Monday, 21 June 2010
iOS update available for download
Apple says the amend delivers added than 100 appearance aimed at end users, as able-bodied as 1500 APIs for adaptable app makers. Leading the array of changes in iOS 4 is multitasking support, which will acquiesce users to bound about-face amid apps and let apps accept bound accomplishments functionality. Added changes cover folders for acclimation apps, new Mail features, enhancements to the Photos app, and the adeptness to change the accomplishments wallpaper on your home screen.
iOS 4 is accessible for download by iPhone 3GS and 3G users, as able-bodied as by second- and third-generation iPod blow users. The new OS will aswell be included with the iPhone 4, which hits retail shelves on Thursday. Some appearance of the OS won't be accessible on beforehand devices--the iPhone 3G and second-generation blow don't abutment multitasking, for example. The aboriginal iPhone, aboriginal appear three years ago, won't abutment iOS 4 at all. As for iPad users, they won't be able to advancement to the new OS until after this fall; Apple hasn't set a close date for iPad compatibility.
The iOS 4 amend can be downloaded from iTunes. The admeasurement of the amend will alter depending on what affectionate of accessory you use--one Macworld contributor appear that the amend for his iPhone 3GS was 378MB, while addition editor's iPhone 3G amend was 292MB. The amend requires iTunes 9.2, which Apple appear endure week.
The advancement action seemed to be traveling calmly Monday morning, but iPhone users will be watching carefully to see if that continues throughout the day, with endure week's iPhone 4 pre-order problems beginning on their minds. Endure Tuesday, a flood of barter agreement orders for the new iPhone acquired AT&T's online preorder arrangement to collapse. While advertisement that it had taken 600,000 orders for the iPhone 4, Apple aswell accustomed that abounding barter were angry abroad or "abandoned the action in frustration;" the aggregation has apologized to users afflicted by the problems.
Past above adaptable OS releases accept had their own allotment of difficulties. In 2008, Apple appear the iPhone 2 amend and iPhone 3G on the aforementioned day; the drove of barter accompanying downloading the new OS and aggravating to actuate phones led to delays and frustration. Endure year, the aggregation appear the iPhone 3.0 amend a few canicule afore the iPhone 3GS's release, eliminating abounding of the delays from the year before. Apple is acutely searching to echo that almost bland barrage in 2010, by rolling out iOS 4 two canicule afore the latest iPhone arrives.
Apple aboriginal took the wraps off the operating arrangement update--then alleged iPhone OS 4.0--at an April columnist briefing. That accident aboriginal categorical the above changes to the adaptable OS, including multitasking, folders, and updates to Mail, a part of added changes. Apple revisited the OS amend during Steve Jobs's keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference beforehand this month; it was there that the aggregation appear the name change to iOS forth with a few added features, a lot of of which are accompanying with the accessible iPhone 4 release.
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