Rene and Georgia are joined by Marc Edwards of Bjango to talk September 12 event rumors, a new new iPad, 16:9 repercussions, Apple ditching YouTube, and console quality graphics. This is the iMore show!

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September 12 and iPhone 5

• Apple to roll new Dock connector out across entire iOS product lineup this fall
• iPhone 5 preview: 4G LTE networking

iOS 6

• iOS 6 is scalable to 640 x 1136, possibly the dimensions of the next gen iPhone
• iOS 6 beta 4 removes YouTube app from iPhone, iPad -- and that could be a good thing
• Which missing features do you most want Apple to add to iOS?

Misc

• Apple and Amazon respond to account security concerns
• Real Racing 3 set to bring console like visuals to your iPhone and iPad

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• Georgia (GeorgiaTiPb
• Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie)

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• Marc Edwards (@marcedwards) of Bjango

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If you have been patiently waiting for a jailbreak to be released for the third generation Apple TV (1080p) then you are going to be in for a huge disappointment. According to iOS jailbreaker pod2g, he is not working on a jailbreak for the Apple TV 3 and he is not aware of anyone else who is either.

ATV3 jailbreak: I have no news sadly, I'm not currently working on it nor anyone that I'm aware of. Sorry...

The third generation Apple TV was released way back in March of this year and has yet to see any development on the jailbreak front. The second generation Apple TV has been jailbroken now on all iOS software versions, and is a hugely capable media center once Apple's restrictions have been bypassed. You can then run XBMC and other media management apps which will let you access media stored on file servers and play media types not supported by Apple.

The lack of any progress with a jailbreak for the Apple TV 3 will make the used market for Apple TV 2's go into overdrive; due to the huge interest in jailbreaking the device. I sold my second generation Apple TV a few months back and it sold for nearly double the amount that I paid for it. If you aren't interested in jailbreaking your second gen Apple TV, now may be the time to cash in on it and get the third generation model and have money left over. If you do decide to upgrade in this way, you can look forward to some 1080p content and some spare cash too.

Have you been waiting patiently for an Apple TV 3 jailbreak? If you have, are you going to look at different alternatives now that it looks like you may have to wait a whole lot longer?

Source: @pod2g

For the last few years, industry pundits have been reporting on the surprising gap between Apple's share of shipments compared to its share of profits. Investors care more about profits than market share.

On Monday of this week, John Paczkowski of AllThingsD wrote another one of these stories, quoting a report from analyst Tavis McCourt of Raymond James. Tavis is a sell-side analyst, and we've met many times at various trade shows and analyst events. I think he's a smart guy, so I am happy to pay attention to stuff that he writes.

Here is a snippet of Paczkowski's story:

Though it shipped only about 6 percent of the industry's smartphones and tablets in the second quarter, Apple captured about 43 percent of the industry's revenue, according to Raymond James analyst Tavis McCourt. And it generated an astonishing 77 percent of the industry's operating profits. This, even in a seasonally weak period for iPhone sales.

When I saw this, I knew something was amiss. There is no way Apple has only 6% of the industry's smartphone and tablet volume. No disrespect to the author intended, but my guess is AllThingsD misquoted McCourt's research report, or is mixing and matching smartphone and overall phone share numbers (but I'm guessing here, having not seen the full report).

Smartphone and tablet market share numbers

So what are the real numbers? The most recent quarter to have ended is Q2 of calendar 2012. Let's have a look at some of what the industry analysts have published, shall we?

First up is the smartphone segment. Data from Canalys shows that 158 million smartphones were shipped in Q2. Over 100 million of these were Android phones, and Apple shipped about 26 million phones, for a market share of 16.4%

Oh, and just in case you don't trust the Canalys report, IDC issued a press release that says Apple's smartphone market share stands at 16.9% for the same period. Pretty close to Canalys' estimate.

It is really interesting to see that Android controls about 2/3 of the smartphone market, and I'll come back to this in a moment.

But next up, let's look at the tablet market. Again, we turn to IDC for a nice summary of Q2 tablet sales. In the tablet market, Apple still dominates with a whopping 68.2% global market share. But that's on a base of only 25 million units (versus 158 million smartphones). Still, it pushes up Apple's aggregate tablet + smartphone market share to about 23%, which is significantly higher than 6%.

