Posts Tagged ‘apple’

Apple has released the latest version of its operating system for the iPhone and iPod Touch, iOS 4.1 today. The update was announced last week at Apple’s fall event and brings a number of new features and bug fixes.

There’s an interesting chart making its way around the net this morning comparing the number of iTunes app downloads to the total downloads of songs. The surprising reveal is that it shows apps are being downloaded much more rapidly than songs. In only 2.2 years, the iTunes App Store has reached the same total downloads as the iTunes Music Store did after 5 years

Forrester analyst Tim Sheedy writes in a new report that “The Internet and the mobile Internet have effectively combined.” Facebook users who access the social networking site through a mobile device are twice as active as users who don’t.

If you’re in the market for a tablet computer but the iPad just doesn’t do it for you, then just wait for the Fall. A number of Android alternatives are ready to hit the market over the next several months and there’s something for everyone. A collaborative Google spreadsheet has been making the rounds on Reddit this morning and offers a list of nearly 20 Android tablets ranging from cheap to expensive, locked-down to hackable, and all gathered together for comparison.

There are now some 250,000 mobile applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, and over 70,000 for Android. How on earth do you find ones that are actually worth using?

One of Apple’s announcements yesterday was a completely redesigned Apple TV . It’s competing in a crowded and still confusing field of products that stream video from the Internet to your TV. Boxee and Roku are two smaller companies trying to crack it ; and Google TV was unveiled in May

Ping , Apple’s new social network, is the standout feature in iTunes 10 , the most recent update to Apple’s music management application. Within Ping, you can find and follow your favorite bands and your friends as well as recommend or leave notes about the music you listen to

Twitter has just launched its first official iPad application and the reviews so far have been glowing.

Curated.by is a new Twitter curation tool that makes it easy to gather and share collections of messages on any topic. The service is slowly letting more and more people create accounts, and I really hope it will launch soon so I can make public use of it.

There was a flurry of activity today at the YBCA Theater in San Francisco as Apple unveiled a whole slew of new products and services to the public. With all of that information to remember, it’s no surprise that Steve Jobs may have let something slip out that he perhaps wasn’t intending to say. While discussing the latest version of the iOS software, Jobs said something that may hint that cameras will be coming to the iPad.