Apple are, if the tech blogsphere is to be understood correctly, on the very of a radical new Sir Jonny Ive inspired revamp of the IOS interface, moving away from using pictures of calendars and phones, and stitching around the edges of apps and bringing the OS Interface into the world which has radical, but accepted interfaces such as Windows 8 (Which Ive himself has lauded publically)
Last your I put up a post about 4 little Jailbreak tools which made the whole process of Jail-breaking worthwhile these were not huge theme changes but tweaks which Apple should have put on the iPad version of IOS anyway. Well it’s been a while since the release of IOS 6 removed any Jailbreak features from my device. This week however the launch of the Evasion untethered Jailbreak and a whole new set of issues and tweaks.
Its absolutely no surprise that the popular tech press is having a time reminding us just how Apples share price is dropping or they didn’t sell enough iphone 5 units to fill an order. The question is however is should you be kicking this dog when its down?
There is a lot of speculation around Apple right now, Samsung have made great ground on the iPhone, the iPhone 5 production is allegedly being ramped back due to less demand and the Google Nexus 7 is chipping away at the iPads tablet market dominance as is the Amazon Fire HD.
This comes to no surprise to anyone who has followed Apple for long enough, this is the same thing that happened with the Apple Mac and OSX where for years Apple were streets ahead of the competition only to see Windows rise and surpass them.
What can Apple do with IOS 7 to revolutionise this infrastructure and make it cool again?
As the owner of a 16Gb iPad 3 and a Samsung Galaxy S, there are times when I wish my device has just a little bit more storage. When we go on holiday, lon road trips and the like.. During these times i’d like to put a few movies of my choice and a lot more music on my device as i know connectivity is going to be at a premium and it’s better to have too much than not enough..
The answer to this issue would appear to be the Kingston Wi-Drive
Apple’s iPad is a great device and despite a few hiccups IOS6 will be a great IOS release. the device comes with a great selection of software however a few hours of the App Store will prove that there are alternatives to the default apps, and rather than having to spend that time hopefully this post can point you to some alternatives to those default apps.
So the posts are telling you that Apple Maps does not work as well as Google Maps so I thought I would try and see what happens when I look at the same area in London using Google maps in satellite mode on my iPad and the same view on my iPad 3 running ios6 Apple Maps Read More…
While the maps app indeed appears to not be up to much, this isn’t a reason not to update your iPad 3 to IOS6 becaise rumour is Google have a Maps app waiting for approval and there are many many new features the update does provide.
These are a few i’ve run across in th last two days.
So IOS6 is out, and it’s generating as with all Apple News Terabytes of information, caught between the world of the Jailbroken iPad and the lust for new features I actually tried updating May iPad while on Holiday in Malta. No issues, downloaded after a few hours caught between terrible wifi and a few hundred million users all wanting to do the update at the same time.
I read a great post on this where the guy pretty much suggested that when Apple releases an IOS update, you may as well stop the internet for the day, i’ve never seen the actual stats but i’m going to put it out there that there is a huge amount of data being shifted to Apples mobile platforms.
My attempts at Over the Air downloads failed abysmally twice and i get the feeling this is because my iPad was jail broken. Nothing a download of the IPSW file couldn’t sort out which effectively resets the iPad to new fresh squeaky clean install. Never a bad thing.
The iPad 3 is without a doubt the best tablet on the market right now for viewing photos and editing and managing as it happens. I’ve been searching for a workflow for a while with the device to get from photo to internet edited and uploaded and come as close as I can so far to almost what i’m looking for.
There is no doubt in my mind that the future of personal computing is at that point where a huge shift is going to made in the next 12 months away from the traditional desktop and over to the mobile device. The smartphone and the Tablet are for this next generation of computer users the way forward. The acceptance of the simple fact always on communication is a must. Driving this forward will be the applications we use, these will dictate how each individual mobile platform is used and its core group of users far more i belive than cost or hardware specification.
Google+, Spotify, Tumblr two of these are iPhone apps but not iPad the other has only recently turned up why is is this?
As the user of both an iPad and Android Tablet device i’m finding myself using my Macbook Pro less and less for general tasks, the always on lure and ease of use of apps coupled with better tablet focussed websites with less Flash and more great adaptive content makes using Tablets more and more usable as a computing device .
However there is an area where part of me wishes i could couple a feature of Android and an App from the IOS platform to assist my photography workflow.
Looking for a tablet, why not they are a great mobile computing solution, that on the go computing while you are out and about. This is the computing of the new millennium for an active mobile community who likes to share their lives on the go.
Microsoft have announced their new flagship Windows 8 device a Tablet coming in either Arm (NVidia Tegra) or Intel flavours sporting their new Windows Metro interface. We had assorted Microsoft faces telling us across many media types in an Apple Style performance just how Microsoft are the company to do this and get this right.
