Dan oh you. More countries get except for the i've had nothing up after antenna gays and looking apples handheld competition for lack thereof it's tuesday july twenty is two thousand ten. I can ready and this is news from mac o. s. can. Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you subscribers to mac o. s. can the six more information is available at mac o. s. can dot com. It shows also supported by the mac o. s. can broadcast out for the i phone and i thought taj available in the outdoor now for two dollars and ninety nine cents. Nine more countries get the i've had this weekend apple sent out a press release yesterday saying that the magical wonder miss mighty tablet will be available in austria belgium hong kong ireland luxembourg mexico netherlands new zealand and singapore. This friday july twenty third. All models wife i or y- five plus three g. and all three storage capacities will be available in each country according to the company with point of sale to include apple retail stores as well as apple authorized three sellers. No word on price for each country in the press release. More analysts analyze apples attempt to end and ten a gate mac and and has kaufman brothers and alicia will saying that apple did the right thing by offering free cases the users. Since cases seem to do the trick n besides the number of by phone for owners with complain versus the number who have not means the cost will be minimal. And he like morgan stanley analyst katie hugh pretty believe some permanent hardware or software fix maybe in the works. Then there's the wolf matt the same mac and then p is has need them in company analyst charlie wolf saying that antenna problems for i phone for have indeed been blown out of proportion. And the majority of shoppers simply don't care an assertion he backs up by pointing out the phones are still hard to come by in the five countries and which they're currently available. Looking to buy a bumper for your i phone for you may wanna look to somebody who's already bought a bumper i no longer once it because apple's not selling them anymore i lounge says group or do you know company has pulled the case lead from it's retail an online stores. In anticipation of having to give as many away as they have and then some as part of the closing of antenna gate. You feel that that crack ling excitement that buzz in the air set certain i don't know what. Oh yeah you feel it that's the approach of apples third quarter earnings call the one where they say how many i pads they sold in the first three months on the planet. How many max i phone tonight bonds as well and it's the one where they had that how much free cases probably phone boards might cost them for the next little while. That goes down today at two p. m. pacific five p m eastern you can hear for yourself by a quick time on apple sites you can follow some sites live belongs about it because. Some sites are live blowing it now where you can download this show tomorrow when i'll recap it for you. Because i'm good like that. Fortune's as investors or worrying over a slow down and i phone for sales surprising right i know what you're likely thinking but this has nothing to do with antenna get quoting fortune. To support his contention that the president blown the i've phone for santana issues wildly out of proportion steve jobs announce it is july sixteenth press conference that apple had sold well over three million units and three weeks. That sounds like a lot but is it get out your calculator. And prepared to be annoyed apple sold one point seven million i phone fours including pretty orders and the first three days the phone with available or an average of five hundred sixty six thousand six hundred sixty seven per day. Except of course it was available for pre order for more than three days but somehow that doesn't that you're in it apple sold exactly three million units in the first twenty two days or one point three million in the subsequent nineteen days as fortune. That works out to a rate of sixty eight thousand four hundred twenty one i phone force per day. Bye and here's where we get the i did uh the street is expecting apple to sell at least ten million i've found in the physical quarter that in september twenty fifth or a minimum of probably one hundred ten thousand per day. There fortune is made us worry especially if you only read the headline but now having set our stomachs to turning fortune says it knows if you reasons investors shouldn't to worry. That three million figure doesn't include sales of the entry level ninety nine dollar eight get goodbye i phone three g. s.. Yeah i phone for still has a three week waiting list sales will pick up on the phone hits more countries which it's supposed to do in about a week and a half and we don't really know what steve jobs meant by well over three million. And suddenly i wonder if investors were really worrying where fortune just wanted to work a word problem. I guess we'll never know. Apple has responded do a congressional call over privacy concerns you may remember the request late last month from the house bipartisan privacy cock as asking for an explanation of changes do apples i tunes privacy policies. That response was expected by july twelfth it was also received by july twelfth. So it's contents we're not made public until yesterday and issue the fact that apple tracks real time geographic location of devices. Such as i phones for the sake of providing and improving location based products and services mac and then summarize is apples responds. The company points out to the terms were revealed on the i do in stores so that there's many customers as possible would see them. Yeah you know that thing you clicked through without reading it everytime apple updates i tunes. It was probably in there. Additionally they say the location based services can be entirely disabled with n. i. o. s. and that won't keep them from being able to activate and use apple handheld you simply can't configure and i tune store account according to apples reply. Additionally additionally apples as one wife by cellular or g p s location data is received no other personal information is attached. Although the content is used for i add cord and it's are said to be immediately turned into zip code which or not match with the particular person or device. Apple says advertisers never see the codes they'd it is kept for six months to administer and improve the i add network and then aggregate a board minister to purposes. But you then matter if apple is actually just guarding any personally identifiable in so the second it's received lawmakers at the head of the caucus say they'll keep an eye on what apples up to so they appreciate apples response under satisfied. At least of the time being. This is kind of odd apple is being sued in a patent case not for violating someone else's patents but for marking products with patents it no longer holtz apple insider says the organization. Americans for fair patent uses suing apple sprint next out for rising wireless n sam sung telecommunications for falsely marking products with expired patents or patents that don't cover the marked products. This they say is being done to deceive the public about the patents coverage but their products. Ah no no to the organization whose stated purpose is to encourage the fair use of the baton system and deter abuse of the patent system which harms the public welfare and staples competition. It says what the poor companies have done constitutes false marketing and it's an example of harmful con- dogs. They're asking the court define apple and the other parties five hundred dollars per falsely marks product which we pretty steep if they mean every mac