While Apple's iCloud has enjoyed a good start to its life as a fully-fledged cloud service, the Cupertino company recognizes the importance of constantly updating and improving it - particularly given Microsoft and Google's recently introduced cloud-based efforts SkyDrive and Google Drive.
New discoveries suggest that iOS 6 could be shown off at WWDC, with a beta iCloud web portal potentially giving away the secrets of the developer get-together that kicks off next month.
Back in February, Apple was ruled to have infringed patents owned by Motorola Mobility regarding its iCloud / MobileMe e-mail push notifications structure. The fruit company lodged a subsequent appeal, but that was today rejected, meaning users now have to either set their device to refresh emails at specific times, or, worse still, open the Mail app and fetch new email manually.
Much discussion surrounding Apple's ecosystem lately has been about them cutting the cord to the computer through iCloud. However, iTunes remains an important product that some may still need to use (or want to, if they haven't gone entirely to the cloud). And, with that being said, 9to5Mac are hearing from some sources close to Apple that the company has begun seeding iTunes 11 - the next major release of the software - internally.
Apple has just released a new ad that shows off the "harmony" throughout its ecosystem that's thanks to iCloud. The ad opens with a user choosing to use iCloud upon configuring a 4S. A set of sequences then begin where the user performs an action on their iPhone 4S, and it shows up on their other Apple devices.
As the days and week progress, it would seem that the ongoing legal animosity between Apple and Motorola will continue to grow and cause disruption not only to both companies but also to their customers. This time, it is the turn of German users of Apple’s iCloud and MobileMe push services to suffer, thanks to a patent lawsuit which is currently going through proceedings between the two companies.
The introduction of iOS 5 in October 2011 not only brought an array of new features to iOS users and devices, but also brought a host of new APIs for developers to take advantage of. iOS 5 is the latest version of what is possibly the world’s most advanced mobile operating system which was launched with a full new software development kit with over 1,500 new APIs and development tools.
Apple's Photo Stream is potentially one of the most useful new features that Apple added to iOS 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. It takes everything that is saved to your Camera Roll, including newly taken photos and images that have been saved and then synchronizes it across iOS devices.
Apple has just released an update to their popular media player program iTunes. The update, numbered at 10.5.1 Beta 2 for developers, brings support for iTunes Match on Apple TV (10.5.1 Beta 1 brought it for iOS devices) which scans your music library and can match tracks with tracks in the iTunes Store.
It's common knowledge that whilst Apple has excelled in product sales and innovation with the likes of the iPhone, iPod and the iPad, its web ventures have been remarkably underwhelming, to put it mildly.
