Apple Releases New iPhone 4 Software and SDK. New Features Presented
Apple has continued their usual methods in releasing new betas of their iPhone software with the distribution of iPhone OS 4: Beta 3 and the corresponding SDK. The download was made available to developers through the iPhone Dev Center on Tuesday, May 4. Apple has been releasing new version of the beta to help aid them in ironing out the wrinkles of the software before its public release scheduled for this summer, which is just around the corner and is usually made available a couple weeks before the new generation iPhone, and will also be enabled for the iPad in the fall of 2010. As usual, developers have already been combing through the iPhone software to see what new features and functions have been added.
Microsoft Supports Apple and the HTML5 Initiative
Just moments after Steve Jobs posted an open letter synopsis about Adobes Flash and Adobes CEO responding to the letter on the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft, a major partner of the Flash technology, chimed in by giving support to the HTML5 movement, a movement that Apple is vigorously pushing forward.
Microsofts General Manager of Microsoft Internet Explorer Dean Hachamovitch stated and confirmed that his company is putting much force behind the HTML5 standard and the H.264 video format that Apple is promoting. He continue to state that Microsoft is currently developing with the technology and is going to be implementing it solely in the next version of IE, stating it to be the technology that IE will use for video content.
Lala Media Web Software Shutdown
Lala media has posted to their website and sent emails to members of their service that the site and service will be discontinued on May 31 of 2010, giving speculators the assumption that their now parent company, Apple, has plans to use the acquired group to add streaming services to iTunes.
Currently Showcased On Lala Website
Apple Acquires Siri
Apple has purchased a company called Siri who specializes in voice operated software. The company currently has a free application on the App Store that corresponds with the name of the group and offers the ability for end-users to acquire different information and complete different tasks on their iPhones simply by speaking the request. News of Apple acquiring the company made way to Robert Scoble. The Silicon Valley Insider got wind of the purchase and then contacted a representative of Siri who confirmed the acquisition by Apple. A statement was later given by a Siri investor and board member to the Wall Street Journal stating that the Apple offer was a “no-brainer.”
