Category: I-phone

Apple has announced that its next-generation mobile OS, iOS 5, will launch to the public on October 12. It will be a free upgrade for the iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and the third- and fourth-generation iPod touches.

iOS 5 includes a number of new features, including a revamped notifications system, improved Camera app, iMessages, and many other tweaks and improvements.

The “gold master” version of iOS 5 has not yet been released as of this writing, but it will likely be released today if the public release is due eight days from today.

iOS 5 available October 12 originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple has announced a new official app for iOS. Cards will use any photo taken with an iOS device, and put that photo, along with a message, on high-quality paper to your specifications. The company will even mail it out for you with Apple-designed postage and lettering. Essentially, it offers a way for you to design and deliver custom greeting cards directly from your iOS device, wherever you happen to be.

Apple’s Cards is due out on October 12. The app seems to be free, though obviously it’ll cost you to send and print a card — $2.99 in the U.S., and $4.99 around the rest of the world. You’ll even get a push notification on your device whenever the card is actually printed and sent out. Sure, this might not be the hottest announcement from today’s event, but it’s a service that a lot of users might want to take advantage of.

Apple’s Cards available on October 12 for iOS originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Scott Forstall dropped some impressive numbers about iOS and the App Store today. He told the audience that iOS has grabbed the #1 mobile-operating system spot with a 43% market share. Android is in second place with 33%. Those numbers as of July and are reported by ComScore.

The App Store now has more that 500,000 apps, with 140,000 of those being designed specifically for the iPad. Those numbers make Apple’s App Store the number one store for apps in the world. Most impressively, iOS users are downloading more than a billion apps a month now. Total app downloads have now exceeded 18 billion. Best news for developers is that devs have earned over $3 billion off their apps so far.

More than 18 billion apps downloaded from App Store originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple unveiled the iPod ten years ago and revolutionized the music industry, says Tim Cook during Apple’s iPhone keynote. The mp3 player still dominates with over 70% market share, a figure that has slowly killed off its competition. Since its introduction Apple has sold over 330 million units worldwide, 45 million of which were sold from July 2010 to June 2011.

And the iTunes music store is equally as dominant. In the eight years since it was introduced, Apple’s music library has grown from 200,000 songs to over 200 million. It’s the #1 music store with over 16 billion downloads and with the success of the iPhone and iPad, these numbers are projected to grow even larger.

Apple iPod and iTunes continue to dominate the music industry originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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At today’s iPhone event, Tim Cook told the audience that iPads were “showing up everywhere” and that in schools they’re “changing the way teachers teach and kids learn, and many educators agree with us.” Matter of fact, there is an iPad deployment program in every state in the US.

And it’s not just schools cook revealed that more than 80% of the hospitals in the US are now testing or piloting the iPad and 92% of Fortune 500 companies are testing or deploying iPads. What does all this mean? The iPad is the “undisputed” #1 tablet in the world. It’s also helped Apple sell over a quarter of a billion iOS devices to date.

Tim Cook: iPads are “showing up everywhere” originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tim Cook, subdued as he is today, was probably most excited this morning when talking about just how well the iPhone has done lately. The iPhone 4 specifically, says Cook, has continued to sell like crazy, and in fact now makes up half of the sales of the iPhone in total, overcoming both the original and the 3G and 3GS in units. “That momentum is far outpacing the industry,” said Cook in today’s event.

Customer satisfaction is huge for the phone as well — the iPhone is consistently rated number 1 in every survey Cook says he can find, and 93% of the Fortune 500 companies are currently testing or deploying the iPhone in their operations.

All of that, says Cook, has given the iPhone just a 5% share in the handsets market around the world. Note that that’s handsets as a whole, not just smartphones. Cook says the company is aiming to go even higher with the iPhone. “I could have shown a much larger number if I just showed smartphones, but that’s not how we look at it,” he said. Cook also promised more iPhone news later on today.

Apple shares huge iPhone sales and approval numbers originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tim Cook announced today that Apple’s OS X 10.7 Lion has sold more than 6 million copies since going on sale July 20. That’s a whopping 80% more than Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Another interesting bit of information Cook threw out there about Lion is that it only took Lion 2 weeks to reach ten percent of Apple’s install user base. Windows 7 took 20 weeks to reach 10% of its install base.

6 million copies of Lion sold since July 20 originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tim Cook has taken the stage in San Francisco to kick off today’s Apple event, and he’s shared some big numbers for Apple’s retail stores. The company’s largest store in Asia boasted more than 100,000 visitors in just its opening weekend. Cook says Apple was impressed when its LA store had over 100,000 visitors in a month, so that weekend must have been really busy.

The Hong Kong store also had a solid turnout, selling more Macs on its first day open than the company has at any other store in the world. Apple currently has 357 stores in 11 different countries, says Cook, and “many more are coming.”

