iOS 8 is official (Wekeni comments zenu hapa)

[Bavaria]

Apple took the wraps off iOS 8 during today’s WWDC keynote. The latest OS release brings a host of new features and improvements, headed by the ability to closely interact with the freshly announced OS X Yosemite.

The feature which allows iOS 8 to interact with OS X Yosemite is dubbed Handoff. An expansion of AirDrop, the functionality allows iOS 8 devices to share a multitude of tasks and data with OS X Yosemite, including phone calls messages, files, etc.

The newly announced iCloud Drive will unsurprisingly be also available on iOS 8. It will be neatly integrated into the OS and is bound to become a serious competitor to the likes of DropBox.
iCloud Drive allows you to sync your app files across all your devices. iCloud Drive is actually the closest to a unified file storage iOS has ever gotten. You start App X, you open up the iCloud Drive panel and from there you open a file, which is originally stored with App Y. Once you are done manipulating it, the file is stored back to its original location under App Y so you always know where to find the latest version. We are yet to hear about the availability details.

Apple brought the often-requested widgets to iOS with the latest release. However, those will not be located on the homescreen. Instead, you will be able to find them and interact with them in the Notification center.

Notifications in iOS 8 have become interactive as well. For example, you can directly reply to a text from the small pop-up on top of the display. The feature is handy and saves a couple of steps and you don't even have to leave the app you are currently into.

The keyboard in iOS 8 has been changed as well. It predicts more efficiently the words a user is about to input.

Even more importantly, iOS 8 finally brings the ability to install third-party keyboards. This means that the likes of SwiftKey and Swype will soon make their way to iPhones and iPads around the world.

As of its 8th version, iOS features a HealthKit suite which gathers all data collected from the device’s tracking apps and various third-party accessories. Apple has teamed up with a number of partners on the health suite including Nike and the Mayo clinic.

Apple iMessage has seen a number of improvements in iOS. The app is now an even more credible competitor to the likes of WhatsApp, gaining the ability to directly send audio and video messages from within the app.

The native email client is another thing to be improved in iOS 8. It allows users to discard unimportant messages via a simple swiping gesture.
Spotlight has been overhauled as well. It now allows users to search for uninstalled apps, songs from the iTunes store, as well as a whole lot more of useful content.
Nince months after its announcement with the iPhone 5s Apple is opening the Touch ID to developers. The fingerprint scanner will therefore soon be available to third-party apps.

TouchID The ability to utilize Touch ID is not the only feature which Apple has brought to the SDK for developers. What Apple called the biggest release since the introduction of the App Store, brings over 4,000 new APIs, including new technologies for game development.
The Photos app has also seen a refresh. It now allows edited images to be shared across all synced devices. Post-capture editing will also be synced.

The updated iPhoto As part of the iOS 8 announcement, Apple unveiled several new features for its App Store. We should expect to see an improved Search feature, App Bundles offered by devs, embedded videos in the app descriptions ala Google Play Store, and devs will be able to invite users to closed bets testing of future versions of their apps.

The new App Store
Family sharing is an iOS 8 feature which allows up to six users to share iTunes, iBooks, and App Store purchases. Family photos, calendar entries and locations can also be shared.

Family sharing
Enterprise features have also been improved in iOS 8. Updates cover beefed up security, new productivity features, as well as better data and device management tools.
Apple iOS 8 will be available to everyone this fall, while a developer Beta of the OS has been released today. Compatible iPhone devices include all models from iPhone 4s onwards.

iOS 8 availability details
On the tablet side, iPad 2 and all following releases will be treated to the update. The iPod Touch 5 will be the only one to get updated from the company's music player lineup.

 

[mojoki]

I cant wait for this


In this world nothing is certain than Tax and Death.

 

[Bavaria]

I cant wait for this


In this world nothing is certain than Tax and Death.

