iOS devices refer to any of Apple’s hardware that runs the iOS mobile operating system which include iPhones, iPads, and iPods. Historically, Apple releases a new iOS version once a year, the current version is iOS 10. Here is the complete list of iOS 10 compatible devices.
Their second studio album went double Platinum, they released third album, Plastic Beach, this year, and the fourth album’s on its way and recorded on an iPad. That’s right, Damon Albarn’s project band, Gorillaz will release a fourth album recorded on an iPad.
Proving the adage that imitation is flattery, Google’s engineers are busily getting it together to bring something ‘magical’ to answer Apple’s magical iPad, at least that’s what Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says.
Speaking during his company’s Q3 financial call, he promised his company would start to develop its phone and tablet design wins. He also waxed lyrical on Google’s Android folk, “they’re building a magical product,” he gushed. Expand Expanding Close
I’d love to comment and I know full well that there’s rabid fans for Flash, but I’m going to keep this short and sweet. You’ve seen the headlines saying that the recent OS X update patched over 130 bugs? Well, don’t suppose you noticed that 42 percent of these bugs were bugs in Flash. Expand Expanding Close
I wrote a quick and dirty application called AirPrintHacktivator that will do it for you. The application allow you to “Hacktivate” or “De Hacktivate” AirPrint by adding or removing the 3 files required… all of this while making a backup of the current files so they are properly restored during “De Hacktivation”.
Recent 4.x iOS updates haven’t been too fabulous for the iPhone 3G. First it was slow as a dog, then Apple started peeling back some of the cooler features like Gamecenter. We’re afraid another new feature is getting cut from the iPhone 3G. AirPlay is gone from iOS 4.2 GM.
Below is an iPhone 4 (bottom) and an iPhone 3G (top) showing AirPlay option on iPhone 4 but not on iPhone 3G
After speaking to multiple developers and users testing out the iOS 4.2 betas, we have determined that AirPlay did in fact work on the iPhone 3G at one point, meaning the AirPlay functionality was definitely removed from Apple’s two-year-old iPhone at its GM stage. The reason this is an issue is because Apple states, even on their own website, that AirPlay is supported on ALL iOS 4 devices.
Why did Apple remove AirPlay from the iPhone 3G? It is clearly able to work, it worked during the betas just fine. Is this another “it didn’t work well enough” story? Is Apple trying to get users to upgrade to their latest and greatest devices for arguably the coolest new feature in iOS 4.2? We have no idea. There will undoubtedly be a jailbreak that can re-enable it. On the other hand, this could simply be an issue in the GM seed. Like we speculated in an AirPrint article today, the AirPlay functionality may too return in iOS’s 4.2’s public release.
AirPlay will only stream music as well as audio from video at this time. The actual AirPlay functionality will presumably be activated in an imminent software update to the Apple TV. Note: This was fully tested by both our sources as well as on two of our own iPhone 3G units. Video after the break:
iPhoneHellas has on good authority that iOS 4.2 will not be coming tomorrow but instead will be launching Tuesday November 16th. The site is known to have solid sources with knowledge of iOS release dates so this November 16th date is probably the actual date. Then again, iOS 4.2 may very well still launch tomorrow. Oh, and where’s iTunes 10.1?
UPDATE: A German website now says references to November 12 have disappeared from carrier codes.
We have discovered that the launch of the second generation Apple TV is imminent in seven countries across the globe. When you navigate to one of the Apple Stores listed below and click on the Apple TV, you are taken to an error page. The same thing happened last night in Italy and Switzerland and this morning Italy and Switzerland’s online store’s began selling the new Apple TV.
We checked out all the Apple online stores to replicate what happened in Italy and Switzerland and sure enough Taiwan, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Portugal, The Netherlands and Belgium are all displaying the same error message. What does this mean? It means that Apple’s second-generation Apple TV will be launching in those countries very soon, probably tomorrow, and maybe some HD movie rentals in iTunes as well.
Apple is clearly trying to branch out the Apple TV quickly adding four new countries today and most likely eight new ones tomorrow. Let us know if we missed a country and/or when the new Apple TV starts popping up on your Apple online store. In terms of pricing, it should be around € 119,00 in the European countries and we aren’t to sure about the others.
Apple couldn’t get it together with Facebook for Ping functionality so Apple went to Twitter. Twitter has announced that Ping is now integrated into Twitter.com and this will put your Ping activity, song previews, and iTunes links right into your Twitter tweets. The setup process is simple. You just head into Ping on your iTunes store menu and click the Twitter banner up on top. Just sign into your Twitter account and you are good to go.
When you are all linked up anything you do on Ping, whether that be posting, liking, or reviewing it will be tweeted by you. Within the Twitter.com UI are now iTunes/Ping styles song previews and links which make it really easy for people to sample songs right in the browser. The feature is now available in all 23 countries where the iTunes Music Store is live.
See that huge Intel heatsink on the $199 Boxee box from the iFixit teardown? You think the Boxee Box uses 6W of power like the AppleTV? Probably not. Interestingly, it is beating the AppleTV on Amazon here and here but that is probably just for pent up demand.
We already know all about the iPhone 4’s amazing noise-cancellation system for phone calls with its double microphone setup and today a patent reveals that Apple may be taking noise-cancellation a step further. Since we are talking about headsets and so there is no confusion, this is not noise-cancellation for listening to music but is noise-cancellation so you sound crystal clear on the phone calls you make.
Patently Apple reports that Apple today published patents for two new headsets both with triple microphone action. Having two microphones on the iPhone 4 is already helpful, but three on a headset would be amazing and of course magical.
