Posted: May 31st, 2012 | Author: Patrick Thornton | Filed under: Podcasts | Tags: AT&T, attention, battery life, cell phones, college students, data plans, email, iCloud, iOS, landline phones, polling, push notifications, Siri, time | No Comments »
We discuss the value, or lack there of, of push notifications.
Are push notifications making us more and less productive? Do we need better ways to manage push notifications?
We also discuss political polling and the difference between polling landline and cell phone users.
I apologize for Jeremy’s audio quality. I blame his Internet connection (although it could be mine, but don’t tell him).
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Posted: October 26th, 2011 | Author: Patrick Thornton | Filed under: Podcasts | Tags: Apple, iCloud, iPhone, iPhone 4S, Siri, smartphones, usability | No Comments »
This is our review of the iPhone 4S, Siri and iCloud
Spoiler: We really like the iPhone 4S.
Jeremy is in love with Siri, but we discuss how Siri should be much better in a year. How will Siri improve? What does the future involve? Will there be an API that third party applications can tap into?
We also discuss what we like and don’t like about iCloud. We believe it will change quite a bit over the next year.
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Posted: October 5th, 2011 | Author: Patrick Thornton | Filed under: Podcasts | Tags: Apple, iCloud, iOS 5, iPhone 4S, Siri | No Comments »
Everyone is up in arms that Apple called its latest iPhone the iPhone 4S instead of the iPhone 5.
Why? We suspect that some people can’t handle anything less than new models going in numeric sequence. In all honesty, the iPhone 4S is everything that we expected and would be more than worthy to go by the name the iPhone 5.
We do delve into the psychology of naming products. Would calling it the iPhone 5 have been a better idea? Was this a branding fail or is this something we should expect more of going forward?
So, why isn’t this called the iPhone 5? Simple, it has the same design as the iPhone 4. Apple did the same thing with the iPhone 3GS a few years ago.
Don’t let the name fool you. This phone is significantly faster, has a much nicer camera and has a really cool personal assistant feature called Siri.
Will we be buying this phone? Who do we recommend it for? What do we see as the future of iOS and the iPhone?
We’ll have a review of the iPhone 4S the weekend it comes out, and the upcoming iOS5 and iCloud are a big part of this story. So, stay tuned for Episode 15S.
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