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The excitement surrounding the iPhone 4S continues to build now that pre-order customers are receiving shipping notices. Customers, particularly those on Sprint, are receiving shipping confirmation notices from UPS that their packages are being processed. Most packages are being shipped 2nd day air, but don’t expect your iPhone 4S to arrive earlier than the 14th. In the past, UPS’s policy was to hold Apple shipments at the local warehouse until the set delivery date (though a few may slip through). Even if you beg and plead for the packages at the warehouse, UPS will not release them until the designated time.

It’ll be a long week of waiting and checking on UPS status updates for those with pre-ordered iPhone 4S handsets, but you should be able to rest easy knowing that you don’t have to camp out

Customers begin to receive iPhone 4S shipment notices originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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During a recent edition of TUAW TV Live, the question of how iCloud works in applications came up. After some internal consultation, we came to the conclusion that Apple has fully announced this feature and that its workings would not be considered confidential.

In that spirit, here’s an introduction to iCloud’s internals summarized from material in my upcoming iOS 5 Developer’s Cookbook expanded edition.

In its simplest form, iCloud is merely a special folder. It lives on the iOS device in /private/var/mobile/Library/Mobile Documents/. That folder hosts all application material that applications share to the cloud.

Applications have partial permission to read from and write to this folder. That permission is developer-specific. As with the password keychain, developers can share cloud data between applications.

For example, all apps developed by App Company X could share, view, and update the same document set. You cannot share data outside of your developer account. So my apps cannot see App Company X documents, and vice-versa.

The Mobile Documents folder is monitored by iOS. When files are modified, the device automatically uploads changes to the cloud. Those changes propagate out to all other devices registered to the same account. This is handled by a local OS service, and applications aren’t directly involved.

Instead, applications subscribe to a variety of classes and notifications that allow them to know when changes occur. They can then resolve conflicts to bring local data into harmony with the iCloud versions.

How developers do this is up to them. They may choose a “most recent change wins” strategy. Or they may combine changes in some other manner. It’s the application’s job to ensure that data presented on one unit matches the data on other units, so long as there is network communication available to handle that conformance.

The tricky bits happen when a user drops out of communication. For example, you might edit a to-do list on a plane, when you have no net access, while your partner updates his or her to-do list in another city. Developers have worked for months on strategies for combining those changes and updating their documents to honor edits from both parties.

In the end, there’s very little in the way of iCloud APIs. It’s really just a folder that is synchronized to offsite-storage. The trick will be how well developers think about different ways that distance, connection, and time can affect the way documents in that folder must adapt to user updates.

How iCloud works originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A leaked Sprint slide suggests the wireless carrier will not be offering its Total Equipment Protection plans for the iPhone 4S. Customers with an iPhone 4S who want to add a protection plan to their phone are encouraged to purchase an AppleCare+ plan. These new plans from Apple offer accidental damage on top of the traditional coverage for $99. You can also purchase a third party plan from a company like Square Trade or through your homeowners or renters insurance. The wording “not sold at launch” on the slide also leaves open the possibility that Sprint my change its mind and open up the TEP plans some time after launch.

Sprint may not extend equipment protection plan to iPhone 4S originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple has reported that iPhone 4S pre-orders topped one million units in a single day, breaking the previous single-day record held by the iPhone 4 (600,000). In fact, it was Apple’s most successful first-day pre-order ever. Apple’s Phil Schiller said in a press release, “We are blown away with the incredible customer response to iPhone 4S.”

The iPhone 4S will be available for sale on October 14 in more than 22 countries, including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, and Finland.

The iPhone 4S generated more opening day pre-orders than any other Apple product. Sure sounds like a “dud,” eh, CNN?

iPhone 4S pre-orders top 1 million in 24 hours originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Big Blue Bubble is the developer behind the Burn the Rope game that we liked a while back. They’re back on the App Store with the strange but fun Fling a Thing. In this one, you control a little creature (which is actually a little too close to a bug for me to really like it, but we got along anyway) with a sucker on one end, so that you can stretch him back and fling him up into the upper part of the screen. There, you’ll find items and bubbles to collect, and the game itself is a distance title, where you try to make your way up through various sets of stages while trying to do the best you can with the limited number of shots you’re given.

