Top 10 Google Chrome features for iOS

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated July 11, 2017

As we reported yesterday, Google Chrome was released on iOS and it was met with much fanfare. Although it's not, and probably never will be as fast as Safari (unless Apple decides to even the playing field), it tries to make up for the speed difference with awesome features like cross-platform syncing, the Omnibox, and much more.

With this in mind, we've decided to cover 10 of our favorite things about Google Chrome for iOS. Who knows? Perhaps there will be a few items on the list that you weren't even aware of...

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Apple to reportedly launch revamped third-gen iPad this summer

Cody Lee ∙ Updated March 19, 2019

Yeah as far as crazy rumors go, this one could be among the craziest. A new report is out this morning claiming that Apple is set to release a revamped version of its third generation iPad this summer.

The difference between this tablet and the one that Apple released three months ago is that it's supposedly going to be thinner, have better battery life, and its Retina display is going to be made by Sharp...

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Apple wants to own iPad3.com

Christian Zibreg ∙ June 29, 2012

With the "new" iPad, Apple stopped applying numerical suffixes to distinguish iPad iterrations, a practice many expect to continue with a sixth-generation iPhone (think "the new iPhone").

The fact doesn't stop the company from fighting to secure ownership of the attractive iPad3.com domain name. Looks like someone's plans to pocket a little profit from serving a bunch of ads on a single homepage just got curbed by Cupertino...

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Come again? How much is the iPhone and iPad nation worth?

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated June 13, 2016

A bunch of numbers have been tossed around thus far to illustrate how valuable the iOS ecosystem and its users are to Apple, but this tops it all. According to none other than Goldman Sachs, a total combined value of the iPhone and iPad customer base is nearly $295 billion (you read that right).

Talk about the value of loyalty! The figure represents more than half the Apple's value of $543 billion and easily exceeds market capitalization of Microsoft ($256 billion), Google ($188 billion) or IBM ($225 billion)...

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Siri’s search accuracy graded as a D, Google text search gets a B+

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated June 13, 2016

Curious to figure out which is more accurate for searching, Apple's Siri or Google's traditional search engine, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster pitted Siri's voice-activated search against Google's old-fashioned text-based searching. He and his team set out to ask their iPhones a total of 1,600 questions, 800 on the busy streets of Minneapolis, 800 in a quiet room. His findings will no doubt come as a surprise to even the most vocal Siri proponents out there...

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Google’s Chrome is already No. 1 free App Store app

Christian Zibreg ∙ June 29, 2012

In less than 24 hours following its official introduction, Google's Chrome browser for the iPhone and iPad has risen to become the No. 1 free app on the App Store. That's a remarkable achievement, one clearly highlighting the popularity of Google's excellent web browser. Although it doesn't use the speedy Safari Nitro engine, Chrome for iOS is very zippy (speed test here) and enables seamless synchronization of browsing preferences and open tabs across desktop and mobile installations via your Google Account...

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Adobe to discontinue mobile Flash installs on August 15th

Cody Lee ∙ Updated March 19, 2019

Last fall, Adobe announced that it was going to be discontinuing its work on mobile Flash. The announcement essentially reaffirmed Apple's, and more specifically Steve Jobs', stance on the tech.

But in case that wasn't clear enough, the developer has just given a deadline for the cease and desist. As of August 15th, Flash will no longer be installable from Android's Google Play Store...

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Happy fifth birthday, iPhone!

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated March 18, 2016

"An iPod... A phone... And an Internet communicator," Steve Jobs quipped as a few in the audience broke out into sporadic laughter. Clearly on top of his game, Apple's mercurial chief executive is delivering a career-defining presentation. Behind him, three icons on a giant screen representing a music player, a phone and a Safari browser rotate in sync as each gets a mention.

It is January 2007 and the air is sucked out of the Moscone West building. As Jobs confidently strides on stage, holding the audience in the palm of his hand, MacWorld Expo attendees, journalists attending the CES show in Las Vegas and fans the world over, their eyes glued to news sites, are all beginning to realize that something really, really profound is going down in San Francisco.

Following years of ambiguous denials and many, many, many months of rampant speculation, Apple - a Cupertino, California-based Macintosh and iPod creator - is about to tell the world it would revolutionize the phone...

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Make Chrome your default browser in iOS with BrowserChooser

Cody Lee ∙ Updated February 25, 2013

So that didn't take long. It hasn't been 12 hours since Chrome popped up in the App Store, and there's already a jailbreak tweak available that allows you to make it the default browser in iOS.

BrowserChooser comes courtesy of jailbreak developer Ryan Petrich. And if you're a fan of Google's mobile browser, you're going to want to download this package as soon as possible...

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All hundred Atari’s Greatest Hits games are free for the next six hours

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated October 10, 2018

As part of Atari's 40th birthday, the publisher just announced an interesting promotion that lets you grab all of its classic game ports for the iPhone and iPad totally free of charge.

The Atari's Greatest Hits app has always been a free download, but each of a hundred Atari 2600 and arcade games found in this collection is normally a paid download through in-app purchases (except Missile Command).

You don't want to pass on this one, but there are some caveats you should know about...

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Verizon launches Share Everything plans

Cody Lee ∙ Updated May 30, 2017

As expected, Verizon launched its new Share Everything plans today. The plans feature unlimited voice minutes, unlimited text messaging, and various data allotments.

Current subscribers will be able to hold on to their legacy plans (for the time being). But new customers will be forced to choose from one of these new shared options...

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