Linked List: September 20, 2012

Thursday, 20 September 2012

‘The iPhone 5 Episode’ 

This week’s episode of The Talk Show, with special guest MG Siegler, discussing — what else? — the iPhone 5 and iOS 6.

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iOS 6 Adoption Rate 

Ina Fried:

However, new data from Chitika shows a massive adoption in just the first 24 hours that the software was available. The firm said that, within the first day, iOS 6 peaked at more than 15 percent of Web traffic to its mobile ad network, and has remained at that level. […]

By comparison, Chitika notes that the latest version of Android — Jelly Bean — achieved just a 1.5 percent adoption in its first two months.

Apple has this OS upgrade thing down.

Yours Truly on Charlie Rose Tonight 

With David Pogue. No idea what we’re going to talk about.

The Amazing iOS 6 Maps 

Speaking of tough rows to hoe, Apple’s got one with Maps.

Entire Apple Design Team Flies to London for D&AD Awards 

Gideon Spanier, writing for The London Evening Standard:

Even more unusually, Apple flew in its entire design team from San Francisco in recognition of the importance of the D&AD Awards and all 16 of them - 14 men and two women - accompanied Sir Jonathan on stage to collect the award for best design studio.

Looks like a happy bunch.

Nokia Politely Points Out the Lumia 920’s Advantages over the iPhone 5 

Nokia has a tough row to hoe the next month or so. “Wait” is a tough message to sell.

Update: The volume and weight differences must have slipped Nokia’s mind.