Twitter has given its official Android app a thorough redesign — an update that's been long-awaited ever since Android 4.0 was first released. It has also updated its iOS and mobile web apps, but Android sees the most significant changes. For those running Android 4.0 or greater, the app now is...
Overdue update has arrived
Back when we learned that Apple’s VP of industrial design, Jony Ive, would be leading human interface development across the entire company, many hoped it would mean some big changes for iOS, after years of iterations that appeared minor...
Microsoft and Apple have been locked in a battle over Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud-storage app for iOS. The two companies were originally sparring over a 30 percent cut of revenue from SkyDrive storage purchases through Microsoft's iOS app, leaving it lacking updates since June 1st last year. Microsoft previously confirmed it was "in contact with Apple regarding the matter," and It appears that...
Recently-surfaced documents have led CNET to detail how Apple was able to transform its early products from hobbyist devices into bonafide computers. With the launch of the original Apple I, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak struck a chord with the hobbyist computer scene: it was a functional computer at a low price. The Apple I was sold without a case, power supply, or keyboard, and was never intended to take the world by storm. With the Apple II, though, Jobs had dreams of mass-market success. One thing standing in his way was the lack of a disk operating system (DOS), and although Wozniak believed he could write one himself, Jobs discovered Shepardson Microsystems, and negotiated a deal that saw the company code Apple's first DOS for $13,000 with no additional royalties. Six million Apple II sales later, the contract seems like one of...
The story of Apple's first DOS
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Last December, Google released Quickofffice for iPad, the company's first major release since acquiring Quickoffice in June of 2012. The app was positioned as a way for business who pay for Google's suite of apps to to open and edit documents that weren't native to Google Docs, and now its...
The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple will start producing a followup to its iPhone 5 in the coming months. According to anonymous sources, the new iPhone will begin production in the second quarter of 2013, possibly setting it for a summer...
China's media has reacted positively to Apple CEO Tim Cook's public apology over the recent warranty issues in the country. As reported by Reuters, the state-run newspaper People's Daily said Apple's reaction is "worth respect compared with other American companies." A foreign...
