In a surprise move, Apple has justannouncedthat its iWork suite is now available for iPhone and iPod touch. The iWork suite, including Keynote, Pages and Numbers, were previously available on the iPad and, of course, the Mac. The apps are available individually for $9.99 each for new users and are free upgrades for owners of the iPad versions, making them universal apps. The Keynote Remote app is available as a separate $0....
At Apple’s Let’s Talk iPhone event ’11, the music market share for the Apple iPod has been revealed at 78%. That’s 300 Million iPods sold since its launch 10 years ago, one huge and impressive stat to keep an eye on. In July 2010 to June 2011, 45 Million iPods were sold, half of which are going to completely new iPod owners which could potentially convert these users into Apple consumers....
Apple is going to be at SXSW this year, opening a temporary store in downtown Austin, to provide consumer electronics to festival attendees but also to launch its new iPad 2 device when it goes on sale on March 11. The Statesman reportsthat construction workers have already begun work on the 5,000-square-foot space in the Scarborough Building, located on Congress Avenue, providing a short-term home for Apple for just two weeks....
Apple is looking to hire a software engineer to help the iWork team craft a web experience, according to a jobpostingdiscovered byAppleinsider. The position calls for an applicant to work with the iWork team on the ‘front and/or back end of scalable web applications’. The posting comes just a day after Applerevealed its iCloud.com beta servicewhich allows access to web apps like the Calendar, Contacts and Mail. These apps were previously a part of Apple’s now-defunct MobileMe service....
The announcement of Siri, the virtual personal assistant launched alongside the iPhone 4S yesterday, didn’t get the rapturous reception Apple was seeking everywhere in the world. Over in Japan, Siri’s unveiling succeeded in making the Cupertino giant the literal butt of jokes online. The issues stems form its Japanese translation, Siri sounds suspiciously like Shiri (尻), meaning buttocks. When it emerged that the app did not support Japanese, Twitter users in the country got a little cheeky and began referring to Siri as ‘bottom’....
