As predicted Apple has released iOS 5, iCloud, and Mac OS X Lion 10.7
Apple has revealed alot of stuff today. iOS 5 with 200 new features, Lion with 250 new features, and iCloud.
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Apple Reveals iOS5, iCloud, and Mac OS X Lion 10.7
June 6th, 2011Apple Confirms Mac OS X Lion (10.7), iOS 5, and “iCloud” for June 6, 2011 (WWDC2011)
May 31st, 2011
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Apple has done an extremely odd move today, it for once has completely broken its secrecy to a main event.
Normally Apple events are deep secrets until the event but not this time.
A PR statement from Apple today confirms Mac OS X Lion 10.7, iOS 5 for iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad, and iCloud for WWDC 2011. Meaning all 3 will launch on June 6, 2011.
Apples Press Release;
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Opera Mini 6 Now Out For iPhone/iPad
May 24th, 2011
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Opera has released Opera Mini 6 for iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad.
Whats new in Opera mini 6 is a new interface, full iPad support, retina display support for iPhone, and other enhancements.
Opera has released a demo video of Opera Mini 6 for Apple’s iOS;
Opera Mini 6 was fully able to handle 10 open tabs at once on my iPod Touch 3rd generation, quite impressive.
Apple Online Store Taken Down Until May 22nd
May 20th, 2011
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Well the news of Apple store 2.0 may also apply to its online store.
Apple has taken down its online store until May 22nd. Which means that there probably is going to be huge changes.
No product launches are expected but more internal Apple changes.
Rumors speculate all Apple employees will get iPad 2′s to use and to take orders.
We shall know in 2 days time.
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Patent Firm Threatening Lawsuits Over Apps Using Apples In-App-Purchasing
May 13th, 2011
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There have been reports of independent developers getting patent infringement warnings via Fed Ex.
It appears the threatening of lawsuits over a patent that regards the exchange of usage data between customer and seller.
Also noted it seems is that the firm is suing independent firms that use Apples In-App Purchasing tool and not Apple itself.
I find it weird but also cowardly to attack developers who make apps rather than the company that may be violating their patents.
It’s also weird to note that there is no legal protected in Canada or the states for developers who may have this kind of problems.
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- iOS Developers Targeted With Lawsuits For Using Apple’s In-App Purchases (thenextweb.com)
- iOS Devs Hit by Patent Infringement Notices For In-App Purchases (macstories.net)
iOS 4.3.3 out now
May 4th, 2011
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Apple has released iOS 4.3.3.
The most important reason is that the “location tracking bug” is fixed.
The update includes fixes to encrypt the location data cache, no longer sync it with iTunes, and delete it if it’s turned off.
Its available for iPad 2, iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 3rd Gen, iPod Touch 4th Gen.
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Official Apple Response “We are not tracking you, just collecting a database”
April 27th, 2011Image via CrunchBase
Apple has officially responded on the “Apple is tracking me” fiasco.
Apple’s official response is…we are not tracking your location, just collecting data for a database.
3. Why is my iPhone logging my location?
The iPhone is not logging your location. Rather, it’s maintaining a database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers around your current location, some of which may be located more than one hundred miles away from your iPhone, to help your iPhone rapidly and accurately calculate its location when requested. Calculating a phone’s location using just GPS satellite data can take up to several minutes. iPhone can reduce this time to just a few seconds by using Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data to quickly find GPS satellites, and even triangulate its location using just Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data when GPS is not available (such as indoors or in basements). These calculations are performed live on the iPhone using a crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data that is generated by tens of millions of iPhones sending the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple.
So Apple is changing a lot of things in an upcoming iOS update such as;
- Encrypting the cache
- Deleting the cache if you turn of location data
- Reducing the size of the data cache
- Not backing up the cache
So basically Apple still “track” you but much more nicely Apple says that this “crowd-sourcing” is for traffic data coming soon.
But make sure to read the full article Apple has provided here.
Why I am not concerned about the “Apple Tracking Nightmare”
April 22nd, 2011Image via CrunchBase
Everyone is up in arms about a new “feature” found in the iPhone/iPad 3G.
What’s the whole issue? There is a file called “consolidated.db”.
The database file stores a detailed log of the GPS movements that is used in maps or etc.
Why is this such an issue? Because now that the database is discovered people will be able to hack into your phone and see where you’ve been right?
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Blackberry Playbook Tablet Launches in Canada/US To Little Fanfare
April 19th, 2011
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Blackberry has finally launched there tablet called the playbook.
Unfortunately there is reports of little no fanfare of the device launching. No ads, no press releases, no twitter streams…its just out – no one really knows.
The Blackberry playbook is a 7 inch tablet that is a competitor to Apples iPad 2, and Motorollas Xoom.
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iOS 4.3.2 To Fix Verizon iPad 2 Issues; Facetime Issues
April 11th, 2011Image via Wikipedia
Apple may or may not be releasing iOS 4.3.2 soon.
Rumors speculate that iOS 4.3.2 will fix the Verizon iPad 2 issues, Facetime issues, security vulnerability, and other things.
Hopefully this is the case, and hopefully the update comes out soon since alot of people are effected by the bugs in the current software version of the iPad 2.