Tim Cook announces impressive Apple Retail Store numbers originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The wait is over. Today we’ll all find out what new device(s) Apple has ready to go. Whether it’s one or two new iPhones — an iPhone 4S, an iPhone 5, or both — we’re ready for our questions to be answered during today’s presentation.

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TUAW meta-liveblog of the Apple “Let’s talk iPhone’ event originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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From http://www.apple.com/jp/retail/ginza/. The translation says something about “selecting a carrier,” which means that Apple might be adding carriers in Japan. Right now it’s only Softbank, if we recall correctly.

TUAW staffers and volunteers add this translation: “”On October 14, it will launch at 8 a.m. at the Apple Store. Let our staff help choose the carrier and rate plan that’s right for you. Our staff will have your iPhone ready to use before leaving the store. Learn more (link)”

The dates tie in to our previous coverage of employee blackout dates.

Apple Japanese webpage seems to show iPhone 4S a little early. originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple and Samsung will continue to battle in Australia, as Apple has rejected Samsung’s settlement offer down under.

Late last week, Samsung reportedly made an offer to Apple that would end the companies’ legal dispute in Australia. Reuters reports that Apple has rejected the deal. If accepted, the arrangement would have allowed Samsung to being selling the Galaxy Tab 10.0 down under as early as next week. Unfortunately for Samsung, that’s not going to happen for now.

While talking with reporters, Apple attorney Steven Burley was short and sweet: “It is one we don’t accept and there is no surprise.”

Sorry, Aussies. No Galaxy Tab 10.0 for you just yet. And if another story pans out, you may never get your Galaxy Tab. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that Samsung may cancel the release of the Galaxy Tab 10.0 in Australia unless it is given approval to sell the new tablet within the next two weeks.

Samsung’s lawyer, Neil Young, noted that the company is going to abandon its plans to launch the product if not given immediate approval, since missing the critical Christmas buying season would “result in the new tablet being ‘dead’.”

Apple rejects Samsung’s settlement offer in Australia originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The store is down and the excitement is tangible. Big things are in motion and TUAW is here to continue to cover developments throughout the day, starting with our meta-live blog at 10 AM PDT (1 PM EDT).

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The Apple Store is down originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Psystar was dealt a setback last week when a judge denied its appeal and upheld a permanent injunction that prevents the Mac clone maker from selling PC hardware with Mac OS X installed. Undeterred, Psystar’s legal team has vowed to take the fight to the Supreme Court, if needed. “This is far from over,” said K.A.D. Camera of Camera & Sibley LLP, the firm that is representing Psystar in this case.

Psystar may be willing to push forward, but its attempt may be in vain. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a 2009 lower court decision that permanently banned Psystar from selling its Mac clones. It is highly unlikely this copyright infringement case will find its way to the Supreme Court. Psystar has not sold a Mac clone since December 2009 and may have to face the reality that it won’t sell another one again.

Psystar lawyer says battle is “far from over” originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Wall Street Journal is chiming in with a last-minute rumor suggesting the iPhone will not support 4G LTE or WiMAX. The next generation Apple handset will be a 3G only device similar to the current iPhone 4. This information contradicts a widely circulating rumor from BGR that claimed the iPhone 5 would support WiMAX and debut as a Sprint exclusive.

This WSJ revelation that the next iPhone will be 3G is not surprising. Earlier this year, Tim Cook confirmed in an earnings conference call that Apple would delay adopting LTE until the second generation chipsets hit the market. The current LTE radios were too bulky to fit the strict design requirements of the iPhone.

The next generation LTE radios may offer a smaller and more energy efficient design that’ll accomodate future iPhones. WiMAX is also an unlikely candidate as it is a dying 4G technology. Sprint is expected to turn off its WiMAX network and switch to LTE in the upcoming year.

WSJ: upcoming iPhone will not support 4G LTE or WiMAX originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’re the parent of a child between the age of two and 14, you probably already know this; kids are spending more money on digital media than ever before. This unsurprising conclusion comes from market-research company NPD Group, which says that 21 cents out of every dollar kids spend on entertaining themselves goes to content that is in a “digital format.”

NPD’s conclusions come from a survey of more than 3,400 parents who are often asked by their kids to buy a song or game, since most kids in that age group don’t have credit cards — or at least this blogger hopes they don’t have credit cards! Gift cards do make it possible for parents to give the kids some control over their own purchasing habits.

So what are the kids buying? You guessed it, one-third of them reported that music is the first type of digital content they purchase, followed closely by computer games and mobile games.

NPD notes that the 21-cent figure is up from two years ago. In 2009, only about 14 cents out of every entertainment dollar spent by kids went to digital media. If this trend continues, Apple and Amazon will have a very bright future indeed.

NPD says kids are buying more digital media than ever originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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