Less than 24 hours away from WWDC, the Apple community, especially iOS enthusiasts, are impatiently awaiting announcements at what will be a very iOS-heavy keynote. After months of rumors, the Cupertino company announced last week it would be introducing iOS 5 at the conference. Aside from the benefits it will likely bring to consumers, many enthusiasts are left to ask themselves: what will jailbreaking look like in iOS 5? In order to answer that question, I think we need to look at the origins of jailbreaking itself, and the need for it in the first place.
According to AppShopper, a reputable iOS and Mac OS X app directory, over 400,000 apps are now available for download for iOS in Apple’s App Store (with over 500,000 being approved apps), or more precisely, 401,437. If AppShopper's statistics are accurate, this is yet another milestone for Apple and iOS platform.
There's speculation that Apple is planning to introduce an iPad with a quad-core processor in order to remain at a competitive advantage with its competitors, which are looking to adopt quad-core technologies themselves.
According to Apple itself, iOS 5 will allow automatic over-the-air App updates. This was confirmed by the iTunes App Update page, which alluded to the new feature.
iOS 5 is going to be Apple's next-generation mobile operating system, running on iPhones, iPads and iPod touches. This new artist-made concept, created by Monkey Color and entitled "4 things we'd LOVE to see in the next iOS", depicts features that are rumored to be coming in iOS 5, such as widgets and an enhanced notification system.
iH8Sn0w, a Toronto-based iPhone developer, released iFaith, a new SHSH blob dumper for all iOS devices which can save SHSH files of any firmware running on your device even if Apple is not signing it.
Independent developers have a finite amount of time in which to put together their smartphone apps, and they obviously want to get the maximum return on their work. Taking their Android apps and porting them across to iOS is certainly a time consuming practice, assuming the particular developer has the technical know-how to do the work.
We're just days away from this year's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference and as usual the rumor-mill is in full swing. Apple has already confirmed iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion will be shown off at the event's keynote address, along with the much anticipated iCloud service, whatever that may turn out to be. But now we have a whole new rumor, and we like it. We like it a lot!
Apple has never been too keen on BitTorrent clients, blocking every single one from ever reaching the App Store. But even if you don't want to jailbreak your phone, there's a way around this restriction, and best of all, it's totally free!
Well well well, the whole Apple Vs. Samsung legal debacle just took a turn for the down right strange. According to ThisIsMyNext's Nilay Patel, Samsung's lawyers have asked courts to order Apple to hand over the company's latest iPhone 5 and iPad 3 prototypes so they can check their own hardware doesn't mirror that of hardware coming from Cupertino any time soon.
