Minecraft Pocket Edition is out on iOS devices as of today, but those looking for the full Minecraft will be sorely disappointed: it's creative mode only, with mobs turned off and no online play. Still — Minecraft on the iPhone, beyotches.
The official Gmail iOS app has returned after a two week hiatus due to a bug with push notifications. I struggle to comprehend why it took Google two weeks to fix an issue that took Tapbots under 24 hours, but I guess they must have been doing some extra testing with beyotches.
IOS 5.0.2 will be coming soon to address the battery issues that may or may not have been fixed with iOS 5.0.1, addressing those pesky battery issues once and for all. What's more, MacRumors are saying iOS 5.1 may eventually add more features to Siri.
Apple has seeded a new version of OS X Lion to developers. OS X 10.7.3 has no known issues, and the focus areas are iCloud document storage, Address Book, iCal, and Mail. I'm thinking an iCloud compatibility release.
Ars Technica has a good article on Applidium, the French company behind the reverse engineering of Siri. It's a somewhat technical read, but it's pretty interesting to see how they went about their business.
According to The Next Web, Flava is a fun an quirky journaling app for the iPhone. Presumably it also has no association what-so-ever to Flava Flav, the American rap artist.
Something that might be handy for your bookmark collection: how to extract photos from an iOS device backup. Perfect for those times you forgot to import your Camera Roll before backing up and restoring.
Wired tell the tale of how Steve Jobs wanted the original iPhone to be without any carrier, instead how he wanted to create his own network using unlicensed spectrum. Jobs wanted to replace carriers completely, but I can't help but how many years that would have set back the iPhone.
Arthur D. Levinson has been named chairman of the board at Apple, and Disney CEO Bob Iger has also joined Apple's board of directors.
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