SmokeCast India #SCI300908: The App Store, MobileMe, and the “brick”

by Aayush Arya
Wednesday October 1, 2008

SmokeCast India #SCI300908: The App Store, MobileMe, and the “brick”

by Aayush Arya on October 1, 2008

Editor-in-Chief Aayush Arya and Lead Author Milind Alvares discuss various issues about the App Store, and MobileMe, opine on the “Brick” rumours, and dish out some recommendations about iPhone apps. There are also a couple of surprises for listeners.

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Show Notes

These are the links to the applications we mention on the show. Clicking on any of them will open iTunes and take you to the appropriate page on the iTunes Store.

Subscription Options

You can either use any of the links given above to play the podcast or download it to your computer. Or, better yet, you can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes and whenever we release a new episode, it will be downloaded to your library automatically. Alternatively, you can subscribe to the RSS feed.

Reader Comments

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Reader Comments

zahadum October 2, 2008 at 2:36 am: you need to figure out a way to make your podcasts directly accesible via the iTunes app on the iPhone/itouch!

it is strange that apple allows the itunes app to work inside the store OTA (over the air) but not via a URL that points into the store from the outside (eg on mobile safari).

it would be interesting for you to try and get a clear explanation from apple about why they create this blockage!
Dave October 2, 2008 at 3:52 am: Great job with the podcast guys. I was hesitant at first downloading an Indian podcast (bangalore call centres have got me vary), but you guys speak clearly.

A little advice though. I can sense you guys are funny by the few jokes here and there, but you need to be a little more loose, so to speak. Don’t drift away from the topic (interesting by the way), but don’t be too serious.

Subscribed, and looking forward to the next one.
krazzy October 2, 2008 at 11:33 am thekrazzyblog.blogspot.com: I am not able to download the podcast. Every time the download starts it ends halfway through. At first I thought it was problem with my net but other downloads are working fine. Anyone else has this problem?
Kiki's friend October 3, 2008 at 3:51 am: Thank you for the podcasts. I found it very informative on so many levels. Please continue. Note: when I download the file so I could put it on iTunes, I had to delete the “.mp3” part of the file and just leave it at “m4a” in order to listen to podcast. Aayush and Miland please fix.
Milind Alvares October 3, 2008 at 4:04 am goobimama.blogspot.com: Thanks for the feedback Kiki’s friend. As for your concerns, the podcast is already in m4a. Your browser (Safari?) might be adding that extension to it on its own. On the other hand, why don’t you just subscribe to our podcast feed from the iTunes store?

The link to the podcast in the Store is in the last paragraph of this post. That way you don’t have to worry about when a new podcast is released, and it will resume from playback where you left off.
Milind Alvares October 3, 2008 at 4:19 am goobimama.blogspot.com: @krazzy: I will look into that problem and get back to you.
krazzy October 4, 2008 at 12:26 pm thekrazzyblog.blogspot.com: @Milind Don’t bother. I managed to download it.
Natasha October 21, 2008 at 7:44 pm morgainesrealm.blogspot.com: Much better than the first, where it had kinda sounded like a random group discussion. Had thought i was listening to the wrong audio clip ‘coz it was suddenly serious when this ep started.. [have just listened to both eps in succession]
I like the mini-diversions and the flow, though @Dave was right about u’ll loosening up a teeny bit more, which did kinda happen as the ep progressed.
Will re-listen/see at home for the pics preshit had mentioned
p.s.: got any plans on getting your own theme music..?