The mechanic itself isn’t all that original, but the game is really well polished, and the difficulty curve is very nicely tuned. Early on, the game seems pretty simple and easy, but as you go up the ladder, more and more items and complexity appear, and eventually the game starts getting the better of you. It’s fun, and while the game isn’t quite as tight as it could be (there’s a “feeding” mechanic for your creatures that I didn’t understand at all), what’s there is entertaining enough.

Fling a Thing is available for a buck on the App Store. It’s a simple but colorful palate cleanser of a game.

Daily iPhone App: Fling a Thing originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s Sunday, and like most every Sunday, we will be getting together for the Talkcast tonight at 10PM Eastern, 7PM Pacific time. This week’s will be unpredictable since we have happy news to discuss, as well as less happy news. We have some guests joining us tonight as well, and we’d love to hear your memories of Steve. Prepare for some laughter and (at least on my part) probably some audible sadness as well.

Your calls and questions help us make the show the best it can be, otherwise I’m just talking to myself! To participate on TalkShoe, you can use the browser-only client, the embedded Facebook app, or download the classic TalkShoe Pro Java client; however, for maximum fun, you should call in. For the web UI, just click the Talkshoe Web button on our profile page at 4 HI/7 PDT/10 pm EDT Sunday. To call in on regular phone or VoIP lines (yay for free cellphone weekend minutes!): dial (724) 444-7444 and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 — during the call, you can request to talk by keying in *8.

If you’ve got a headset or microphone handy on your Mac, you can connect via the free Gizmo, X-Lite, or Blink SIP clients; basic instructions are here. Talk to you tonight!

Talkcast tonight, 10pm ET/7pm PT: Somber Edition originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve seen all sorts of Steve Jobs tributes over the last few days, with most Apple Stores worldwide being showered with flowers, personal messages, and even old Macs. TUAW reader James Risley saw a unique tribute to Steve in Chicago — two of the ubiquitous street banners in that city, showing the now-iconic portrait of Jobs on one side, and the new “Steve Jobs Apple logo” by Jonathan Mak on the other. Risley whipped out his iPhone and took this shot for posterity.

Both banners say “Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011”, but on the black banner is a touch that only a Mac fan could appreciate. It’s a progress bar, like that seen when you’re listening to a song in iTunes It’s a horizontal scroll bar, starting in 1955 and stopped short in 2011. Above the progress scroll bar is the song title — “Thanks, Steve.”

Risley only saw one banner, which was put up on October 7. This is probably a personal tribute for Jobs, but it’s nice that the City of Chicago allowed it to be raised in his honor.

Thanks to TUAW reader Jeffrey for pointing out that it was a scroll bar and not a progress bar.

Update: The “culprits” who put up the personal tribute to Steve are from ImageFiction of Chicago. Eric from ImageFiction reports that “the city didn’t allow it or disallow it, we just did it! Just like Steve would like it.” Check out the gallery of photos below, courtesy of ImageFiction.

Steve Jobs banner in the Windy City a nice tribute (Updated) originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This week, Apple announced that for the first time you will be able to get a free iPhone with a 2-year contract.

The “catch”? The iPhone is the 3GS (not the 4 or 4s).

Now if you are someone who regularly reads tech websites and who thinks it’s perfectly logical to stand in line for hours to get the newest iPhone (or to get up in the middle of the night to order one online), then the iPhone 3GS might seem like a relic to you. But for the millions of cell phone users who don’t have smartphones, the iPhone 3GS would be a great purchase.

