Hasta La Gadget!

We’ve heard you, and we agree — our iPhone app has needed a re-envisioning, and we’re thrilled to announce that the fruits of a lot of behind-the-scenes labor can now be seen in the App Store. Engadget’s iPhone app has been completely rebuilt from the ground-up, with an all-new design taking center stage. Behind the new visuals, you’ll find plenty of new functionality. Here’s a quick breakdown on what’s new and what has changed:

• Left and right slide-in rails have replaced the five buttons along the bottom, providing a cleaner view and the ability to slot new tools into those bars
• The left rail provides scrollable, adjustable navigation, while the right rail houses media such as podcasts and videos
• Within an article, you’ll find one-tap access to comments and sharing options right at the top
• Within the Share icon, you’ll also be able to save an article to Instapaper, Evernote, Pocket or into the app’s Read Later section
• Added the ability to save all of the day’s stories for offline reading with a single tap.
• Font size adjustment slider
• One-tap access to send Engadget editors a news tip, and to send feedback to our developers
• Support for Events (including Expand!) and recurring Buyer’s Guides

Our devs are also working hard right now to implement additional features (yes, beyond just tweaks and fixes) later this year. As for our loyal readers that rely on Android and Windows Phone, be assured that we’re overhauling those builds as well in order to elevate our entire stable to a new standard. Our hope is to have those platforms served with a redesigned app before the year’s end. Give it a download right here, and be sure to submit any issues to our support staff within the app itself (pull up the right rail -> Send Feedback). We’ll be poring over each submission in a bid to make things even better as we go. Thanks for reading, and enjoy! %Gallery-slideshow61513%

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This week a patent application has been discovered to have been filed by Apple one week ago, this patent application seeking rights to a method for fusing glass. This glass fusion process is described by Apple to be working with several different kinds of products, this ranging from iPhones to iPad, iPods to televisions, and […]

This week Apple let loose their quarterly earnings for investors and the public alike, letting it be known that a quarterly revenue of $35.5 billion along with $6.9 billion in quarterly net profit is all well and good. This quarter saw the sales of 31.2 million iPhones, this a record for this quarter of the year, along with 14.6 million iPads – that’s up for iPhones, down for iPads.

Meanwhile the company has declared a cash dividend, Apple’s Board of Directors bringing a dividend of $3.05 per share of common stock in this period. This dividend is payable on the 15th of August, 2013, and shareholders of record as of August 12th, 2013 will be eligible for the payout.

“We are especially proud of our record June quarter iPhone sales of over 31 million and the strong growth in revenue from iTunes, Software and Services. We are really excited about the upcoming releases of iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks, and we are laser-focused and working hard on some amazing new products that we will introduce in the fall and across 2014.” – Apple CEO Tim Cook

This same quarter last year saw Apple bring in $8.8 billion in quarterly net profit one year ago, while revenue has also gone down from $43.6 billion this past quarter.

This past quarter didn’t exactly come in as one of Apple’s most mind-blowing when it comes to hardware, this resulting in an expected set of numbers as reported. What we did see, on the other hand, is previews of software such as OS X Mavericks and the next iPhone’s iOS 7.

This Fall, Apple says, we’ll be seeing some exciting new products – and if you’re surprised by that suggestion, you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years. Without an iPhone, at that.

Stay tuned to SlashGear for additional analysis on this quarter’s results, and stick around for the Q and A as well!

Apple Q3 2013 earnings bring dividend despite less-than-eventful market period is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Unless you’re constantly messing around with your iPhone’s settings, most people don’t dig into the Accessibility features in iOS unless they need to solve a specific problem. That said, there’s actually a few great features hidden in those options that everyone can make use of, even if you don’t need them.

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Apple has never been entirely keen on the idea of people hacking in to their smartphones, and here in 2013 its becoming apparent that developers of games for iOS devices aren’t finding the situation to be entirely positive either. What this week has turned up is the creators of Dues Ex: The Fall have included a code which, if your iPhone is jailbroken, will result in your complete inability to fire guns. And that’s important.

When you’re playing a game like Dues Ex: The Fall, you’ll find it rather difficult to get anywhere without the firing of guns. This news comes from Kotaku where users have flocked to flip out over the situation due to their full purchase of the game and essentially complete inability to play it. This game was released this week for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

When one downloads The Fall for $6.99 USD on the Apple App Store, it will work completely fine if you’ve got a factory-fresh iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. If you’ve taken the time to jailbreak the device, on the other hand, you’ll be unable to play.

At the moment it’s not entirely clear why the developers behind the game do not warn users that they’re so very against the jailbreaking process that they’ll stop anyone who does it from playing their game. Jailbreaking is not illegal at the moment here in the USA, just warrantee-breaking. Game developers certainly – again, at the moment – appear to have the right to initiate a break like this, but we imagine the situation wont be around for long.

At least, not with no warning as we’re seeing here.

UPDATE: It would appear that Square Enix has been quick on the pistol with a response to this public relations mistake of a release. These words were provided by the developers to Penny Arcade Report:

“We have not been clear in our communication earlier this week when we launched Deus Ex: The Fall. We did not state clearly that the game would not support jailbroken devices and so we will be switching this off via an update, so that all the supported iOS devices will be able to play the game in the near future

We feel it is the right thing to do in this situation and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. No customer should be out of pocket when we were not clear from the start, so we’ll get the game updated as soon as possible so that everyone who wants to play Deus Ex: The Fall can do so regardless of whether their device is jailbroken or not.

As soon as this update is live we will communicate this via the Eidos Montreal Community channels” – Square Enix

This sort of situation has appeared with several other games in the recent past, notably Game Dev Tycoon which, having expected their game to be pirated immediately after having been released to the wild, added a bit of a break inside it.

As players played, they found their (pirated) game to be giving them massive amounts of bad sales reports due to in-game pirating. Irony at its best.

Jailbreakers beware: games continue to cut service to hackers [UPDATE: Statement] is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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