Other than the Apple earnings call earlier this week that was mostly about the iPhone and iPad, the major Apple news of the week was several new Macs and Lion, the latest version of the Mac operating system. As a result, I didn't run across much iOS news of note from the past week, except for the following:
- I know of several law firms and other companies that maximize security on the iPad by using Good software instead of the built-in Mail client on the iPad. Good has been around for a long time and provides products for many platforms, but according to John Paczkowski of All Things D, over 95% of Good's tablet customers use the iPad. The core base of Good customers are big businesses, so this statistic demonstrates the dominance of the iPad in law firms and other large companies.
- Yesterday I reviewed a product that can protect your iPad even if it falls a great distance. John Sutter of CNN writes about an iPhone without that protection that someone dropped while he was skydiving from 13,500, and amazingly the iPhone survived (with cracks) and the owner was able to track it down using Find My iPhone and keep using it. Wow.
- Bryan Wolfe of AppAddvice writes about some of the apps that you can use to watch TV episodes on your iPad.
- Eric Slivka of MacRumors notes that according to a Financial Times article (subscription required) Apple has passed Nokia to become the world's top smartphone vendor.
- And finally, here is an interesting video taken by an iPhone of guitar strings oscillating as a result of the way that the iPhone's camera takes a video (using a rolling shutter). The video runs a little long, but even if you watch just a few seconds of it you'll get the idea. Mesmerizing. (via 9to5 Mac)