The hardware is excellent, and it supports AT&T’s 3G network. No, it doesn’t do “4G” — but for most Americans, we don’t live anywhere with 4G coverage anyway; people looking for a free smartphone probably aren’t going to care about 4G, if they even know what it is. Subjectively speaking, my wife actually prefers the 3GS because she says the curved back fits better in her hand.

The iPhone 3GS has a bigger App Store than Android or Windows Phone alternatives. When Apple releases iOS 5 in a few days, the 3GS users will be able to upgrade to it, free of charge.

All told, it’s a great phone, and in the USA it is only available on AT&T because Verizon didn’t have the iPhone until version 4. It is now available for free (with the same 2 year contract you’re going to be stuck with anywhere).

You might think that AT&T would want to grab this opportunity to let people know about this great offer. You might think that, assuming that you haven’t watched AT&T bungle nearly every opportunity the iPhone has given it.

The latest example arrived today: an email from AT&T with the Subject: “Huge online selections of free phones from AT&T!” Because I am, at heart, an optimist, I thought “Oh, they are going to start promoting the free iPhone deal.”

I was wrong.

Inside the email, there are 3 phones shown (see screenshot above). The first two have tiny, hardware keyboards, and the third (in the background) shows something that looks like an iPhone knockoff but with rounded sides.

No picture of the iPhone 3GS.

No mention of the iPhone 3GS.

They mention “Apple” as one of the manufacturers, but they don’t use the name “iPhone” at all. The best-known smartphone brand in the world, and AT&T doesn’t even mention it. They can make a “free iPhone” offer that no one else in the USA can make, and they didn’t make it.

If you wanted to be extremely generous, maybe you would want to say that the email had a limited amount of space for the image, so they couldn’t fit the iPhone into the picture. But even if you click through to the “shop now and save” link, the resulting page doesn’t show the iPhone 3GS at all.

Frankly, I don’t know if AT&T is purposefully downplaying the iPhone, or whether they want to push people towards the iPhone 4 or 4S if they want “an iPhone” or if they just plain blew an opportunity to promote an advantage that they have over Verizon and Sprint. But I know which one I’d go with if I had to guess.

AT&T misses another iPhone opportunity originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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SRS Labs has just released MyTunes, a free iPhone app that rather dramatically enhances music playback on your iDevices. Instead of using the stock player provided by Apple, you launch the MyTunes app, select your playlists, albums or artists, and you’re away.

The sound of most tracks transforms in an often spectacular fashion. Matt Yaney of SRS told me the app uses a variety of proprietary techniques to eliminate the degradation provided by MP3 encoding and produce a more natural and immersive experience, usually lost by the recording and compression process.

I have to agree. Listening to a variety of Rock, New Age, Jazz and Classical improved every track I tried. Bass was firmer, percussion was much sharper, and the position of instruments across the sound stage are more precise. The changes just aren’t a matter of boosting high and low frequencies, there is a good deal of sophisticated audio processing taking place. I found the effects most pronounced on music that was recorded live with acoustic instruments, but as I said, just about every genre of music sounded better.

This app is a bit of a breakthrough for SRS Labs, because the only previous way to get this technology was with a hardware dongle on the SRS Wow! product. I’ve compared the 2 systems, and found the audio quality quite close. The SRS Wow! does have an actual hardware DAC (digital audio converter) but I was hard pressed to hear the difference when listening to MyTunes.

There are a few caveats. The MyTunes app won’t work with any music that has DRM, and it won’t work on any videos you have. Since the app only connects to your iTunes library, it won’t enhance Pandora, Spotify or any online streaming services.

If you want even more features there is a US$4.99 in-app purchase that provides additional custom controls for audio enhancement, more EQ settings, volume leveling, and an simpler interface to use when driving. I didn’t find the extra features all that compelling, but SRS Labs will let you sample them for ten minutes to see if they are worthwhile for you.