Competition ndo inayotuweka hapa

 

[Bavaria]

[h=1]Here's The Most Important Thing Tim Cook Said At Today's Big Apple Event[/h]

• Jay Yarow

• Jun. 2, 2014, 9:27 PM
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For Apple, the only thing that really matters for its future is its competition with Android. At today's WWDC keynote, we saw a few things that give us a glimpse at where Apple is relative to Android. For the most part, things look good if you're an Apple bull.
[h=2]PART I: Apple is taking Android customers.[/h] It's cliche at this point to note that Apple is the iPhone company.
Anyone who follows the company even a little bit realizes this is the case. The majority of Apple's revenue comes from the iPhone, and the vast majority of its profits come from the iPhone.
But just because it's cliche doesn't mean we should ignore it. It's the truth about Apple.
The iPad and Mac are wonderful products, but they're nowhere near as important as the iPhone. And the iWatch, should it ever materialize, will not overtake the iPhone.
The iPhone is a once-in-a-lifetime product. Every single person on the planet is going to end up owning a smartphone at some point. Apple has successfully sold 500 million iPhones at ~$600 a piece. Many of those sales are subsidized by carriers making it possible for consumers to think they're paying $0-$200 for their phones.
Yet, many people think that Apple is in a precarious position. They look at Android gaining share around the world via cheaper hardware and think that Apple is going to be relegated to a second-tier player.
Even analysts who think Apple's stock is worth buying think the company is boxed in. They think Apple's growth in the future comes from iPhone owners upgrading to new iPhones instead of new customers coming to the iPhone. They believe the high end of the market is saturated, and therefore growth is going to flatten.
To those people, Tim Cook has a message: You are wrong.
"Over 130 million customers who bought an iOS device in the past 12 months were buying their first Apple device," said Cook before introducing iOS 8, the new software for the iPhone and iPad. "Many of these customers were switchers from Android. They had bought an Android phone - by mistake. Then had sought a better experience ... And a better life. And decided to check out iPhone and iOS."
He added, "Nearly half of our customers in China in the past six months switch from Android to iPhone. This is incredible."
The clear implication from Cook: We are not done growing the iPhone and iPad businesses. And, Android users aren't hooked into the Android ecosystem, we can get them.
Now, Cook didn't say how many iPhone users bailed for Android in the past six months. We're not sure how exactly to figure that out. It's possible Apple's net customers are flat. But, Cook said customer satisfaction with the iPhone is at 97%, so it seems likely that Apple isn't losing too many customers to Android.
[h=2]PART II: Apple is taking Android features[/h] The consensus takeaway from today's event is that Apple has finally opened up its platform and given developers, and consumers, more of what they want.
A quick overview of some new stuff from Apple:

• Apple is opening beta testing for apps. This will let developers give away more copies of its apps for testing, which should make them better.
• It's allowing third-party apps to integrate with iOS in a way it never has before. Photo apps like VSCOCam can work right in the Photos app, for instance. And Apple is allowing third-party keyboards, which is pretty radical. This means that a company like Swype, which makes a popular Android keyboard, can make an iPhone keyboard.
• Apple also announced that it would add widgets to iOS' notification center. These are pretty useful for getting information at a glance.
• iCloud photo storage is much better. Now you can store all of your photos in iCloud (as long as you pay).
• Spotlight search is more comprehensive. Today, if you search on the iPhone you just see what's on the iPhone. In the future, it will be a universal search that looks through the web, the App Store, and lots of other places.
• iCloud Drive is just like Dropbox or Google Drive. Apple has long resisted replicating the file structure of the desktop in the cloud. Today, it stopped resisting.
• Siri now works by just saying, "Hey, Siri." This will make using Siri a lot easier.

It's like Apple took a list of what everyone says is better about Android and then checked every box until the iPhone was dead even.
The only thing Android has over iPhone now is big screens, and low-cost hardware.
Apple is expected to release an iPhone with a 4.7-inch screen, and an iPhone with a 5.5-inch screen in September. So, Apple will be able to check that box versus Android.
The only thing missing is low-cost hardware. We're not expecting Apple to release low-cost hardware. Then again, we weren't expecting Apple to allow some other company to come in and change the iPhone's keyboard.
Perhaps this new, emboldened Apple will release a low-cost iPhone in the fall, and really go after Android.

