Google Drive and iPhone users rejoice. Google just updated their Google Drive app for the iPhone, and it comes with one new feature that completely changes how you edit documents on your smartphone. The updated app now includes landscape mode for both document editing and spreadsheet editing, making it easier and quicker to type out those reports on the go.
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‘iOS’ Stories
Google Drive for iPhone updates with landscape mode and better performance
Ex-Apple adviser inputs his two cents on Apple’s weird naming system
Ken Segall, who worked as a creative director at Apple's ad agency, TBWA/Chiat/Day, and later as a consultant to Apple until 2008, has given his two cents on Apple's strange naming system for its iOS devices. Many of us would have to agree that Apple's naming system for its iPhone devices has been a bit weird. Its devices don't follow the same naming system as its Mac or iPod line-up of devices.
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German court invalidates Apple’s slide-to-unlock patent
A German court has ruled that all claims for Apple's slide-to-unlock patent have been found to be invalid. The ruling was made in Germany's federal patent court, Bundespatentgericht, and is a big win for Motorola and Samsung, both companies who were affected by the patent. Apple has, in the past, used the patent in order to attack Motorola and Samsung for infringement and to seek injunction's against both companies' devices.
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ITC judge says Samsung infringes on Apple’s text-selection patent
An ITC judge believes that Samsung has infringed on a key part of one of Apple's patents. Judge Thomas Pender stated that he found Samsung's text-selection feature to be infringing on the patent, a feature that is both part of the Internet Browser in Samsung's devices, as well as the translucent buttons in Samsung's photo gallery. Judge Pender's decision is only a preliminary decision however, and will need to be approved by the rest of the ITC.
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Apple Store back online with iOS-friendly navigation
Late last night, the online Apple Store quietly went down momentarily, provoking speculation as to what the company was updating. Of course, we haven't heard anything recently about an update to their product line (or at least an update that didn't warrant an event), so we assumed it was merely just a site redesign of sorts, and it turns that's exactly what it was.
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Google suffers another marketshare drop while Apple rises, says comScore
ComScore has released data on the US smartphone market gathered over a three month span that went to the end of February of this year, and it shows Apple and Google on the top of the their respective scales. Apple is leading the way in smartphone OEMs, beating out Samsung by over 15-percent, while Google comes in with the top platform, althoug its numbers have dropped a bit over last year once again, marking a downward trend.
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Apple Store goes down as something new is rolled out
It seems the Apple Store is down, displaying the all-too-familiar cycling "We'll be back" message in a variety of languages. This is the modus operandi that takes effect when Apple updates the store, but what the update/item (or items, as it were) is/are is unknown. While we wait to find out, drop a comment after the jump and let us know what you think is in store (pun intended).
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Forget the economy, the PC slump is here to stay warns Gartner
Tablets and smartphones will squash traditional PC and laptop sales in a trend that looks unlikely to slow down any time soon, analysts predict, with demand for cheaper, more approachable slates hiding a slump in the PC market. In fact, Gartner expects a 7.6-percent dive in PC and notebook sales in 2013 alone, despite combined shipments of PCs, tablets, and phones expected to climb 9-percent in the same period.
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Microsoft updates SkyDrive for iOS app to version 3.0
Back in December 2012, there was a bit of a butting-of-heads situation betwixt Apple and Microsoft over the iOS SkyDrive app, which concerned the amount of moolah Apple kept from SkyDrive subscriptions upgraded via the iOS app. Such upgrades were considered in-app purchases, and as such were subject to Apple's 30-percent cut. It would seem the issue has been resolved, with Microsoft rolling out its SkyDrive for iOS update today.
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: April 3, 2013
Welcome to Wednesday evening everyone. Perhaps the biggest story to hit the Internet today was Disney's statement that it has shut down LucasArts, instead shifting to a license-based model, opening the series up to a wider range of game developers. Speaking of games, Rovio announced its 2012 revenue, pulling in a profit of approximately $71 million, while EA's All Play senior vice president told Games Industry that the majority of gamers prefer its freemium model.
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Bad Context: Why nobody, not even Apple, has done mobile right
Your smartphone is dumb. Mine is too. I’ve got an iPhone in my pocket, and a Galaxy S III, and an HTC One, and they’re all stupid. The BlackBerry Z10 in my bag is a clot, and the Lumia 920 isn’t just thick in the hand, it’s just plain thick. Today, on the fortieth birthday of the first cellphone call, the gadget that was supposed to liberate us has turned us into plagued, screen-tapping obsessives, in thrall to every buzz and bleep.
iPhone 5S and the “budget” iPhone: should you wait for Summer?
This week it's become apparent that not only has Apple begun production on the next-generation iPhone model, they've already set a general date range for revealing said device. With the smartphone we must assume will be called iPhone 5S, Apple has been tipped to be going forward with a design that had definite Steve Jobs input, this suggesting the idea that the iPhone 5 body will remain in-tact.
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