Root your fourth generation Apple smartphone or media player and get the world’s most advanced digital assistant. Well, not quite yet, but the groundwork has been done and it shouldn’t be too long now. So, why buy a new iPhone 4S when last year’s model costs $100 less and gets you 90 percent of the goodness?
Apple’s dumping Google (and has been for some years now). Eventually some variation on that theme will occur with the most likely candidate being mapping — boy, oh boy, the iPhone needs a new Maps app. The Cupertino kids have taken another step down that road as we learned they’ve purchased yet another company for mapping technology.
You’ve got an ordinary job and live in an ordinary house with your ordinary family. Good stuff. To keep all of that going you probably don’t want anyone to know about your forays to the dark side to view “vegesexual lesbian lobster men” (or whatever you’re into). To keep anyone who knows how to access Safari History from finding out, here’s what you do.
You get what you pay for and, when you buy an iPhone, three years or more of operating system upgrades is what you can count. However, are Apple’s mobile legions taking advantage of the latest update offer? Find out which iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users are taking the plunge.
Once upon a time, Apple smartphone users were known as data hogs — strike that notion from your mind. Those days are done or at least that’s the tale being told by the CEO of America’s neediest wireless carrier. Sprint has been hemorrhaging subscribers for years, but there is daylight at the end of the tunnel (even if it takes until 2015 to get there).
Is the US patent system broken? Clearly the answer has to be, “yes.” Although “slide to unlock” is a brilliant concept, should it be patentable? I’m willing to say it should be trademarkable, but this seems like just another egregious “method patent.”
Apple rolled their evolutionary smartphone update — iOS 5′s iCloud and Siri are the revolutionary bits — in US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK on October 14, shortly thereafter announcing the device would ship in 22 more countries on Friday, October 28. The company has taken a step toward fulfilling that promise.
“1,000 songs in your pocket” was Apple’s marketing phrase for the breakthrough device, which Steve Jobs introduced on Tuesday, October 23, 2001. Though many if not most people’s music collection well exceed 1,000 songs — mine’s in the neighborhood of 10,000, as well hundreds of movies and TV shows — the iPod is still the device to beat.
That’s not the exact quote, but it’s unequivocally what Steve Jobs meant. Think you know the Apple CEO? Time to think different. Walter Isaacson’s biography doesn’t officially ship until Monday, October 24, but early copies have leaked and the quotes, the incendiary kind, are already lighting up the web.
Features, shmeatures. When it comes to Android and devices that run it, features are just so many bullet points, a checklist of things that sort of, maybe, sometimes work — think voice recognition and glacial camera apps. Unfortunately, the Hong Kong “event” where it launched produced almost zero sizzle.
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