John Gruber of Daring Fireball, Rene Richie of iMore, MG Siegler of TechCrunch, Tim Stevens of Engadget, Matthew Panzarino of The Next Web and others had an interesting discussion about iOS 7, the next generation mobile operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch on Branch.
Key Claim of Apple’s “Rubber Banding” Patent Invalidated
Posted by Rounak Jain on Apr 02, 2013 | No Comments »
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has once again rejected a key claim of Apple’s “rubber banding” patent that covers the way content bounces back when a user scrolls to the top or bottom of the page. Back in October last year, the USPTO, in its initial response to a revaluation request, rejected all claims of the rubber banding patent, but has now toned down its stance to allow three of the twenty claims.
Phil Schiller Warns Android Users To “Be Safe Out There”
Report: Apple May Launch iWatch This Year
Posted by iPhoneHacks on Mar 04, 2013 | Comments (5)
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Last month, The New York Times reported that Apple was working on an iOS-based smartwatch, a claim which was later corroborated by a number of other mainstream publications like The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.
Apple Updates Support Article Cautioning Users Against Jailbreaking iOS
Posted by Rounak Jain on Feb 05, 2013 | Comments (36)
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Apple has updated its knowledge base article on “Unauthorized modifications of iOS” with minor changes, warning users of the risks associated with jailbreaking. This document was first published a couple of years back, and was most recently updated on the 3rd of February, a day before the release of the evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak.
Path Reaches Settlement With FTC Over iOS Privacy Issue, Fined $800,000
Posted by iPhoneHacks on Feb 01, 2013 | Comment (1)
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Last year, Path – the social networking-enabled photo sharing and messaging service received a lot of negative publicity when Singapore based developer and blogger discovered that Path’s slick iPhone app uploads your entire address book to its servers.
Apple was also criticised for giving developers far too much access to address book information without requiring a user prompt.
iOS 6.1 Adoption Already Hitting More Than 20%
Analyst Maintains “Buy” Rating for Apple Stock Citing iOS Stickiness
Posted by Rounak Jain on Jan 29, 2013 | No Comments »
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Apple’s stock has been on a downward spiral lately, amidst concerns about the company’s future and a couple of inaccurate reports. Most analysts, who were at once very optimistic about Apple, have now lowered their stock price predictions for the company, but Chris Whitmore from Deutsche Bank maintains his “buy” rating for AAPL stock.
iOS 6 Running on Nearly 300 Million Devices and Growing
Posted by Tris Hussey on Jan 28, 2013 | Comments (2)
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Not only did iOS 6.1 come out today, but Apple released (an unprecedented) press release about it too. In the release, mixed in with expanded LTE carriers and other tidbits about iOS 6.1, was a quote by Phil Schiller about how fast iOS 6 adoption has been.
Apple TV Updated With Bluetooth Keyboard Support, Up Next, and iTunes in the Cloud
Posted by Tris Hussey on Jan 28, 2013 | No Comments »
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As you’d expect, just as iOS 6.1 drops for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, there is an Apple TV update as well. And this is a good one too because in addition to Up Next (like iTunes 11) and iTunes in the Cloud, Apple TVs now supports Bluetooth Keyboards.
