iOS

A brief bubble of Apple [AAPL] speculation broke out this morning when the company’s online retail store went offline for a few hours. “Will Mountain Lion ship?” was the big question. It didn’t happen. Let’s think about Mountain Lion and … Continue reading →

Developers have had access to Apple’s next major OS update, OS X Mountain Lion, in beta form for a while now. As for the regular folks, Apple has only said that the update will be available in July, but here … Continue reading →

Apple released the latest test-version of its mobile operating system iOS 6 today, available to developers who will test and report bugs on its newest features. The majority of the updates seem to be in the map app department. According … Continue reading →

“With the Game Center app on your Mac [in OS X Mountain Lion], you can play anyone on a Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch,” Apple notes, adding in a footnote that “Game Center is available on iPad, iPhone 3GS … Continue reading →

A Russian programmer who released a hack allowing iOS users to steal paid app content has thwarted Apple’s attempts to fix the flaw. Australian app developers say the exploit is concerning and could limit the ability of app makers to … Continue reading →

Former vice president of Apple and head of Apple’s Mac OS software team Bertrand Serlet, has joined the senior board of directors at Parallels. Serlet, often called the father of Apple’s Mac OS X, left the company in March 2011 … Continue reading →

Apple on Tuesday was granted a patent for the implementation of the disappearing vertical and horizontal scroll bars seen in lists on mobile operating systems like the company’s iOS. In a surprisingly fast turnaround, Apple won U.S. Patent No. 8,223,134 … Continue reading →

Prior to his 14 years at Cupertino leading development and creation of OS X, Serlet was at Steve Jobs’s NeXT, which was acquired by Apple in 1996, and spent four years as a researcher for Xerox PARC. Through Parallels’ work … Continue reading →

When Apple announced iOS 6, we learned that, just as it was the case with iOS 5, the old iPhone 3GS would be the lowest-end Apple handset to continue seeing support. Just because iOS 6 is coming to the 3GS … Continue reading →

This reveals that bigger screens are coming to iPhones and iPads, as iOS 6 apps will now be able to handle new screen sizes without modification. Austin, TX (PRWEB) July 17, 2012 “Apple continues to impress.” So says Austin’s own … Continue reading →