iPhone / iPod

• At Google's I/O conference this week, the search (and everything else, really) giant announced a few important things of relevance to iOS users:
  • A new and improved version of the Google Maps app is coming to the iOS, now with support for iPad.
  • A new streaming music service to compete with Spotify, Rdio, MOG, and other companies. Called Google Play Music All Access (catchy name), the service will cost $9.99/month.
• One thing Google didn't announce--and why would they?--was that a new study shows that over 90% of all malware (viruses, etc.) on mobile devices infect Android. The percentage for iOS? Zero.
• The U.S. Department of Justice's price-fixing suit against Apple for its eBook pricing practices popped up a few notable items this week:
  • The DOJ produced an email from Steve Jobs that it says implies that Apple wanted to drive the price of eBooks up.
  • Apple responded by saying that publishers had already agreed to fix prices at higher levels before it got involved.

Music

Single of the Week
All You're Waiting For, by Classixx
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TV

Episode 1 (Original UK Version), from Downton Abbey, Season 1
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The Cast Look Back, from The Office, Season 9
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The Scripture of Nature (1851-1890), from Ken Burns: The National Parks
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The Seminar, from The Office: Season 7
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True Blood: The Authority. The First. The Last. The Eternal, from True Blood, Season 5
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Episode 1, from Daniel Deronda
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Extended Sneak Peek, from North America, Season 1
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Season 1: Extended Sneak Peek, from Graceland, Season 1
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The Last Enemy: Episode 1, from The Last Enemy
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Tegan and Sara: Guest Music Supervisors for MTV's Awkward, from Awkward, Season 3
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Apps

Asphalt Heat
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Running with Friends
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What's the Saying?
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Beat the Boss 2
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What's My IQ?
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Say the Same Thing
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Story
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Zitrr Camera
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I Am MT: Card Battle
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Mini Empires Plus
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Books

Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness #1, by Mike Johnson and David Messina
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Tales of Terror and Mystery, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Deliver Me, by Farrah Rochon
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The Ultimate Guide to Pushups, by David Nordmark
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iCloud Mini Guide, by Macworld Editors
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The Keeping, by Nicky Charles
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Be Sarcastic, by Darrel Miller
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Touched, by AJ Aalto
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New and substantially updated content added to the site recently includes:

App Reviews

• Todoist To Do App Review
• Triage Email App Review
• 9 Great iPhone To Do Apps (update)

iTunes 11

• How to Sync Apps to iPod touch (update)
• How to Use iTunes Match (update)
• Using Sound Check with iTunes (update)
• Browsing Content at the iTunes Store (update)
• How to Sync iPhone to Computer (update)
• How to Setup iCloud & Use iCloud Backup (update)
• How To Install iTunes on a Mac (update)

Misc.

• T-Mobile iPhone FAQ (update)
• iPod touch GPS Options (update)
• What Printers Are AirPrint Compatible? (update)
• My iPod or iPhone Is Disabled. Why, and How Do I Fix It? (update)

Not a lot of news while we await the fall's new products, but a few notes of interest:

• iOS 7 is coming soon and it's showing up in web server logs
• The new OS will be running on new iPhones, of course. One report has the screens for those phones going into production in June, with another saying the entire phones will start manufacturing in June/July. Sounds like a late summer/early fall launch timeframe for these models.
• On the iPhone carrier front, T-Mobile (whose entry into the iPhone game I detailed a few weeks ago) has already sold over half a million iPhones and saw its first subscriber growth since 2009 as a result of the iPhone. Also, U.S. Cellular, the 6th largest wireless phone company in the U.S., will be offering the iPhone later this year.

Music

Single of the Week
High Heel Leather Boots, by Baby Bee
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TV

Pilot, from The New Normal, Season 1
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Rites of Passage, from Vikings, Season 1
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The Cast Looks Back, from The Office, Season 9
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True Blood: Season 4 Recap, from True Blood, Season 5
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The Office: An American Workplace (Pilot), from The Office, Season 1
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Behind the Scenes, from North America, Season 1
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Collision, pt 1, from Collision
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The People, from Ken Burns: The West
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Graceland/Burn Notice: Sneak Peeks, from Graceland, Season 1
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Apps

Jamm
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FallDown! 2
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Dots: A Game About Connecting
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Hardest Game Ever 2
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Moldiv - Collage Photo Editor
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HT Professional Recorder
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Fruit Mania
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Emoji>
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CamStar
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Pic Stitch
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Books

Always You, by Kristy Moseley
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A Beautiful Struggle, by Lilliana Anderson
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Tongue Twisters for Kids, by Riley Weber
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The Gods of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Superman #1, by John Byrne
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Top Shelf Kids Club 2012
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Podcasts

