Bye Bye Jail Breaking

As if we know today, jail breaking or the hacking of an IOS, or an Apple product in basic words has become really popular among many countries. In Thailand especially, in which people are earning money jail breaking phones. Apple had a major update recently, and it was really bad news for people who jail break their phone, it's the iOS 6.1.3, which this update will be able to "put an end" to evasi0n (Jail Break App). According to this article MuscleNerd (a guy working at Apple), pointed out that Apple created the evad3rs the patch that will throw out almost all of the jail breaking software. This is definitely really bad news for people who jail break their phones, and for people who are planning to buy an Apple product and jail breaking it. Overall, the media says that the evad3rs have many advantages over evasi0n, so it's possible that the jail break won't be able to function anymore. The evad3rs teams consist most of the people who invented the evasi0n which will be really interesting because they might be releasing a patch that will overcome this update. For now just stay still and keep calm, and follow some easy steps, and never update to the new version or else you will be in complete trouble. "How to protect your Jail Break", click on this guide to get help in ensuring the safety of your phone. Apple is really anti, to Jail Break, I think that Apple doing this is like killing themselves because less people will buy Apple products if they did cancel out all of the jail breaks. I think that Apple doing this will decrease their sales, and the market of Android phones will increase their sales.   

Major Concepts

• Apple released the new iOS 6.1.3 update which will take out the jail break program called evasi0n.
• This news is really bad for people who had jail break their phone, so the same team that created the evad3rs, is trying to develop the new evasi0n which is a new better patch jail break that will take over the iOS 6.1.3 update, so no worries.
• There are many ways to protect the jail break you're having now, in which the first main point is the cancel the update and you will be fine, or just click the link at the top.

Potential Strengths/Advantages

I think that this article is really great because the author, wrote this really important news, in a very short form and it allows the readers to know what they're dealing with. The complexity of the article is very low, which means that many people are able to understand it the first time they read it. The author was really good because I think that without him putting in the safety section in preventing many people from losing their memory. The author is really good at passing on this really important message.

Potential Problems/Limitations/Disadvantages

The author had one main advantage in which the names like MuscleNerd, pimskeks, etc. These names are un-trust-able which the author uses to say that these are the people who invented or patch the updates for the iOS 6.1.3. Using these names will make many people think that is he really saying the truth or is he spreading a really big lie, that will affect many people.

Discussion Questions

There is one question I want to ask in which is directly to Mr. Pete. Last weeks article was about the Galaxy S4, after reading out this article I'm not sure if Mr. Pete will buy an Iphone now. Mr. Pete likes to jail break is stuff so if this patch or update goes on forever will Mr. Pete still buy an iPhone or will he change to some other company. I feel that this article is really interesting, and would be a really good debate topic too, and this will catch many people's mind whos going to buy an Apple product.

Lee, Cody. "IOS 6.1.3 Kills Evasi0n Jailbreak." IDownloadBlogcom IOS 613 Kills Evasi0n Jailbreak Comments. N.p., 19 Mar. 2013. Web. 25 Mar. 2013.

The Galaxy S4

Samsung created a new video that is 4 minutes which features the new functions of the new Samsung Galaxy.  The main goal that Samsung is trying to do is send the new Galaxy into the competition market, in which the main features doesn't really matter but the important goal is to make it look good, which is able to attract customers. Some evolution's of the Galaxy S4 has a thinner design, higher definition screen, which are all the biggest improvements from the S3. Although the design of the S4 still looks the same as the S3 customers still aim to have a phone that have a higher resolution, and a longer span battery system. The S3 got many feedback and some people think that keeping the design, will get the old customers back. Some of the built in software that is included in the S4 is the Air View, a software that is able to function work without touching the screen. The S4's media function is described to be very weird, in which it has dual cameras which seems to have no use at all. Samsung is hardly pushing the S4 to be successful because all of the S series seems to do compete very good in the smart phone market, and they give the users the same comfort but in an advances technology. Watch the video below to get a better sneak peek of the Samsung Galaxy S4.