Why Apple earns 77% of the profit

Now let's get back to the key question:

How does Apple earn more than 3-fold the percentage of industry profits than it has in market share?

According to the Raymond James report, Apple has 77% EBIT share, which is accounting speak for "operating profits". It stands for "earnings before interest and taxes", if you care.

77% of profits with only 23% of shipments? Is this crazy talk? No. I don't think it's crazy at all.

That said, I will say that the Raymond James analyst had to make his best guess on many pieces of non-public information. Specifically, a lot of Android volume comes from domestic Chinese vendors. Canalys estimates that 27% of smartphone shipments go to Chinese buyers. In China, the top 4 smartphone vendors are Samsung, ZTE, Lenovo and Huawei. Keep in mind that none of these companies break down their profitability in smartphones. Hence the (educated) guesswork by any analyst trying to report on this.

Notice another trend among smartphone vendors in China? It's called Android. Apple is growing in China. It's just that Android is growing faster. And this massive growth of Android in China is a perfect example of why Apple's profits are disproportionately higher than its global market share.

It's all about pricing power.

Apple's average selling price for the iPhone is above $600. The off-contract price starts at $649. Compare that to the newer, and certainly more expensive-to-manufacture Samsung Galaxy S3 varies by carrier by AT&T starts at $549 and Verizon at $599.

Apple dominates at the high end of the market. And even without the highest-end phone around, they make more money per phone than Samsung.

But the big Android volumes are not coming from high end devices. Much of it comes from low cost phones made by Samsung and other leading OEMs (original equipment manufacturers).

Apple controls its entire platform. And for those who enjoy Apple's walled-garden ways, it makes for a simple and beautiful user experience. Apple excels at selling more expensive products by making them useful, simple, and gorgeous. Android vendors tweak the UI, but largely compete on hardware. It's more of a commodity fight.

Some studies show that Android market share has peaked in the US market. Yet it continues to explode in low cost markets such as China and India. This suggests Apple's disproportionate share of profits will continue.

But there's another interesting point to consider. Let's look back to China. Right now Apple is the #5 smartphone vendor in the country. But what about for tablets? Digitimes recently reported on research firm Analysys International's study showing the iPad holds 72.7% market share for tablets in China.

Tablets are a much newer product than smartphones. They tend to be secondary devices as well. I'm guessing most folks who do not own a smartphone would rather buy one before considering a tablet. This makes tablets more suitable to richer people. Again, this plays to Apple's advantage.

In time, as smartphone adoption peaks, and as tablet prices continue to drop, I'm convinced Apple won't dominate quite so much on shipments. And they may not control nearly as high of a perctantage of the industry's total profits. But until Apple shifts away from selling into the high end of the market (if it ever happens), Apple will likely hang onto its disproportionate share of profits, relative to shipments.

For vendors who sell lower cost hardware, perhaps we'll see a lot of inivation around alternative revenue strategies. We've started to see this with the Kindle Fire. My guess is there is a lot more to happen here. But that's a topic for a future column.

New photos of what may be the next generation iPhone components show what could be a protective shield that would sit underneath the main digitizer and LCD assembly, and potentially add additional protection to components such as the logic board. The photos come by way of Nowhereelse.fr, and also show a vibrator assembly different from what is currently used in the iPhone 4S and CDMA iPhone 4.

The picture above shows a couple of components that could surface in the next generation iPhone. While most are components we've already seen in previous leaks, there are some new additions. Most notably is the appearance of a new protective shield. While the current iPhone 4S and previous iPhone models have used individual shields to cover the dock connector and cable connectors, this shield is simliar to what you can already find in the 4th generation iPod touch.

Nowhereelse.fr is claiming that this shield will attach to the back of the display assembly. While that may be possible, a more logical assumption would be that it will sit below the display if the next gen iPhone opens from the front in order to protect internal components. The iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 both open from the back while older models such as the iPhone 3G and 3GS open from the front. It's possible that Apple may go back to the old method of opening the device from the front but I don't see that being likely unless they go with a design simliar to the current iPod touch.

Also of note is the vibrator assembly in the photo. It lines up more with the type of assembly you can find in the GSM variant of the iPhone 4. The CDMA version and iPhone 4S both contain a different type of rotational assembly. Anyone who has owned both a GSM iPhone 4 and an iPhone 4S can notice the difference in vibration between the two. The iPhone 4S is not as harsh and has a smoother vibration due to the construction of the assembly. I can't see Apple returning to the older assembly type unless it's to save space inside the device.

