More and more of the speculation I’ve read of late talks about extensive proposed changes to the Mac OS. There is that Apple patent filing that would add a touch interface, activated, evidently, by the direction in which the screen is tilted. So if you hold it flat, as determined by the accelerometer, you will […]

I’ve used iOS 4 on my iPhone 3GS since Day One of the official release. For the most part, the experience has been essentially as I expected after examining the material from Apple’s hype machine. That is a good thing, although there are some rough edges. Aside from the minor interface quibbles, my biggest problem […]

The large majority of reviews of iOS 4 are quite favorable, which is understandable. Apple clearly worked hard to attempt to fix most of the perceived shortcomings in their mobile platform, particularly such irritants as multitasking. Now it’s perfectly true that the vast majority of iPhone and iPod touch users didn’t suffer all that much […]

So the highly anticipated, newly renamed iOS 4 arrived Monday morning in iTunes 9.2 for millions of expectant iPhone and iPod touch users. Predictably, Apple’s update servers were no doubt slammed by the incredible demand, as users clicked their Update buttons in iTunes over and over again to get in line to receive the upgrade. […]