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.
All talk of the purported iPad Mini has been relatively quiet during the past month or two, but with Google announcing its Nexus 7 tablet at the I/O fanfare last week, more information appears to be surfacing with regards to how Apple plans to tackle the very powerful, inexpensive device.
A report surfacing from the famously hit-and-miss DigiTimes claims Apple is preparing to release a Retina-displaying iMac as early as October. Consumers were dazzled by the sharp display of the MacBook Pro with Retina display unveiled at WWDC this year, and although natural progression suggests the rest of the line-up will follow suit, most presumed we would be waiting until at least early next year.
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.
It's hard to imagine a technology partnership bigger than that of Apple and Facebook. The world’s largest and most exciting technology company has recently embraced the world’s largest social network by offering native sharing support in the up and coming OS X Mountain Lion as well as iOS 6, with the latter being set to be released later this year.
Certain parts of iOS have remained pretty much identical since they first saw light back in 2007. When placed side by side with earlier versions - back before it was even called iOS - the software will look different and there are many traces of evolution, but there is quite a large part of the software that has been left untouched in the last five years.
In an interview on Finnish TV, a Nokia executive has claimed that the phone maker has a fallback plan should Windows Phone 8 not meet the company's expectations. That fallback plan? Google's open source Android operating system.
Many of us like to keep our SMS messages private, and although Apple has yet to offer any such feature beyond a lock screen passcode for iOS, there luckily exists a bunch of apps (although mostly jailbreak-only), which allow the security of passing messages on an iPhone to be heightened.
Legal battles are an ongoing undercurrent in the ever-changing world of tech, and rarely a gizmo manages to reach the retail consumer market without a rivaling company launching patent disputes.
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."