If you listen to a lot of music on your iDevice, and most of us do, I wouldn’t hesitate to download MyTunes. The basic app is free. It takes a little effort to explore all the features provided, but if you try it I think it will have a permanent place on your iPhone or iPod touch. The app also will work on an iPad, but MyTunes is not universal, and a separate iPad app is coming later this year.

Give the app a listen and report your impressions in comments, and check the gallery out for some screen shots.

MyTunes for iPhone gives your music an impressive kick originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 09 Oct 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It seems like this must have been in the works for a while already, but Entertainment Weekly is reporting that the inimitable Mythbusters (Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman) will be hosting a one-hour special on the life and achievements of Steve Jobs. iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World will include interviews with key figures from Jobs’s past, including the legendary inspiration for Jobs & Wozniak’s first explorations into phone phreaking, John “Captain Crunch” Draper.

Considering that Savage’s unofficial motto is “I reject your reality and substitute my own” (originally a line from the low-budget fantasy thriller The Dungeonmaster), he and his taciturn partner are well suited to honor the reality-distorting Apple co-founder. The show, a co-production with NBC’s Peacock Productions arm, will air on the Discovery family of cable networks on October 16.

‘Mythbusters’ Savage & Hyneman to host Steve Jobs retrospective on Discovery originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mobile devices like the iPad, the iPhone, and the iPod touch have one unfortunate trait in common — they’re very easy for someone to steal. With the great demand for the iPad 2, you will want to keep it locked away somewhere or take it with you everywhere just to keep thieving hands off of the device. Now Griffin Technology has announced the TechSafe Locking Case + Cable Lock for the iPad 2 (US$79.99), a way of locking your iPad to a desk or table to make it much more difficult for it to be stolen.

Design

Compared to some of the beautiful cases I’ve had the pleasure to review, the TechSafe Locking Case is very plain. But it looks and feels sturdy, and that’s what you want when you’re using the case and the included cable lock to keep your iPad 2 from walking away.

The case slides apart for easy installation of the iPad 2, with the top frame sliding off of the bottom frame. You drop the iPad 2 into the bottom piece, then slide the top frame back on. The result is a very solid case. On the back of the bottom piece are two rectangular bumps. These not only add an area to help you grip the iPad 2, but each has a small indentation that can be used to expose a fold-out stand. One of the stands props the iPad 2 up vertically in landscape orientation for watching movies, while the other is useful when typing on the iPad.

The lock is the niftiest part of the setup. Griffin’s TechSafe Cable Lock design makes it possible to secure laptops like the MacBook Air that don’t have a Kensington lock port. To do this, Griffin created a hardened steel “LockBlade” that slides into the small opening in the hinge area between the screen and keyboard of the MacBook Air. The included cable lock has a hook on it that fits into a hole in the steel LockBlade, securing the laptop to the cable and to a large, immovable piece of furniture.

On the Locking Case, the LockBlade slides into a slot on the case. That keeps the case from sliding open and connects it to the cable lock. It’s a smart way to reuse the Cable Lock technology on a different type of equipment, and it wouldn’t be out of the question for Griffin to even extend this to a Locking Case for iPhone 4/4S and iPod touch. In situations where you want to keep those items from walking away, a case like that could come in very handy.

Functionality

The TechSafe case is very well made. All of the pieces in this puzzle need to fit together perfectly, and the case slides onto and off of the iPad 2 easily. If you have another case that you love to use with your iPad 2, but you’d like to secure your iPad in a hotel or conference room while you’re eating dinner or partying with friends, just slip off the other case, slide the iPad 2 into the TechSafe, slide in the LockBlade, and clip on the combination lock.

The stands are very usable and well placed on the case, and I found the “bumps” on the back of the case to be perfect for getting a good grip while carrying the iPad 2 around.

Now, my one concern. Although this is a security case and it’s a pretty good one, it would take a determined thief with the right tools only a few seconds to get the iPad out. What tools? A small pocket tool like a Leatherman with a built-in saw would rip right through the plastic, making it a cinch to pull out the LockBlade and walk off with the iPad. However, in most situations a thief may overlook anything that has a lock attached to it simply because it takes time to work on it. This deterrence factor will probably help you more than the plastic than the case is made out of.

