iOS

Apple released a preview on Thursday of the software, called Mountain Lion. It introduces several new features that move it closer to iOS, the software running on iPhones and iPads. While Apple is the world’s biggest smartphone maker …

TOYMAKER FOR THE WELL HEELED Apple has sold more IOS devices in less than five years than it sold computers in 28 years of flogging Mac OS boxes. Apple’s position as a consumer technology company is underlined by figures from … Continue reading →

Like its predecessor, called “Lion,” the new operating system is designed to make Macs feel more like Apple’s mobile devices, which use an operating system called iOS. Windows 8, built to work on both traditional keyboard-centric computers …

Apple sold 55 million iPads to date, CEO Tim Cook recently revealed in an interview with Fortune. The company also sold 37 million iPhones in Q1 2012 alone, with the total being around 175 million since the device’s inception. All … Continue reading →

All the early reviews of Apple’s new Mountain Lion operating system for its Mac computers (10.8) point to the same thing: Macs are going to run more and more like iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touch. Many of the features of … Continue reading →

Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than the total number of Macs sold in all 28 years since the original Macintosh 128k first hit store shelves in late January 1984. “The iOS platform as a whole reached 316 million … Continue reading →

With iOS 5, first released to the public last fall, Apple added the ability to launch the camera app straight from the lock screen. Since camera-worthy moments often strike fast and evaporate just as quickly, being able to quickly switch … Continue reading →

This tight development cycle is in support of integrating the best features of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system into OS X. As Steve Jobs put it in 2010, Apple intends to “hook up” the user environments of the iPad and … Continue reading →

In a post that has only a superficial coherence, Nace explains that iOS 5, unveiled in June 2011, was a big deal but it also contributed to the reported battery life problems of iPhone 4S, unveiled in October. So Apple … Continue reading →

The problem, however, was Apple’s iOS – not the apps themselves. While these companies had uploaded their users’ data without their express consent, they had done so to deliver benefits based on their information – such as suggestions to make … Continue reading →