The Telegraph has reported that 30 people, mostly in the age group of 25 or less, have attempted suicide over the last 3 weeks alone at Apple’s iPad and other iDevices supplier factory, Foxconn. Foxconn has even sought help from a Buddhist “monk” to sort things out and cast away the evil spirits but it seems that the problem is arising more from pathetic working conditions and low wages rather then evil spirits.
This is now going out of Apple’s hands. After the EPIC story of pre-release iPhone 4G landing into the hands of Gizmodo for a goodly sum of $5000 (reportedly) and then we saw a video showing the external assembly of iPhone 4G and now: A VIETNAMESE website has got hold on pre-release iPhone 4G and it’s definitely not a prank, the thing is original. 100%
Maxwell of Time-More has managed to connect external portable Hard Drive to his iPad using Camera Connection kit (which has to be purchased separately. You can order one on the Apple Store). The iPad that was used in this experiment was Jailbroken with Spirit.
iPad is going International from 10th May and will be delivered first batch of 9 countries from 28th May. Softbank will be selling all models of iPad and 3G data plans in Japan.
With over 1 million iPads sold in US since it’s launch and over 12 million iPad specific apps downloaded from the App Store averaging 12 apps per iPad, there is no doubt that iPad has overshadowed the Tablet market. Starting from 10th May, nine International countries will be able to place pre-orders for iPad, the official Apple PR press release announces.
We all want to believe what Steve Jobs claimed in his long blog post in a reply to all the recent criticism Apple has faced for it’s lack of Flash support. We even went to the point of actually believing that it’s time for Flash to be replaced with the new open standards of playing video and animations on the mobile web. But this video reveals the other side of the story. Here we see HTML5 animations on iPad from a popular HTML5 demo website. The video speaks for itself.
If there was one clip that was popular in the whole of tech world then it should be this one. Every time we have a leak or some weird tech news, it’s always Hitler who gets grilled. So what did he say on the recent iPhone 4 leak? Enjoy.
Finally here’s something that is confirmed beyond any doubt. Gizmodo got hold of iPhone 4G and it resulted in a big uproar among Apple fans and also resulted in Apple ‘requesting’ Gizmodo to return the device. Apparently, it seems like it is a marketing stunt from Apple since it’s the first time an Apple device got leaked before it’s official release. Anyways, now rumors and reality have been separated and we know what iPhone 4G will look like.
The war between Adobe and Apple seems to be raging. With the release of iPhone OS4, the developer agreement now includes a complete section on which applications will be considered for inclusion into the App Store and Apple has specifically stated that “…only application written ORGINALLY in C++, Objecttive C or JS” will be considered as iPhone apps. The rest can simply go to hell. Steve Jobs has seriously gone insane. period.
MuscleNerd has done it. Apple iPad gets jailbroken in less then 24 hours of its release. He has just released a video showing that he now has root access to iPad file system meaning that the device is jailbroken now. We previously posted the video by @comex showing un-tethered jailbreak of his iPod touch 3G and he claimed that it will also work fine with iPad and now MuscleNerd has proved it!
@MuscleNerd is an important part of the infamous Dev-Team popular for releasing Jailbreak and Unlock tools for iPod touch, iPhone and now it’s just a matter of time before they update their tools to enable iPad jailbreak.
Steve Swasey of Netflix announced today on the official Netflix blog that after the launch of Netflix app for iPad with streaming capability, they’re also going to upgrade the iPhone and iPod touch version to include streaming feature in it.
Just a day before the very first iPad reaches Apple Store, FCC has made public the internal details as well as photos which Apple submitted to it on March 12 but have been made public only now. There are a total of 17 photos detailing the internal circuitry of the “magical device”.
Google has already announced it’s updated set of native apps for the iPad which will ship with it and now it has released a new interface for the GMail app for iPad with improved UI. The new GMail app can be accessed through Safari browser on the iPad or through the Mail app.
With PrintCentral app for iPad, you can enhance the functionality of your iPad by adding the print option to all your Photos, apps and Documents. It supports almost all popular document formats including Microsoft Office formats. The app comes from a company that has previously released a printing app for the iPhone.
It’s already there, 3 days before the first iPad will land into the Apple Store for pickup. The iPhone OS 3.2.0 firmware is for iPad only and possibly for the next iPhone 4G. Here’s the download link for iPhone OS 3.2 firmware (custom IPSW file).