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iOS 6.0 Causes CDN Overages

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Re: iOS 6.0 Causes CDN Overages

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Post by orcadk »

rachelbythebay wrote: post #45

This just seems to be how they handle audio media. It's not even anything specific to podcasts. My own scanner stuff is just a web page, and it gets hit by this from time to time. Each call is a single file, it's static, and there's nothing funny going on with it. It looks like the playback stuff is jumping around in some attempt to figure out exactly what it is first. It seems like it would be far better if they alw…

It's not just audio files; we've been seeing the same pattern (though actually even worse, as they request not only overlapping ranges, but the complete file, multiple times) on iOS5 for MP4 files: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6094556/mobile-safari-mak...

Re: iOS 6.0 Causes CDN Overages

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Post by imissmyjuno »

MaysonL wrote: post #49
danso wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dunno, how crummy the App Store has become is a perfect example of this. The App Store is one prominent way they make loads of money and build loyalty to the ecosystem, and yet it is a shitshow on IOS6...the responsiveness is as bad as I've seen on non-iOS software, but for me, the two really inexplicable failures are: 1. the use of modals to show individual apps on the iPad. So if you get to an app page and accide…

The thing that continually annoys, and occasionally infuriates me, is the f'ing no-button trackpad on the MBP: a dozen times a day my finger or thumb slips on the thing, just as I'm clicking, and it misses, or hits the wrong link.

Disable the button altogether, and turn on tap-to-click. I used to hate it, but two-finger right-click works well, and the new 3-fingers-to-drag gesture means I never have issues with dragging, which was the main pain with tap-to-click.

Re: iOS 6.0 Causes CDN Overages

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Post by pretoriusB »

devcpp wrote: post #68
pretoriusB wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have never considered Apple to be a solid software company. What does that even mean? That they make bad software? For one, they make the most popular certified UNIX OS in the world, and one of the two most popular mobile OSs. Their professional offerings are great too: Logic Pro, Aperture, Final Cut Pro, etc. In fact, FCPX aside, they are professional staples, with few competitors. And huge number of desktop and…

Popularity means good software? Windows must be the best OS by very far then! Regarding mobile OS, we all know this now depends on the number of "apps" available. Many may have made a superior OS, but adoption has been too low because of the lack of apps.

>Popularity means good software? Windows must be the best OS by very far then! Yes, windows too, has had historically delivered the things its users cared about.

"Good software" is not some mystical status of code perfection, it's doing the things its users want it to do. So, yes, popularity equals good software.

Software, as any engineering effort, is measured by its utility and use. It's not like art where popular is not necessarily good. Unless you are some kind of dreadful "code poet", whose programs nobody uses.

But notice how I didn't just say that Apple's software is good because it's popular. For example, I challenged anyone to mention a "substantially better mobile OS than iOS".

>Regarding mobile OS, we all know this now depends on the number of "apps" available.

No, even without apps, the basic OS is just as important. iPhone, at it's introduction, had by far the best OS of every other smartphone out there, even without third party apps at all.

>Many may have made a superior OS, but adoption has been too low because of the lack of apps.

Really? Disregarding apps at all from the comparison, do you care to mention one "superior mobile OS", let alone "many"?

Re: iOS 6.0 Causes CDN Overages

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Post by fruchtose »

owenfi wrote: post #16
owenfi wrote: post #15

Our very small outfit at verbmill.net is seeing similar signs. For instance, 700MB+ downloaded by a single client when an individual podcast is a maximum of ~50MB. Checking my logs now to see if I can narrow down device/version number. All of our files are hosted on S3.

Ominous example. Reqs Total Avg B/s Client 666 2G 3M 127K mobile-​198-​xxx-xxx-​088.​mycingular​.​net.​ 666 AppleCoreMe​dia/1.​0.​0.​10A403 (iPhone; U; CPU OS 6_​0 like Mac OS X; en_​us) I hope this user is on an unlimited plan :(

Wow, that is truly unfortunate. How long did it take for that 2GB to be chewed up?

Re: iOS 6.0 Causes CDN Overages

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Post by kokey »

I am anxiously awaiting an update to the Podcast app which fixes the issues that I am having, but perhaps I'm too optimistic. I listen to some podcasts from the BBC and the app doesn't recognise that a new daily show with the same name is new, the only way around it I have found is to delete my subscription and manually find the podcast every morning. Apart from that the thing crashes and runs very slowly at times.

Re: iOS 6.0 Causes CDN Overages

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Post by cageface »

pretoriusB wrote: post #65
robomartin wrote: post #35

I have never considered Apple to be a solid software company. They are a marketing company in the tech sector. If they made washing machines they'd be sexy as hell. In my years of exposure to Apple tech I have always been in awe of their industrial design, mechanical design and manufacturing prowess. Their software, however, often leaves much to be desired. I say this both as a developer and a user. From OSX to iOS t…

> I have never considered Apple to be a solid software company. What does that even mean? That they make bad software? For one, they make the most popular certified UNIX OS in the world, and one of the two most popular mobile OSs. Their professional offerings are great too: Logic Pro, Aperture, Final Cut Pro, etc. In fact, FCPX aside, they are professional staples, with few competitors. And huge number of desktop and…

They bought Logic and most Logic fans will tell you that they've mostly just dumbed it down and dropped the price since then, turning it into "GarageBand Pro".

Not really much of a feather in their cap, particularly if you compare it to what the competition has been able to accomplish in the time timeframe.

