If you're using Instacast or Downcast, I don't see why you should be using Apple's Podcast app
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If you're using Instacast or Downcast, I don't see why you should be using Apple's Podcast app
It will tell you beforehand that the selected route will require tolls, but there doesn't seem to be an "avoid tolls" option.
Marty Chinn
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Automatic scheduled background downloads.
The turtle and rabbit are more of a matter of consistency as they were already used for speaking rate in accessibility options like VoiceOver and Speak Selection.
Isn't the app built to accept pretty much anything? So it's up to the app developer, and not Apple?
I think if you have cards, coupons, etc. that use those newer barcodes, you can technically just make your own card with an image of the barcode. You don't need to be a developer to put out a card.
Mecha_Infantry
Banned
What happens when your battery dies? Or no signal?
I think wallet can replace a fair few things, but not my core debit, credit cards. Store/restaurant loyalty cards is fine though
I've had Taxi Magic fail me due to AT&T's shitty network coverage too many times to trust this.
We were specifically talking about credit/debit cards.
You can always carry around a rewritable card with you and write to it every now and then with different accounts.
Marty Chinn
Member
Tell Visa and Mastercard not to take a percentage of the sale or charge fees for credit card transactions. Until then, cash is here to stay.
Ok, is it just me or is this Podcast app really weird?
When I first started it, it got the podcasts from my Music app and added them. I marked them as played in iTunes and synced and they were still unplayed in Podcast app.
I started adding subscriptions and it downloaded some episodes, but if I mark them as played inside Podcast, they're still unplayed in Music
Also there's not a lot of info on what it's doing, for example I couldn't interact with some episodes in Podcast until I opened Music and realized they were still downloading or in queue to be downloaded
Also there's no way that I can see to universally set all podcast settings or to mark all unplayed episodes as played, I have to go into each individual one
When I first started it, it got the podcasts from my Music app and added them. I marked them as played in iTunes and synced and they were still unplayed in Podcast app.
I started adding subscriptions and it downloaded some episodes, but if I mark them as played inside Podcast, they're still unplayed in Music
Also there's not a lot of info on what it's doing, for example I couldn't interact with some episodes in Podcast until I opened Music and realized they were still downloading or in queue to be downloaded
Also there's no way that I can see to universally set all podcast settings or to mark all unplayed episodes as played, I have to go into each individual one
EarsOfASnake
Member
Is the podcast app pulling from the same data as the mobile itunes app? i.e. not being updated as soon as the rss is on the regular pc/mac one?
yeah, it doesnt sync playback status or position with iTunes (that still hooks into the podcast section of the music app). makes it worthless for me personally at the moment as i still listen to lots of podcasts on the computer and want to sync positions between mac and iOS, not just iDevice to iDevice.
If the podcast playback is gone form the music app in iOS6, then they better get proper syncing set up with a new version of iTunes or some other dev better make a decent Mac client that syncs.
Marty Chinn
Member
Plus can anyone who has this and has iPod functionality in their car, can they verify it can still read the podcasts or not?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
It doesn't.
NFC doesn't use any kind of signal, but ignoring that, if NFC is down, I can't use my debit or credit cards anyway and I don't carry cash. If there's a power outage, I simply stop buying things.
Marty Chinn
Member
What about emergencies?
Yeah, I always like having 50 to 100 bucks cash on me. shit happens.
i cant see my phone replacing my wallet and cards completely for a while. Maybe 10 years.
and, one small thing that I was thinking about (NFC is not part of this). the current loyalty card at my grocery uses the stationary barcode scanner they use for food items to scan the barcode on the card. so they take your card from you, plop it down on the glass, then slide it back and forth a bit to scan it.
even if that card could get transferred to my iPhone with passbook, I dont want to have to hand the phone over to the cashier so they can smack it around the glass and manhandle it like they do with my bananas.
i cant see my phone replacing my wallet and cards completely for a while. Maybe 10 years.
and, one small thing that I was thinking about (NFC is not part of this). the current loyalty card at my grocery uses the stationary barcode scanner they use for food items to scan the barcode on the card. so they take your card from you, plop it down on the glass, then slide it back and forth a bit to scan it.
even if that card could get transferred to my iPhone with passbook, I dont want to have to hand the phone over to the cashier so they can smack it around the glass and manhandle it like they do with my bananas.
hmm, so it looks like it does work. I just opened Podcast, it updated and found a new unplayed episode and downloaded it, opened Music and saw it there. I opened Podcast, marked it as played and it was still unplayed in Music. I quit the Music app (not just closed) and then opened it and the episode was gone.
