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  Apple car in 2019?
    The Wall Street Journal claims people familiar with Apple’s rumored "Project Titan" car project are saying the company is trying to have a vehicle ready by 2019
    For a while now we’ve been hearing that Apple is staffing up and hiring heavy hitters from and around the automotive industry
      A big recent focus has been experts in connected and autonomous vehicle systems.
      The current headcount is rumored to be around 600, but could be tippled soon.
    AppleInsider thinks the project is run under a shell company called "SixtyEight Research" from a facility in Sunnyvale, CA called "SG5".
    Rumors on sites
      A few sites Apple owns have been cited as possible R&D or manufacturing locations
      Apple reportedly paid $138 million for a 43-acre site in San Jose
    Speculation on Apple’s car project has run the gamut
      From in-vehicle systems to a full autonomous vehicle
      The 2019 Apple car, if reality, is speculated to be an electric car possibly with advanced assisted driver features, but not fully autonomous.
  iFixit teardown and takedown
    Lucky for us iFixit took a part a new Apple TV and Siri Remote
      A dual-core, 64-bit Apple A8 chip with 2GB RAM
      A larger heat sink and redesigned power supply
      Remote has a ARM Cortex-M3 MCU and the same Broadcom touch screen controller used in the iPhone 5s/5c and iPad Air
      Repairability score of 8 out of 10
    Unlucky for them Apple wasn’t as impressed
      They pulled their developer license
      The app still seems to work for now, but iFixit said it needed an iOS 9 update anyway.
      They are working on a mobile site and open sourced the code for their App in case someone else wants to build one.
    They also tore down the iPhone 6s
      only a few internal changes and parts additions
      2GB of RAM
      Smaller 1,715 mAh battery
      Room needed for new Taptic Engine.
      X-ray video of Taptic Engine in action
      Apple is dual sourcing chips. 14nm Samsung (96mm) and 16nm TSMC (104.5mm)
        Does it matter which you have? It’s unclear at this point
        In theory the Samsung one could be slightly more energy efficient, but how much?
      7 out of 10 on the iFixit repair scale
    iPhone water resistance
      Seems to be improved
      Survived an hour in a "bowl of water" test.
      Looks like a new 'gasket' like seal around the screen and new silicone seals to cable connectors are helping
    A9 has Geekbench scores 50 percent faster in multicore operations and almost 60 percent faster in single core tasks.
      Anandtech did some early benchmarks and found the faster NAND and GPU help a lot too
      In web, graphics, and many storage tests the iPhone is fastest. In some almost matching the performance of the Surface Pro 3 (4th Gen Intel i3 @ 1.5 GHz).
      That means, apps launch faster and load and render data faster.
    Component cost estimated at USD$211.50 and USD$236 for the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus respectively (IHS TEchnology)
      3D Touch display most expensive component at $52.50. Then A9 at around $22
  iPhone sales broke records
    Apple said they sold more than 13 million over the opening weekend.
    That beat the previous opening weekend record of 10 million from last year.
    Apple did add China this year as a launch day country which likely helped.
    Also, this year there were two weeks between the start of preorders and in-store availability compared to just one for last year.
    Still an impressive number.
    They also announced they will be rolling out sales to 40 additional countries and territories on October 9th and 10th and they are targeting 130 countries by the end of the year.
    Availability seems to be good at most locations.
      Rose Gold and iPhone 6S Plus’ seem to be the harder models to get.
    This week China also got Apple Music, iTunes Movies, and iBooks
      Apple Music with "millions" of songs and featuring Chinese artists
      Apple Music 90 day free trail, but just 10 CNY (yuan) or USD$1.57/mo.
      Movies: 5 CNY, or just $0.79 (rental) and 18 CNY (USD$2.83) purchase
      iBooks: Start at 0.5 CNY or USD $0.08
    iOS 9.0.1 and 9.0.2 updates
      Addressing an issue where some users could not complete setup assistant after updating
      Resolves an issue that prevented iMessage activation for some users
      Fixes an issue where the screen could incorrectly rotate when receiving notifications
      Improves the stability of Podcasts
      Bug fixes and performance improvements
  Apple acquisitions and expansions
    Apple has purchased nearly 200 acres of land in Prineville, Oregon adjacent to
      They haven’t confirmed plans, but it’s likely to expand their data center there
      The new plot is even larger than the original which was 159 acres
    Apple has reportedly signed a lease for a 770,000-square-foot campus to be built in Sunnyvale, Calif
      Six story with lots of glass all around. Designed to support up to 3,000 employees.
