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Rumor: Apple’s use of double-resolution icons in Mac OS X 10.8 previews hint at Retina Display-equipped Macs

When in doubt, go with the Retina Display. Additional evidence has surfaced that high-resolution Retina display Macs are in Apple’s near future has been discovered in an early developer build of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Per Ars Technica, double-resolution icons were found in “unexpected places” of Mountain Lion according to sources who wished to […]

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Apple releases iOS 5.1 SDK beta, Xcode 4.3 preview, references upcoming iOS devices

The next major iOS update: it’s usually a pretty cool thing. Per Electronista, Apple has released a new iOS 5.1 beta for developer testing on all iPad, iPod touch and iPhone models that support iOS 5.0. The beta contains references to next-generation iPhone and iPad models with references to a next-generation iPhone, “iPhone5,1,” as well […]

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Recent Xcode references point towards quad-core ARM CPUs for future iOS devices

While Apple may not always tell you what hardware features are on the horizon where its iOS devices are concerned, the development tools can spill the beans. Per the cool cats at Ars Technica, a number of references found inside Apple’s Xcode developer tool point towards quad-core ARM CPUs, hinting at next-generation processors that will […]

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Apple releases iOS 5 beta 3, iTunes 10.5 beta to developer community

Late Monday Apple iOS 5 beta 3 to developers, the latest pre-release build of its forthcoming mobile operating system update for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Per the Mac Observer, sources with access to the latest beta now available for download said it is dubbed Build 9A5259f and that significant changes to the software […]

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iPhone News Software

Apple changes iOS SDK rules to accept Lua but restrict Flash

Something about this reminds me of when the cool kids wanted to keep the nerds out of the clubhouse, if only on principle. According to AppleOutsider, Apple has changed its iOS SDK rules for iPhone developers have relaxed the restriction of section 3.3.2 pertaining to interpreted code, enabling Apple to forbid Flash and other middleware […]