Apple officially released iOS4.2 Golden Master to developers yesterday evening, which pust them on target for a November release. We got a good look at iOS 4.2 Back in September whenApple went into detail about releases features. It looks like this update will bring the long awaited multitasking and folders to the iPad. In addition […]

Earlier this week we were lucky enough to interview Josh Guest of b2cloud.  Josh was very generous and provided Mobile Orchard with several promo codes to give to our readers. If you are interested in getting a promo code for this app please leave a comment and we will give these codes away until they […]

Now we are on to rumors about what the iPhone 4 will cost on Verizon. If these rumors are true Motorola is in for one heck of a price war with the Droid Pro. The white iPhone 4 is not longer in Apple’s online store. Is Apple finally throwing in the towel on this one? […]

As Apple gets ready to launch iOS 4.2 next month it is rumored that they will host a secret three-day summit in California for iOS developers next week. The goal of this event is to improve the quality of software being offered in the App Store. Though there isn’t much information on the summit a […]

Not really, but a news piece from ABC News in Australia is reporting that factory workers in southern China have fallen seriously ill after working in a plant responsible for producing Apple laptops and iPhones. According to the workers they were admitted to the hospital after breathing toxic vapors from n-hexane. After breathing in the […]

Yesterday on the ComputerWorld blog Preston Gralla listed five reason why the Android app store will beat Apple’s. A more appropriate title would have been “Five reasons why the Android app store will have more apps than Apple’s”. Which, in my opinion, is a pretty ridiculous criteria for judging a beating. Any way, I would […]

Not surprisingly it was a slow news day yesterday for anything related to Apple that wasn’t the ‘Back to the Mac’ event. Therefore I figured I would post about the only (somewhat) developer related news from those announcements. Many people have predicted it but Apple has finally made an official announcement it is going to […]

It seems that Steve Jobs struck a nerve during Apple’s earnings call on Monday when he took five minutes to trash Google’s Android smart phone strategy. He said “Google likes to characterize Android as open and Apple as closed. We find that a bit disingenuous… Android is fragmented… Compare this to iPhone, where every App […]