While these parts could end up being legitimate, it seems likely that they may be earlier prototype parts that may not have actually made the final cut.

Source: Nowhereelse.fr via MacRumors

Pulse, one of the more popular news reader apps for iPhone and iPad, now has a Mac counterpart. While it isn't a native app, the web app version is full featured and manages to maintain the same great interface its iOS counterparts already enjoy.

We recently pitted Pulse against Zite and Flipboard and while we still prefer Zite, there are going to be many users out there who like the interface and fluidity of Pulse better. If that sounds like you, the web app won't disappoint and you'll feel right at home.

If you already use Pulse on your iPhone or iPad, you can just log in to Pulse on the web with your user ID and all your stuff will come right down. If you're a new user you can pick a few categories to get you started.

Check it out via the link below and let us know what you think!

Source: Pulse

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Things, one of the best and most popular pro-level task management apps for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac has -- finally -- been updated to version 2.0. The rap on Cultured Code, Things' developer, is that they've always made truly fantastic products, but have been incredibly slow to update them, especially when it comes to high-priority features like sync. Well, Things 2 brings their implementation of icoud sync out of beta and into the full release, for the full Things family, for the full range Things users.

And it, and Things 2 in general, looks really, really good.

With Things 2 you get the new Daily Review section, purpose-built so you can easily, glance-ably see everything you need to do in the very near future. There's also a new scrolling date picker, and a new, de-cluttered look that increases content and decreases chrome. You can now move to-dos to a log book as soon as you complete them, or even cancel them with a tap-and-hold, and a lot more.

It's a major update, and one that's more than likely going to have us updating our recent OmniFocus vs. Todo vs. Things iPhone task management app shootout.

You can grab the full suite of Things 2.0 apps, for iPhone/iPod touch, iPad, and Mac, via the links below. Then let us know what you think of the new package.

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ipico, a highly portable pico projector designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod touch is set for launch and should be available in time for the holidays. The portable projector is a small handheld unit which allows you to easily share media stored on your iPhone as the projector can display your videos, photos and movies onto any suitable surface at up to 50-inches.

Made for iPhone and iPod touch, ipico makes it incredibly easy to share favorite moments, from photos and videos, to movies and YouTube while on the go. No cables needed, simply pop-up the built-in connector on the ipico, slide your device into it, focus on virtually any surface, and instantly project your world to the world. Gone are the days of friends and family crowding around a small screen, the ipico™ was made to let you share your memories virtually anywhere and up to 50-inches in an optimal dimly lit room.

"We've watched the phenomenal growth of portable devices and smart phones and have tapped into the borderline obsession these owners have with their devices," said Paul Meyhoefer, General Imaging's vice president of Marketing and Product Planning. "Combine the explosion of social media and need to share almost every aspect of one's life with those around them, we believe ipico™ is a valuable accessory that allows these technology devotees to do just that."

The ipico weighs in at just 3.35 ounces and is actually smaller than the iPhone it connects to; although it is slightly thicker at just over half an inch. It comes complete with a built in rechargeable battery and USB charging cable. It displays images of up tp 50-inches in qHD resolution (960 x 540) and is compatible with the iPod touch (3rd and 4th generation) and iPhone 4S, 4 and 3GS.

The ipico will be available in white only, in time for the 2012 holiday shopping season. The price will be around $129; which seems like good value to me. It could come in very handy to those of us who like to share media or give a quick product presentation on the fly. Could you see yourself using a portable projector like this one? Is the price reasonable enough for it to become a popular way to share media?

If Words with Friends had a love affair with mathematics, the result would be GoSum. In fact, Words with Friends is to Scrabble, as GoSum is to Equate. Instead of trying to spell words on the game board, the goal of GoSum is to create valid arithmetic equations like 9 + 5 - 6 = 8. GoSum is fun, challenging, and educational.

The rules of GoSum are very simple. The board is a grid of equal signs and point multipliers. DN stands for double number, DS for double sum, TN for triple number, and TS for triple sum. For each turn, you get 5 numbers and 2 operators (+, -, x, ÷). Equal signs are "free" and don't require a token. Your job is to use your 5 numbers and 2 operators to create a valid equation. The equation must be constructed in a way so that all the operators you use are on one side of the equal sign so that the other side of the equal sign only has a number.

