AppleInsider Staff
The details come from a list of links to the Apple Developer Connection website for an iOS 6 beta build labeled "10A5316K." The links are not active, as Apple has yet to formally announce iOS 6 or release a beta to developers.
The full list of links to Apple's developer site were provided to AppleInsider on Saturday, but the links are not active, so they could easily have been faked. The links appear to have originated from the Chinese website WeiPhone.com.
The provided links give a "Session Expired" page when accessing them is attempted. Changing the links slightly sends users to a page that instead reads "Access Denied."
The full list of devices claimed to be supported by the iOS 6 beta are the iPad 2, and third-generation iPad; the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPhone 4S; the fourth-generation iPod touch; and the second- and third-generation Apple TV.
If the links are legitimate, they would suggest that Apple plans to drop support for the third-generation iPod touch and first-generation iPad with the first beta of iOS 6.
Also included among the list of links is an unannounced Safari 6. They include a developer preview for OS X 10.7 Lion, and a separate uninstaller.
The appearance of iOS 6 at this week's Worldwide Developers Conference was revealed last week, when Apple began hanging banners inside Moscone West in San Francisco, Calif. The conference will kick off on Monday.
iOS 6 and other products are expected to be officially introduced by Apple in a keynote presentation on Monday at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. AppleInsider will have full, live coverage of the event.
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How do we know these links even exist if they're not active? You can type anything you want and have it look like a URL.
This is the first I'm hearing of first-gen iPad support, particularly since it has been missing the last few days.
Also, booyah, Safari 6. 5.2 is dandy, but if they're jumping a whole number then they must be adding something good.
[quote name="Tallest Skil" url="/t/150588/alleged-ios-6-beta-details-suggest-support-for-iphone-3gs#post_2124352"]Also, booyah, Safari 6. 5.2 is dandy, but if they're jumping a whole number then they must be adding something good. [/quote] Hardware-accelerated compositing I imagine but hopefully also stopping the random refresh as well as fix the performance of plugins.
It seems weird to have three different iPhones but only one iPod Touch?
Makes complete sense, as it's a current selling product there'd be an uproar if it could not run iOS 6!
The provided links give a "Session Expired" page when accessing them is attempted. Changing the links slightly sends users to a page that instead reads "Access Denied."
The first message is just telling you that the file exists but you have not agreed to the additional NDA/terms of use, which is because you have not yet been presented with the form that you need to submit, thus you have no session, expired or otherwise just missing. The second message is actually a more secure way of saying file not found.