<em>Apple VP Greg Joswiak <a href="https://twitter.com/Recode/status/527166521491996672" target="_blank">via Re/Code</a></em>
Re/code announced last month that Apple VP Greg Joswiak will be attending its Code/Mobile conference, and the VP of iPhone and iOS Product Marketing is just now kicking off that interview. We’ll share news from the interview with the Apple VP below.
While the interview wasn’t live streamed, several reporters and attendees shared details from the conference throughout the interview.
Below we’ve collected tweets from the Code/Mobile Joswiak interview where the Apple VP discussed the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, Apple Pay, the Apple Watch, Siri, and even the iOS 8.0.1 release that crippled cellular connectivity and Touch ID for iPhone 6/Plus users.
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Joswiak wouldn’t share the breakdown of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus sales. The company previously announced 10 million iPhone sales over opening weekend including pre-orders.
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Joswiak apologized for the botched iOS 8.0.1 release which bricked the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Joswiak said the delivery method was to blame rather than the software itself. Apple released a fix for the problem the next day and said that less than 40,000 users were affected.
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When pushed on the issue, Joswiak said the company doesn’t make many mistakes.
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Joswiak briefly commented on retailers shutting out Apple Pay in favor of CurrentC. Yesterday Apple released a statement pointing to the number of business that already accept Apple Pay, and Tim Cook said Apple Pay registered 1 million credit cards during its first 72 hours adding that its already larger than all other contactless payment solutions combined.
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Joz relates Siri reliability to Re/code’s Walt Mossberg. Classic.
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Joswiak seemingly not wearing an Apple Watch. Tim Cook shared a little more vagueness about the upcoming Apple Watch’s battery life last night.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook touched on many of the same topics including Apple Pay last night during his interview at the WSJ D conference. You can catch up on the live blog coverage from that event here if you missed it.
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I would really like to hear more detailed clarification on the iOS 8.0.1 issues, and how they were caused by what he seems to be inferring as server transport problems…
His answers were almost the same for every question. I’m sure he will say the same thing if you ask him or Tim next year.
Joswiak should also apologize for 8.0 and 8.0.2. Both of these softwares were incredibly buggy, making the iPhone 6 experience extremely disappointing for me and others. It wasn’t until iOS 8.1 was released that the iPhone 6 became a useable and pleasant device. Apple needs to concentrate on doing things well not just talking about it. Yosemite has unnecessary bugs and should not have been released yet. Too many things are starting to slip through the cracks at Apple. I love Apple products and I hate seeing the release of software that should not have been released so soon.
If Siri is so good, please let me turn it OFF. It’s not good, it’s annoying, a ridiculous gimmick, and I just want to turn it OFF. Spotlight too, thank you.
You can turn Siri off, very easily. Have you ever bothered looking into the settings for it?
You are not forced to use Siri or spotlight. If you don’t like them don’t use them! Not that difficult.
I would love to use Siri more, but it seems like Apple do forgot about developing it lately. Especially, american people complaine about the limited actions Siri can do for them, when in my counrty it’s about half of that. And I have to say that we are one of those who pay more for Apple products thanks to the 27% (!!!) tax we have here and Siri’s not even acceptable in our language. Just to see it written down:
13-inch: 2.6GHz with Retina display: US – 1.29900 USD where I live – 1.730419 USD
Greetings from Hungary!
FFS, nothing was “bricked”, the damn phones still worked and were able to be updated again!
The thing about the Watch that all the tech sites are really ignoring so far, is that it’s NOT really “starting at $350.”
The basic Watch is the “middle” option, you know … the one that’s just called “Watch.”
The “starting at $350” watch is the “cheap,” made with lesser materials watch, which is why it’s called “Watch sport” and not simply “Watch.” It’s really (and quite clearly) misleading advertising to suggest that the Watch will “start at $350.” It won’t.
If you want the basic steel Watch with the steel expansion bracelet, (which is in form and materials just like most other non-smart watches out there) you will be paying closer to $1000 minimum. The real, (realistic) value equation is whether you want a non-smart watch of a similar design for about $200, or whether you want the Apple smart-watch version of the same thing for about $1000.
Like most people, I’m not a jogger. I don’t want a crappy sport watch with a day-glow green strap made out of shitty aluminium. As a customer, I want a regular watch.
I will likely get one anyway, but people are fooling themselves to think that the Apple one won’t be HUGELY expensive relative to it’s actual competition (both smart and dumb). This “starting at $350” thing is a classic misdirection that every tech site reporting on the watch is complicit in.
Will Apple be releasing a product that includes the name “Apple Watch” for $350? Then it starts at $350.
Doesn’t matter if it’s low end or a jumping on point. It’s still an Apple Watch.
I was under the impression that any of the bands could be swapped between any of the different models, which means you could get the lower end watch and then buy a band that’s made for one of the higher end watches. I don’t even think Apple has confirmed whether a band will be included with a watch, have they?