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EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
€150 – The fine you get for being caught throwing chewing gum on the street. The first year of introduction of the fine, in 2012, saw a 28 per cent reduction in gum litter nationwide.
€1,506 – The approximate amount lost per minute by Ulster Bank in the first three months of 2013. The bank recorded an operating profit but had to offset massive amounts of money to take care of loans it doesn’t expect to be repaid.
€296,717.50 – The apparent amount that Ronnie O’Sullivan needs to cover school fees for his kids. The reigning world snooker champion is famously bored with the sport but agreed to participate in this year’s championship – with a top prize of £250,000 – because his kids’ schools need him to stump up. (That’s enough to keep Ulster Bank going for about 198 minutes.)
€21 million – The amount that the people of Ireland have so far paid in the Local Property Tax, according to the Exchequer’s official figures for April.
66 – The number of people who had died on Irish roads so far in 2013, as of this evening with the death of two women in Carlow. At the same time last year the figure was only 51 – meaning there’s been a 26 per cent increase in fatalities so far this year.
24 – The number of Tayto Cheese and Onion Chocolate Bars in all of Australia. And boy, people are keen to get them…
28 per cent – The amount by which suicide rates among middle-class Americans rose between 1999 and 2010.
34 per cent – The proportion by which robbery, extortion and hijacking offences increased between 2007 and 2011, according to CSO data out this week.
63 – The number of years you’d have to travel back in time to find an April as windy as the one of 2013.
300,000 - The estimated number of households in Ireland which have tracker mortgages, where the interest rate is linked to the ECB’s basic rate. The cut in the ECB’s rate is good news for them – but bad news for around 400,000 non-tracker households whose rates could be forced up in order for banks to cover their losses.
100 – The drop in the number on the Live Register in April 2013. Ireland still has a 14 per cent unemployment rate.
3,726 – The estimated number of lives saved through the introduction of a ban on smoking in Irish workplaces.
74,500 – The capacity of the smallest stadium Ireland will play in in the 2015 Rugby World Cup. The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff will host Ireland’s clash with France, while the boys in green will also take to the field in Wembley (90,000) and at the Olympic Stadium (80,000).
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Ironic that I can’t actually scroll down this article properly in iOS 7…
Actually, I had the same problem! Lol, maybe i HAVE a problem to report….
Same as. The article won’t scroll past the bit on Siri on my app on iOS 7. The Dublin Bus app has stopped working for me since the upgrade too. Overall though, I like it!
I can’t scroll properly either. What’s that about?!
Its about the Journal app not optimized for Ios7. Someone needs to pull the finger out.
Too busy writing articles about iOS 7 to update for iOS 7….
Yep because the journalists work in the tech dept. too
Works fine. Bad workman n all that. Ios7 is pure class.
I have had no problems scrolling with my 4S. Seems to take a bit longer to charge I’ve noticed but overall it’s grand. :)
I’m using the 4s and it’s all working perfectly so far love it it’s like having a new phone
+1. Also, I changed the screen on my phone 2 days ago which makes the phone seem spanking new. iOS 7 working a treat so far. Downloaded in 45 mins too
+2 it’s amazing!! Love it. Ohh and a torch at last too:):):)
@shityounot I Always had a torch app, where is the torch with the IOS??
This is integrated in the OS. Go to the home screen and swipe up from the bottom and see a new feature with lots of cool things.
Swipe up from the bottom of the screen, it’s on the bottom left!
dat torch is cool !,
Ya don’t have to go to the home screen, you can swipe up anywhere in the os
Here comes the iOS / android debate.theres not much of a difference in smart phones these days.it just comes down to personal choice.
What you’re saying is you prefer android though right?
This a thousand times. I’m looking forward to trying it out but I’m on the fence about updating until I get the new iPhone.
@Nelly As far as I can see, you’re instigating one. Please stop, I can’t take another!
Huge improvement over an outdated OS, iOS 7 is an excellent overhaul
I second that!!
I like it too, just the icons arent great but im sure i’ll get used to it.
Journal needs to update the app to allow IPhone 4S users to comment with out pinching the crap out of the Screen!!! Or is that just me ??
I have a 4S, and don’t have that problem; seems like an odd one!
May not just be you but mine works fine. And this IOS 7 looks like a cartoon! I’m not switching, if it ain’t broke and all that.
From my experience cartoons are almost always better than real life
Anyone figured out how to fully close the apps after you exit out of them?
