iOS

In China, Android Beats Apple For Mobile Platform Crown: Report – Huffington Post

Apple Inc, whose iPhones are seeing strong demand from wealthier Chinese cities, posted a modest growth in 2011, with the market share of its iOs operating system rising from 4.1 percent in the first quarter to 5.7 percent at the … Continue reading

Avatron Software Unveils Air Sharing 3.0 with Improved PDF Viewer, Support for Egnyte HybridCloud File Server – Yahoo Finance

PORTLAND, Ore., April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Avatron® Software today introduced Air Sharing 3.0, the latest and fastest-ever version of its popular file-sharing app for the Apple iOS platform. Key enhancements include a new horizontal page …

Microsoft’s Last-Ditch Effort – Motley Fool

With the growing popularity of smartphones and tablets running Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems, developers have largely focused their time and effort on making applications and games that run on these platforms. As the number …

Android beats Apple in China mobile platform race: report – Yahoo Finance

Apple Inc, whose iPhones are seeing strong demand from wealthier Chinese cities, posted a modest growth in 2011, with the market share of its iOs operating system rising from 4.1 percent in the first quarter to 5.7 percent at the … Continue reading

iTunes: Time to right the syncing ship – Computerworld

The app-management interface in iTunes is ridiculously slow. iTunes can fill up your hard drive with tens of gigabytes of iOS apps that can easily be downloaded from Apple. Syncing apps frequently destroys folders and makes app disappear.

Acquiring RIM: Better Later Than Now – Motley Fool

What it doesn’t have is a future in the mass consumer segment, which is where the serious money is made. Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android quickly took over the market, as did their associated hardware. BlackBerry’s micro-keypad was cool …

iOS in China dominated by Guangdong, other big urban areas – Electronista

An uncommon study from Stenvall Sköld & Company has shown that much of Apple’s mobile device share in China is disproportionately … it saw the distribution of 21 million iOS devices understandably skewed towards those provinces with the most urbanized … Continue reading

Apple may be testing iPhone with 1GB of RAM, A5X variant – Washington Post

9 to 5 Mac has found references to an “iPod5,1” in an internal iOS 5.1 build, suggesting that the current iPod touch (known as iPod4,1) will see some changes. Apple last refreshed the portable music player in September 2010 — … Continue reading

58 North: Bottle Rocket Apps’ Pholium App Released Exclusively for iPad – TMCnet

Apr 09, 2012 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) — 58 North, creators of iPad applications leveraging Apple’s iOS 5, announced the launch of Pholium, a photo enthusiast’s dream digital book design and giving app for the iPad, now available on the … Continue reading

Next-gen iPhone, iPod touch may include an A5X "variant," but why? – Ars Technica

Or perhaps Apple could move the current A5 design to a 28nm process, saving power and heat while maintaining performance. Additional RAM will help keep things running smoothly when switching among multiple applications, and keep iOS’s UI responsive.