iOS

Thanks to the iPhone 4S’ huge sales, Apple’s mega-popular iOS App Store reached an all-time high in November for free downloads coming from the Top 200 apps, according to marketing firm Fiksu. In retrospect, it’s not terribly surprising …

iOS and Android both saw a huge number of device activations on Christmas, but Apple may have outshined its mobile rival by about 1.6 million, says Fortune columnist Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Following the trail of breadcrumbs to arrive at his …

The wares will work for any iOS devices running the 5.0.1 version of the operating system and will work for all of Apple’s mobile hardware lineup except the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2. Thanks to iOS hacker pod2g, whose … Continue reading →

The tech giant Apple, Inc., quietly released a tweaked version of the iOS 5.0.1 that can fix a bug on the SIMs for iPhone 4S. The original build number of iOS 5.0.1 was 9A405. However, the updated version has a … Continue reading →

Market analysis firm Fiksu has released its analysis of of the aggregate download volumes of the top 200 free iOS applications and finds Apple has a lot to smile about: during November 2011, app downloads were up 83 percent compared … Continue reading →

Computerworld – Activations of new iOS and Android devices soared on Christmas Day, jumping by 142% over the same day last year, a Web metrics company said. Meanwhile, Google’s head of mobile claimed that 3.7 million new Android smartphones and … Continue reading →

This bears out in the numbers with daily app downloads hitting a new, all-time record peak reflecting heightened competition for rank in the Apple App Store. Additionally, the rapid adoption of iOS 5 – and corresponding app updates – played … Continue reading →

Apple iOS users still scratching their heads over certain aspects of iTunes Match can head over to a new web page that aims to shed some light on the service. But there’s at least one area of confusion that Apple … Continue reading →

Siri, Apple’s much sought-after personal assistant, can be accessed by jailbroken iPhones using a hacking application called Spire, according to iOS 5 “cracker” Chpwn. Before users begin downloading, however, they should know that getting the …

That had been illegal since the files needed for the port were encrypted by Apple and using them was a copyright violation. With a recent iOS update; those files were left unencrypted. That raised the possibility of a legal port … Continue reading →