Read more: Apple WWDC - Business Insider
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Nasubiria watuachie na kushusha nyimbo kitu ambacho sjui watatupa lini ambazo zita interact na iTune Library...
Pia ni aibu mpaka leo hatuna kitu inayoitwa 'Delivered Report' pindi unapotuma SMS labda watusaidie katka hiyo iOs 8


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Nasubiria watuachie na kushusha nyimbo kitu ambacho sjui watatupa lini ambazo zita interact na iTune Library...
Pia ni aibu mpaka leo hatuna kitu inayoitwa 'Delivered Report' pindi unapotuma SMS labda watusaidie katka hiyo iOs 8


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Nadhan D.riport ya ioS ni kale kasauti kanakoskika punde tu unapotuma Sms

 

[NullPointer]

apple wana-introduce features ambazo android walikua nazo toka zamani, cook yuko vizuri sema sio ka jobs ndio maana apple inapoteza watu kila siku, wana market share ndogo sana siku hizi compared to android..

 

[zagalo]

apple wana-introduce features ambazo android walikua nazo toka zamani, cook yuko vizuri sema sio ka jobs ndio maana apple inapoteza watu kila siku, wana market share ndogo sana siku hizi compared to android..

Kumbuka ios inatumika kwa iPhone peke yake but android inatumika kwa brand nyingi sana e.g Samsung,htc, sony, baadhi ya lumia etc

 

[Chief-Mkwawa]

apple wana-introduce features ambazo android walikua nazo toka zamani, cook yuko vizuri sema sio ka jobs ndio maana apple inapoteza watu kila siku, wana market share ndogo sana siku hizi compared to android..

sijawah ona apple akipoteza watu kaka kila mwaka wanaongezeka tu, kushuka kwa marketshare kunatokana na kuongezeka kwa oem wa android ila mauzo ya iphone hayajawah kushuka

 

[msafwa93]

Kumbuka ios inatumika kwa iPhone peke yake but android inatumika kwa brand nyingi sana e.g Samsung,htc, sony, baadhi ya lumia etc

Apple akisema android anakua na maana ya samsung,.
Mauzo ya samsung pekee ni mara3 zaid ya iphone..
Apple hamfikii na haji kumfukia samsung kwa mauzo ya simu..

 

[zagalo]

Apple akisema android anakua na maana ya samsung,.
Mauzo ya samsung pekee ni mara3 zaid ya iphone..
Apple hamfikii na haji kumfukia samsung kwa mauzo ya simu..

Apple haezi mfikia Samsung kwa mauzo coz samsung ana aina nyingi za simu karibu 60 wakati apple mpaka sasa ziko 8 tu kama sikosei. Apple is about quality while samsung is about quantity

 

[privacy]

Nadhan D.riport ya ioS ni kale kasauti kanakoskika punde tu unapotuma Sms

Ila ule ni kuashiria msg imetoka na sio kwamba ni delivered


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[Chief-Mkwawa]

Apple haezi mfikia Samsung kwa mauzo coz samsung ana aina nyingi za simu karibu 60 wakati apple mpaka sasa ziko 8 tu kama sikosei. Apple is about quality while samsung is about quantity

60? lol last time zilikua around 800 nenda gsmarena ukaone

 

[NullPointer]

sijawah ona apple akipoteza watu kaka kila mwaka wanaongezeka tu, kushuka kwa marketshare kunatokana na kuongezeka kwa oem wa android ila mauzo ya iphone hayajawah kushuka

iphone wanapoteza watu wengi sana tu, most people wakishaingia kwenye android they never return to apple, apple wamesimama kwenye sales za tablet peke yake ila iphone no way, hata china ambako walikua wameshika soko sasa hivi zimekuja kampuni za hapo hapo china kama OnePlus, Oppo, Xiaomi wanatengeneza android phones cheap price but great quality soko lote wameliteka.... Angalia sales zinavoshuka, they aren't even close to samsung... angalia mfano 2013 statistics, samsung waliclose 30% market share huku apple wana 19% market share... tuseme tuondoe android makers wengine wooote, samsung peke yake amemka kichwa, miaka ya nyuma iOS kwenye smartphone alikua kashika zaidi ya asilimia 50... samsung kaja kamnyang'anya, tukiweka na makamouni mengine apple ndio hasomeki kabisa kwa nini useme hapotezi wateja? kushuka kwa market share ni wazi kua anapoteza wateja..

