Since its launch last month, Apple’s standalone Podcasts app for the iPhone and iPad has been dogged by issues which have resulted in it being awarded one of the lowest ratings of all the company’s apps. Users have complained of sluggish performance, crashing, and syncing failures.
Although you would be forgiven for thinking that today is all about OS X Mountain Lion, Apple has also released a Safari update for OS X Lion users. Available to download via Software Update, Safari 6 includes a number of new features, plus improvements to stability, compatibility, usability & security.
Just as Apple CEO Tim Cook promised during yesterday’s earnings announcement, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is now available to download from the Mac App Store. Priced at just £13.99 ($19.99), Mountain Lion is the cheapest OS X upgrade to date, and includes over 200 new features.
Apple has just announced its earnings for the third fiscal quarter of 2012. The Cupertino company reported revenue of $35.0 billion and a net profit of $8.8 billion, or $9.32 per diluted share. By comparison, for the same quarter last year it reported revenue of $28.6 billion and net profit of $7.3 billion, or $7.79 per diluted share.
Apple’s latest iPhone 4S TV advert features Oscar-winning movie director Martin Scorsese, who is shown using Siri whilst riding in the back of a taxi. In the ad, which is titled “Busy Day”, Scorsese uses the personal assistant to reschedule appointments, check the location of a friend, and to see how the traffic is looking downtown.
Responding to a much-publicised hack which allows users to obtain iOS in-app purchases for free, Apple has created a new support document outlining how developers can protect their apps from the exploit. The document also reveals that iOS 6 will address the vulnerability.
It’s not easy (or cheap) to upgrade the solid-state storage in your MacBook Air, but it is possible thanks to Other World Computing. The company is now offering aftermarket flash drives for Apple’s latest lineup of ultraportables – released just last month, allowing you to expand your storage by up to 480GB.
The ability to re-download previously purchased movies via iTunes in the Cloud is no longer exclusive to users in the United States. Apple has today rolled out the feature for a number of other countries, including here in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Following last week’s UK court ruling that Samsung’s Galaxy Tabs aren’t cool enough to be confused with the iPad, Bloomberg reports that Judge Colin Birss has ordered Apple to publicly acknowledge that the South Korean company didn’t copy the iPad by posting notices on its UK website and in several British newspapers & magazines.