Comments on: iOS 5 cuts the cord and gets social with iMessage and Twitter http://gigaom.com/2011/06/06/ios-5-cuts-the-cord-and-gets-social-with-imessage-and-twitter/ Tue, 21 May 2013 22:24:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Hurr Durr http://gigaom.com/2011/06/06/ios-5-cuts-the-cord-and-gets-social-with-imessage-and-twitter/#comment-630100 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 04:37:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=355629#comment-630100 “iOS is the most popular gaming platform in the world”

HAHAHA What a joke It’s only because it’s not a real gaming platform its a “platform” integrated into a touchscreen phone and mp3 player. And to be honest it’s absolute rubbish.

]]> By: buyOS5 http://gigaom.com/2011/06/06/ios-5-cuts-the-cord-and-gets-social-with-imessage-and-twitter/#comment-629946 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:24:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=355629#comment-629946 introducing buyOS5, a new web service allowing those who don’t have an Apple dev account to access the iOS 5 beta, and those who do to sell their spare device activation slots for profit.

buyOS5 for users: register at http://buyOS5.com to get access to the iOS5 beta by activating your device UDID within the Apple provisioning system. give us $7 and your UDID, and we’ll activate your iPhone for beta use within half an hour. if, after 30m, you haven’t received confirmation of activation, email us with the details at support@buyos5.com & we’ll give you a full refund. no other UDID activation site offers this guarantee.

buyOS5 for developers: register at http://buyOS5.com in order to sell your spare device activation slots. we take a $2 cut for each registration, leaving you with $5 for a couple minutes’ work – that’s over 30 times the minimum wage. no other UDID activation site offers dev account owners the ability to earn money this way.

]]> By: kyle http://gigaom.com/2011/06/06/ios-5-cuts-the-cord-and-gets-social-with-imessage-and-twitter/#comment-629338 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:46:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=355629#comment-629338 This is nothing new… every new mobile OS can do it, it’s just the fluency that makes the difference. Though I have to admit that Apple is in the lead right now in terms of usability

]]> By: Duane Wills http://gigaom.com/2011/06/06/ios-5-cuts-the-cord-and-gets-social-with-imessage-and-twitter/#comment-629306 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:33:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=355629#comment-629306 “We’re taking copying features from the competition to a whole new level…”

I mean, what here is new by any stretch of the imagination? The whole list of Apple’s 10 “big features” and the un-official 5 more are straight-up duplications of the competition. Which would be fine, if Apple wasn’t constantly taking it to court like it was the other way around.

BTW, BBM isn’t the only thing holding up BlackBerry. It’s the fact that BlackBerry has had the entire list above since 1999. Same has Android since like 2008. They’d have made a bigger effect if they had found a way to bridge BlackBerry and iPhone together (like Windows Mobile could do, also years ago…)

]]> By: Vox http://gigaom.com/2011/06/06/ios-5-cuts-the-cord-and-gets-social-with-imessage-and-twitter/#comment-629263 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:59:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=355629#comment-629263 The one question remaining in my mind about iMessage is…how will we ID other people? It can’t be by phone number, ’cause of ipad and ipod-T…so…email address like with facetime? Or something else? .me account?

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