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Today’s iPad / iPad mini Retina wallpapers 23/09/2014 Posted: 23 Sep 2014 08:30 AM PDT You can download today's iPad/iPad mini Retina Wallpapers from our new iPad / iPad mini Retina gallery. Enjoy! Note: Did you know that we update our iPhone 3GS , iPhone 4S / iPhone4 , iPad/ iPad2 and New iPad / iPad mini Retina wallpaper galleries once / day? You can find the latest wallpapers in the sidebar, so make sure to check that out every time you visit us!

Today’s iPad 2 / iPad wallpapers 23/09/2014 Posted: 23 Sep 2014 06:30 AM PDT You can download today's iPad and iPad2 Wallpapers from our iPad / iPad2 Wallpaper gallery. Enjoy! Note: Did you know that we update our iPhone 3GS , iPhone 4S / iPhone4 , iPad / iPad2 and iPad / iPad mini Retina wallpaper galleries once / day? You can find the latest wallpapers in the sidebar, so make sure to check that out every time you visit us!

Today’s iPhone 5 / 5C / 5S wallpapers 23/09/2014 Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:30 AM PDT You can download today's iPhone 5 / 5C / 5S Wallpapers from our iPhone 5 / 5C / 5S Wallpaper gallery. Enjoy! Note: Did you know that we update our iPhone 3GS , iPhone 4S / iPhone 4 , iPhone 5 / 5C / 5S, iPad / iPad2 and iPad / iPad mini Retina wallpaper galleries once / day? You can find the latest wallpapers in the sidebar, so make sure to check that out every time you visit us!

Today’s iPhone 4S / iPhone 4 wallpapers 23/09/2014 Posted: 23 Sep 2014 02:30 AM PDT You can download todays iPhone 4S / iPhone 4 Wallpapers from our iPhone 4 Wallpaper gallery. Enjoy! Note: Did you know that we update our iPhone 3GS , iPhone 4S / iPhone4 , iPad/ iPad2 and iPad / iPad mini Retina wallpaper galleries once / day? You can find the latest wallpapers in the sidebar, so make sure to check that out every time you visit us!

Today’s iPhone wallpapers 23/09/2014 Posted: 23 Sep 2014 12:30 AM PDT You can download todays iPhone 3G / 3GS Wallpapers from our iPhone 3GS Wallpaper gallery. Enjoy! Note: Did you know that we update our iPhone 3GS , iPhone 4S / iPhone4 , iPad/ iPad2 and iPad / iPad mini Retina wallpaper galleries once / day? You can find the latest wallpapers in the sidebar, so make sure to check that out every time you visit us!

Other Apple news: Beast Music to close, iPhone 6 screen gets praise Posted: 22 Sep 2014 02:44 PM PDT It has been another busy day in the Apple landscape, with the impact of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus being felt to the tune of over 10 million first weekend sales. Aside from that, there has been plenty to talk about, including some shocks. Apple could close Beats Music That is the story gathering pace tonight. TechCrunch reported that several high up's in the Cupertino chain had confirmed that Apple would close the music streaming service. Beats Music was bought alongside Beats Audio (including the headphones) in a $3 billion deal earlier in the year, a move that surprised many. Only last week Tim Cook spoke to Charlie Rose and talked almost misty eyed about how Beats Music had soul, whereas other streaming rivals didn't. He said that he could feel the music more because Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine (Beats co-founders) understood music and how tracks can work together. It seems a radical shift that the company would now be considering closing the service, but according to the very reputable guys at TechCrunch: Many engineers from Beats Music have already been moved off the product and onto other projects at Apple, including iTunes. It's not clear when exactly Jimmy Iovine and Dr Dre's music service will be shut down or what Apple will do with streaming, but every source with knowledge of the situation that we talked to agreed Apple plans to sunset the Beats Music brand. The new Retina HD gets praise Apple's Retina Display has always been an amazing panel, but there is no arguing that the new Retina HD (especially the 1080p panel on the iPhone 6 Plus) is the best yet. Interestingly, iPhone screens have never had much praise from one Raymond Soneira, who has never held back in criticizing previous Retina's, most notably on last year's iPad Mini with Retina Display. So what you may be thinking, but Soneira is actually the president of DisplayMate, the most prestigious screen authority on this good green planet of ours. However, he is finally on the Retina train as he praised the new displays on the iPhone 6 range, saying he had been waiting for this leap since the iPhone 4 in 2010 (not sure if he is referencing the quality or the size). The iPhone 4 not only revolutionized the displays on smartphones but it also started a major unprecedented renaissance of new display technologies for Smartphones, Tablets, TVs, and entirely new classes of products like wearable displays. That approach impressed consumers and moved the entire display industry. Then for reasons we can only guess, innovation on the iPhone displays slowed down almost to a crawl, while many other manufacturers just steadily pushed ahead – so there was a fair amount of catching up to do. He now says the Retina on the new iPhones is the best LCD he has ever seen. You can check out his lengthy but very interesting report at the source. [VIA]