Major Concepts

• Samsung has created a sneak peek video of the new Samsung Galaxy S4 that will be releasing soon, which Samsung's main goal again is to give the customers the best comfort, and be able to create a new featured smart phone that is able to compete in the market.
• The S4 comes in many new features, which the improvements are, a better screen resolution, thinner design, and it still keeps the basic concepts of the previous Samsung Galaxy S3
• The main feature of the this phone is the Air View, in which it's a feature that enables the user not to touch the screen, in which the S4 has sensors that allows it to detect our finger prints, which will allow us not to touch the screen at all.

Potential Strengths/Advantages

There are many strengths in this article, in which the main strength is that author summarizes the 4 minute long video to be very precise and understand able, in which while I watch the video, I'm able to compare the features the author is talking and have a better understanding of the new smart phone. It's descriptions are accurate, and the author did a little bit of research on this phone too. Another advantage that the author had is using less complex vocabulary, which enables people at almost all ages able to read and understand the phone.

Potential Problems/Limitations/Disadvantages

There was one simple disadvantage in this article, in which the author didn't give the release date of this phone, or the estimated date of the release of this phone, in which if he had included this the article would be really perfect.

Discussion Questions

I would like to ask Mr. Pete, that will you be buying this new phone? I see that your black berry is very old, and I know that a tech guy like you would always get the newest technology, maybe this phone could be really useful for you. I would like to have a discussion with the class if this phone will be able to be boom in the smartphone market like the old Galaxy S3. This article is really interesting to read especially, about the new smartphone that will be competing with each other.

Haslam, Oliver. "Official Galaxy S4 Video Walkthrough Released, Watch It Here | Redmond Pie." Redmond Pie RSS. N.p., 17 Mar. 2013. Web. 18 Mar. 2013.

Surprise BlackBerry 10

Black Berry has been out of the phone market since ever the androids and the iPhones got released. The old Black Berries are only a single digit percentage in the smart phone market. What is Black Berry doing? They now have released the Black Berry 10 which had a really long delay and has many interesting new features that will grab many people's attentions. It has a 4.2 inch touch screen which has a way high quality than the iPhone's screen. The new Black Berry has also the ability to switch batteries rather than having a built in battery that is not switchable. It also has many other different features that are interesting such as the smart typing system, a voice recognizing system that is similar to Siri from the iPhone. This Black Berry also has a secured platform for work phones that people in a office always link with each other. The new Black Berry has this "long invisible Ethernet cable". They also introduces the QNX, it is an operating system that allows you to connect or disconnect remote access, it has quite a few disadvantages such as the memory back up. Black Berry is doing pretty good in introducing this new technology. Overall I think that this phone is very interesting, who has many new features that the other smart phones don't have I think that the market of the Black Berry Phones will increase again, and it might even be able to compete with androids and the IOS.

Major Concepts

• Black Berry's phone market percentage has really drop to a single digit in, over the past few years Black Berry still has not introduce a phone that is really that smart, or beneficial.
• They finally release the Black Berry 10 which has many key important new features that other smart phones does not have. A better screen, typing tool, (Ethernet Cable), etc.
• The QNX or the neat operating system in this Black Berry is able ling you to connect your phone with your PC in a very responsive way which has a few disadvantages.  

Potential Strengths/Advantages

The author had many different strengths in this article such as a sub heading that divides the information up into different person's ideas linking many articles together. I find it really good that each person he has there is a little summary of the article the author wrote and he has a button that says "More", so we are able to read the full article. I like his ideas where in the last paragraph he has his own thoughts about the phone and why should you buy it or not, which gives us an head start on the phone, from a normal person's point of view.

Potential Problems/Limitations/Disadvantages

The author had one main disadvantage, I think that in some paragraphs he used words that he didn't explain such as the QNX, which I needed to do research on what it is to be able to understand the point this author is making. I find it really hard to read the article when there are words that I have never known off. If he explained some complex words this article would be perfect.

Discussion Questions

I would like to discuss with the class that, how is this phone going to affect the market of the smart phones, because I think that this phone has many different features that seems to be better than an iPhone and I think that it is really interesting to know other peoples thoughts about the phone. I didn't understand clearly what the QNX really is because the definition is not that clear, so I want to know what it really means.

Jennings, Richi. "BlackBerry BB10 Review Watch: Wow, That's Unexpected!" Computerworld. N.p., 01 Feb. 2013. Web. 04 Mar. 2013.