My New iPhone 6 iOS9 (Updated)

(Right-hand Pic edited to my arrangement)

My old Android (Google) was dying, so I just got an Apple iPhone 6 iOS9.

I found out that if you are running iOS9, Android has a Move from Android to iPhone app.


This made getting all my data (contacts, pictures, etc.) transferred to my iPhone easy.

It is a very nice smartphone, but it took me about 20hrs tinkering to get it the way I wanted it.  Then there's the cost (don't ask) even though I use Consumer Cellular which provides low cost phones, no-contract account, and you customize you plan.  Also give AARP discounts, which is great for us 70-somethings.

The madding thing is Apple insisting in forcing you to use iTunes to upload/sync anything.  I had a very @#!@@#! time figuring out how to get my ringtones on the iPhone.  In fact, it's iTunes that loads the driver so you can see you iPhone on your PC.

Finally found a YouTube video on how to do that, but if you watch it you'll see it is complicated.  But its better than trying any sync/download app to work as advertised.

UPDATE:  There are some mistakes in the above video, the author seems to be using an older version of iTunes.  Also there is a ringtone download site that you can use to get ringtones in the correct .m4r format.  ZEDGE Ringtones (screenshots below)

Home Page for my iPhone

Example Download page

I suggest you download to your computer so you can drag-drop to iTunes, therefore be available for new phones.  On my Win7 Pro 64bit rig, downloads go to the Downloads folder, do drag/drop to iTunes is easy.  Since the downloaded files are ringtone-ready, no need to go through the complicated steps of creating .m4r files.

CORRECTIONS:  Here are screen shots for newer versions of iTunes you need.

There were several sites that helped, here's two:

• 10 tips for setting up your new iPhone 6 the right way

• 12 iPhone 6 Tricks You Probably Don’t Know But Should

So far, I do like iPhone 6 iOS9..... so far.

TECHNOLOGY - Apple Without Steve Jobs?

"What Will Happen to Innovation at Apple With Jobs Out as CEO?" PBS Newshour 8/25/2011

Excerpts from transcript

RAY SUAREZ (Newshour): It was all a far cry from the days when Steve Jobs and co-founder Steve Wozniak began building their now ubiquitous brand, from scratch, in a California garage. They scored an early hit with the Apple II, the first consumer-grade computer to catch on. By the mid-1980s, the company was in a slump, and Jobs was forced out.

But he returned in 1996, and Apple began a turnaround. Still, in a rare interview in 2007, he said his work was never about creating the next big thing.

STEVE JOBS: We don't worry about stuff like that. We just try to build products that we think are really wonderful and that people might want. And sometimes we're right, and sometimes we're wrong.
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RAY SUAREZ: Walt Mossberg, whether it's consumer electronics, entertainment, even computing, which is where it all started, this has been a big impact player, hasn't it?

WALTER MOSSBERG, The Wall Street Journal: Well, you know, Ray, I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure.

He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America. He has not only disrupted and innovated in computers and consumer electronics for all those products we saw just now listed, but he has, in the process, shaken up and revolutionized the music industry, the movie industry, publishing industry. Even the retail industry, the Apple store chain that he built, is widely admired.

And on the side, while he was doing all that, he bought a little company called Pixar and turned it into the most successful studio in Hollywood and revolutionized animation.
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WALTER MOSSBERG: But the devotion to product is -- goes beyond just those words. It's really a devotion to designing products for actual users. You know, a lot of computer companies -- Hewlett-Packard is a good example in what they are doing in spinning off P.C.s -- are really much more interested in selling to businesses, selling to intermediaries, like I.T. departments.

Steve Jobs calls those orifices. He's much more interested in designing something for the actual consumer, whether they're in a big company or just a family. And that -- and he's a perfectionist about it. And he's surrounded himself with other people who are just laser-focused on that.

The other thing, Ray, I think is incredibly important is, they don't just make little innovations based on market research. They take big risks and make big bets on what they think the next thing that people will want is, even if the people don't know it themselves at the time.