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Remember D8, when Jobs said they were pissed at Flurry for abusing Apple’s developer agreement with their ad analytics? It’s Day 2 of WWDC, and Apple seems to have loosened up a bit. MediaMemo via MacRumors posts:
“If you compare and contrast with Apple’s earlier version, you’ll see the message is clear: It’s OK to collect user data to help sell ads – though you will need to get their permission to do so.”
MacRumors clarifies, however, that there is one interesting catch.
The new iPhone really is the most advanced phone in the world. And when you own the single most important piece of smartphone technology, you better patent its technologies pronto. Today, we go hands on with some of Apple’s newest iPhone related patents pertaining to the gyroscope and video calling.
Adobe has decided that delivering HTML5 ads to mobile devices might be a good business, after all. That’s why they’ve teamed up with Greystripe, which is developing an interesting solution to transcode Flash to HTML5 on the fly for iOS, Android and “mobile web”.
Check out the press release after the break. [via Engadget]
One of the most important features of Safari 5 is support for extensions: it’s what Safari users had been wanting for a very long time, and it’s a big deal. It’s a big deal for users who want to customize their browser the way they want, it’s a huge deal for developers who may start to charge for full-featured extensions in the future. Just think about Twitter clients or RSS apps living inside the browser.
Safari 5 has been available for 12 hours now, and some developers have already released their first extensions. Obviously these extensions are far from being “complete” and “full-featured”, but still it’s worth taking a look at them, as they’re giving us a glimpse at what devs might offer in a few weeks.
Apple has published the full video of yesterday’s keynote here. This is the Quicktime version that will stream the movie to your computer, we’re still waiting for the high resolution version to become available through Apple Keynotes on iTunes.
Apple has updated the online developer portal and released a beta of iTunes 9.2 (which we spotted on Apple.com earlier today) and iOS GM Seed.
New features of iTunes 9.2 include support for iPhone 4 sync, iBooks 1.1 support (iPhone and PDFs), possibility to organize icons in folders using iTunes, faster backups and other performance improvements. Seems like a good update.
Available at developer.apple.com.
Sweet mother of Ballmer, what do we have here? Someone has mated a Microsoft webcam to an iPad? But not just any someone – Engadget reports that PhotoFast took a Microsoft LifeCam and made the perfect match ever. For those with the webcam blues, your iPad can have one too. Photo after the break.
As Steve Jobs announced that “iPhone OS” was being renamed “iOS”, a lot of you wondered how exactly was Apple thinking of doing it considering that Cisco retained the name “IOS” for many years. Simple: they found an agreement and went for it. Cisco is licensing the “iOS” name to Apple, and that’s it.
On other hand, Apple has acquired the name “FaceTime” from a less known company which is now forced to change its name.
Ah, power of Cupertino lawyers.
