iPhone 3G owners annoyed with iOS 4 causing sluggishness may have their day in court. Aggrieved Apple fans have filed a class action lawsuit in California that accuses Apple of “unsavoury, dishonest and deceptive business practices” when it offered iOS 4 for iPhone 3G…
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Occasional Apple Genius bar stand-in Steve Jobs has emailed to give solace to iPhone 3G owners who’ve been frustrated by slow performance since iOS 4 arrived. As usual, Jobs has kept his response to a very economical number of words – four in fact. We’ve transcribed his iPhone 3G iOS 4 response after the break…
Here’s a bit of fun for a wet Sunday afternoon… How much is your iPhone 4 worth? I ask, because my iPhone 4 started doing something odd this morning… a curious software bug has turned it into the Six Million Dollar iPhone, complete with sci-fi sound effects. See the video of its screwy sound after the break – it’s easily the most entertaining mobile glitch I’ve seen. Have you got a better one?
Update: head to the bottom of the post to see photographic evidence of one of the phantom iPhone 4 emails sent direct from 1970. Thanks Paul!
The iPhone 4 antenna controversy has been Apple’s biggest worry, this may be the weirdest iPhone bug going: some owners have been receiving undeletable emails from December 31, 1969. While we’ve got our fingers crossed that they truly are Back To The Future-style messages from the swinging ‘60s, others have offered up a more sensible explanation…
A new rumour suggests Apple is planning to charge for the long-awaited iPad iOS 4 update. The whispers apparently come from iPad app developers who’ve got word of Apple’s secret plans. But while a charge has been slapped on iPod touch update in the past, one word leaves us doubting that Apple will do the same for the iPad. That word is…iAds!
Apple has punted the iOS 4.1 beta out to developers and it includes those tweaks to the signal bars that it promised in the wake of the iPhone 4 signal problems brouhaha. But early users are reporting that the iPhone 4 “Death Grip” is still a problem (as we predicted) and there could be bad news if you’re planning to use an iPhone 4 jailbreak. Read on for the latest…
Apple hasn’t really got much of a presence of Twitter (besides a scattering of iTunes Twitter accounts) so it was surprising to see iOS head honcho Scott Forstall has just signed up. His @forstall account is only following one person (US chatshow host and celebrity ginger Conan O’Brien) but he’s already racked up 16,785 followers despite not having penned a single tweet so far.
It’s not clear why Forstall has joined Twitter. Could he be monitoring the public’s reaction to iPhone 4? Or planning future iOS 4 features? While we wait to see what he and Apple might do with their new Twitter outpost, here’s our five favourite tweeting tech execs…
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