Innocent bystanders might not know about this, but we produce our own little podcast in available for download in iTunes. Of course, we don’t record as many episodes to call it a regular podcast; choosing to stay close to major events and such. But we figured there’s news every week. Always something to discuss, talk about, and jabber.
So we’re taking a new turn. The Smoking Apples podcast is gonna be a weekly affair. Till we get settled in, it’ll be your favourite Mac people from India: Aayush, Preshit, and Me. This time round we discuss the iPhone 3GS’ status—or lack thereof—in India, the recent ‘music’ announcements, and Snow Leopard. You can hit the download button to have the 20MB chaptered AAC file trickle down to your downloads folder, or just subscribe in iTunes which is the better thing to do.
Oh, and feedback.
Show Notes:
New York Times’ David Pogue interviews Steve Jobs after the September event.
Ankur’s experiences with 3G in India
Verizon Mifi card review by David Pogue
Prices for iPods in India (All MRPs. Availability 2 Weeks):
iPod shuffle with new colors: Rs. 3700 and Rs. 4800 for 2GB and 4GB respectively.
iPod nano: Rs.9,400 for the 8GB model and Rs. 11,200 for the 16GB.
iPod touch prices for Indian market: 8GB – Rs.12,400, New 32GB – Rs.18,400 and new 64GB – Rs.24,400
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Great to see SA back on SmokeCast wagon. About iPhone 3GS delay, as much as I want to believe the delay is due to shortage of units, let me put you through a couple of numbers. Foxconn reportedly can manufacture 800,000 units a week, so that translates to 3.2m iPhones a month at peak production capacity. In the last quarter, that witnessed iPhone 3GS launch, Apple managed to sell 5.2m iPhones. Going by the numbers, shortage of units seems unlikely.
Maybe Apple wanted to make iPhone 3GS unlock-proof and waited till 3.1? Just a weird thought!
800,000 ‘reportedly’ is fine by me, and they did get the iPhone 3G here. But there are always production issues, shortage of parts, so Apple would rather sell available iPhones in the US rather than ‘waste’ them in India, Argentina and the like.
3GS on OS 3.1 is not unlock proof, is it?
Dev team sez:
It does seem a bit far-fetched to assume production issues haven’t been sorted out even 3 months after the launch, but you never know.
OS 3.1 with the new baseband is unlock-proof as of now but existing iPhone 3G/3GS users with OS 3.0 would be able to upgrade to 3.1 keeping the older vulnerable baseband.
So all new iPhone 3GS with OS 3.1 should be unlock-proof for quite some time, maybe forever!
So if and when the 30-odd countries get the iPhone 3GS it probably would not be unlockable, a condition that ‘might’ have been enforced by carriers in these countries after analysing iPhone 3G usage data. I guess there was a report on iPhone 3G being unsuccessful(for the carriers) in a whole lot of countries.
Great to have the Podcast back fellas. When will iTunes subscription be updated?
There it is, didn’t see it on iTunes page but it started DL right away.
Guys, please let us know what you’d like to see improved on the podcast.
I’m also waiting here to get my hands on iPhone 3GS. It’s pretty unfair that Apple is just concentrating on US market and not caring about their fans living in other countries. I hope they will launch it at the end of September.
Regarding the SA podcast, it was good. Don’t make too many changes in your podcast style or else it’ll sound like an artificial and awkward chat. Keep it up!