ZENandTECH 15: Goal setting

Achieving goals isn’t just about making lists on your iPhone or entering items in your iPad task app. It’s about breaking things up into manageable chunks that challenge and empower us rather than setting us up for failure. Georgia and Rene go over goal setting. This is ZENandTECH!

Won

John Gruber of Daring Fireball has put up an interesting post debating marketshare vs. profit-share numbers in the good old Android vs. iPhone feud. He comes to the reasonable conclusion that the criteria for defining “winning” can vary, and that not all are equally valid. To wit — money is the way you keep score in business.

If we count all the money in Apple’s pockets from iOS devices vs. all the money in Google’s pockets from Android devices (and throw in ODMs like HTC, Samsung, and Motorola for good measure), Apple’s clearly winning. Heck, if we count the amount of customer satisfaction, the amount of iPhones sold vs. any other handset,, etc. you can find any number of reasons to rationalize the iPhone as winning.

And that’s fine. But I’d argue it’s wrong. Apple isn’t winning.

Apple’s already won.

Apple and the iPhone won years ago, when Google hit the brakes on their BlackBerry and Windows Mobile Standard competitor and began cloning the iPhone, when RIM and Microsoft stumbled their way towards Storm and QNX, and Windows Phone, when Palm went webOS, and Nokia burned their platform.

The smartphone now looks, feels, and acts nothing like it did before the iPhone, and that’s because of the iPhone. Reviews now compare, contrast, and dub “killer” every new hero phone on the market to only one thing, and that’s because the iPhone redefined the market.

And in tablets, the enormity of the victory is even more ridiculous. 18 months after launch it still has not a single rival. No one is breathing down the iPad’s neck. No one is even breathing in the same hemisphere.

Whatever happens in the future, whether Android becomes the Windows of mobile, whether Rim or Microsoft surge back to the top spot, whether Apple trips and falls and one day becomes a shadow of its current success, Apple has set the standard and shaped the industry.

Every time a finger pinches or swipes a big capacitive touch screen, every time the modern web is functionally rendered, every time an app is easily purchased from a built-in store on any device, it concedes that the battle now can only be fought for the next generation.

Because for this generation, Apple has already won.

Coda: We live in a world where the flagship front-facing QWERTY BlackBerry has a capacitive touch screen, where Microsoft has a functional mobile web browser, and where every platform has an app store — and Android has several. If you don’t think that’s because Apple won this generation, you’re nuts.

Daily tip: How to find your Cydia account number

Are you jailbreaker eager to test a theme or jailbreak app and need to know how to find your Cydia account number? Chances are if you’ve ever downloaded or purchased an app or tweak from Cydia, you have one. In case you ever need to know where it is and how to find it, we’ve got you covered!

Simply make note of this number and give it to any developer you’re testing for. This will allow them to give you access to paid apps so you can simply install them without having to pay first. This is very similar to how official App Store developers utilize your UDID number. Once the developer adds your Cydia account number you’ll be all set to start testing their jailbreak apps. Just make sure you add their repository as well if you don’t already have it.

Daily Tips range from beginner-level 101 to advanced-level ninjary. If you already know this tip, keep the link handy as a quick way to help a friend. If you have a tip of your own you’d like to suggest, add them to the comments or send them in to dailytips@tipb.com. (If it’s especially awesome and previously unknown to us, we’ll even give ya a reward…)

iPad Live 73: Lucky charms

Georgia, Seth, and Rene discuss iPad as product line, anti-leak locks, iTunes Match re-opens, iCloud Backup and Restore, Verizon iPad 2 commercial, Tim Cook’s charity, Flash blinks, and Tabs banned. This iPad Live!

Thanks to the TiPb iPad Accessory Store for sponsoring the podcast, and to everyone who showed up for the live chat!

Music Hear me Roar by iPad Live theme song contest winner, DieselJesus!

iPhone 5 not getting a redesign, going to assemblers in September?

MacRumors got wind of research note from — wait for it — an analyst named Ming-Chi Kuo who claims Apple is sending the gold master (GM) build of iOS 5 to manufacturers for assembly of iPhone 5 sometime between September 23 to 30.

However, Kuo actually seems to be referring to the rumored N94 update of iPhone 4 (sometimes referred to as iPhone 4S. He provides the following details:

So either Apple is doing an amazing job keeping a redesigned iPhone 5 under wraps, or iPhone 5 (iPhone 4S) won’t be a major redesign (which is what TiPb heard a long time ago.)

If the next iPhone isn’t a radical redesign, will you be any less likely to get it?

[MacRumors]

iPatch brings glowing Apple logo to iPhone! [Mod]

Ohellsyeah! iPatch, an iPhone repair company in the UK, has released a super sweet mod that brings a glowing Apple log to your iPhone. Yes, you ready that right. Glowing. Apple. Logo.

Chris and Andy, the guys behind iPatch, expect the mod to retail for under £100, and a turnaround time of less than an hour. They claim the iPhone remains fully functional, with the rear glass appearing completely original with no visible alterations. The logo lights up whenever the iPhone’s screen is on.

No word yet on what this might do to battery life, but like we keep saying on the podcasts, if Apple adds this to iPhone 5, they’ll sell a billion of them.

[iPatch via MacRumors, thanks Mike!)]

Create fascinating art with Magic Painter for iPhone and iPad

Magic Painter is a drawing app that includes 11 different abstract brushes. The art that you will create is fascinating, modern, and unique – and you don’t even have to be an artist for it to look good!

I do not have the artistic ability to create beautiful paintings, but Magic Painter makes me feel like I don’t suck! In fact, painting with Magic Painter is rather relaxing.

Magic Painter is an amazing app that takes you to enjoy with the fascinating drawing.In an easy way, those eleven wonderful paint-brushes, tens of color make your imagination expansed unlimitedly. With one single brush style or varieties, color choosing and background changing,to create excited modern art. Anywhere, anytime, touch is magic!

Magic Painter is available on the iPhone and iPad for $2.99.

[App Store link]

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