Happy 4th of July to our readers from America! To make the federal holiday special, we went out and hunted for the best iOS / Android apps that have had their prices cut specially for Independence Day; our quest so far has resulted in a treasure trove of awesome apps. All of them are listed right after the jump. Check them out and be sure to share this post with your friends and family!
While most consumers only pay attention to an iOS software update when it pops up on their device or in iTunes, the lengthy beta process beforehand is when said firmware version is perfected. With new features come new compatibility issues, which frequently see a beta release revised several times before eventually reaching the end-user. One iOS enthusiast by the name of Will Hains decided to dig deep, creating a breakdown of each iOS iteration from its inception as the old iPhone OS back in 2007 up to the present day.
Steve Jobs was not only Apple's co-founder, but the driving force behind most of the company's successful times, and although he was known throughout his career as being quite a ruthless CEO, his character and mannerisms always made him a hit with Apple enthusiasts at the keynote speeches.
We've already heard today of how Apple is continuing its dogmatic fight in the legal slog with nemesis Samsung, but the fruit company may just be in over its head with rumors now surfacing of a coalition between the Korean company and Google, both of whom are said to be preparing what's being described as a "game plan."
Released just two days, Google Chrome has quickly become the jailbreak enthusiast’s favorite browser. It’s fast, it syncs beautifully with your desktop Chrome browser and, thanks to a tweak called BrowserChooser, Chrome for iOS can be set as default browser. I quickly switched to Chrome as soon as BrowserChooser was released and my experience so far has been pretty smooth.
Not sure about you guys residing in various parts of the world, but here in the UK, the weather is quite a big deal - primarily because summer usually occurs for a few hours each year, while the cold, wet and dark period is an almost permanent fixture.
The good folks at Google surprised a few people yesterday when they announced the immediate release of Google Chrome for iOS during the second day of proceedings at the annual I/O conference. Google has obviously recognized that Apple's mobile operating system is in dire need of a worthy competitor, a sentiment that is shared by users as it quickly shot to the top of the download charts on release day.
Now that Google has unveiled its proper entry into the living room entertainment space, the Nexus Q, is it worth considering against the already established products in the market from Microsoft and Google? Short answer: Unless you want to pay more for less, no. Here's the longer answer.
It really isn’t a big secret that the smartphone and tablet industry is an extremely competitive marketplace to be in. The iOS and Android operating systems are undoubtedly the two major players in this space, with Apple having sold more than 250 million iPhones in the last five years following the original launch and Google currently activating 1 million Android devices every day. The competition between the two platforms has always been a fierce one, but with Apple announcing their own mapping system in iOS 6 to rival the tried and tested Google Maps, the competition has ramped up another notch.
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