Apple 12 days of christmas 2013 app

Agent Coulson

It is in the app store now. Goes live on the 26th.

Creamy Goodness

in before the first moaner about a free gift.

FourFourRED

Beware. This is the result of what happened me with the app last year!

Tzardine

Not going to waste my time this year.

dloob

I ended up reading chick lit :eek:

Fr_Dougal

Aodhagan wrote: »

Beware. This is the result of what happened me with the app last year!

WTF? How come the mods allow filth like this to be posted on boards? Surely it's a site-banning offence?

coylemj

Only runs on iOS7, thanks Apple.

I can understand giving people reasons to upgrade to new models but what possible feature of iOS7 could a simple app like this require?

NetNinja

coylemj wrote: »

Only runs on iOS7, thanks Apple.

I can understand giving people reasons to upgrade to new models but what possible feature of iOS7 could a simple app like this require?

You will probably find the free apps don't need Ios7 so you will probably be able to download them from the app store each day. At least it was possible last year. Sure you won't have the suspense & excitement of the animation of the 12 days app each day (

murpho999

Incredible how people complain about this before it's going.

Huge sense of entitlement and now complainst about it being for iOS7

App looks slicker this year so perhaps they're giviing away better stuff.

crazyderk

2 free songs from the artist lorde today as a treat to get you prepared for Xmas

ronanc1000

Disappointed you need ios7 in order to download the app.

efb

@MacTrast: Apple starts their 12 Days of Gifts early...with a FREE Lorde single and music video! Go get it! http://t.co/8dP5moqYtN

Creamy Goodness

ronanc1000 wrote: »

Disappointed you need ios7 in order to download the app.

Why? iOS 7 is available on iPhone 4/iPad 2 and above. Apple don't sell any devices lower than that.

murpho999

Day One - Justin Timberlake single.

Not one for me so I simply don't download it.

No doubt though people will be calling Apple mean etc.

bop1977

Well it was recorded at their iTunes festival. So yes apple are a bit mean. ;-)

makoten

Some other countries got a game instead of this single.

Mimikyu

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Frank Lee Midere

Africa isn't free for me. I have a UK account. Probably it's location aware.

Mimikyu

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nava

Anyone know if there's a website that list what it's free in other countries? I know other years there was a link in Itunes in each country to the free item.

Neeson

A free Buke!

Neeson

Child's game

hoodwinked

i have an american account and an irish account so ill post what each has on.


today is the same on both though...

BanjoB

I'm loving Tiny Thief. Great little game!.

Armonline

Home Alone movie today

Zcott

woohoo!

FourFourRED

It's the movie Hugo in the US.

coylemj

What's free today folks? On a G4 iTouch so can't load the app (requires iOS7 ) , hence I need to manually download but I need to be told where to go looking.

Edit: found an unofficial Twitter account (https://twitter.com/12_Days) which is tweeting the identity of each day's gift for the UK, seems to be the same for Ireland.

hoodwinked

today in both American and Irish its New years eve mix by Avicii

hoodwinked

today in the irish store Rayman Jungle Run,



in the American store its still yesterday so its still Avicii!

hoodwinked

today is Pictures of Lily by paige toon in the irish one


in the american one its Diary of a wimpy kid (book 1) by Jeff Kinney,


i read page 1 of both, i'm currently on page 123 of wimpy kid, its so funny.

FourFourRED

hoodwinked wrote: »

today is Pictures of Lily by paige toon in the irish one


in the american one its Diary of a wimpy kid (book 1) by Jeff Kinney,


i read page 1 of both, i'm currently on page 123 of wimpy kid, its so funny.

I actually enjoy the movies too.

Yakuza

Pretty silly forcing you to go to IOS7 for the 12 days app, when none of the free apps themselves need it (I upgraded my old iPhone4 to IOS7, so I use it to download the free app/book/music and the other devices in the house just pick it up automatically). Pretty meh so far with the exception of Tiny Thief (not complaining about free stuff, mind - you get what you (don't) pay for)

patmac

This is so lame this year.

murpho999

patmac wrote: »

This is so lame this year.

People say it every year.

Been a selection of games, books, music and films so far and I don't know what more people are expecting.

It's free and funny thing is if Apple had never ever done this then no one would have said a word.

Creamy Goodness

Google's offering is so much better... oh, wait...

Armonline

patmac wrote: »

This is so lame this year.

Actually I think it has been the best year for stuff from this promotion. Still hard to please everyone.

patmac

Armonline wrote: »

Actually I think it has been the best year for stuff from this promotion. Still hard to please everyone.

If your 6 and female then its better the 2 books are chick lit, the little thief game is ok, Justin Timberlake meh, Home Alone is on TV 2 or 3 times this year already, the Rayman game is free anyway. As Apple make €10 billion, trillion dollars a year if they are giving away free stuff as a marketing exercise they could make it half decent.

Johnnio13

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

Why? iOS 7 is available on iPhone 4/iPad 2 and above. Apple don't sell any devices lower than that.

I have an iPad 1 which I believe Apple sold me. Your comment doesn't make any sense. You can't upgrade beyond 5.1.1 with iPad 1. Overall Apple are saying it only affects 20% of owners. But when you sell tens of millions of devices 20% is a big big number.

murpho999

patmac wrote: »

If your 6 and female then its better the 2 books are chick lit, the little thief game is ok, Justin Timberlake meh, Home Alone is on TV 2 or 3 times this year already, the Rayman game is free anyway. As Apple make €10 billion, trillion dollars a year if they are giving away free stuff as a marketing exercise they could make it half decent.

Home Alone is on TV three times already this year (Wow in 3 days) does not mean you own the movie or can play on an Apple device.

Like saying that the songs that they charge for are also on the radio.

Really, they're giving away free stuff and it's not all made to appeal to your tastes.

Chick lit reading Justin Timberlake fans would probably not like the stuff you want!

patmac

Tom O'Dell EP today they are certainly targeting a younger female demographic this year.

Creamy Goodness

Johnnio13 wrote: »

I have an iPad 1 which I believe Apple sold me. Your comment doesn't make any sense. You can't upgrade beyond 5.1.1 with iPad 1. Overall Apple are saying it only affects 20% of owners. But when you sell tens of millions of devices 20% is a big big number.

Apple don't sell devices anymore that aren't capable of running iOS 7. Times move on in tech so fast.

makoten

As a general rule for myself, it's a good idea to avoid first releases of a new iOS device. The iPad 2 is really what the first iPad should have been, which lacked front and rear cameras.

Anyway, the free app for today is Mr. Crab.

Armonline

Day 12 is out and is some Live Rolling Stones tracks