Double click the home button then swipe up each app.
Double click the bottom button when on the main screen the list of apps open with come up and just slide each app upwards to close it!
Cheers.
The journal is doing this to me as well! It’s like the scroll function gets stuck on the way down or something !
Lovely cheers Louise I couldn’t for the life of me figure that one out…. Is the battery life better or am I going nuts??
Much better if you ask me.
Very much better!! Amazing improvement actually.
CD: why is it beneficial to close apps?
Saves your battery. Especially an app like Netflix.
Change the background makes a big difference to the look of the os
Delete the app an reinstall it
Barbie loves Cock. I thought that was fairly obvious. #notsurprised.
Yes Martin it’s cock…. Haven’t heard that from a troll before. What are you even talking about?
How do you change the background on ios7?
I like it apart from the new calendar layout. However, I can’t scroll properly on this article, but the rest are fine. What’s up with that?
Get “week cal” it’s the best ever calendar app so easy and nice to use
Can it run a torrent app ?? No can I put mpgs right on it?? No can I directly access the hard drive of phone??? No
Therefore its still the simpleton OS. Those that want to really use their phones freely go for Android.
Still im sure some disagree but they never had android. As a former iphone user I can state that the innovation died with jobs. People switch apple to Android. Does not happen other way round
Easy now – Apple users hate tangible examples of why their OS is for babies.
Expandable memory? No.
Alternate Keyboards like Swiftkey? No.
Custom Home Launchers?No.#
Widgets? No.
Removable Battery? No.
Custom ROMs? No.
Control your phone from your computer (send texts from Chrome, or VNC to the screen)? No.
I tried android (sgs3) and went swiftly back to apple, no big argument, just a fact, I personally just prefer it.
I can see how lots of extra features & customisable settings might be a bit overwhelming for an iOS user.
Out of interest, why did you prefer iOS? And “I dunno like – I just did” is not a proper answer.
I made the switch last Oct – never looked back. One thing I’ve yet to hear though, are tangible examples and reasons why iOS users prefer it to Android. Android users always seem to give examples when stating their preference, but it never seems to work vice versa.
I don’t care less who thinks what phone or OS is better, but having a removable battery just makes it easier for thieves.
Sean says you’re a baby.
Not stirring it or anything.
Well sean its only a phone/operating system and I’m sot trying to sell it to anyone! But basically I prefer the hardware and the simplicity of the the os. It also works in tandem with my ipad and atv. I was fully capable of using the sgs3, I just personally didnt like it, and really didn’t like the Samsung phone.
Fair enough GoGo.
@Keith – that makes no sense.
Find my phone apps don’t work when there’s no battery. You can’t turn an iPhone off unless you have the passcode. Ergo, Samsung, easier to steal than iPhone. And before anyone tells me you can just remove the sim, I know this, but it’s a lot easier to slide the back off a Samsung than take the sim out of an iPhone.
Yeah Keith – can’t imagine a thief would be bothered to remove the sim – too much hassle, eh?
It just did is an answer. That’s the point on ios7 and apple in general – the
Main point is how it makes it’s customers feel. So I would also say I just prefer it, android is all over the place yes you can create widgets etc but is it what the
Majority want? Or do the majority want an os that makes them feel good.
“I just want an OS that makes me feel good”.
Shane Conway, 2013.
Apple User.
Yes!
It’s the foundations and principles that you must get right first
Before technology.
iPhone with ios7 gives better battery life, the iPhone is lighter, it’s thinner and it has a screen size that can be used with one hand.
You cannot use an external memory card. Yes that’s true, so for anyone that needs that or needs to change the
Battery then simple don’t get an iPhone.
But my point being is do the majority of people want to do that? I don’t know the answer to that.
That slogan sounds more like a product of Apple advertising. “It just works, y’know?”
It’s straightforward really iOS is for consumers, android is for the open appeal geeks out there ( nothing wrong with a geek!)
Why do you care?
Different people have different priorities when they buy a phone. So if their priorities aren’t the same as yours then that somehow makes them less intelligent?
It’s a phone FFS. What difference does it make to you what phone another person has? What is with this almost tribal fanboyism? It’s getting like football supporters..
I bet none of you have girlfriends. So the question is – which one is better for porn?
haha – I know who you are. State of your bird, Colin Cooper.
Still working at McAfee?
Colin android is as it runs flash ;)
I like having movies on my phine and not converting them to quick time or having to use itunes for it.
