Apple has decided to officially respond to the iPhone’s location database issue that has been undergoing intense scrutiny by the media and industry experts. In a Q&A response, Apple has addressed why the iPhone logs your location, and what Apple does with that information.
An alleged email from Steve Jobs answered this issue already with a simple response: “We don’t track anyone.” That’s the message that Apple is confirming with this Q&A response… Read More
Would you complete a “special offer” to legally download a paid app for free? The folks at OfferedApp think so, and they’ve created an advertiser-supported service for delivering paid apps for free.
OfferedApp is almost like Woot.com, except only for apps. The service gives you an app originally priced anywhere from $1-$10 and offers to for a free download. The only catch is that you must first complete anything from an online survey to sitting through a video advertisement.
Sound interesting? Let’s take a closer look… Read More
It’s finally coming! Apple has officially confirmed the long-awaited white iPhone 4. The mythical device will be available, April 28, on both AT&T and Verzion and in 28 countries.
Pricing is exactly the same as the black iPhone 4 with a two year contract. The device will be available in a 16GB and 32GB model.
Press release after the break! Read More
Much like the infamous white iPhone 4, I can’t wait for Apple’s new cloud services to be revealed. Ever since Apple purchased LaLa’s streaming music service and built that data center in North Carolina, the cloud rumors haven’t stopped.
While generally these rumors consist of speculation from analysts, this one comes from folks in the music business. CNET is reporting that they have word from ‘music industry insiders’ that Apple has indicated to them that they could offer the services free of charge initially, and eventually require a fee… Read More
Continuing with the whole iOS location-tracking fiasco, the folks over at All Things D have posted a video from last year of Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Google Android co-founder and former CEO, Andy Rubin, discussing their thoughts regarding privacy and location tracking on smartphones.
The video footage includes snippets from last years D8 conference and December 2010′s Dive Into Mobile conference. Both Jobs and Rubin assured smartphone owners that privacy was valued on both platforms… Read More
A couple days ago we told you about a nifty little tool for the Mac called ipswDownloader. The app allows you to manually download just about any iOS firmware version for your iDevice.
The only negative thing about ipswDownloader was that it was only available on the Mac. Luckily, someone has ported ipswDownloader for Windows! Now Windows users can download firmware with these easy tool… Read More
iPad 2 owners, hoping to jailbreak, have had a rough go of it. Initially, we thought the exploit for Apple’s latest tablet would be available soon after launch. Now, 2 months after its release, the latest Apple tablet has yet to have a stable solution.
If you haven’t been keeping up with the iPad 2 jailbreak situation, let me quickly fill you in.
Comex posted a picture of his iPad 2 jailbroken last month, but he has since quit working on the exploit. With Comex out, all eyes turned to p0sixninja, who tweeted that he and the Chronic Dev team were working on the exploit. However, he has since commented that the iPad 2 jailbreak has been progressing extremely slowly.
Enter d0nfyxn, an unknown hacker with no previous history of jailbreak-related work. Over the last few days he’s been uploading videos and pictures of his iPad 2 running Cydia and Installous, which are well known jailbroken applications.
He’s not just bragging about his exploit either, he’s promising an alpha release by tomorrow. Only time will tell if he’s for real or not.
I’m definitely marking this down as a rumor until I see it working for my own eyes, it wouldn’t be too difficult to fake something like this. The fact that this guy came out of no where, and has only been a Twitter user for a few days, also makes the whole story pretty sketchy.
We’ll keep you posted on how this all unfolds, and let you know as soon as a stable jailbreak is ready.
Is anyone excited about the possibility of an iPad 2 jailbreak?
It’s not real hard to figure out what an app called ScreenSaver does. The Cydia application has been making some noise around the web the last few days, so we figured we should mention it on iDB.
For those who don’t know, ScreenSaver takes .mov files stored in its Library folder and automatically plays them when the iPhone auto-locks itself. It sounds pretty cool, but does it really work as advertised? Read More
True, the iPhone 4 has been out for like, forever, so it normally wouldn’t warrant an unboxing video.
I mean, you could feel free to make an unboxing video for your iPhone 4 right now, and no one would care.
But when you throw the color white into the ring, things change all of the sudden. Techies get excited, unboxing videos get made, and people grab their popcorn.
Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you, the long lost cousin of the device you probably have sitting in your pockets right now…the White iPhone 4… Read More
The popular Twitter client for the iPhone, Tweetdeck, has significantly upgraded to version 2.0. As one of the original third party Twitter apps, Tweetdeck has been a fan favorite client in the App Store for a long time.
The develepors behind Tweetdeck have completely redesigned the iPhone app from the ground up. Tweetdeck 2.0 offers a whole new set of features and looks quite different from its previous version.
More info after the break… Read More
