Let’s be honest, iOS rumours are a crap shoot. The latest iOS 5 whisper is that Apple will drop the next major update of the OS for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch in Autumn this year rather than in Spring as is usually the case. TechCrunch is the rumour mill making the claims and predicts that iOS 5 will feature a variety of long-awaited upgrades. Hop through to see its predictions/wishlist…
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Apple is set to reveal iOS 5 and the long-rumoured free MobileMe update next month according to a new rumour. German Mac site, Macerkopf, says Apple will out the next update of iOS in April, a year on from unveiling iOS 4 which was revealed on April 8 2010. Quite what we’ll see in iOS 5 is a mystery but we’re hoping notifications get a serious overhaul. Click the headline and jump into the comments to let us know what you want to see from Apple in iOS 5.
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Apple’s MobileMe online services suite were pulled from retail and ditched from its online store yesterday and now the service is down for maintenance. Steve Jobs promised an updated MobileMe sometime this year so all this messing about suggest we’ll be getting just that during the iPad 2 event or perhaps even sooner…
Try to buy MobileMe. Go on. Head to the Apple Store website and give it a go. It seems Apple has stopped selling subscriptions to MobileMe entirely. The 60 day free trial is still on offer, but try as we might, we’re unable to slap down the credit card and grab a full price subscription.
What’s more, MobileMe seems to have been erased from store listings. We can’t see it anywhere, even under the master list of Apple Software. Is it a web bug, or has Apple yanked MobileMe from sale ahead of next week’s iPad 2 launch?
MobileMe is still struggling to compete with Google’s free suite of killer cloud services. But things are all set to change if one inside source is to be believed. See, Apple is scheming over a complete redesign of its cloud-based offering, with a ‘dynamic homepage’ that’ll pull in content direct from your iOS-packing gadgets. Intrigued? Dive in and we’ll explain everything.
The iPhone 5 will arrive with a new social networking layer if new reports are correct. Lurking in iOS 4.3 there’s a new folder entitled “Media Stream”. Dive into that folder and you’ll discover references to Photo Streaming with different alerts and lists. They suggest Apple plans to let iPhone users set up photo streams that friends can subscribe to with privacy settings to prevent unauthorised peepers seeing your pics. Intriguing stuff…
Apple MobileMe is quite the neglected child. Sure Apple perked up the email and calendar interfaces recently but since Find My iPhone went free, subscribers have been wondering what the annual subscription actually buys them. One MobileMe customer sent Steve Jobs an email and in typical Jobbsian fashion, a succinct reply swiftly followed. Read on to see what Steve Jobs has to say about Apple MobileMe 2011. Warning: it is brief…
Apple doesn’t take iPad and MobileMe security seriously enough according to a leading US cyber-security expert. John Bumgarner, CTO at the security research think-tank, the US Cyber Consequences Unit, spoke to Electricpig about Apple, MobileMe, the iPad and iTunes and wasn’t at all complimentary. Read on to find out why he believes MobileMe and iTunes are almost open goals for hackers…
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