Posts tagged with "iOS"

iAds - 21% of Mobile Market by Year’s End?

First let me take a minute to point something out. A few weeks ago Carol Bartz, Yahoo! CEO, told Reuters the iAd system will “fall apart for them.” Boo hoo Yahoo. Okay, let’s move on, but nice try Carol!

By the end of 2010, Apple is predicted to have matched Google in the percent of ads in the mobile market at 21%. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, “Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! have swiftly lost share in the U.S. mobile advertising market to Apple’s new iAd(s).” Google’s share will drop to 21 percent, from 27 percent last year. Yahoo will drop to 9 percent, from 12 percent last year. Microsoft will drop to 7 percent, from 10 percent. (numbers by researcher IDC) Read more

Does App Store.app Need Queuing & Download Progress?→

Does App Store.app Need Queuing & Download Progress?

If only there was an “Add to Queue” option, that adds the desired application to a list of apps to be downloaded when a WiFi connection is established. The apps would automatically download when you get home, back to the office, etc.

Another issue I have with the App Store’s downloading process is that it forces you out of the App Store itself when you choose to download an application. Why does it need to send the user back to their Home screen? If the user is interested in placing the new app in a specific position/folder, they can do this when they choose to leave or are done shopping.

I wholeheartedly agree with this. Much needed features.

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pod2g Confirms He’s Working on OS 4.1 Exploit Independently

Quick update for all those of you wondering what’s going on with iOS 4.1 jailbreak: with a series of tweets a few minutes ago, @pod2g has confirmed that he’s now working on the exploit that will make iOS 4.1 jailbreakable on his own. He’s not affiliated with the Chronic and iPhone Dev Team anymore, and the exploit will be his independent creation.

As @pod2g also wrote on Twitter, this is no big deal for final users as both the Chronic and iPhone Dev Team has been given all the details behind the exploit. Pod2g is not a jailbreak tool maker, he’s only focused on making the bootrom exploit work on 4.1.

Jailbreak for iOS 4.1 is set to be released soon, but no release date has been announced yet. Read more

Remember Newton OS? You Can Run It on the iPhone Now [Video]

Here’s a great video to kick off this Monday morning: available over at Google Code, the Einstein MessagePad emulator allows you to run Newton OS on other devices such as the iPhone (seen in the embedded video below), iPod Touch and, yes, iPad.

From what we can see in the video everything seems a little sluggish and slow, but come one - it’s the Newton OS on your iPhone. Black and white colors included. If you’re brave enough, check out the instructions to get it running on your iPhone here. Read more

Apple, The Next Step Is AirFiles

I installed iOS 4.2 beta on my iPad, but haven’t been able to check out the new AirPlay or AirPrint features yet: I don’t have an Apple Airport Express station to configure with my stereo, nor I have a compatible HP printer in the office. Still, I know these two new features pretty well: AirPlay is Apple’s take on how you should be able to consume digital content in the living room, AirPrint allows you to print documents from your iPad and iPhone with a few taps. Both of them are great features. I want to focus on AirPlay, though: as Seth Weintraub puts it, AirPlay is Apple’s “go to market” strategy - in a way that this single feature will let users easily hook their iPhones and iPads to the Apple TV to effortlessly share SD content, and eventually pay for HD versions using Apple’s TV own rental system. Any kind of video content can be streamed using AirPlay, as long as it uses a standard media controller and it’s encoded using the popular H.264 video format.

I haven’t tried it personally, but I already know AirPlay is going to be huge amongst iPad and iPhone owners once the new Apple TV will be available. This kind of one-tap streaming and sharing of content between devices has got me thinking, though: what if Apple shipped “AirFiles”, a built-in system to share any kind of documents across mobile devices and computers? Read more