Apple approves Opera Mini app for iPhone
Opera has announced Apple's approval of the company's Opera Mini browser in the iPhone App Store.
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iPhone 4.0 to remove controversial "rate on delete" prompt
The next revision of the iPhone OS will remove the rating prompt that users see when they delete an app from their device.
Apple's iPhone 4 SDK license bans ported Flash, Java, Mono apps
Apple has updated its iPhone Developer Program License Agreement in the iPhone 4.0 SDK to specifically prohibit the development of apps using "an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool," which would include Adobe's Flash, Sun's Java, or Microsoft's Silverlight/Mono.
Apple adds seven major features, 100 minor features in iPhone 4.0
iPhone OS 4 will introduce seven major "tentpole" feature and a long list of minor enhancements this summer, Steve Jobs has announced at Apple's release preview event. The top seven features are multitasking, app Folders, Mail improvements, Enterprise features, a Games Center, and Apple's new iAd network.
Apple iPhone OS 4.0 to ship this summer with multitasking support
Due this summer, iPhone OS 4 will deliver multitasking as a way to run background apps that the user can quickly switch between.
Apple sells 450,000 iPads in 5 days, users download 3.5 million apps
Apple said Thursday that it has shipped over 450,000 iPads since the device went on sale this past Saturday, spurring 3.5 million app downloads for the new tablet device by its earliest adopters.
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Benchmarks rate Apple's iPad 2x as fast at apps as iPhone 3GS
Despite apparently using the same single core, Cortex A8 generation of its ARM processor core, the same Power VR SGX 535 graphics core, and the same amount of system RAM, the iPad is around twice as fast as the iPhone 3GS in running native Cocoa Touch apps.
Daniel Eran Dilger
First Look: Apple's new iPad
Apple's iPad scales the iPhone OS up to a 1024x768 resolution, 9.7" screen. But this device isn't just a larger iPod touch; it has been given a series of unique features (some of which are likely to show up in future iPhone and iPods) and new level of hardware and software sophistication.
iPad licensing agreement specifies paid annual OS updates
Apple has posted the terms of its firmware licensing agreement for the iPad, which restricts free operating software updates to the current major reference release.
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