Every time Apple drops a new product - particularly when it's a and iPhone or iPad - the inevitable pilgrimage towards those iconic Stores ensues, with consumers willing to withstand lengthy queues in all weathers to get their hands on the Cupertino's next big thing.
When we think and talk about Apple and their products, we generally focus on two key aspects, form and function, both of which make devices like the iPhone, iPod and iPad stand out in the marketplace above all competition. The iPod portable music player revolutionized the way we think about and listen to music. The iPhone was one of the first smartphones to fuse together advanced features with an almost flawless design and the iPad brought about what Apple is calling the "Post-PC" era, and looks set to go from strength to strength.
After enjoying the build up to the recent Apple event in San Francisco, we are now sitting in the aftermath of the company announcements which brought us the new iPad, a revamped Apple TV unit, various application upgrades and an immediate release of the iOS 5.1 software. For the most part, the Apple loving world will have walked away from the live streams of the event being extremely happy with what was announced. However, for those of you who rely on jailbreaking and unlocking your devices, the release of iOS 5.1 may not have been such good news.
One of the many new things to come out of Apple's recent iPad 3 event was the release of an iOS version of iPhoto. Rumored to be on the horizon for what feels like forever, iPhoto on an iPad, especially one with a Retina Display, just makes so much sense that it hurts.
For those among us that are hardcore fans of not only Apple products, but also the software and mobile applications that they make, I am pretty sure you paid close attention to the announcements made during the recent media event in San Francisco. The public and media focus centered predominately around the fact that Apple were launching a new and improved Apple TV as well as the all new iPad, both of which are set for public release a week from today.
Ever since that media event on Wednesday at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, consumers, bloggers, analysts - in fact everybody in and around the greater gadget-sphere has been talking about Apple's "new iPad" with scarcely any relent.
When Apple launched the iPhone 4S in October of 2011, one of the most talked about and probably its headline feature was the inclusion of the Siri intelligent assistant software which attempted to make life easier by being able to accomplish tasks given to it through a simple voice command. When invoked by the user, Siri is ready and able to take spoken orders which can range from setting meetings up in the calendar, checking the location of friends and family or even pulling up a weather forecast for most locations in the world.
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Smartphones that are powered by various different operating systems are fast becoming a necessity in our everyday lives. Once upon a time, when mobile telephones were first becoming accessible to the masses, they were as a big as a house brick and had functionality that was limited to making telephone calls and storing contacts. As with most things, as time progressed, so did the underlying technology of mobile devices allowing manufacturers to make them smaller, pack in more features and gradually become the mobile powerhouses that we all seem to carry around with us today.
The Apple and gadget loving world is going crazy about the new iPad, set to launch in seven days time around the world, but while it is great that we are going to have a beautiful, Retina ready iPad to play with, we need to spare some time to think about the iOS software that powers Apple's amazing devices. A relatively small part of the Apple media event in San Francisco was dedicated to the news that the company were set to release the latest 5.1 update to iOS. Tim Cook spent a few minutes discussing some small additions and paid most attention to the fact that it would being Siri to the Japanese market, but straight after the event device owners all over the world started seeing iOS 5.1 as an available update.
Every now and then, an event comes along which stands out from the rest and makes its name due to the fact that it is either the first of its kind, or, does something which has already been done but in an entirely different way. Toward the back end of 2011, we were proud to be involved as media partners for the MyGreatFest event, which took part in the heart of London, featuring some of the most prominent names that are associated with the jailbreak community on one way or the other.
