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Apple Releases iOS 6.1 Beta 4 OTA Update to Developers
Apple has just released iOS 6.1 beta 4 to developers, an over-the-air delta update. The iPhone 5 update comes in at 105MB. This update comes exactly two weeks after beta 3 was released to developers, a similar over-the-air update. Apple TV Software Beta 3 has also been made available to developers for download, along with...
Camera+ 3.7 Update Adds New Higher Quality Image Setting
Tap tap tap has released an update to Camera+ which brings better image quality settings when saving pictures: For Camera+ 3.7 (1.2 for iPad), we’ve added a new Quality setting. For those of you who want your photos to be of the highest quality, we’ve introduced a third setting, named “High”. (The setting formerly named...
Wall Street Analysts Cut Price Target For AAPL To $575
Back in Spetember, Apple’s stock (AAPL) broke the $700 per share barrier just before the launch of the highly anticipated iPhone 5, with analysts predicting that the stock would soon hit the $850 mark. However, Citi's Apple analysts, Glen Yeung, Walter Pritchard and Jim Suva, have radically cut the price target for Apple Stock to $575, and are rating it neutral...
Chitika: No Significant Change In iOS 6 Adoption After Google Maps Relaunch
Last week, Google released Google Maps app for iOS in the App Store, with built-in Google local search, voice guided turn-by-turn navigation, public transit directions, Street View and more. Since Apple removed the old Google Maps from iOS 6, replacing it with its own troublesome Maps app, plenty of people weren’t upgrading to iOS 6 due to this. Following...
iPhone 5 Sales Trend Suggests Customers Want The Best Device Available
The same survey by Morgan Stanley and AlphaWise that revealed almost half of iPad Mini buyers are new Apple customers, suggests that majority of iPhone buyers are choosing the latest model i.e the iPhone 5 this year, showing more customers then ever are "willing to pay for the best device" available, reports AppleInsider. More than 1,000 U.S. smartphone buyers...
Nearly Half Of iPad Mini Buyers Are New Customers [Survey]
A survey of over 1,000 U.S. consumers published today by Morgan Stanley and AlphaWise reveals that almost half of all iPad Mini customers are new to the iPad. Analyst Katy Huberty believes that even though the smaller iPad is cannibalizing Retina iPad sales, the trend will help grow Apple's tablet market share significantly (via AppleInsider). According to the survey, 47%...
Check Out this Apple iTV Concept [PICS]
In a recent interview, Tim Cook spilled gas on the fire, saying the television industry is an intense area of interest, which triggered a huge amount of speculation that Apple television set may (or may not) possibly be on its way to consumers in the near future. Here are the latest mockups compiled by Brightcove...
Optimus G Slices Apple in Half (Maybe)
Turns out Apple's competition (and suppliers) is low on creativity when it comes to marketing campaigns, as it is much easier to poke fun at Apple than to come up with something original. It started with Samsung, and now LG has joined the line with its new ad posters pushing its handsets. (more…)
Fruit Ninja is Free for 24 Hours, Plus All Halfbrick Studio Games
This summer Halfbrick Studios, the makers of popular iOS game Fruit Ninja, celebrated their two year anniversary by giving away free copies. Now, to end 2012 with a bang, the Australian-based developer is giving away Fruit Ninja along with every single game they have ever made, for 24 hours only (6:00am GMT on Monday December...
How to Get Siri to Open Google Maps for Directions to Any Location
Here's a quick tip on how to use Siri to open the Google Maps iOS app for directions to any place instead of Apple Maps. All you have to do is add the phrase "via transit" at the end of your request. So for example you might ask Siri the following: "Give me directions to...
Apple Announces Over 2 Million iPhone 5 Sales in China in First Weekend
Apple has just issued a press release to announce iPhone 5 sales in China have exceeded 2 million in its first weekend: Apple® today announced it has sold over two million of its new iPhone® 5 in China, just three days after its launch on December 14. iPhone 5 will be available in more than...
Here’s a Mind Map of Every Single Option within iOS Settings [PIC]
Timotheus Wischniowski, a student and traffic engineer from Germany, has created an insanely detailed mind map of all the settings from an iPhone 5 running iOS 6.0.1. Below is just a tiny fraction of what is available: The full-sized PNG image download is just over 12MB, and the mind map was created using OmniOutliner and MindNode...