iOS Devices

Remember last week when we showed you a Cydia App that enabled Airplay for all devices? Based on the ease of getting it to work at the time we said:

This is big because it means Apple could easily (and will likely) enable [Airplay for all apps] in future versions of the iOS.

Today Steve Jobs went on record (more or less) saying that indeed Apple is planning to build it into Safari and the SDK.

Until then, there are the hacks.
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Interesting conversation with opinions on Rupert Murdoch, the future of publications and the new Project app from Virgin. Also dinner with a certain Apple CEO.

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Flash? Complain here.
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ChangeWave’s latest survey of more than 2,800 consumers shows the Amazon Kindle (47%; down 15-pts) is hanging on to a rapidly diminishing lead over the Apple iPad (32%; up 16-pts) among current e-Reader owners. However, the iPad’s share of the overall market has doubled since the last time ChangeWave surveyed e-Reader owners in August.
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While it has made the promise, Apple has not yet contributed its proprietary Java runtime to Oracle’s Open Source Jva, Open JDK project — though one French developer has already put together the first binary test builds of OpenJDK for Mac OS X.
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COMPUTERWORLD: Richard Branson and Rupert Murdoch have begun battling it out to create a superior subscription-based magazine in the iPod iPublishing 3.0 race, but Apple’s [AAPL] recent move to ban an iOS magazine dedicated to the competing Android smartphone OS shows that Apple’s app store approvals team could begin an age of censorship.

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Android may be heading toward becoming the dominant mobile OS on strength of simply being ‘good enough’, but Apple’s iPhone remains the best, building user loyalty no other platform currently possesses.

New research from GfK says nearly 60 percent of iPhone owners plan to stay loyal to Apple — compare this with competitors, the percentage of how many owners plan to say loyal follow:
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Be happy, iGamers, as the Unreal engine-driven much-anticipated Infinity Blade game is rumored to be set to ship on December 9.

If you’ve been watching you’ll know this is the game Apple showed us during a keynote presentation with Epic Games folks invited to share stage time with Jobs. And the audience oohed and ahhed at those hot, hot graphics.
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You know you’ve got hot news when even non-news looks like news, and today’s non-news news is that a component manufacturer has been selected to provide the lens for the next-gen iPad 2.0 — but won’t confirm or deny the industry chatter.
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Apple today finally let the iPad loose in Taiwan and it starts at NT $16,500. The iPad is not available at Taiwan’s online Apple Store but it is available at Taiwan’s fine Apple-certified retailers.  It also hits the ground today on Samsung’s home turf of South Korea.

Moving from Asia to Europe, the iPad will launch in the Nordic nations tomorrow: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. As of this writing the iPad has hit Denmark’s online Apple Store but is yet to hit the others.  It also hits Portugal, Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic too. Be sure to send in your iPad launch expieriences to tips@9to5mac.com or the comments below.

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Here’s the story.  The short of it is that Softbank is giving away free 16GB 3G iPads with two-year data plans.  At ¥4,725 ($56)/month, that is $31 over the 2GB AT&T rates.  So $31×24(months)= $744.  A 3G iPad costs $629 in the US.  So roughly $115 to defer the purchase price over two years.  Not a bad deal at all.

How many of you would buy in if AT&T/Verizon did this?

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Project magazine looks to be a pretty exciting alternative to some of the print magazines that have been showing up for the iOS platform (some amazing, some not). Project will be iPad-only and what better a cover story than Tron?

iTunes link Screenies below:

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Apple is gearing up for smartphone battle with Nokia at the International Trade Commission, hiring a crack team of patent expert lawyers to argue its case in one of a series of landmark patent cases afflicting the smartphone industry.

Apple and Nokia are both alleging intellectual property violations on the part of the other, with both firms using these as big sticks in an attempt to prevent US imports of competing handsets. The battle is a precursor to similar campaigns between Apple and HTC and Apple and Motorola.
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The iPhone Dev-Team has announced that it has succeeded in unlocking the iPhone 3G and 3GS on iOS 4.2.1. This latest unlock has been released and is available now on Cydia.

Be warned: the jailbreak voids your Apple warranty alongside a number of other risks as detailed on the iPhone Dev-Team website and also below.
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When hidden AirPlay APIs and AirPlay enhancements from Cydia came to life just days ago we knew the party was just getting started. A 9to5mac reader managed to stream live TV from his iPad to his Apple TV via a modified version of AirPlay (video above).  Cool stuff and we’re sure this is just the beginning.

In other news the same upcoming web browser for the Apple TV we showed you recently has a new walkthrough video (below) this time demonstrating HTML 5 video playing functionality on the second-generation Apple TV.

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Following on from Erica’s Sadun’s discovery of a way to enable AirPlay Video streaming in third-party apps, a developer named Zone-MR created a hack which enables this feature in all applications including Apple’s Safari.

This is big because it means Apple could easily (and will likely) enable it in future versions of the iOS.

The hack itsself can be downloaded from this Cydia repository:
http://cydia.zone-mr.net
(and it should be available in other repositories soon)
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Readers have been getting emails from T-Mobile in the UK letting them know that they will soon be carrying the iPad with a subsidized plan (Thanks Sam!).  Also Orange in France is doing the same thing.

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COMPUTERWORLD: Apple’s iPad 2.0 is on its way, and a Chinese language newspaper is reporting industry sources who have allegedly revealed five of the future hardware features we can expect to see in the next-generation of Apple’s market-defining tablet-cum-netbook replacing computing device.

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Apple’s Black Friday deal is on now – but it looks as if a price competition between Apple and Amazon is taking place at the UK store. Don’t believe me? Then do take a look:

The 13-inch MacBook Pro with a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB RAM, a 250GB Hard Drive and Nvidia GeForce 320M graphics and SD card costs you £897.90 in the UK on Amazon with free delivery.
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Last night we received confirmation that Apple would in fact be updating their iBooks application to support better organization and printing and emailing of PDF’s. Well today we received screenshots of the new iBooks for iPad and iPhone/iPod touch displaying the ‘Collections’ function. iPhone version after the break:

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AirPrint is currently Mac only and works exclusively with a few HP printers. For Mac users without one of those fancy AirPrint-compatibile printers there’s a fantastic Mac application called Printopia but what about Windows? For Windows husers who want AirPrint to work with their computer there is a new tool called ‘AirPrint Activator.’

The tool works on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows machines and all setup requires is three easy steps. The steps are in German but here’s our English version via (translated) Macerkopf:

Just download the one-click tool, install and activate AirPrint for Windows 32bit or 64bit. Then you have to have the printer in System Preferences (printer properties) to share. Already, all printer under Windows 32-bit or Windows 64-bit for IOS 4.2.1 and AirPrint available. Please note Step 3: AirPrint.exe must be enabled in Windows Firewall.

Oh, and you want to download it? Here. Let us know in the comments how it goes for you.

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The place: Europe. The time: A NATO summit in Lisbon, Portugal. There President Obama was asked to sign yet another iPad. Hey, and as he says, “I’ve done this once before.” Which he did (after the jump).
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