Grantland Pop Culture
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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
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Real Time with Bill Maher
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Hardwell on Air
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Norm Macdonald Live
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NPR: How to Do Everything Podcast
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• There's been a lot of action recently at the low-price end of the cell phone market when it comes to the iPhone. For one, T-Mobile (a very recent iPhone addition) and MetroPCS have merged. No word yet on when a MetroPCS-compatible iPhone will debut, if at all. For another, there are rumors that the iPhone may be coming to Boost Mobile this year.
• When iOS 7 debuts later this year (which should still happen on schedule, despite reports to the contrary), expect to see major changes to the look and feel of the OS. Since the firing of Scott Forstall, rumor has it that the Jony Ive-led design team is undoing all of those interfaces designed to look like real-life objects (the gaming table in GameCenter, the leather in Address Book, etc.) and replacing them with more modern, forward-looking alternatives. If so, I can't wait.
• Apple today release iOS 6.1.4 for the iPhone 5. It's free and available through iTunes or your iPhone. The update reportedly just adds a tweak to the speakerphone (though weird to issue an update just for that, no?).
• Path, the app maker who has been slapped down for grabbing users' data and taking it for themselves without permission, seems to be at it again.
• The New York Times says Apple should be doing more to prevent the theft of iOS devices. Based on all the comments I get from users who have had their phones stolen, perhaps they're right.

Music

Single of the Week
Monedita, by La Santa Cecilia
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Free Song
Lost and Found, by Tessa Rose Jackson
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Free Song
Youth, by Daughter
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TV

Dwight Schrute: A Hero for Our Times, from The Office: Dwight Schrute's Ultimate Episode Collection
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Office Romance: Jim and Pam, from The Office: Jim and Pam's Jam Pack
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The Lawless, from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Season 5
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Episode One (Unedited UK Version), from Any Human Heart
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June 1842, from Crawford, Season 1
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Gumbo (Beginnings to 1917), from Ken Burns: Jazz
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Apps

Bee Leader
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Robot Unicorn Attack 2
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Draw Something 2
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Iron Man 2: The Official Game
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Face Swap!
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What's the Movie?
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Grumpy Bears
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Books

Surf's Up, SpongeBob!
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Invisible, by Cecily Anne Paterson
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Beneath the Cracks, by LS Sygnet
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Red, Green, or Murder, by Steven F. Havill
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Eternal Vows, by Chrissy Peebles
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Return to You, by Kate Perry
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The Misbehaving Marquess, by Leigh LaValle
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• Apple announced its financial results for its second fiscal quarter this week. The highlights of the announcement:
  • 37.4 million iPhones, 19.5 million iPads, 5.6 million iPods were sold in the quarter. The first two numbers were up over the second quarter of 2012, though the iPod number was down. The sales graph on the iPod has been pointing steadily downward for quite a while. That product line is drying up.
  • Revenue for the quarter was US$43.6 billion, with $9.5 billion in profit.
  • The iTunes Store generated $4.1 billion in revenue in the quarter. This is also the 10th anniversary of iTunes, and Apple has posted a neat history of iTunes here.
• CEO Tim Cook had a couple of interesting things to say about the products that are coming down the line:
  • The new products (think iPhone 5S and iPad 5th gen.) are coming in the fall and big surprise products in the fall and through 2014. To me, that likely means the HDTV, the iWatch, and maybe some other unknown products.
  • Cook also said that, despite the rumors that the next iPhone will have a bigger screen, there will only be a large-screen iPhone when there won't be trade-offs in doing it.

Music

Single of the Week
Recovery, by Frank Turner
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TV

Episode 1 (Original UK Version), from Downton Abbey, Season 1
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Chapter 1: The Boy in the Iceberg, from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Season 1
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Rise of the Turtles, Pt. 1, from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vol. 1
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First Day of School, from One Life to Live
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All My Children: First Look, from All My Children
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Sneak Peek, from Zack Stone Is Gonna Be Famous
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Season 14: Sneak Peek, from MythBusters, Season 14
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Wally Buys a Car, from The Best of Leave It to Beaver, Vol. 5
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Meet the Family, from The Show with Vinny
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Necessary War: Dec. 1941-Dec. 1942, from Ken Burns: The War
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Apps

Take It Easy
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Wedding Day Makeover
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Twitter #music
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FX Photo Studio
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Keek
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Yahoo Weather!
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Wordy
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Bookworm Heroes
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Books

Tuesday's Child, by Dale Mayer
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Bates Motel on A&E: Jiao's Story
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Water, by Terra Harmony
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The Survivors, by Angela White
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The Job Offer,by Eleanor Webb
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Mylo Xyloto #1: Color is Crime, by Coldplay and Mark Osborne
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The most interesting news items of the week (and news is slow right now. This is a dead period before the next generation of Apple products, it seems) came in the form of numbers:

• 80/20 - That's the revenue that Major League Baseball sees from iPhone users vs Android users for its online subscriptions to watch games. While site traffic is about 70/30 in favor of iPhone, an MLB official recently said the profit split is higher, maybe even as high as 85/15. Which shows that while Android's marketshare is inching up, it's still true that most Android users don't use the full extent of their devices' capabilities and that Android users don't want to pay for content.
• 63% - The marketshare in digital music held by iTunes, according to a new report.
• 12 - The number of megapixels that the camera for the next-generation iPhone is rumored to have. The camera will have other quality improvements, too.
• 4 out of 5 - Out of the 5 most highly paid employees at companies in the S&P 500, 4 of them work at Apple.
• 2.6 - The iTunes Store generates 2.6 times more revenue than Google's competing content store, Play, according to a new study.