      Being called an second "spaceship" by the media
      Images look more like a 3-leaf clover design, but still an open central quad and rooftop gardens.
    The Financial Times says Apple has purchased VocalIQ, a United Kingdom startup with a natural language API that allows people speak to computers with a more natural dialog.
      VocalIQ says it’s technology also has the ability to "learn" using machine learning technology.
      VocalIQ has criticized Siri in a past blog post, calling the virtual assistant a "toy" unable to understand context.
      The company seemed to have a particular interest in voice control within automobiles, so this acquisition could be a two for one benefit with Siri and the "Titan" car project.
  tvOS Search API
    It was wondered about and speculated, but Tim Cook confirmed to Buzzfeed that Yes Virginia there is an tvOS Search API
    Universal search will work with iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and Showtime only at launch.
    Cook said. “But we’re also opening an API, so that others can join in.”
    He also said search will know which services your subscribed to and highlight stuff that is available for free or via your existing subscriptions.
    This is good news.
Feedback, commentary, opinions
  Upgrading to El Capitan
    It’s out and I know we talked about how to do a clean install, but most people won’t need to do that.
      I plan to do a clean install, but only because my hard drive has become riddled with old junk.
      My home Library folder is over 125GBs
    So what about just cleaning and getting ready to upgrade?
    Should you upgrade?
      Generally so far it seems like things are going smoothly, but there’s bound to be missed bugs and issues
      If you don’t mind or don’t use your Mac for mission critical daily tasks. OK.
        I’m holding off for a bit with my main Mac, but I have a secondary Macbook Air that I’ll test things out on first
      Use Roaring Apps to check compatibility
    Clean up a bit first
      Check you main hard drive with Disk Utility and run a quick repair permissions for good measure
      Clean out old documents, emails, photos, etc.
      Use a tool like Clean My Mac (sponsor) to help identify old stuff. You can also use Daisy Disk large files.
        Also Cocktail or Onyx
    Backup, Backup, backup.
    Turn off 3rd party whole disk encryption or File Vault (if you’re upgrading from Snow Leopard). File Vault 2 is fine.
  My thoughts on the new iPhone
    Size
    Battery life
    TouchID
    3D Touch
    Live Photos
      Tap the icon to turn on or off.
      low frame rate (~12 FPS)
      JPG + MOV file (960x720)
      Wait a two count after taking the picture and before moving you phone
      Can be viewed on other iOS 9 devices with a long touch.
        Potential privacy issue if you send out Live Photos
      Imported in Image Capture in OS X Yosemite as a separate JPG and MOV file, only image in Photos. In El Capitan it’s a single file, but you double click to play the video part.
  iPhone 6s and 6s Plus tricks
    3D Touch
      Adjust the sensitivity. Settings > General > Accessibility > 3D Touch
      3D Touch keyboard to use as a trackpad
      If you don’t see an updated apps Quick Actions. Open the app first.
    Wi-Fi calling
      Settings > Phone. Tap Wi-Fi Calling
      Not supported by all carriers. AT&T is waiting for an exemption.
    Need to turn on 4K video
      Settings > Photos & Camera. Tap Record Video (near bottom). Tap 4K HD at 30 fps.
      Just be aware, 300-400 MB of storage per minute of video. 10 mins ~4GB
    Toggle "live" versions of photos
      Select the image from your camera roll or in the Photo app
      Tap Edit
      You’ll see the Live Photo icon in the editing controls. Toggle it off and tap Done.
      You can turn it back on later using the same steps.
    Some have noticed a display issue after upgrading from an iPhone 5/5s/5c
      They get a permanently zoomed-in view in Wallet and some other apps
      Reportedly fixed in iOS 9.1 beta 3
      Turning Display Zoom in Settings > Display & Brightness > Zoomed and then relaunching the effected app seems to resolve the issue (at least temporarily). An you can then turn off Display Zoom.
  Watch OS 2
    Watchfaces. Photos, Photo Albums, Live Photos, and Timelapses. Big bummer, no complications.
