With over 50,000 gaming titles on the App Store, Apple said it will be forming a social gaming network with features to invite friends, set up matchmaking for multiplayer games, support for leaderboards, and for tracking in game achievements. The feature set is now pretty much standard in the existing social gaming networks such as… →
Archive for April 11th, 2010
iPhone OS 4: Making life easier to the enterprise
More then a single major feature, Apple introduced a bundle of features aimed to the enterprise, which are…
Apple to provide iBookstore to iPhone and iPod Touch with OS 4
Steve Jobs announced iPad’s iBooks will be available on all iPhone OS devices. The iBooks application will work on both iPhone and iPod touch, and all books and page placements will be synced wirelessly across a user’s devices. As with the iPad, Apple will be bundling in a free “Winnie the Pooh” book.
iPhone OS 4: New Mail app
The new Mail app features a Unified Inbox that lets users view all of their mail accounts in one inbox just like Mail.app in Mac OS X, it also offers fast inbox switching, an option to organize messages by thread, and the ability to open attachments with an 3rd party app. iPad debuted this ability,… →
iPhone OS 4: how to group apps into folders
Folders in Apple’s iPhone OS 4 will allow to group apps in the Home Screen pages. Creating a folder is as simple as dragging apps on top of each other to group them.
iPhone OS 4, multitasking experience without drawbacks
Apple’s Senior Vice President of iPhone software Scott Forstall explained how the company was able to add multitasking while preserving battery life and avoiding major slow downs: iPhone 4 will add seven different multitasking services APIs for developers, each tuned to solve different multitasking scenarios.
Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad to gain multitasking and over 100 new user features this summer
Steve made it again. As Microsoft is going to “copy” Apple’s iPhone banning multitasking for 3rd parties apps, the “most advanced mobile OS in the world” makes another leap forward adding a multitasking implementation that provides a “multitasking experience” to users while preserving battery life. The new release adds 7 services for developers that allow… →