Re: iOS 6.0 Causes CDN Overages

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Post by burriko »

malyk wrote: post #56
riobard wrote: post #26

Hmm, so this explained my 3G data overage last month. I have 6GB/month of data, and usually I'd be using around only 700MB. But last month my iPhone 4S (running iOS 6.0) consumed nearly 8GB in total, resulted in quite some overage fee. Should I ask Apple for a refund for this? :|

Last month I moved and didn't have an ISP at home for the first 3 weeks or so. I set up tethering on my phone and a 5GB data plan. Yesterday I got a notice that I was over my data limit. I haven't done a whole lot of web surfing in the new house, but I have listened to a ton of podcasts using the Podcast app which I have never done before. So if I just blew through 5 GB of data in 2ish weeks and the only thing differ…

Netflix's 720p streams use 2.3GB/hour, which would certainly put you over 5GB. I'm not sure about their lower quality streams though.

Re: iOS 6.0 Causes CDN Overages

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Post by Nikaido »

pretoriusB wrote: post #65
robomartin wrote: post #35

I have never considered Apple to be a solid software company. They are a marketing company in the tech sector. If they made washing machines they'd be sexy as hell. In my years of exposure to Apple tech I have always been in awe of their industrial design, mechanical design and manufacturing prowess. Their software, however, often leaves much to be desired. I say this both as a developer and a user. From OSX to iOS t…

> I have never considered Apple to be a solid software company. What does that even mean? That they make bad software? For one, they make the most popular certified UNIX OS in the world, and one of the two most popular mobile OSs. Their professional offerings are great too: Logic Pro, Aperture, Final Cut Pro, etc. In fact, FCPX aside, they are professional staples, with few competitors. And huge number of desktop and…

Aperture a professional staple? This is funny because I can see Adobe Lightroom installed everywhere but no aperture in sight. I'd say, the vast majority of pro photographers favor Lightroom.

Re: iOS 6.0 Causes CDN Overages

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Post by pretoriusB »

cageface wrote: post #76
pretoriusB wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have never considered Apple to be a solid software company. What does that even mean? That they make bad software? For one, they make the most popular certified UNIX OS in the world, and one of the two most popular mobile OSs. Their professional offerings are great too: Logic Pro, Aperture, Final Cut Pro, etc. In fact, FCPX aside, they are professional staples, with few competitors. And huge number of desktop and…

They bought Logic and most Logic fans will tell you that they've mostly just dumbed it down and dropped the price since then, turning it into "GarageBand Pro". Not really much of a feather in their cap, particularly if you compare it to what the competition has been able to accomplish in the time timeframe.

>They bought Logic and most Logic fans will tell you that they've mostly just dumbed it down and dropped the price since then, turning it into "GarageBand Pro"

I'm a Logic Pro user (and my brother is a Logic Pro, err, pro). Logic today has nothing at all to do with Logic at the time Apple bought Emagic. It's extremely more polished and powerful, with far more capabilities (from amp modeling, to flex audio manipulation, to several new builtin plugins instruments, to 64 bit operation, to multicore enhancements, to OSC support). It's not even close.

And it's not like Emagic is out of the loop. Apple uses the same engineering team, based in Germany.

Anybody who says anything about "dumbed down" is more likely a dilettante relying too much on bloggers and pundits. Apple has only _added_ features to Logic and streamlined the interface. Nothing has been taken out (unlike, say, FCPX, where some features were cut due to the rewrite from scratch).

Logic Pro always comes with top scores when reviewed in trade mags (Keyboard, Electronic Musician, Future Music, Mix, etc), and if you read those, you'll notice the vast majority of professional musicians uses either that or Pro Tools. Cubase, Sonar etc doesn't even register, and Live is mainly used by electronica/live acts for it's particular strengths.

So, the "dumbing down" is just the BS meme that spreads around based on misunderstanding the FCPX situation, and from reaction to whenever Apple makes the changes to their pro UI look to match their latest UI schemes.

>Not really much of a feather in their cap, particularly if you compare it to what the competition has been able to accomplish in the time timeframe.

What exactly have they "been able to accomplish in the timeframe"? Logic Pro 9, 3+ years old, is still on the top DAWs around. Pro Tools is not even 64-bit yet, and just recently got support for native operation. And Cubase, is, well hardly touching Logic in plug-in power and workflow.

Re: iOS 6.0 Causes CDN Overages

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Post by pretoriusB »

Nikaido wrote: post #78
pretoriusB wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have never considered Apple to be a solid software company. What does that even mean? That they make bad software? For one, they make the most popular certified UNIX OS in the world, and one of the two most popular mobile OSs. Their professional offerings are great too: Logic Pro, Aperture, Final Cut Pro, etc. In fact, FCPX aside, they are professional staples, with few competitors. And huge number of desktop and…

Aperture a professional staple? This is funny because I can see Adobe Lightroom installed everywhere but no aperture in sight. I'd say, the vast majority of pro photographers favor Lightroom.

>Aperture a professional staple? This is funny because I can see Adobe Lightroom installed everywhere but no aperture in sight. I'd say, the vast majority of pro photographers favor Lightroom.

I use Lightroom myself (part-time professional photograph). Lightroom just got better, faster, plus is cross-platform.

So, yes, Aperture plays second fiddle to Lightroom, but still Aperture remains the major competitor to Lightroom, and is used by many pros. Plus, it came out before Lightroom, and paved the way for this kind of photography workflow app as opposed to mere editing.

Not bad for a company that makes "bad software".

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