I do recommend that buyers look at one more piece of equipment that Griffin has developed to work with the cable lock and case — the $19.99 Locking Security Clamp can help you in those situations where you can’t find a suitable piece of furniture to lock your iPad to.

Conclusion

Griffin’s TechSafe case and the cable lock are the right product at the right time. For those who need a way to secure an iPad to a table or other piece of furniture, it’s a reasonably-priced solution and a heck of a lot less expensive than replacing an iPad.

Griffin TechSafe Locking Case + Cable Lock keeps your iPad 2 secure originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The iOS-based payment system, Square, is blowing up lately, just like we figured it would way back when. The company already handles up to US$2 billion in payments per year, according to the AP, and is used by 750,000 merchants. That “per year” is a little weird to say, especially considering the company has only been around for a little over a year. In short, Square’s experiencing phenomenal growth, and merchants everywhere are already depending on the company to see through billions of dollars in revenue. That’s pretty unprecedented, even in this crazy fast-moving world of iOS apps.

And that’s not all. Square is also lowering the barrier of entry to the program, allowing even new merchants to have their money deposited in the bank as quickly as possible. Previously, merchants had a limit of $1000 that could be processed per day, but those limits are apparently now gone for all merchants, so everyone who sends a payment through Square will get it as soon as the company can send it out.

That means we’ll see even more money going through the system. I’ve already used Square a few times with various merchants I’ve dealt with — early on, those were the folks at Macworld who were more than ready to depend on an iPhone-based processing system, but since then, I’ve seen it running everywhere from a local theater to a flea market merchant processing credit card payments. Square’s growth is really impressive, and if all the indications are true, it’s only beginning.

Square already processing $2 billion in payments originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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I spotted this great piece of graffiti art on the streets of Hollywood while heading home last night, and thought you TUAW readers would enjoy it. Unfortunately, I have no idea who actually put this up — there wasn’t any tag or signature on it, and it was just on a wall otherwise covered with various other pieces and posters.

But in a way, that made it even better — just one person’s anonymous sentiment that echoes what so many of us feel. And I can tell you that the excellent detail and stark spray of the whole thing (if you can’t tell, the whole picture was about eight feet tall, and really stood out on the corner) was pretty awesome to see. Thanks, LA artist, and thank you to the late great Steve Jobs as well.

Spotted in Los Angeles: Thank you, Steve originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The iPhone 4S hasn’t even launched yet, but it’s already the fastest-selling Apple product in history, at least if you go by the preorders. That doesn’t mean customers have abandoned Apple’s older phones, though. Analyst T. Michael Walkley of Canaccord Genuity did some digging, and after checking around the US carriers he found that sales of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS haven’t slowed down even in the face of the new iPhone 4S’s debut (hat tip to AppleInsider for their coverage of his analysis). In years past Apple has seen sales slumps in the quarter preceding the launch of new iPhone models, but even though the iPhone 4S launched later in the year than its predecessors, iPhone sales remained robust.

Walkley and other analysts have repeatedly found that old iPhones continually outsell new Android phones. Though it’s well over two years old now, the iPhone 3GS continues to be second only to the iPhone 4 in US sales. Even though it’s no longer a phone I’d recommend to new users, the 3GS is likely to remain popular given that it’s now available for free with a two-year contract.

iPhone 4 and 3GS still selling strong originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Since the iPhone 4S features the same A5 processor as the iPad 2, owners of Apple’s current-gen tablet have wondered if it’s possible that Siri, Apple’s new voice assistant, might be offered on the iPad 2. While my colleague Erica Sadun’s answer to that is “Don’t hold your breath,” I only agree with her up to a point: I don’t think there are any technical hurdles whatsoever to running Siri on an iPad 2, and the fact that the device doesn’t currently feature voice controls is meaningless. I think Siri will come to the iPad 2 eventually — certainly not right away, but possibly within the next six months.

