The famed Apple critic John Gruber of Daring Fireball believes that the much talked about tracking down of user’s location data on the iPhone is likely an oversight or a bug, which is mostly likely going to be fixed in the next iOS 4.3.3 / 4.4 update.
We have already reported about how the iPhone or iPad running on iOS 4.x has been secretly tracking all your moves. Security researchers have revealed that iPhone tracks user’s location and stores it in a secret hidden file which is replicated to the computer once it’s synchronized with the device.
Apple has just posted earnings for Q2 2011. They have managed to sold a record number of 18.65 million iPhones, 4.69 million iPads, 9.02 million iPods, 3.76 million Macs, and made around $24.67 billion in revenue. These statistics are slightly lower than the earnings recorded for Q1 2011 where the Cupertino-based company broke its own previous records.
The updated version of Real Racing 2 HD for iPad 2 with support for full 1080p video out is finally available now on the App Store.
Apple has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung for the Galaxy line of products. Apple claims that Samsung has infringed on their rights with the Galaxy S phones and Tab by violating various patents which were assigned to Apple by US PTO.
Redsn0w 0.9.6rc14 is now available which adds support for untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4 on the latest iOS 4.3.2 firmware. Those of you who rely on a carrier unlock MUST STAY AWAY from Redsn0w and stock iOS 4.3.2 firmware and wait for the updated version of Sn0wbreeze and PwnageTool.
Apple has just released iTunes 10.2.2 for both Windows and Mac which is mainly a performance and stability enhancement release, targeted to fix a number of bugs found in the previous release.
You know iOS is as smooth as butter but there are a few things it misses that users have been asking for since forever: better notification system and some sort of widgets for example.
iPhone hacker Comex, who was behind popular jailbreak tools such as Spirit and JailbreakMe believes that untethered jailbreak on iOS 4.3.2 might still be possible using i0n1c’s (Stefan Esser) existing jailbreak exploit for iOS 4.3.1.
If you don’t care about baseband upgrade, the current latest version of Redsn0w 0.9.6 can also jailbreak iOS 4.3.2 for both Windows and Mac users on iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad, and iPod touch 4G/3G.
