According to a new report, Apple is readying a much more feature-complete version of the operating system that drives its Apple TV set-top box.
Sources tell it's also bound to power that rumored HD TV set. It wasn't immediately clear from the report whether the enhanced OS will also support the $99 hockey puck and how it might tie with iOS 6.
The company will allegedly launch it at the upcoming WWDC developers conference in San Francisco which begins with a keynote on June 11 at 10am PST...
So what's up with that unpleasant Apple-Facebook fallout? Here's another video highlight of Tim Cook's yesterday's talk at the Wall Street Journal's D10: All Things Digital conference. In this particular segment, Apple's head honcho explains the Apple-Facebook relationship, touches upon why Facebook isn't more fully integrated into iOS and mulls how Cupertino can "do more with them". Deep Facebook integration with iOS 6, anyone?
Another day, another leak. This one comes vi a Japanese blog with a somewhat mixed, albeit strong track record of Apple rumor reporting. The site published this morning an image that appears to be design schematic of the front panel of Apple's next iPhone. It appears to corroborate previous leaks, also suggesting a slight FaceTime camera tweak...
Apple CEO Tim Cook addressed his company's $99 set-top box at yesterday's D10: Al Things Digital conference where he was an opening-night speaker. He reiterated his predecessor's stance of Apple TV still being a hobby (he called it "an experiment" and confirmed the company sold 2.7 million units in this year so far...
If you ever wondered how the smooth and shiny finish of Apple products is achieved in manufacturing, here's your answer. The process called anodizing makes metals such as aluminum and titanium corrosion-resistant by growing an oxide layer into the metal.
A nice clip based on a chapter in the book Eight Amazing Engineering Stories explains the anodizing process in Layman's terms through the mouth of Bill Hammack the Engineer Guy.
As you know, anodizing is used on many Apple products, including most of the Macs sold today, and is likely to be applied to an upcoming iPhone 5 said to feature metal-clad back...
Today's a leaks day, folks. First we learned that Apple will be kicking off the upcoming WWDC with a 10am PT keynote come June 11, then a cool-looking aluminum backplate surfaced to reveal a couple nuggets concerning a sixth-generation iPhone and now a set of photos from "a trusted source" (aren't they always?) show off the exciting new 3D mapping functionality of the re-worked Maps app in iOS 6.
Oh, and Apple also launched the official WWDC 2012 app. Taking it all in, we can now conclude with a reasonably high degree of probability that folks in Cupertino are ready to ditch the familiar blue theme in iOS and supplant it with a fresh new sexy silver look.
How's that? Read on...
Remember talk of Apple's enhanced Maps app thought to feature cutting-edge 3D view?
Apparently a few years in the making, looks like Cupertino is now ready to supplant a Google Maps backend with its own in-house mapping solution come June 11.
And now, screenshots from a "trusted source" have surfaced, depicting this exciting three-dimensional mapping view in action. The admittedly gorgeous photos look authentic and conceivably show off the power of a declassified missile targeting technology Apple got hold of with their 2011 acquisition of advanced 3D mapping startup C3 Technologies...
Looks like there will be a keynote at this year's WWDC. According to the official schedule, the Cupertino, California-headquartered gadget designer will officially hold the keynote talk on Monday, June 11, 2012, when the annual developers pilgrimage is slated to kick off...
A new report out this morning points us to an allegedly leaked part purported to belong to an upcoming sixth-generation iPhone (not to be confused with a front panel part leaked by another source). It looks like it's machined from a single piece of an aluminum alloy, similar to Apple's Unibody manufacturing process for notebook chassis. If authentic, the leaked part casts additional light on the backside and profile of Apple's upcoming iPhone revision.
It does reinforce the mostly agreed-upon thesis of the next iPhone having a slimmer chassis and a much smaller and rounded dock connector...
Apple has just posted on its website a list of WWDC 2012 events and conference schedules. If you're among the lucky ones who managed to snag tickets on time, chances are you'll be lost in over a hundred sessions and labs. Don't worry, there's an app for that, too...
Back in March, I analyzed whether the new iPad has enough oomph to drive graphics-intensive games natively at the new iPad's 2,048-by-1,536 pixel resolution. The crux of the article: framer rates in Retina-optimized games can drop to well below what the iPad 2 delivers.
With no change on the CPU side and only 2x speed gain on the GPU side, the new iPad clearly has issues offseting the Retina display's 4x pixel count increase.
Today, The Verge sheds more light on the matter by putting the device through its paces in real-world tests based on a handful of latest triple-A games. The findings may surprise even the most hard-core gamers among you...
As announced last month, Apple's head honcho Tim Cook will kick off the Wall Street Journal's annual technology conference, better known under the D: All Things Digital moniker.
The three-day event begins Tuesday, May 29, and takes place at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
This will be Cook's first appearance at such a high-profile media even that gathers Silicon Valley celebrities who will join columnists Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher on stage for some seriously unscripted hard talk.
Cook's predecessor, the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, made headline appearances at the conference twice: once in 2007 when he sat down with Bill Gates in what went down in history as an eye-opening exchange between the two tech titans, and the other time in 2010, when Jobs commented on Apple's war on Flash, let us in on how the iPad and iPhone came to be and touched upon other controversial topics, incuding app rejections and his take on the state of the television industry.
Cook will be the opening-night speaker at D10. Expect Mossberg and Swisher to grill him on tongue-in-cheek topics, the least significant being his vision of post-Jobs Apple. While Cook lacks the energy and charisma of his predecessor, he is in charge now and the media, fans and rivals are sure to pay attention to his every word.
iDB we'll be on hand, posting the most interesting tidbits right as they happen. Here's what to expect...