The bevy of new features Apple has promised in iOS 5 looked awfully familiar to Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore. He heads up the Windows Phone 7 design team and took to Twitter to say how “flattered” he was by Apple’s moves.
Apple has always been pretty forthright when it comes to taking on competitors so it’s always good to see one of them fighting back. Ready your sarcasm detector and read on…
A day after his WWDC appearance, Steve Jobs took to a rather smaller stage to reveal the plans for Apple’s major new HQ.
Speaking in front of the Cupertino City Council, he revealed some seriously ambitious plans for the new Apple mothership…
He looked frail; whiter than Colgate – and yet they hung on his every word. Steve Jobs may not be in the rudest of health, but the man Richard Branson calls ‘the greatest comeback artist’ proved yesterday that he’s still got it. His iCloud presentation at Apple’s WWDC conference was greeted with the customary euphoric cheers, delighted howls and all-American whooping.
With E3 and WWDC ongoing, we’ve got all sorts of gaming and Apple news for you – all that and more besides is rounded up for you here in our lunchtime lowdown newsflash, so read on for the latest!
It’s not unusual for tech commentators to bandy around Death Star analogies when discussing Apple’s business strategies. But last night at WWDC, the iOS 5 announcement reminded me a lot more of Star Trek. Specifically, the Borg.
Just as the Borg traversed the universe absorbing the useful parts of unfortunate civilisations who got in their way, iOS 5 is a concerted move by Apple to overwhelm its enemies and innocent bystanders will be assimilated along the way…
Apple’s big keynote at WWDC 2011 in San Francisco went down last night, and while it was notable for the debut of iCloud, of most interest for me was how Apple appears to be systematically targeting BlackBerry loyalists with iOS 5, not Android fanatics.
Unless RIM ups its game immediately, it’ll find itself teetering on the edge of user base abyss.
The iOS 5 announcements during the WWDC keynote yesterday made lots of rumors a reality, most notably deep iOS Twitter integration, but something big was missing.
Ever since Apple snapped up snazzy voice search firm Siri in April last year, talk of souped-up iOS voice smarts have been high on the agenda. But while Apple didn’t out anything yesterday, it looks like those features will arrive with iPhone 5…
iTunes in the Cloud, which allows you to download your purchased songs to all your supported devices, was just revealed at WWDC 2011 alongside Apple’s new iCloud backup service. We’ve been hearing reports about it for months, but now the dust has settled, there’s some bad news in the fineprint – it’s available to try right now, but it’s also US only right now. Fiddlesticks.
Apple has not said whether it will come to the UK, or whether its iTunes Match subscription service, also stated as US only, will make the cut. Google’s new Music streaming service also suffered from a similar restriction but could be easily bypassed simply by using a proxy to request an invite. This one’s not so easy to get around.
We’ve contacted Apple UK to find out if it has confirmed plans for iTunes in the Cloud in rainy Britain, and will update as and when we hear back.