Patently Appledescribes the benefit of multiple microphones on mobile phones:
The Seattle Timesreports that iPad developer Ram Arumugam e-mailed Steve Jobs over his frustration of having his iPad application rejected. The app, Economy for iPad, was rejected due to Arumugam’s use of private API’s to fix a bug he encountered with the iPad OS’s keyboard controls. Two hours after receiving the developer’s e-mail, Steve Jobs gave him a call to discuss the app rejection.
A couple of hours after I sent the email, I was at a noisy soccer (for kids) arena when I heard my iPhone ring. The caller-id, the caller saying “Ram, this is Steve” and that he was calling from Apple did suggest that it could really be Steve Jobs. He confirmed it when I asked.
After speaking with Jobs Arumugam updated his iPad application to remove the private code, not allowed by Apple, and it was quickly accepted into the App Store. Now it’s the #1 selling financial iPad application. “Imagine what a [call] could do.”
This story proves how much of a hands-on CEO Steve Jobs really is. First, he actually replies to his customer’s e-mails (never ever mine though) and now he actually calls them back to take care of matters. Maybe Jobs was just caring through since Arumugam left Microsoft to create an iOS app development company.
Both Italy and Switzerland have had the first generation Apple TV for some time but last night they mysteriously disappeared from both of their online Apple Stores. This morning, the new Apple TV is now available in both countries.
The device ships in 24 hours in both countries and runs for € 119,00 in Italy and CHF 129.00 in Switzerland. We’ve been told that both Italy and Switzerland have gotten HD movie rentals in their iTunes stores meaning users will have some content to go with that $100 little black box.
Update: Readers have let us know that the second-generation Apple TV is now available in Spain and Austria as well. Mexico too!
We’re heading into the Holiday season and the smartphone wars seem set to get a even more gritty as this season Apple will be competing not just against other makers, but against that big little word, “free”.
Lithuanian tipster tells us: “If the Western World use iPad for business and entertainment, in Lithuania the iPad is used by pensioners in demonstrations against the government :) You just have to mount it on a wooden stick, and you ready to go.”
There’s money in free. Please, bear with me, it may sound counter-intuitive, but why else are one-third of the top-grossing iPhone apps made available via the App Store free apps?
In-app purchasing has opened up new opportunities to developers to entice users with quality apps for free (the carrot) and then to upsale new features, layers, levels or any other conceivable kind of virtual good (I bought an obelisk once) via in-app purchasing, GigaOm tells us. Expand Expanding Close
If you love the smell of fried conspiracy in the morning then you may enjoy this observation from Business Insider — it looks like Apple TV sales may be being kept put of the ‘top selling’ categories on Amazon.
You see, even with a quarter million sold so far, Apple TV doesn’t show up in among the top 100 list of electronics items sold via the giant retailer, but there’s evidence to show it should be in the top 20. AppleTVs do show up here and here. Expand Expanding Close
The iPad seems like a pretty good deal in the US, where prices start at $499 (£309), but in the UK it costs from £429, and while the product’s selling like crazy here, a lot of Brits just think the price is too, too high to buy.
After talking to several users of iOS 4.2 GM and Mac OS X 10.6.5 (public release) it appears that AirPrint functionality does not work. The printing option is definitely still present on the iOS software but it doesn’t actually print what you are telling it to print. On the other hand, it appears that AirPrint is working for users with the iOS 4.2 GM whom have upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6.5 final from one of the betas.
Flickr user TalkaboutDesign has uploaded pictures to his account detailing that AirPrint is in fact working for him with Mac OS X 10.6.5. Because of this, we figure he upgraded from a beta and iOS 4.2 final will be required for AirPrint to actually work. After all, Steve Jobs said that AirPrint wasn’t removed from iOS 4.2 and he would not lie, right?
We’ve heard multiple reports from users that the golden master seed of iOS 4.2 still had a few bugs and because of this, we believe Apple has been fixing up iOS 4.2 the last couple days and has changed some algorithms related to AirPrint. So, hopefully Friday we’ll know the full story as to if AirPrint will work with iOS 4.2’s public release or not.
We knew Skyfire would be popular with its flash-video playing features but we’d never thought it would be this popular. First, the company behind Skyfire needed to actually pull the application from the App Store due to all the traffic hitting their servers. Now, Mobile Crunch is reporting that the app made over $1 million in revenue in its first week on the App Store.
The app costs users $2.99 a piece to download from the App Store and it looks like they sold over 300,000 copies. Wow.
COMPUTERWORLD: Apple’s in pole position to reach millions more customers this holiday season: all the consumer reports agree the iPad’s set to dominate CE wish lists this year. A year in which one-in-three Android users would ditch their handset for an iPhone.
This thing is just a mess. It’s like a tablet drunkenly hooked up with a phone, and then took the fetus swimming in a Superfund cleanup site. The browser is miserable, at least when Flash is enabled. It goes catatonic, scrolling is laggy, and it can get laughably bad. When better browsing is half the reason to go for a larger screen, that’s insanity. Not only does it use a stupid proprietary charging/syncing cable, it won’t charge when you plug it into a laptop. Neither of the cameras are anything to write home about. Costing $699 off-contract is embarrassing when the iPad is $499.
Sprint has finally officially announced their ZTE Peel case which brings 3G to the iPod touch. The device will launch on November 14th for $79 and it’ll cost you 29 bucks a month for Sprint’s service. Just imagine 3G FaeeTime on the road with this thing.
We should be getting a review unit and the full press release is after the break:
Apple began unleashing iAds across the world last week, with ads from the service reported to begin appearing on iOS devices outside of the USA. Now a report tells us Apple’s more than happy to explore partnerships in some key geographies to build up its service.