With android its easy. I follow dexter and breaking bad so I just selecr as I would on pc and it download in pocket. Either watch on phone or transfer to pc but cant do that will apple its too restrictive.
IOS was the businees in 07 and 08 but samsung and Google not only caught up but blew apple out of the water. Apple now are surviving on customer base they had from years ago who have not changed. But I won’t go back. Delighted with my s3. Still a fab phone I might upgrade when S 5 comes along.
All looking good so far; no problems to report! (Thing will probably die on me now!)
I DON’T CARE! I LOVE IT!!
I know, I know! Texting on my iPhone while driving my Beetle is so totes amazeballs!
You seriously have to be the most annoying person around. You’re like that really over-camp gay person that just won’t let it rest & is always up in someone’s face.
OK we get it, we don’t care, do/think what u like but for the love of god will u just leave the rest of us alone!!!
“we get it, we don’t care”
Who’s we?
Nobody cares which you prefer. No need to keep weaselling in on people’s comments with your stupid “mini” or “Beatle” remarks. At the end of the day it all boils down to personal preference. You like it? Good. You don’t? Too bad.
By the way, liking your own comment is almost as pathetic as the majority of your pathetic comments on this post!!
I’m part of that ‘we’. Do one, you tool !, and shove that android up your hole !
Stop getting freaked because I questioned your fanboy brand loyalty.
Still happily making a knob of yourself I see Sean. Some mothers do have em.
All the girls I know say they love their new iOS update.
Glad your mum likes it.
Sean, don’t forget to shoot a deer and catch a couple of rabbits for dinner on the way home.
Sorry Robin – no need to get defensive. I just assumed most iPhone users are girls. Isn’t the iPhone more about fashion over function? Every swanky handbag is accompanied by an iPhone.
He says while brandishing his Samsung, pelvic thrusting in every direction. Ooooh yeeeeah!
Another butt-hurt male iPhone user – sorry if I offended you. Now – back in your Mini! To Abercrombie & Fitch!
Oh excuse me, I was just trying to figure out what you’re trying to compensate for by trying to engender a phone, a car, and a clothing brand. It must be pretty big….but perhaps more likely small.
Oh, matron! You and your innuendo!
Ah Sean, don’t be butthurt because Abercrombie don’t do clothes in your size !
I laughed when you said “butthurt” because you look like Ronan Keating.
Oh, you and your 1960′s attempt at humour, about as relevant as your attitude. Loved your list of things iOS lacks compared to android by the way, but the real question is does anybody really care? I don’t and I’ve owned phones with both operating systems.
Reminds me of you at around 0:30, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z33qjTuwEvA
Sorry Shane – don’t get your reference to the 1960s.
Aren’t you the one that made a Carry On style joke though?
“You must be insecure about the size of your willy, arf arf! Oh matron!”
WTF is going on here? They’re *phones*.
Actually, I meant I was undecided about what was small, your brain or your “willy”. The matron reference was yours, hence me linking it back to the 1960s.
Anywho, you want reasons why I think iOS is on a par with Android? Bearing in mind that your positive android points mainly relate to fanboy things, which people in the real world couldn’t care less about. The flagship android devices at the time of iphone 5 release were the HTC One and Samsung S3, both the size of WW2 era battlships, and hardly attractive for lugging around in my pocket, if i want a tablet, I’ll buy a tablet.
From using an android for a number of years, I found the apps to be unstable and the OS slow as xmas at times. Say what you like about apple, but the QC on apps is decent, eliminating the freezing/crashing that plagued my old HTC.
Ergonomically and visually, I like iOS, although its not be as customisable as android. The system is said to run slower but it must be barely perceptible.
My biggest complaint is that apple blatantly try to seduce you with an overall package, iphone, ipad, mac, apple tv, and insist that you suffer itunes as syncing software.
Hell, no platform is perfect, as ever it depends on what you want from a phone. If its basic functionality, calls, text, IM, the flagship apps, etc, then the iphone is perfectly suitable. If you’re after more customisation, modular upgrading, open access to 3rd party apps, then go android.
You’re forgetting the largest truth about modern technology, that appearance and niche appeal are as important now as functionality, and thats at the root of increasing android sales. I’ll be interested to see how samsung continue to innovate in the, after all, “wheres the innovation” has been the call of android fans when talking about iphone the last few years.