The main thing you want to keep in mind while playing GoSum is the Order of Operations: multiplication and division must be done before addition and subtraction. For example, 5 + 16 ÷ 4 = 9 since you must do 16 ÷ 4 first. Remember this simple rule, and you'll be a great player!

The only number tiles provided in GoSum are 0-9. For beginner players, this is enough, but for students who are learning or rusty with fractions, having tiles with fractions would be beneficial. The board game Equate includes fractions, so I hope GoSum mimics it and has an update that includes the ability to add fraction tiles to the game.

I also feel the restriction to only allowing operators on one side of the equal sign disappointing. This limits creativity by not allowing equations such as 84 ÷ 2 = 6 x 7.

There are two game modes for GoSum: Pass & Play and Multiplayer. Both modes allow up to 4 players at a time. Multiplayer is integrated with Facebook so that you can easily play against your friends.

The good

• Great remake of the board game Equate
• Improves arithmetic skills
• Simple, yet challenging
• Pass & Play and Multiplayer game modes

The bad

• Can only put operators (+, -, x, ÷) on one side the equal sign
• No option to add fraction tiles
• Can't play against opponents via wifi or bluetooth (would be great for a classroom setting!)

The bottom line

GoSum is a fantastic game that can be enjoying by young children and adults alike. Even people who "aren't good at math" will have fun playing GoSum as it only requires basic arithmetic skills. I do wish it included the ability to challenge friends via wifi or bluetooth as it would be great for a classroom setting.

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If you're upgrading, replacing, or restoring your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, using iCloud can get you back up and running in no time. Unlike restoring from iTunes, you don't need to plug right into the specific Mac or Windows PC that holds your iTunes library. All you need is a Wi-Fi connection and some time. We've even done it right at the Apple store, right after swapping out our iPhones and iPads. It's simple once you know how.

How to set up your new iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad with iCloud

When you turn on your new iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, you'll be greeted with a Lock screen that simply says "iPhone", "iPod" or "iPad". That's where we start.

1. Swipe to unlock to start setting up your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
2. Choose your language. Your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad will show you the most common languages for the area in which you bought it, but you can tap the downward arrow icon to see all the choices. Tap the blue Arrow button to continue.
3. Choose you country or region. Again, your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad will show you the region where you bought it, but you can tap Show more... for additional options. Tap the blue Next button to continue.
4. Choose whether you want to globally enable or disable location services. Location Services use GPS (on an iPhone or iPad 3G/4G), cell-tower triangulation, and Wi-Fi router mapping to determine the approximate location of your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad . This feature is used for turn-by-turn navigation (like Navigon, check-in games (like FourSquare), social networks (like Facebook), geo-tagging (like in the Camera app), and utilities (like Find my iPad), etc. Unless you have a particular need to globally disable it, you'll want to turn on the Location Services feature at this point. You can change your mind or selectively disable or enable these services later on in the Settings app (e.g., turn off your Camera app's geo-tagging, but leave on TomTom's turn-by-turn navigation). Tap the blue Next button to continue.
5. Choose your Wi-Fi network. Even if you're on 3G or LTE, your iPhone or iPad wants Wi-Fi because there may be a lot of data to move around and blasting through your data cap on setup is no fun. Enter your network password and tap the blue Next button to continue.
6. Wait for Apple to activate your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad . This could take a few minutes.

How to restore your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad from an iCloud backup

If you have an old iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad and need access to your old data quickly, or dread the idea of starting from scratch again, you have the option of simply restoring your new iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad from a backup of your old device.

1. Choose restore from iCloud backup.
2. Enter your Apple ID to login. (Enter your full email address as the username.) Tap the blue Next button to continue. (If you change your mind, you can logout of iCloud, or login under a different account later.)
3. Agree to the terms and conditions of service by tapping the blue Agree button on the bottom left.
4. Confirm your agreement by tapping the Agree button.
5. Choose your backup. You'll see your Latest iPhone/iPod/iPad Backup listed. This is usually the one you want to choose. You'll can also see older backups, and backups of your other iOS devices on the same iCloud account.

