone 6. I have used the iOS 8 Developer Preview and yeah it's something really good.

Breaking : Apple sold it's 4Million iPhone 6 within 24 Hours

This is the reaction what iPhone fans gave to Apple, pretty amazing. It smashed all records created by previous iPhone Versions. BREAKING IN THE NEWS, Apple sold 4 million of units of iPhone 6 and 6+ as preorder opened 24 hours ago.
 As we can't compare these orders to previous orders when iPhone 5s and 5c were launched because they were not for pre-order but in compare to iPhone 5, yeah!! it's got doubled in numbers.

Walter Pieck ( @WaltBTIG )  was the first first guy to notice it and bring it on twitter. As Apple didn't provide any data with it,so we can't say how many of them were iPhone 6+.

This Wouldn't be surprising as after a long time Apple has launche iPhones with bigger screens and provide there customer to bag an option among 4.7 and 5.5 inch.

Here goes Apple's full Press Release

Apple Announces Record Pre-orders for iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus Top Four Million in First 24 Hours

CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Apple® today announced a record number of first day pre-orders of iPhone® 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, the biggest advancements in iPhone history, with over four million in the first 24 hours. Demand for the new iPhones exceeds the initial pre-order supply and while a significant amount will be delivered to customers beginning on Friday and throughout September, many iPhone pre-orders are scheduled to be delivered in October. Additional supply of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will be available to walk-in customers on Friday, September 19 at 8:00 a.m. local time at Apple retail stores. Customers are encouraged to arrive early or order online from the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com) to pickup in-store or receive an estimated delivery date. Both models will also be available on Friday from AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, additional carriers and select Apple Authorized Resellers.

“iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are better in every way, and we are thrilled customers love them as much as we do,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Pre-orders for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus set a new record for Apple, and we can’t wait to get our best iPhones yet into the hands of customers starting this Friday.”

iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will be available in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the UK beginning this Friday, September 19 and in more than 20 additional countries beginning on Friday, September 26 including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey and United Arab Emirates.

iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are the biggest advancements in iPhone history, featuring two new models with stunning 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch Retina® HD displays, and packed with innovative technologies in an all-new dramatically thin and seamless design that is still comfortable to hold and easy to use. Both models are better in every way and include: the Apple-designed A8 chip with second generation 64-bit desktop-class architecture for blazing fast performance and power efficiency; advanced iSight® and FaceTime® HD cameras; ultrafast wireless technologies; and Apple Pay™, an easy way to simply and securely make payments with just the touch of a finger.*

The new iPhones include iOS 8, the biggest release since the App Store℠, featuring a simpler, faster and more intuitive user experience with new Messages and Photos features, predictive typing for Apple’s QuickType™ keyboard and Family Sharing. iOS 8 also includes the new Health app, giving you a clear overview of your health and fitness data and iCloud Drive℠, so you can store files and access them from anywhere.

Pricing & Availability
Every customer who buys an iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus at an Apple retail store will be offered free Personal Setup to help them customize their iPhone by setting up email, showing them new apps from the App Store and more, so they’ll be up and running with their new iPhone before they leave the store.
iPhone 6 comes in gold, silver or space gray, and will be available in the US for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model, $299 (US) for the 64GB model and, for the first time, a new 128GB model for $399 (US) with a two-year contract.** iPhone 6 Plus comes in gold, silver or space gray, and will be available in the US for a suggested retail price of $299 (US) for the 16GB model, $399 (US) for the 64GB model and $499 (US) for the new 128GB model with a two-year contract.** Both models will be available from Apple retail stores, the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com), and through AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, additional carriers, and select Apple Authorized Resellers including Best Buy, Target and Walmart.
* Apple Pay will be available to iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus customers in the US as a free update to iOS 8 this October.
** For qualified customers only. Check with your carrier for details.

Apple reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, defined the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad and has announced Apple Watch, its most personal device ever. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, continues the rapid pace of innovation of mobile software with iOS and integrated services including Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world with OS X, and free iOS and OS X apps like iWork and iMovie.

iPhone 6 Plus Spotted on e-Bay for 1.5 Lacs

What ?? Are you surprised ? Well, you should. Apple announce that iPhone 6 will be available in India after 16th October but recently Deccan Chronicle says that there is pre-booking is also available.
Yeah, it’s available on e-Bay online shopping site, putted by some dealer and do you notice the price it’s 1,50000 Rs. for 128GB Model of iPhone 6 Plus – more than double of actual price.
The dealer also wrote that iPhone will be genuine and factory unlocked and also will be delivered by 30th September. Looks like every market is trying to cash the craze of iPhone 6. Actual price of iPhone 6 plus is $849 for 128GB Model.



While writing this post, there is a notification on the website that the product is no more available. Either e-Bay block the item or the dealer pulled it ot ( m ay be he got enough orders ;) ).

Android Fans, You’ve Nailed It!!

So, Who says that Apple is 2yrs ahead in technology ? Here the remarkable image from Twitter which denies everything Apple does in previous years. A image which was uploaded by Ron Amadeo editor at ArsTechnica compares the specification of Google’s Nexus 4 released in 2012 and Apple iPhone 6. The results are unbelievable, peoples are retweeted it above 15000 times and approx 7000 replies has been posted. Android fans are all above the Apple’s launch.

On Basic Specs, Nexus 4 supposed to do everything what iPhone 6 do. Where as it comes to graphics Nexus is having a slightly difference with 760p graphics against iPhone’s 750p Display apart from this both the phones are having same 4.7inch Display,NFC Payment etc.

