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We’re here at Apple‘s iPad mini event and CEO Tim Cook is announcing some impressive stats on the company’s products. Cook just announced that 200 million iOS devices have already upgraded to iOS 6. The new update was released just over a month ago, and already it’s at phenomenal numbers — 60% of iOS users have updated to iOS 6

Cook says that this was the fastest update rate of any software history that the company knows of. Cook also talked about the seamless integration between iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion, specifically calling out Documents in the Cloud, saying that there are over 125 million Documents in the Cloud right now.

iMessage has also seen a huge boost in usage. 300 billion (with a “B”) iMessages have been sent since the platform was first launched, and it’s at a rate of about 28,000 messages being sent every second. Other statistics that Cook quickly mentioned were about Game Center — 160 million Game Center accounts have been created. Also, iOS 6′s shared Photo Stream feature also has seen over 70 million photos shared between iOS users.

iOS 6 now on 200 million iOS devices is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Apple’s done its level best to lure help you over to iCloud from MobileMe, and it looks like it’s not quite done yet. We’re seeing reports from users who have received messages advising that the additional storage offered to ease the transition has been extended for another 12 months, sans cost to you. Whether a charge will kick in right away when that period ends, and at what price isn’t made clear. But if you like to drag your data heels, or want to take your sweet time deciding if the new service is for you, it looks like luck is on your side.

[Thanks, Jonathan C]

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Apple

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Some iOS users are reporting what appears to be a bug in Apple’s iCloud online storage service. For users that received an extra 20GB of storage for free after migrating from MobileMe are seeing an expiration date of 2050. The date showed up on users’ accounts yesterday, which also happened to be the last day that users could keep their 20GB.

Apple reminded MobileMe users last week that the 20GB they received for free when the iCloud transition took place would be taken away and would go back to 5GB of storage space, unless users opted for a paid plan that starts at $20 a year for 10GB. However, users are seeing that they still have their 20GB of extra storage in their account, but with an expiration date of “9/30/50″.

However, the expiration date is showing up on iOS devices as well as Macs in System Preferences, so it’s definitely not a bug that’s isolated to just one platform — it’s showing up everywhere. Even though it would be amazing to keep 20GB of storage for another 38 years, we think it’s only just a bug in Apple’s iCloud subscription database.

Apple also seemed to have issues with iTunes yesterday as well, which was also the same day that the company officially shut down its music-centric social network Ping. It could be that Apple’s servers are just having some issues whenever they’re shutting down something specific and making changes, but we’re interested to see how Apple responds to the expiration date bug.

[via The Mac Observer]

Apple iCloud bug mentions 2050 as expiration date for storage upgrades is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Hmmm, things do not seem to be going great guns for Apple at this particular point in time, what with their CEO’s recent apology for the Apple Maps snafu, here we are with something that could very well bring a smile to users’ faces. There seems to be a glitch in the iCloud account system that has pushed the renewal dates for users 38 years in advance to 2050, instead of downgrading them to just 5GB of storage space. Of course, not all accounts are affected, but those which were displayed extended storage space with renewal dates that were set years in the future.

This particular change is in all probability a system glitch that is most probably the result of an operator error, and make no mistake about it – a company like Apple will most likely perform a correction in due time. Do not be surprised if this benefit no longer appears in the future, and we suspect that it will not be long. As to whether any heads rolled due to this particular glitch, that remains to be seen.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: MobileMe users reach end of iCloud storage road, Apple freezes iCloud password change over the phone,

Apple‘s built-in camera app is great — it’s simple and gets the job done, but sometimes it’s nice to have a little more control over your camera’s settings. This is where Camera+ comes in. It’s one of the best camera apps for the iPhone, and it updated today with iPad support, iPhone 5 support, and iCloud syncing capabilities.

We know taking photos on an iPad is pretty ridiculous, but if you absolutely have to, you have no reason to not use Camera+ anymore. The new iPad version takes advantage of the iPad’s 10-inch display and offers all the great features that iPhone users have been taking advantage of for a while now. Plus, the iPad now makes a great editing suite for your photos thanks to Camera+’s advanced editing features.

iCloud syncing is also now supported, which means any photos you take on your iPhone can be automatically synced to your iPad, and vice versa. This allows for an easy and productive workflow for mobile shooters, since users can take photos with their iPhone and have them automatically appear on their iPad, where they can then edit the photos using the iPad’s more-ideal larger display.

9 million people have downloaded the Camera+ app for iPhone so far. Developer of Camera+, Tap Tap Tap, says that the iPad and iPhone apps should pose as a challenge to Adobe, which offers their own suite of Photoshop apps for editing photos on the iPad, and has their own cloud storage service as well.

Camera+ for iPad is on sale for $0.99 and is available now in the iTunes App Store.

[via The New York Times]

Camera+ updates with iPad support, iCloud sync is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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