It's finally here, folks! Apple has introduced and detailed the mysterious iCloud. Steve Jobs himself says that iCloud is something the company has been working on for 10 years, and iCloud has totally replaced MobileMe and added new services, such as Photo Stream.
Details below!
The new features keep pouring in as Scott Forestall, the man behind iOS, announces update after update in the new iDevice software. While we knew that a new notifications system and other revamps were coming, not much was said about the iOS Mail app.
There wasn't really anything wrong with the previous version of the iOS Mail app, but it did leave a couple of things to be desired. Apple must've gotten wind of jailbreak tweaks like Rich Text for Mail, because they just included it and other features in iOS 5...
Apple just dropped a bombshell. As the rumors correctly predicted, Apple will be bringing over-the-air iOS updates. And instead of having to plug your device into iTunes on a PC to initially register, you will be able to active an iDevice from the device itself- out of box.
OTA firmware updates and backups will be introduced in iOS 5, and you can now say that you've officially "cut the cord."
iOS 5 will have a new and improved version of Mobile Safari that sports tabbed browsing across all iDevices. Alongside that, Safari also has a new feature called "Reading List" that acts as an Instapaper or Read It Later replacement.
If you sign in on one device, your browsing information and tabs will be transferred across devices.
In the months leading up to Apple's WWDC event, push notifications seemed to be at the top of every iPhone user's wish lists for features to get revamped in iOS 5. In the last few weeks, we've seen a lot of evidence that Apple was looking to do just that.
Well the wait is over folks as Steve Jobs and company have taken the stage at WWDC to unveil the latest version of iOS, and once again Apple has not disappointed. Enter the new Notifications Center, which happens to look a lot like MobileNotifier...
Scott Forstall just dropped the numbers on the success of Apple's iOS. Needless to say, the results are pretty impressive.
iOS owns 44% of the market, with over 200 million devices registered. If 10% of iOS devices are jailbroken, that means 20 million jailbroken devices! More info after the break!
It's finally here, folks! Today is the keynote presentation by Apple for the World Wide Developers Conference 2011. Every year, Apple gathers the brightest minds in app development under one roof at The Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.
This year, as usual, Steve Jobs will be presenting Apple's lastest products. The focus of WWDC '11 is software. Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud are all confirmed topics of discussion for today's keynote.
We've gathered some helpful resources to help you follow today's keynote and get breaking news. Info after the break!
If there's one thing us geeks like more than a celebrity CEO, it's a book about one. With that in mind it's perhaps not a great surprise that the biography of Steve Jobs is already a Bestseller across multiple categories for Amazon - and it's not even out yet.
Unimaginatively titled 'iSteve', the book currently holds the top spot in the technology, biography & history and business categories on Amazon.com, with the Walter Isaacson work sitting in 29th place in the top 100 books on the site...
In an interview at All Things Digital's D9 conference, AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega hinted that the mobile phone carrier is working on a new, smaller SIM card standard for future smartphones just as Apple is already confirmed to be.
According to AppleInsider, the comment came after All Things Digital's Ina Fried asked about the possibility of a new embedded SIM card as Apple had been rumored to favor, saving valuable space inside ever-shrinking handsets...
Well, well, well... look who we have here. Could that be the father of jailbreaking himself, Jay "saurik" Freeman, sitting in line for Apple's World Wide Develepors Conference?
Yes, that is saurik. Freeman is apparently in attendance for Apple's developer conference this week, and he's already in line at The Moscone Center. First Peter Hajas gets hired by Apple, now this? Pretty soon we'll see Steve Jobs talk about jailbreaking during a keynote...
We're less than 24 hours away from the big opening to WWDC 2011 now, and the rumors are still flying as to what we will and won't see when Steve Jobs puts sneaker to stage at the Moscone Center. The latest buzz comes courtesy of Apple fanboy and tech pundit John Gruber, with the Daring Fireball himself sharing his thoughts on tomorrow's announcements.
The full post goes on for a good few hundred words and re-hashes much of what the community has already speculated over the last week or so, but with one considerable exception. According to Gruber's fourth-hand information, we shouldn't be thinking of Apple's iCloud as the new MobileMe, but rather the new iTunes. Intrigued? So were we...
On the eve of the 2011 World Wide Developers Conference, magic is in the air. The Apple rumor mill has been churning, and Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud are all confirmed topics of discussion for tomorrow's keynote. Steve Jobs himself will be presenting, and the industry eagerly awaits to see how Apple will revolutionize the market.
The iDB team has prepared a Q&A-style roundtable discussion with each of our opinions on what we expect from the WWDC keynote tomorrow. Read each of our thoughts and comments after the break!