The iPhone 5 UK launch may be the second week of September according to a new report from China Times, while the much-rumoured iPad 3 may follow in November. The paper cites sources at Chinese suppliers who claim that Apple has put in an initial order for 4 million new iPhone units, with suppliers already lining up 400,000 trial units. There have been myriad reports that the next iPhone will launch at what is traditionally Apple’s iPod event this September; usually Jobs and co treat us to new phone hardware at WWDC in June, but the iPhone 5 was conspicuous in its absence at this year’s conference. A September launch seems to be growing ever more likely, with ‘fall’ also pegged as the iOS 5 release date; however, this new report is the most specific yet and we’re not completely convinced about the second week of September itself.
One of the bigger shocks when Apple announced iOS 5 to the world earlier this week was that the new mobile operating system would come with a modicum of Twitter integration. Given that Apple is usually such a closed shop, especially when it comes to its OS, its embrace of the micro-blogging giant surprised many – but Twitter’s head of platform Ryan Sarver think it makes perfect sense. “Overall the big thing for us is the combination of two big platforms,” Sarver explained to TechCrunch
One of the bigger shocks when Apple announced iOS 5 to the world earlier this week was that the new mobile operating system would come with a modicum of Twitter integration. Given that Apple is usually such a closed shop, especially when it comes to its OS, its embrace of the micro-blogging giant surprised many – but Twitter’s head of platform Ryan Sarver think it makes perfect sense. “Overall the big thing for us is the combination of two big platforms,” Sarver explained to TechCrunch. “And we’re complementary to each other
Apple’s World Wide Developers’ Conference (WWDC) is easy to parody: Steve Jobs says “boom”, the assembled hordes shout “woo!” and a million hands reach for their credit cards to buy whatever shiny new thing Steve has just showed off. This year, though, things were a little different. Apple may not have shown off shiny new hardware, but it did demonstrate some very big ideas. First up was OS X Lion, the latest and greatest version of Apple’s desktop operating system.
The WWDC keynote was ostensibly an equally balanced affair, with Apple providing insight into the near future of two equally important operating systems: Mac OS X for Apple computers, and iOS for Apple portable systems. However, on closer inspection, it’s clear that the two systems are no longer afforded equal billing. In fact, the word ‘Mac’ was rarely mentioned with regard to the desktop operating system and Apple CEO Steve Jobs was clear about Macs effectively being ‘relegated’ to becoming ‘just another device’ that can happily work with Apple’s new cloud service, iCloud