 

[NullPointer]

Kumbuka ios inatumika kwa iPhone peke yake but android inatumika kwa brand nyingi sana e.g Samsung,htc, sony, baadhi ya lumia etc

Tuondoe wengine woote tubaki Samsung VS Apple, Samsung kauza 300million units 2013 huku apple kauza 151 million units.. sasa tuondoe makampuni mengine tuseme yamebaki mawili tu, bado apple kasoma namba, so hatuhitaji mengine kumka kichwa apple, moja tu anatosha

 

[NullPointer]

Apple haezi mfikia Samsung kwa mauzo coz samsung ana aina nyingi za simu karibu 60 wakati apple mpaka sasa ziko 8 tu kama sikosei. Apple is about quality while samsung is about quantity

Siwapondei apple na sina mambo ya fan-boy stuffs maana bado natumia iPad yao, lakini ukiongelea quality huwezi ukalinganisha simu yoyote ya apple na kitu kama Galaxy note 3.. nimetumia simu zote mbili, iOS vs Android, Android yuko mbali sana, ana features kali sana kuliko iOS, maps zenyewe apple wanatumia za google, njoo chips wanazotumia apple zinatengenezwa na kampuni ya samsung kama ulikua hujui... kitu apple anaongoza ni tablets ila kwenye simu apple si kitu siku hizi, limebaki jina tu... zaidi ya metallic external waliyonayo apple, hawana chochote kingine cha kujidai

 

[zagalo]

Tuondoe wengine woote tubaki Samsung VS Apple, Samsung kauza 300million units 2013 huku apple kauza 151 million units.. sasa tuondoe makampuni mengine tuseme yamebaki mawili tu, bado apple kasoma namba, so hatuhitaji mengine kumka kichwa apple, moja tu anatosha

Mbona mnakua wagum kuelewa?? Mauzo ya apple hajawahi shuka, kila mwaka yanapanda. Embu ingia google toka 2007 halafu njoo niambie ni mwaka gani mauzo yao ya smartphone yalishuka kulinganisha na previous sale

 

[Chief-Mkwawa]

iphone wanapoteza watu wengi sana tu, most people wakishaingia kwenye android they never return to apple, apple wamesimama kwenye sales za tablet peke yake ila iphone no way, hata china ambako walikua wameshika soko sasa hivi zimekuja kampuni za hapo hapo china kama OnePlus, Oppo, Xiaomi wanatengeneza android phones cheap price but great quality soko lote wameliteka.... Angalia sales zinavoshuka, they aren't even close to samsung... angalia mfano 2013 statistics, samsung waliclose 30% market share huku apple wana 19% market share... tuseme tuondoe android makers wengine wooote, samsung peke yake amemka kichwa, miaka ya nyuma iOS kwenye smartphone alikua kashika zaidi ya asilimia 50... samsung kaja kamnyang'anya, tukiweka na makamouni mengine apple ndio hasomeki kabisa kwa nini useme hapotezi wateja? kushuka kwa market share ni wazi kua anapoteza wateja..

kaka si kweli iphone haijawahi kupoteza wateja, wapo ndio wanaoondoka ila wakiondoka wawili wanakuja 10. hebu tuangalie statistics zinasemaje

kwenye tech tunacompare quarter wise yaani q1 2012 compare na q1 2013 compare na q1 2014 hatufanyi comparison ya quarter za mwaka.

 

[mbeyatz]

Apple haezi mfikia Samsung kwa mauzo coz samsung ana aina nyingi za simu karibu 60 wakati apple mpaka sasa ziko 8 tu kama sikosei. Apple is about quality while samsung is about quantity

zagalo achana na swala la device nyingi..ebu niambie Iphone5 imefikia mauzo ya S4(1 against 1)..

 

[Bavaria]

Siwapondei apple na sina mambo ya fan-boy stuffs maana bado natumia iPad yao, lakini ukiongelea quality huwezi ukalinganisha simu yoyote ya apple na kitu kama Galaxy note 3.. nimetumia simu zote mbili, iOS vs Android, Android yuko mbali sana, ana features kali sana kuliko iOS, maps zenyewe apple wanatumia za google, njoo chips wanazotumia apple zinatengenezwa na kampuni ya samsung kama ulikua hujui... kitu apple anaongoza ni tablets ila kwenye simu apple si kitu siku hizi, limebaki jina tu... zaidi ya metallic external waliyonayo apple, hawana chochote kingine cha kujidai

Nokia Lumia ndo habari ya mjini