Apple loves its retail stores, that is why it has 407 of them in 14 different countries. Well, because Apple loves to create new, innovative store designs, Cupertino is building a new “flagship” store in the Stanford shopping center, right alongside the Microsoft and Sony stores. According to ifoAppleStore, this particular one had its design approved by…
Automattic, the company which runs popular blogging site WordPress.com has acquired iOS app Poster. Poster is an iOS blogging client designed by developer Tom Witkin. It offered a much more enjoyable and functional experience compared to the official WordPress app’s rather dire performance. Now, Poster has been acquired by the founders of WordPress,…
Apple has responded to claims that it was involved in submitting personal information to the U.S. government to sustain the NSA’s secret “PRISM” program. To summarise, Apple claims that the government had issued Apple with between 4-5000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data. In those requests between 9 and 10,000 accounts/devices were…
iPhone 5S board and iPhone 5 logic board We’ve seen quite a few leaks claiming to be parts from the iPhone 5S recently. In the past couple of months, we’ve seen what are supposedly the loudspeaker and dock connector, Nano-SIM tray, Wi-Fi flex and Home Button, FaceTime camera and vibration motor as well as a small part of the logic board. As far as I can…
If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on each individual element of iOS 7′s graphic design, you’ll be glad to know that they’re available to download now. The folks over at Teehanlax have been working hard on breaking down each individual feature from keyboards to toggle switches, and have made them available as a PSD file…
Developers with access to Apple’s Xcode have been posting images of what iOS 7 looks like on an iPad, and from the screenshots, it looks like a huge improvement compared to iOS 5 and 6. My biggest issue with the previous iOS versions on iPad was Notification Center, instead of filling the screen, it would drop down in the middle. It felt like a feature…
It’s probably no surprise to see that this week’s iOS news completely taken up by iOS 7. Apple’s new operating system for iPhone caused a huge stir, so much so that many of us even forgot that E3 and the first glimpse at the PS4 console was going on too. On Monday, Apple’s executives showed us the future of iOS, and that future looks very bright (and…
It’s been a while since we saw a new iPhone concept, and so I couldn’t help but share this with you. Titled the ‘iPhone 5S’ concept, it’s not exactly the same as the current iPhone, but it bares enough resemblance to make them almost identical. The design (choice of colors) is very similar with an added (hideous) extra combining the silver with black….
Perhaps one of the biggest changes to iOS with iOS 7 is the two top-layer functionality user interfaces: Notification Center and Control Center. Notification Center I’ve made no secret of the fact that I was never too pleased with the first version of Notification Center, first debuted in iOS 5. It was too crowded with information. Yes, you could…
Some alternative iOS 7 icons have appeared on Apple’s website revealing different designs for a couple of key apps. Whilst it’s not clear why these alternative icons have appeared, they were spotted by 9to5 Mac on Apple’s mobile site. Notably, the weather icon shown is actually displaying a temperature, which may well be live, similar to the live icon…
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