Voice Control as it now exists on the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 doesn’t function on the iPad or iPad 2, but there’s a reason for that: the existing commands would be essentially useless on those devices. The pre-Siri version of Voice Control allows you to use voice commands to control music playback, dial phone numbers or initiate FaceTime calls, and ask the device for information about the current time or currently playing song. That’s about all Voice Control does. Those functions are all useful features on a device that spends much of its time in your pocket, but on an iPad they make very little sense.

On the other hand, Siri’s commands would be immensely useful on the iPad. The same things Apple showed off at the “Let’s talk iPhone” event, like setting up Reminders and Calendar events or looking up information on Wikipedia or Wolfram Alpha, would be very handy to have — so handy that I don’t see why Apple wouldn’t offer them. Apple has long been a company that designs products its own workers want to use, and it’s hard to imagine that no one in Cupertino has thought about how Siri could vastly expand the power and capability of the iPad 2.

Since the iPad 2 has both a microphone and the same A5 as the iPhone 4S, there shouldn’t be any technical reason why Siri wouldn’t function well on that device. Some have speculated that the iPhone 4S has 1 GB of RAM to the iPad 2’s 512 MB (a claim that will have to wait for an iFixit teardown before it can be proven or disproven), but my TUAW colleagues don’t believe that Siri’s functions should be so RAM-intensive that they require such massive amounts of memory.

In fact, we’ve done some digging into Siri and found that most of the actual work of understanding voice commands gets offloaded to external servers. In essence, the iPhone 4S and its built-in processing functions determine what you said, while Apple’s servers translate that into what you meant and send that information back to your iPhone. The pre-processing that takes place on the device itself may be too taxing for an A4 processor, but the iPad 2’s A5 should theoretically be able to handle it just fine. Perhaps even better — Apple has a habit of underclocking CPUs for the iPhone in the interest of power management, so the iPad 2’s A5 is likely to outperform that of the iPhone 4S for many functions.

The fact that Apple hasn’t yet said one way or another whether Siri will come to devices other than the iPhone 4S also doesn’t mean much. The iPhone 4, 3GS, and newer iPod touch models had an exclusive on multitasking for almost exactly six months before iOS 4.2 debuted and brought that feature to the iPad, and the same thing may end up being true for Siri.

Here’s what I think is the most likely scenario: Siri will remain an iPhone 4S exclusive at least until the third tier of international rollouts completes in December. In fact, Apple will probably wait until after the end of the holiday quarter and bring Siri to the iPad 2 in the first quarter of 2012. Not only will this give market incentive for people to buy the iPhone 4S by having Siri as a device-exclusive feature during the holiday period, it’ll also give Apple’s servers and Siri’s algorithms time to adjust and scale to the number of inquiries it’ll receive.

Once Siri’s beta period ends and international rollouts for the iPhone 4S are reasonably complete, that’s the perfect time to bring Siri to the iPad 2 in a dot-update to iOS 5. By that time Siri and its supporting infrastructure will be more mature and able to handle the extra load of adding support for one more device type, and it should also help alleviate the typical post-holiday quarter sales slump.

As for the other devices in Apple’s iOS stable, like the iPod touch, iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS, I don’t expect them to ever see support for Siri. Siri’s developers have already confirmed that many compromises were required to get the service running on the iPhone 3GS, and it’s probably the same story for iOS devices with an A4 processor. The 2012 model iPod touch will likely be updated to an A5 processor, however, so we might see Siri support for next year’s iPod touch.

For the time being, Siri remains an iPhone 4S exclusive and one we have yet to test for ourselves. We look forward to putting this innovative feature under our interrogation lights once the iPhone 4S is released on October 14.

Why Siri should (and probably will) come to iPad 2 originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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