They’re not phones, Fergal – they’re operating systems. Sorry for using big words.
Good reply, Shane. Fair enough.
google copied their android system entirely from the IOS! Google’s CEO was one of apple’s board members. For years apple innovated with new products, ipod, iphone, ipad. having the same software across all devices.
name major invention google made thats in the new phone/tablet market.
in fairness to microsoft they’ve got their own system and they’ve not really copied anybody. so even if apple takes a few ideas from other people it still can’t repair the damage done for all the ideas that have been stolen from apple.
to be fair no company should be allowed to have a monopoly so its good that android and there to put it up to apple. both systems work and are in the mainpart identical..
I can’t believe anyone would take the time to read this RANT. Crazy Stuff.
Hated it yesterday but today I love it
The journal needs to fix its app. Did you guys not test with the beta versions for the last few months?
I have absolutely no problems with iOS 7, for me it’s much cleaner and better than iOS 6….really surprised at the amount of no votes ! The new safari browser is so much better than the previous version that’s the real standout for me other than the slick interface
iOS7 is Cool, Everyone is Quick to give it a thumbs down, give it a chance and it will grow on you. Do this poll next week and the Yes vote will be much different :)
Go Android
Updated just out of habit but I love it so far, especially the Safari improvements (and especially on iPad).
Haha typical poll result on the journal…negative!! ios 7 is brilliant and vastly improved on 6.
Ironic it is! Can’t scroll down to comments on this article, had to re-open it like 10 times to even read it. Never happened before IOS 7 and only this article..
Although I like it, pretty sure in two weeks we have the next update as it’s not flawless especially viewing your pictures. Altogether happy tho!
I don’t know what people are talking about regarding problems, I’ve had nothing but a pleasurable experience using it. I got the first Beta of iOS7 and then reverted back to iOS6 (mostly because the first beta was a severe drain on the battery).
The Android style control panel (sliding from the bottom up) should have been available in a sooner iOS version but I’m pretty happy it has it. Using it on an iPhone5 I’m noticing a considerable difference in speed and i’m finding it to be much faster than iOS6.
What is pretty cool about iOS7 is, it can use both your 3G and wireless connection for a multi-path TCP connection http://9to5mac.com/2013/09/19/ios-7-becomes-first-commercial-software-to-support-multipath-tcp-allowing-simultaneous-wi-fi-and-cell-network-connections/
Besides getting used to everything being different I quite like it. What I’m not so pushed on is the updated iTunes..
I am pleased to report the only problems have been the App Store displaying updates that aren’t there and my music folder displaying the wrong album artwork on a few albums..
It’s only a tiny thing, but I like the way the background picture for the home screen moves as you tilt the phone.. The first few times I saw it I figured I had imagined it, then I thought my eyes were going funny, but I like it now that I know it’s not me going insane :)
Just waiting for kitkat …… whats an iphone anyway ?
I have an android therefore I can scroll ;)
But seriously ios 7 is pretty like the fact with the icloud you can just stream as oppose to using up space on your iPhone
Could you not always do that?
Maybe it’s just me but i can’t see what all the fuss has been about I’m kinda meh after downloading it really
I used to be able to answer or reject a call by pressing one of two buttons. Now with IOS7, I have to swipe to answer and there’s no option to reject the call. How is that an improvement ?
the dynamic wallpaper. moving bubbles! they should also do drying paint. a darker color slowly getting lighter. wouldn’t that be fun? But more seriously it has a few nifty upgrades like the double click home button and the controls that are available before unlocking.
Not a single mention of the NSA backdoor/monitoring. People just don’t seem to mind handing their data over to be sold on. You’re just a commodity, Apple customers. Human resources indeed.
iOS 7 doesn’t come close to what a jailbreak can do ! Apple have stolen so many ideas from jailbraking developers.
If this is what Apple call innovation these days… They are doomed!
I am no tech whizz but I love it, best update by Apple yet imo!
I love the new os.
i love the way IOS and the phone work seemlessly. example: i want to open an app – it opems. Its not slow and when i want it to do something it does it immediatly. Its also simple, people who were never used to a smart phone eg older people/non geeks can make it work. My girlfrend had an android and she never used anything other than text, calls and emails. she broke it and now has an iphone and she’s downloading apps, no issues at all. same can be said about older people i know with an iphone who’ve gotten free upgrades. i know farmers who used to go through endless phones because of the nature of the business and they say the iphone is the toughest they’s got.
