There will be advertising, except for people who pay $25 a year for the iTunes Match online music storage. It will be built into the Music app and stream music for free. The Cupertino, Calif., company is also launching a Pandora-like Internet radio service, iTunes Radio. Apple also is bringing its mapping service to desktops and laptops to compete with Google Maps and others. Apple said the Siri virtual assistant will use searches from Microsoft’s Bing, Google’s rival.
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The company also stepped up its rivalry with Google, maker of the Android software on Samsung and other phones. “No need to wander around the room bumping your phone with others,” said Craig Federighi, senior vice-president for software engineering. Will more follow suit?Īpple took a jab at its rival, Samsung Electronics Co., which had been touting its Galaxy phones as better than iPhones because they sport near-field communication chips that allow people to share files by bumping phones together. Some Canadian police services have joined Threads.lays out extreme heat plan amid record temperatures. Tornado hits Ottawa suburb in ‘potent storm system,’ over 100 homes damaged.After summer storm rips through Quebec, some power outages will last into weekend.We think we’ve narrowed down what iOS 7 features Apple needs to catch Android. “There is a tidying up that needs to be done and a rethinking,” said Benedict Evans, an analyst at London-based Ender Analysis. If the sources are right, iOS 7 could be the first time many of Apple’s mobile-software programs like email and calendar since the original iPhone was introduced in 2007.
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IOS 7 was recently rumoured to launch as a very flat operating system, redesigned to appear much more like the Windows Phone platform “potentially unsettling for those who are long-accustomed to the platform.” He also worked closely with Jobs to create the iPad, iPod and iPhone, but was much more involved with the hardware than the software for these product launches. Ive has already been instrumental in the major Apple products, including the design of the iMac that helped the company return to profit when Jobs returned as CEO in 1997. Maybe without a collaborator, he’s not as strong.” He added that IVe has “a tremendous sense of design, and he’s been the guru behind a lot of these enormously successful products, but he’s always had someone like a Jobs to push back on him and give him some guidance, and it’s not clear that Tim Cook is capable of playing that role. “Apple is really under tremendous pressure to come out with something different and something new,” said San Francisco-based Opus Research analyst Greg Sterling. The Cupertino company confirmed that it will be holding the Apple WWDC in San Francisco next month on June 10 – 14, and promised to give developers “an in-depth look at what’s next in iOS and OS X.” However, if the sources are correct, developers attending the WWDC could be disappointed by the lack of an iOS 7 preview. However, due to the enormity of the rumoured changes, internal deadlines for submitting iOS 7 features for testing are much later than with previous operating system releases, or so the sources suggest. Apple may not be able to demo its new iOS 7 operating system at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next month, as the company is rumoured to be behind schedule.Īccording to “people with knowledge of the matter”, Jonathan Ive is said to be completely overhauling the current iOS 6, moving away from realistic images like the bookshelf format of the Newsstand, and instead moving toward “more dramatic changes” to iOS tools like email and calendar.
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