The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus crush records on way to 10 million+ weekend sales Posted: 22 Sep 2014 02:34 PM PDT The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have been on sale for three days and they are already crushing records, you know, all the ones Apple already held. Cupertino announced today that the newest smartphones from the company combined to sell over 10 million units over their launch weekend, a number that also includes the 4 million pre-order sales from the previous weekend. CEO Tim Cook said the following about the launch weekend: Sales for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus exceeded our expectations for the launch weekend, and we couldn't be happier. We would like to thank all of our customers for making this our best launch ever, shattering all previous sell-through records by a large margin. While our team managed the manufacturing ramp better than ever before, we could have sold many more iPhones with greater supply and we are working hard to fill orders as quickly as possible. Last year the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c combined to sell over 9 million, so the new handsets have comfortably beaten that. However, not as comfortably as some may have thought, but there are a couple of reasons why. Firstly, as Cook mentions, there was not enough supply, especially in terms of the iPhone 6 Plus. If Apple could have got more units on the ground they would have sold, but the company is working to get more available. In fact, over 80 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus handsets will be made before the end of the year, and Apple expects that every single one will be sold. The second reason is China. Last year the iPhone 5s and 5c were available in the country from day 1, but this year the 6's have not been given regulatory permission yet. Conservative estimates say that Apple could have surpassed 13 million in iPhone 6 sales had China been included from launch day, but many people think it could have been as high as 15 million. As it was, the launch countries were: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Puerto Rico. Apple will eventually roll the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus out to 114 countries before the end of the year (China included), with the next batch of nations set for September 26th. Take a look below to see if your country is included in the next roll out: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates.

iOS 8 adoption rates crush Android’s Posted: 22 Sep 2014 02:27 PM PDT The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are currently showing Android and any device on the market you can think of how it's done. The numbers are dazzling, but perhaps the most impressive is how quickly people are embracing iOS 8, the latest version of Cupertino's mobile platform. Apple is certainly destroying the myth that Android is becoming less fragmented, and here's how. It turns out that over 30% of all users running an iOS device have upgraded to the 8th version of the platform, and it has only been available for three days. Before we touch on those specific numbers for Apple, let's focus on how they are so much better than anything Android could do. Android 4.4 KitKat, the build that was created to start a process that will extend into Android L to unify the platform currently stands at around 25%. So, a quarter of all Android devices run the latest version… not bad, but not great either considering KitKat has been available since last November. To put that in perspective, iOS 8 surpassed KitKat's 10 month adoption rates in just three days. It is virtually impossible for KitKat or L to meet Apple's adoption levels, with 90% of all iOS users able to upgrade to iOS 8 and likely to do so before the year is out. That certainly happened with iOS 7 and will happen again this time, and that's why the App Store is still miles better than the Google Play Store; developers simply know what device they are building for and also what platform build. As for iOS 8 vs. iOS 7, the newer version is actually down on its predecessor, which raced to 50% of all devices within three days of release. However, iOS 7 was seen as a new dawn, a massive re-tooling and overhaul of the platform, whereas iOS 8 is much more of a continuation.