Software

Inside Apple’s Year of Macs and Mac OS X: 2011 – Apple Insider

In 2011, Apple set new sales records for its 27 year old Mac platform, hitting a milestone of 4.89 million Macs sold in the fiscal Q4 ending in September, a number 700,000 units larger that the previous year’s record quarter … Continue reading

Your New iPhone: What You Need to Know – PC Magazine

Congratulations on your new iPhone. There’s never been a better time to get one—especially since with the advent of iOS 5 and iCloud, the phone can do more than ever before. Even if you’ve had an earlier model, there’s a … Continue reading

Apple Still Top Of Smartphone Wish List – MediaPost

Whatever platform positioning has gone on thus far between Google Android and Apple iOS will seem like pre-game warm-ups compared to the next year. As Google gains massive scale with its fragmented but open model for Android, Apple continues to … Continue reading

Inside Apple’s Year of Macs and Mac OS X: 2011 [Page 2] – Apple Insider

Apple launched the Mac App Store with its existing $15 iLife and $20 iWork apps, along with its professional Aperture photography software, discounted from $199 to just $79 as a digital download. The company later added a completely revamped Final … Continue reading

iOS 5 Untethered Jailbreak: No Jailbreak for A5 Devices; Download-Install Guide for A4 Jailbreak – International Business Times

The untethered jailbreak for the Apple devices powered by A4 processor is finally … 1) The latest jailbreaks, Corona 5.0.1 Untethered and Redsn0w 9.10b1, work on iOS 5.0.1. So update your devices to iOS 5.0.1 if you are still stuck … Continue reading

Inside Apple’s 2011: Mac hardware and Mac OS X [Page 2] – Apple Insider

Apple launched the Mac App Store with its existing $15 iLife and $20 iWork apps, along with its professional Aperture photography software, discounted from $199 to just $79 as a digital download. The company later added a completely revamped Final … Continue reading

Apple’s iOS App Store had over 5M free app downloads per day in Nov. – Venturebeat.com

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 …

Apple iOS Christmas activations likely beat Android by 1.6 million – CNET News

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 …

Jailbreak! iOS 5.0.1 gets untethered exploits for non-A5 chip devices – Venturebeat.com

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

Android vs. iOS vs. Windows Phone 7: A mobile showdown – Geek.Com

Android users can, however, use third-party apps like Dropbox or Box.net to access cloud files. Introduced in this Fall’s iOS 5 release, iCloud serves less as direct file storage and more as an invisible syncing of content. Photos, music …