every i phone every i pod and so on. Half that money they say should go to the government's well the other half oh this is interesting the other have should go to americans for fair baton view well that seems. Fair they also want the courts to make sure the path overrides and sprint and sam song never do the falls marking thing again and to make them tell the world what they did wrong. Hardly an update ago go but a couple today from the cupboard you know company first apple yesterday released i tunes nine dot two dot one the company says the update for the media management software provides a number of important bug fixes. Including disabling older versions of some incompatible third party plug ins. Addressing minor issues with tracking and dropping items addressing a performance issue when first sinking to some devices with i two and nine dot two. Addressing an issue upgrading to i o. s. for one and i phone or i pod touch with encrypted back ups and other ambiguous sounding stability and performance enhancement there's also a security side the nine dot two dot one update. Apple says it it kills a bug affecting windows seven this that and p users. According to the note visiting a malicious lee crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. You know unless the software is updated meanwhile for owners of apple handheld apple is also updated i books for everything i books runs on now the version one dot one dot one. According to the release notes the out now let's users double tap an image and a both of you would in greater detail it's sports improve performance when reading p d s provide to add it in at dictionary access thanks an issue they kept some books from downloading completely. And most interestingly to me and support for books include audio and video this you may remember was a big bush for amazon a few weeks back. It was right around a month ago that amazon updated its kendall app fried things to support kendall additions. Billed as kendall books with support for audio and video that would only work on the candle after the eye pad. I have phone and i thought touch now apples apparently supporting such books as well though it's not clear right now whether they'll be the same titles amazon is pushing. Or if it'll be something new that apple is looking for content providers to purdue. The apple i books out is free. And is available in the apps store now. So let's like apple may have something new but the mac pretty soon something to make it all touchy feeling and gadget says it appears stress appears. Than apples magic track bad a device it's been rumored for quite awhile has just received approval from the federal communications commission. How soon what we know my we should know pretty soon sense apple tends to manage announcements and such a way that the f. c. c. approval as can't get much of a jump on it's announcement of new products. According to and gadget device model number at thirteen thirty nine is described as a blue to device used in conjunction with a mac book no mention of wife i or any other wireless protocol besides blue to it was. Magic track that may sound like grouping name but you might want to get used to it it was back in february that and gadget says apple applied for a magic track bad trademark. Indicating the arrival sometime in the future other companion to the magic mouse. One bit of confusion though reaching further back to last october during fire ball there john group or n as in apple was working on a multi touch track bad gadget for desktop max. But the f. c. c. thing says mac books is mac both just generic for mac these days. I just thought it would be the other way around. One of that i'm christians in the eagle eyed listeners has spotted something interesting on amazon or the amazon i guess. According to mac cast dot com listener gary spotted a listing on amazon front side that looks to be and i like ten for dummies book the description doesn't give anything away. Except for release date september twenty third twenty ten which could mean an updated creativity sweet from apple sometime around that quoting out um. Listings like this do leak from time to time and they may or may not be confirmation of a software update. So it does say it seems logical to assume that apple has been working on an update to the i like sweet. One of the i phones competitors is dead seen that says google has send the next is one to live on a big farm in the country where it can run and play and. Yeah they killed it annexes one was launched in january as a web purchase only phone but people didn't really seem to take to that br- bring the whole the phone and try it first. You know unless it was nice about and may the search giant move the phone and do brick and mortar store is where i did about as well as it did and it's online only months. Oh well the next is six was always going to be better anyway more telephone than telephone you know. Did i say one i found competitor was dead i meant three i liked it needs to has the rising confirming the rumor about which i told you yesterday. Big red confirm to monday that it was pulling microsoft can from it stores declining to sell off what it had left according to the peace the carrier is no longer selling beacon one at work into either online or at retail. Ken studio in other back and services are still expected to run but for how long wasn't set. From meta for a cold that to a potential for real firing a separate a like a needs to be says the days at the big desk for nokias c. e. o. may be numbered. I can't pronounce his name so let's pretend i did and i'll spend the rest of the story calling him cal electing these decide to wallstreet journal piece that says nokias board is looking for a replacement for cal. There said to be reacting to complaints from shareholders that cal should be removed for allowing nokias market share to slide and for not coming up with anything like a serious competitor for the i a phone and various and really bones. And finally today h p is applied for a new trademark one that i hate for more than one reason crunch scarce as the new owner of palm is applied to the u. s. patent and trademark office for a trademark for the term palm pad. It's no secret debates b plan some sort of tablet tore slate or. Pat apparently based on bombs web o. s. the mobile operating system the powers bombs dixie and pre mobile phones but seriously palm pad. It'll be interesting to see what h. b. comes out west but the name. Smells too much like me to to me then again just like the i. pad if it's a hit people will forget how much they hated the name when they first started hearing it. No matter how derivative it seemed when i say call in you say show call in. I'll trust that you said show we're doing it again tomorrow night mac o. s. can live yes it'll still be on use dream but i think i've got it so you can listen now when you're i bad ice on an i pod touch. I'll let you know for sure tomorrow also i'll let you know the topic tomorrow thoughts on the magic track bad reactions do apples third quarter numbers other surprises we might here between now and then. And we'll think of something ten p m eastern seven p. m. pacific wednesday night on you stream dot t. v. it mac o. s. can live. Mac o. s. cad brought to you by me and supported by listeners like you subscribers to mac o. s. candy six four information is available at mac o. s. canon dot com. This show is also supported by the mac o. s. can five gas out for the i phone and i find sites available on the outdoor now for two dollars and ninety nine cents. Music for the show compliments of keys series check them i don't know i tune for their website ok ice series dot com. 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