Apple Maps debacle is the main reason we now have public iOS beta tests

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Four years after the spectacularly failed replacement of Google Maps with Cupertino’s own in-house alternative as the default mapping and navigation service on iOS 6, Eddy Cue believes a lot of good came from perhaps the worse Apple-centric software fiasco in the company’s history.Tim Cook’s second-in-command when it comes to “services” opened up in an extensive FastCompany piece that includes numerous interesting quotes by both the SVP, his skipper, and Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of ...

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iOS 8.3 untethered jailbreak for iPhone and iPad released

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Jailbreaking is not be as popular as it once was, and that’s mainly because iOS has kept maturing, and in the processs, providing users with most of the features they would jailbreak their phones for. That said, there is still a community focused on making this a thing, and if you’re still interested in some hacking fun, a new update has just arrived.TaIG has just released an untethered jailbreak for iOS 8.3 on both the iPhone and iPad, so long as your device is compatible with this version of the operating system. The service only works for Windows computers at the moment ...

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