On Friday Apple announced that it is "bringing the revolutionary App Store experience to Mac OS X". The Mac App Store will be available 7 January next year, opening in 90 countries at launch and offering both free and paid apps for Mac users in a virtual shopfront likely to be familiar to anyone who's spent any time browsing the App Store for the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad.
The on-line marketplace for the Cupertino company's OSX operating system will operate on the same model as the successful iTunes App Store for iOS4 devices, allowing simple purchase, download and updating of oodles of Apps from third-party developers and Apple itself.
It's a massive roll-out for Apple with 90 countries in on the action at launch, though there has been no indication thus far of how many Apps will be available on day one, or if any of them will be any good.
Less than six months after introducing it, Apple has quietly disabled its jailbreak detection API through the iOS 4.2 software update, according to a new report.
Network World reports that the API, which was released in June as part of a mobile device management (MDM) bundle for iOS 4.0, has been disabled in iOS 4.2, leaving perplexed vendors to question why. The API had previously allowed third-party MDM applications, such as AirWatch or Sybase's Afaria, to check for unauthorized modifications to the system files, author John Cox wrote.
Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) issued an update to its QuickTime media player Wednesday, releasing a total of 15 patches to repair a slew of media file security bugs, the majority of which could be exploited remotely to launch malicious attacks. The latest version, QuickTime 7.6.9, is available for Mac OS X, and an array of Windows platforms, including Windows 7, Vista and XP.
Apple is planning to make its first generation of iPads out-of-date in February which will mean all those Christmas presents from wealthy parents will be a waste of cash.
According to DigiTimes, the much awaited iPad II, which contains all the features that the iPad I should have had, but didn't will be in production in late February for an early April 2011 launch. While it will appear that Apple is sticking two fingers up at its Christmas market, the situation would have been much worse if its original plan had gone ahead.
Apple has pulled out one more weapon against the hackers that make iPhone / iPad jailbreaking and unlocking. Will the advent of the baseband signature check make life much harder for the hackers?
iOS 4.2 went public yesterday, but Apple is already aiming at a mid-December release for the next major update of its mobile operating system, iOS 4.3. Before we get into the details and we try to put the pieces together, it is necessary to recap all the rumors that have been going around recently about News Corp.’s upcoming iPad-only newspaper, The Daily.
Yesterday, Apple pushed out the much anticipated update to its mobile operating system - iOS 4.2.
Although most of the headlines have focused on new functionality Apple has introduced, such as bringing folders and multi-tasking to the iPad, there's a much more important reason why you should be considering updating your Apple iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. According to an Apple knowledgebase article, iOS 4.2 includes more than 40 security fixes designed to better protect iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users.
With Turkey Day a few days off, today Apple publicly released FW version 4.2.1. As always, ultrasn0w unlockers please stay far far away from this official firmware (and all official firmware). Wait for the ability to create custom 4.2.1. IPSWs that don’t update your baseband! If you’re not an unlocker, read on!
Apple on Monday said that it plans to release the promised update to iOS 4.2 for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. The update brings a number of long-awaited iOS 4 features to the iPad and adds the new AirPlay and AirPrint features for all iOS devices. In somewhat of a surprise, owners of the latest iOS devices can now use the Find My iPhone feature for free.