    3rd party complications
      App needs to be installed and managed in the Watch App
      Alphabetical order, names can get confusing.
    Time Travel, interesting and useful.
    Nightstand
      Must be connected to charger
      Press the button so see.
      Alarm, Digital Crown (snooze), Side Button (off)
    Reply to Mail using dictation.
    More than 12 Friends, set up in App. Can have Groups.
    Multicolor sketches and new animated emoji
    Support for Transit
    Music App
      Shortcuts for starting Beats 1 radio, My Music, Playlists, and viewing the Now Playing screen
      Quick Play button. Shuffled music from your library (w/o Apple Music) or a randomly selected playlist or artist collection (Apple Music)
    Cloud icon on WiFi
    A lot more Siri
      Suppport for Apple Music and HomeKit
      Auto sends texts
      Keeps processing even if you drop your wrist
      Can start workouts
      Open apps
      Get definitions, do calculations.
  Excitement for iPad Pro
    Play comments from Cesar
    Not sure if you’ll be able to use it paired with a Mac like an Intous
      Since the apps are on the device you’ll just interact directly
      That said, not sure there would be any reason Adobe or another App developer couldn’t use the technology to do a "second screen" type of application.
    The folks at Pixar got some hands on time with the iPad Pro and sent out some tweets
      In short they were impressed and I think they’d be hard to impress.
      Palm rejection is near perfect.
      Shading with the side of the Pencil worked great.
  Did USB tethering break for you?
    Nick wrote to let me know that since the release of iTunes 12.3 he and others are having trouble using iPhone tethering via USB
      Both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi tethering continue to work fine.
      Only impacts using the iPhone when directly connected to the Mac via the Lightning cable
    There is a Apple Discussion Thread that details the problem and offers a "fix"
      Apparently those in the thread believe the issue is the AppleUSBEthernetHost.kext file which is found at '/System/Library/Extensions/'
      It appears that Apple might have forgot to code sign it, which violates security, so it won’t load.
    The "fix" is to use Time Machine, or another old backup, to go back and get a version of the KTEXT from before the iTunes 12.3 update
      About a month ago, the one with timestamp Jan 09 2015
      The one that is from Sept 18 2015 is the unsigned one.
    There is another "fix" that involves changing the boot args to put ktext in DEV mode.
      DO NOT do this.
      It will disable security for all KTEXT and lets ANY unsigned ktext run. BAD.
    If you don’t use the feature I wouldn’t bother. I also don’t know if OS X El Capitan fixes the issue or not.
  Backup up network volumes
    Play question from Mike about backing up the Transporter Library.
    One method is to get another Transporter
    I tested using my favorite archiving and selective backup tool, ChronoSync
      I was able to select the alias of the Transporter Library folder and backup it’s contents to my direct connected Drobo or USB drive
      Did warn that I should turn off 'Preserve extended attributes'. Controls extended attributes on filesystems that support them.
      But seemed to work for the JPG and iTunes movie files I tested. The .M4V seemed to lose their custom icons, but still were able to be recovered and played.
      Certainly worth shot and better than no backup.
    Speaking of "other" backup.
      Beyond Time Machine, clones, and off-site.
      ChronoSync is great because you can set up and schedule "selective" backups.
      You can also backup network "connected" volumes and if the volume is another Mac (my Mac Mini) they have companion app called ChronoAgent.
      I use it for
        Backing up critical local files to my Drobo
        Photos, Movies, iTunes Media, Maccast, Client Folders, Sites
        One of my favorite features is to not synchronize deletions
    Backing up email
      I also have a secondary backup and archive for email.
      Many of you just keep it all in GMail or on the IMAP server. But that storage can fill up fast. I’ve seen people with 20GB, 50GB or more of email going back decades.
      Hard to search, not local, slows down your email clients.
      That’s where Mail Steward come in for me.
      Set it up to scan my Mailboxes and create an indexed archive into a MySQL database that’s stored locally.
      You choose what mbox’s to store. I don’t archive trash or spam folders for example.
      Can choose to also store attachments or not.
      UI for accessing and searching.
      Export to MBOX files that can be re-imported into Mail.
      I use the "Standard" edition which is a MySQL Lite DB (file) that gets backed up by TM, Super Duper, and CrashPlan
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