It doesn't work with keeping the time though, only if it's played or unplayed and I don't see how it could interact with iTunes since the podcast ends up being deleted if it's finished
It doesn't work with keeping the time though, only if it's played or unplayed and I don't see how it could interact with iTunes since the podcast ends up being deleted if it's finished
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
What's an emergency? Like... if I get robbed? I don't live in a place where people get robbed. If there's a multi-day power outage? The longest city-wide power outage in my life has been 2 days. If... uh... bandits overthrow the government? I don't know? I haven't carried cash except to pay my mechanic or buy stuff off Kijiji/Craigslist in about a decade. I really have no idea what emergency could possibly make me need cash.
It's something we have in the US that requires money to make it go away.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Oh they don't have those here.
Marty Chinn
Member
Car breaks down and it needs to get towed? I'm not talking about just cash here, but not having physical forms of payment at all. I use cash at a minimum but I still always have something stashed in case of a situation where cash is the only option too. We don't live in a world that is completely electronic yet so I think it's too soon and unreasonable to rely on a phone containing all forms of payment.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Pay with credit, NFC. But I also have CAA (I guess this is "AAA" in the US?) so I get free towing. All debit/credit readers now had to be updated for chip cards beginning in 2009, mandatory as of I think the end of this year. I still see some pre-chip readers, but they will be expunged.
This literally does not occur where I live. There are no such places. Maybe if I wanted to get a tattoo from a guy on the side of the road? Hippies selling fruit in an open air farmer's market use wireless debit terminals by and large.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Maybe in America. Again, wireless debit is very popular here. *shrugs*
Marty Chinn
Member
We have AAA; I have AAA, but I got in a situation once where there was an accident, cops came, and called a tow truck. I had no option to wait for AAA because they needed to clear the scene. I had to pay with a CC for the towing. How did I pay? They did the only school method of imprinting my card.
It's also unreasonable to expect every store and business to have NFC when you can't even expect every store and business to accept CC. It's an ideal goal for sure, but the real world doesn't work like that any time soon.
Where is it that you live where nobody accepts cash only?
LyleLanley
Banned
I've seen a few markets and food trucks that take credit card.
Marty Chinn
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I don't think it's a question of some; it's more of a question do they all take it? Putting everything from your wallet into a phone requires the infrastructure that everyone accepts payment in that form. If we don't live in a world where everyone accepts at least CC, I can't see how we can expect everyone to accept NFC.
Some of my favorite places to eat are cash only.
In Hong Kong, RFID-payments via Octupus are more ubiquitous than nearly anywhere in the world. I swipe the same card for subway, bus, train, groceries, restaurants, etc. There still are street markets and street food that sell things on such small margins that the cost for readers and the cut required isn't worth it. You can give that up of course, but life would be less interesting.
LyleLanley
Banned
For me, in NYC, enough places accept credit card that I feel fine going without cash on a daily basis and all I'm hoping for is the same for NFC in the relatively near future. As for places that are cash only, I hate them and I think it's a stupid gimmick for a business to have.
Marty Chinn
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So in Canada, all businesses can afford to accept credit cards? The percentage take and CC fees in the US make that very hard for all businesses to accept. Great if so, but I just find it hard that there is any city out there that doesn't accept cash only and that there isn't a situation out there where in an emergency, NFC might not be an option and having a physical card might be the only way to go. If Canada works like that, then great for all Canadians, but I just find it hard to believe there's a place where everything would be ok if you went completely with everything stored on a phone.
It's not a gimmick though. For a small business, CC fees are painful.
I lived in NYC for 3 years and I found it was much less credit-friendly than in California, particularly since most of the restaurants I'd go to weren't big, chains are less common, there are cheapo street food vendors everywhere, Chinatown is full of little mom and pop grocers and restaurants, those grocers selling ripe groceries for pennies on the dollar under the Manhattan bridge are definitely not taking credit, and most bodegas seemed to be cash only or had a minimum charge for credit. And you want to tip bartenders in cash.
mescalineeyes
Banned
I really don't wanna backseat mod, but I happen to really really really care about iOS 6 a lot.
You know what I couldn't care less about? How many joints in your hood offer or do not offer payment via credit card.
the iPhone's gonna have it and you'll be able to use it at a lot of places. the iPhone will most likely never replace your wallet because it is a piece of technology and they break. also it is used by people and sometimes people break too.
You know what I couldn't care less about? How many joints in your hood offer or do not offer payment via credit card.
the iPhone's gonna have it and you'll be able to use it at a lot of places. the iPhone will most likely never replace your wallet because it is a piece of technology and they break. also it is used by people and sometimes people break too.
To follow up on this post, I just noticed the Giant Bombcast thread, opened up the podcast app, and the new episode was there. So far, so good.