However, there are some specs like impressive Finger Print Recognition which allows it’s user only to unlock, Touch ID and other features in iPhone 6 which are neither available in Nexus 4 nor compared in the image. Amadeo sarcastically added some features that he expect in newer versions of iPhone like Water Resistant, Wireless Charging, Split Screen which major android devices are having right now.

Well, Android Users it’s your turn to laugh.

Apple Discontinued iPod Classic Silently

Same day Apple launched iPhone 6, 6plus and Apple watch,it also announced the discontinuation of its most sold out iPod Classic released back in 2001 which helped Apple to reach this popularity.
As Apple launches 128GB Version of iPhone 6 and iPod Touch 128GB will take the lead at the place of iPod Classic.
Without making any previous announcement Apple remove it from it's new Online Store. As written on 9to5mac apple hadn't updated iPod since 2008. The last version contains 160GB of memory and had power to store 40k songs in you hands and the designs are from 2004. So basically it's time to pull the plugs off from it. Actually the discontinuing of classic begin 4 years ago, early in 2010. Since then till now it discontinued in late 2014.

The social network is bidding #GoodBye #iPodClassic with real emotions, now if you are thinking to buy a gadget you should probably go for all the new Sony Walkman NWZ-A17 PMP which supports high end musics and major formats. The Walkman starts from 18500/- approx in India.

For More -> Sony Walkman NWZ-A17
Buy iPod Touch -> iPod Touch

Apple Watch : Know it and it's Battery life

Apple Watch, as Apple CEO, Tim Cook describes it "Precise and Customizable Time Piece"
This Apple flagship will go for sale in early 2015 as the Apple site says and the device starts at $349 in US.

Description : It comes in two screen size, 38mm and 42mm and carries three housing as Apple Watch, Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch 18k Gold. :o
To operate this all you need to do is to pair your Watch with any of iPhone 5c or later. According to the BGR there is a disappointing news about it's battery life, it will last for about a day means you have to charge your watch every night.

We are expecting that there would not be any disappointing battery life like Moto G Watch's poor battery life. However you can bet that the manufacturers will take a look on.

Fun : Apart from touch apple include "Digital Crown" in Watch to interact with interface (Zooming, Scrolling and Home) and some of fun apps like Sketch, Heart Beat Monitor, Walkie-Talkie. The most fascinating feature for me is Hap-tic Feedback Sensors, you can send a "tap" to your friends and the sensor will let them know and also you can customize various feedback taps for different people.

The watch has six different strips, made from leather, metal, polymer, steel which also has interchangeable mechanism between them. On the main screen there will be apps in the form of bubbles and using "Digital Crown" you can zoom them or from any screen pressing "The Crown"  will push you back to the home screen.

Again the technology part : it is in it's sensor. The Watch knows when to turn your screen on and off. Whenever you raise your hand it turns the screen on, and you can also let your loved one feel your Heart Beat no matter how much far they are.

Technology : Apple uses S1 Chip i watch and Sapphire Crystal Display on glass. It uses MagSafe technology with inductive charging as well. It has the world's best Virtual Personal Assistant in it "Siri", you can hold your "Digital Crown" and dictate your message. Apart from these as other wearable devices gives notification using vibration, The Watch carries "Taptic Engine" to give haptic feedback which is much responsive then ever.

Apple watch also have the latest Apple Pay technology.

Simply away from Samsung Gear and another wearable technology Apple Watch provides a premium look and yes it is simply awesome. Beside round-rectangle looks of Gear it have totally premium body and metal design along with fitness tracker and various cool engines and sensors.
Apple Watch is the first ever wearable product launched by Apple or a product launched by Tim Cook after 2012.  

Now last, As we know about Smartphone wars between Apple and Google, now Smart watches wars between them raised. The wearable technology is more perspective in the coming era because of technological advancement and smart pair of phones and watches, and if we talk about the third competitor it seems to be Samsung with its new Tizen OS supported Gear but all of them ( HTC, ASUS, SAMSUNG, LG, MOTO and ofcourse SONY ) are making for Google's Android and there exists Apple's Watch. So we can say there is no war will be for smart watches as there is no third alternative ( until Microsoft raises his hand ) . 

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Apple iPhone 6 and 6 Plus to be launch on 17th Oct

Apple launches its most awaited flagship iPhone 6 along with iPhone 6 Plus. iPhone six is to be first phablet to be launched by apple, most likely it works like a mini-mini-iPad with landscape view.
According to Apple's site the same (iPhone 6) is supposed to be launched in India on 17th Oct with the price range of 45k approx ($649) and iPhone 6+ is going to launch with price of 47k ($750) approx. The actual price for Indian market is yet to be decided.
iPhone 6 carries A8 Chip with 64 bit architecture which offers upto 25% CPU and 5% faster graphics then other processors and has 4.7 inch (1994x750) screen where as iPhone 6+ Carries 5.5 inch screen (1920x1080) and both the iPhone comes with the latest iOS 8 . The major difference in camera is said to be its Image Stabilization although both the phone carries 8MP iSight Camera .

 
Apple also launches most awaited Apple Watch which is said to compete with Samsung Gear and Moto G Watch. Apple CEO, Tim Cook says it is accurate within plus or minus 50 milliseconds and comes with various customizable options ( you can also ask Siri to customize your emojis ). In Tim Cook's word it is "Comprehensive health and Fitness Device". Three Versions of Watch has been introduced so far,  Apple Watch, Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch 18k Gold. With the rounded shape all the models are stunning. For more -> Apple Watch : All you need to know.