If you loose your phone all your pictures, contacts and importand information is all saved in the cloud so when you get a new one put in your password and you’ve got all your contacts again. if your phone is broken in warrenty and you take it into a store they’ll give you a new one there and then, no issues. no sending off to be repaired (in my case anyway).
Apple keep it simple, they make the phone, they make the software. most importantly is that it works.
But Android does all of that too. All you’ve essentially said there is that it’s a dumbed down OS for old people, farmers, and ditsy girls.
ok then half the android users i’ve spoke to must have shocking bad (Samsung/HTC) phones or corrupted software because i hear a lot of complaints over it being slow, one lost all his pictures on a broken memory card. these phone are more than a year old, not the brand new ones out of the box. some of those phone bearly survive the 2yr contract.
its very rare to hear of a slow iphone (not impossible though) these days, apart from the 3gs which people still use and they still work. perfectly. apple are better at keeping customers happy as they make both the software and the phone. Google won’t fix your broken phone because they don’t make phones.
if i want to state the truth, i know a hell of a lot of people who simply can’t afford an iphone or the top end samsung galaxy so the only option is android for them. how much of the market do those people fall in to.
It was touted to be a lot more than it actually is.
I think it’s great, it was really needed. I’m quite surprised by the poll actually.
Love it…love it…love it
To all those people having trouble scrolling down. I reckon your fingers are broken. Working fine for me.
It needs 3 GB of storage!!! B@lls to that. I’d have to delete half my music.
It only needs that for setup the actual os is half that
Its a completely superficial makeover. Only the swipe up to access brightness etc improves the user experience. Still no 3rd party app support and still no multiple accounts.
3rd party apps are possible but it must be a jail broken phone. its for stability, security and safety reasons.
just jail brake your iphone and u can have 3rd party apps.
Love it. Great new look and feel to it. Plenty small extras to keep us happy too. Was worth the long download delay …
Do I need to back up first before the update ? I have a 4s. Was data lost?
Definitely do, just in case.
All my apps and photos disappeared but reappeared after an hour.
It is great. Very flick in the iPhone 5! The only thing is a lot if the app icons look dated. To avoid the eye carnage of the mix of apps old and new, i have only allowed the new 2d type apps into my first app page. Second page is for older apps. Not ideal, as the first page is reserved for most used apps normally!
I love it, I have it on the iPad and it updated in 10 minutes, thing is iv heard that it took some people 1-2 hours to update, unsure which devices (iPad or iPhone) but I didint experience anything like that! It’s brilliant as my 4 year old now needs the 4 digit code to unlock it..he shall never know it! :D
Very happy with the update. Safari now remembers usernames and passwords.
Being able to switch off wifi and change brightness from lock screen is very handy too.
It just baffles me why android fan boys come in to crap all over iPhone related threads. Are you people really so lacking in a life that you foam at the mouth at the thought that someone prefers a different phone? Sad really.
Loving the new OS. Not problems to download at all. Working very well. Sari voice sounds a bit crackled but nothing to write home about. Great that apple final put in a call blocking feature too. No need to upgrade to a 5, my 4s is like a new phone.
Since updated noticed it has been eating the battery anyone else notice this?
Don’t go near the ‘switch control ‘under accessibility.
Sounds cool to be able to move your head and the phone responds bit you will get stuck in there you won’t be able to get out ( 3 clicks on the home button sometimes works) . Then when you do this coloured box moves all over your screen with no apparent purpose.
Keeps crashing on ipad & iPhone why??? Just keeps logging out when in the middle of doing something grrrrr
I loved Apple products until I erroneously downloaded iOS7. I would have gotten an android or Windows phone if I wanted something cheesy looking. I hate the flat look and crappy colors. And now I can’t go back to the old operating system???!!! That is cheesiest of all !!! Thanks a lot Apple-you just lost a customer.
Update isn’t coming up automatically in my settings! Is this the same for everyone or do I need to sync it on laptop?!!!!
Very thin and cheap looking, has the plasticky feeling of windows an android, the end of an era?
Cant find spotlight search on it. Even when pull down from top of screen for notifications it isnt there.
From the home screen, put your finger in the centre of the screen and swipe down
Ah now i see it. Thats great. Cheers for that!
Since i updated have noticed its earing the battery,anyone else have this problem? Few people i know have said the same.
I see you can finally block a number on an iPhone. Settings> Phone> Blocked..
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