Apple's Incredible Post-PC Engineer Army
Sometimes it seems like Apple's using tech from the future, and apparently Cupertino has an army of 1,000 engineers working on future Post-PC chips to keep it that way.
One of the world’s most prosperous companies, Apple is known for its iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac, MacBook, iTunes and App Store products and services. Based in Cupertino, California, the company has been helmed by CEO Tim Cook since August 2011, a month before former CEO – and co-founder – Steve Jobs died. Expect to see unbiased news, reviews and opinion on Apple and its products in Gizmodo UK’s Apple hub here.
Sometimes it seems like Apple's using tech from the future, and apparently Cupertino has an army of 1,000 engineers working on future Post-PC chips to keep it that way.
AnandTech has dug up some apparent benchmarks for the iPhone 4S, which they found around different benchmarking sites and believe to be true. Judging from the numbers, it seems like it'll be one of the most powerful mobile devices around.
Apple's demos of the new iPhone 4S' Siri smart assistant are very impressive, but they're just controlled demos. Stuff.tv got their hands on an iPhone 4S and played quite a bit with in a public place. It's still very impressive.
Here's a TV show to queue up your DVR. Our favorite Mythbusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are teaming up to honor Steve Jobs in an hour-long documentary that'll air on the Discovery Channel later this month.
We hoped Apple had beefed up the RAM in the iPhone 4S, but those hopes may be dashed. Two recent unconfirmed reports suggest the iPhone 4S may ship with 512MB of RAM like the iPhone 4, not 1GB as expected.
I don't know where the Daily Mail is getting this bit of information from, but they're claiming that Steve Jobs "worked for more than a year on the products that he believed would safeguard the company" during the next four years.
Somehow, someone in China's gotten their mitts on an iPhone 4S already. Or so this video claims. The brief vid, dug up by MacRumors, shows off some impressive benchmarking and Siri settings. It seems faster!
Though the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S look the same, it seems like the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S are just different enough — the silent switch and volume up/down buttons are shifted ever so slightly — that your old cases won't fit.
Apple has officially announced that they have sold one million iPhone 4S units in 24 hours, which beats down the previous 600,000-unit record set by the iPhone 4. Insane. Phil Schiller is "blown away":
India's been trying to revolutionise education with its £40 tablet, meanwhile we've been buying 1,200 iPad 2s for school kids.
An updated and enhanced Apple TV could be about to launch, with Apple code mentioning a future 3.1 version of the media box -- updating it from its current 2.1 model reference number.
Kick-starting Monday at 1am, Apple's biggest central London store, Covent Garden, has been robbed by a gang of 14 helmeted-men making off with a collection of Apple's latest kit. The Rozzers have arrested two so far. [BBC, Rob Shoesmith]
We know a lot about Steve Jobs's penchant for responding to email, but did you know that in simpler times, when pen and paper and typewriter were the norm, he sent paper letters and computer chips to adoring fans?
Apple realised that wearing the iPod nano as a watch became a thing, so when they introduced the new iPod nano they tossed in 18 different watch faces to keep people from ever getting bored. Some of them are pretty weird! Here's five.
9to5Mac's discovered what appears to be a nice new AppleTV hiding in the file system of the upcoming iOS 5 file system code.
The strange tale of the ugly prototype 3G MacBook Pro has seemingly come to an end with Apple returning several of the confiscated parts to the owner in a nondescript FedEx box.