A progress bar will show you an approximation of how long it will take to download your backup. Once it's done, your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad will reboot.

Once your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad reboots, all your previous settings will be back in place, and you'll be asked to re-enter all your passwords (as a security measure, iCloud will not restore passwords).

Once that's done, your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad will start re-downloading all your apps. You will need to stay on Wi-Fi for any file larger than 50MB to re-download.

How to get more help with iCloud

If you still need help with setting up, backing up, restoring, or updating your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, or any other iCloud feature, head on over to our iCloud Forum and ask away!

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• How to set up and use iTunes in the Cloud
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• How to set up and use Documents in the Cloud
• How to set up and use Find my iPhone
• How to set up and use Find my Friends

It's summertime and what better way to enjoy the sunshine than with the portable Solio Hybrid Solar Charger Classic! You can carry it around in your pocket and use to lengthen the time you have to listen to your tunes, enjoy your videos, and engage in social chit-chat while outdoors!

The Solio Hybrid Solar Charger Classic has three solar cells that power a lithium-ion battery with a rated output of 1.5 to 5.5 Watts. This basically means it will charge your iPhone, but not your iPad. That's not great, but it's part of the price we pay for Apple cramming such a giant, power hungry battery into the iPad.

The Solio Hybrid Solar Charger Classic is compatible with a multitude of phones and other assorted gadgets. In the case of the iPhone and iPod touch, it uses a USB adapter that you plug your Apple provided Dock cable into.

If you want to charge your non-Apple gear, the Solio Hybrid Solar Charger Classic has a number of handy, if confusing, adapters to fit myriad types of connections, and more can be bought online if the one that fits your device isn't provided.

The name has the word "Hybrid" in Solio Hybrid Solar Charger Classic means that you can charge up the Lithium ION battery not only with solar power, but with good old electricity before heading out if you so wish. Just use the USB cable from your laptop or AC adapter. However, if you have a steady beam of light, the charger, even when completely drained, will use the Solar panels to charge your phone. It was even able to use indoor lighting to charge my iPhone. Pretty awesome.

It'll also hold a charge for up to a year. Equally awesome.

The Solio Hybrid Solar Charger Classic comes with a funny looking suction cup that is reversible so that you can leave the charger on a window or on a table and not worry of it falling.

The good

• Can also be charged electrically
• Can charge using indoor light (?!)
• Includes a wide variety of adapters

The bad

• Can't charge iPad
• Not the latest/greatest technology

The bottom line

I like the charger for it's convenience and portability but I certainly wish it had greater output capacity in solar mode to charge my iPad. It's also a rather old piece of technology now, and while it works, I certainly look forward to reviewing more modern and -- dare I say it? -- futuristic solar charging solutions.

It's time to announce this week's photo contest -- Back to School! Summer vacation is coming to close (and already has for some students), which means it's time to get back in the classroom and hit the books. For this week's contest, we want you to take a photo that's somehow related to school whether it be a picture of your locker, a creative arrangement of all your supplies, a picture of your kid all dressed up for school, or a beautiful landscape of your campus -- we want to see it!

The prize: Glif tripod mount and stand!

In addition to a thumbs up from the iMore crew and all of us yelling about how great of a photo star you are, the winner of this week's photography contest will receive a Glif tripod mount and stand!

The rules

The rules of entry are very simple. The photo must have been taken with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch (we'll check the EXIF data of the original file to verify) and any edits must have been done with an iPhone or iPad app. No Photoshop CS6! If you have external lens accessories you are more than welcome to use them. You can submit as many photos as you'd like, but remember, this is a contest, so make sure you submit your best work!

Resources

Now, before you run off to take your photo, remember that it's not technical skill alone that will claim this prize. Even if you're not the best photographer (yet!), a great eye and a great subject can still get you the win.

However, a little help can never hurt, so make sure you check out these articles from our iPhone photography series for some tips.

• How to take great looking portraits with your iPhone
• How to make your iPhone photography more striking with the "rule of thirds"
• How to make your iPhone photographs more powerful with negative space
• How to take amazing macros with your iPhone
• How to take stunning panoramas with your iPhone

How to submit

Submitting your photos is easy. just head over to the iMore Photography Forum and post your photos to the official contest thread. Don't forget to state which apps, if any, you used to edit your photo!

That's it! Now go out and shoot!

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