 In one of the smaller announcements today, Apple announced that iOS 5 on the iPad 2 will support a feature called AirPlay mirroring. This feature is something that I’ve been telling people would eventually come to the iOS world and basically backdoor Apple into the console market.
If you aren’t familiar with HDMI mirroring on the iPad, it’s a feature that lets you plug in an cable into a special adapter on your iPad 2 and display your screen on an HDTV. This feature is great for use in classrooms and has even seen some play in games as well with Firemint using this feature to allow 1080p output on your TV from their Real Racing 2 HD via mirroring. But, you are tethered to the TV with a cable.
So, what’s AirPlay mirroring then, you ask? According to Apple, “AirPlay® Mirroring to wirelessly display everything you do on your iPad 2 right on your HDTV through Apple TV®.” To me, that means with an iPad 2, you’ll be able to do that mirroring without a cable. That means anything you see on your iPad 2, you will be able to see on an Apple TV. Let that sink in and then think using that feature for games.
This means that any game you play on your iPad 2, you’ll be able to play on your TV, wirelessly. Yes, wirelessly. You launch Angry Birds on your iPad 2 and the Angry Birds screen will show up on your TV. Boom, instant game console with $0.99 game downloads.
To control the game, you would use the iOS device as the controller. The Apple TV becomes the cheapest console out there at $99 with the largest game library at nearly 100,000 games. Your iPad 2 becomes your controller, albeit a very expensive one. We can assume that this feature will also be available in the next iPhone and iPod touch, once their processors and memory are upgraded and on parity with the iPad 2.
Let’s wrap that all up together, and it means that you can consider the Apple TV to be firmly in the game console market now. This is huge! I can’t stress enough how much of a game changer this is for the gaming world.
Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft should be worried. They have all been rather slow to adopt downloadable games, now Apple has gone and made it easy and cheap. If Apple does to the console market what they have done to the mobile software market, they should be very worried. The Apple TV, which started out as Steve Jobs hobby, could turn out to be the most popular home game and entertainment console around.
About: Did Apple Just Backdoor Their Way Into the Game Console Market? Yes. is a post from 148Apps
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written by chenzhikai
\\ tags: airplay mirroring, angry, apple, apple tv, console, gaming, ipad, microsoft, processors
Apple released iOS 4.3.3 on Wednesday, but as it did with 4.3.2, neglected to patch the untethered jailbreak exploit in redsn0w 0.9.6rc9 (since updated to rc15). Looks like that’s a hat trick for the iPhone Dev Team. The hack works with most devices (even the Apple TV), but there’s still no solution for iPad 2 owners — we’re sure that the underground powers that be are hard at work searching for holes that Apple overlooked. Installation instructions remain unchanged, so if you’ve been eager to get your iPhone tracking fix on without bricking your device, grab the latest IPSW and head over to our source link for the download links.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
redsn0w untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 works with 4.3.3, still no iPad 2 support originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 May 2011 09:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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written by jdkjdj
\\ tags: apple, apple tv, apple tv 2g, appletv, entry, gsm, hard-at-work, iphone 3gs, redsn0w, tracking-fix, underground, unteth, untethered, work-searching
If you’ve been waiting for a nice, easy jailbreak solution for iOS 4.3.1, then today’s your lucky day: Dev-Team’s just released redsn0w 0.9.6rc9 for both Windows and OS X, allowing us mere mortals to free our supported devices — iPhone 3GS, 4 (GSM); iPod touch 3G, 4G; iPad 1; and Apple TV 2G — with a few simple clicks. Alas, there are a couple of caveats: the iPad 2 isn’t supported here, as Cupertino has somehow managed to tighten up its security to fend off hackers (for now); and ultrasn0w users have also been told to hang tight until there’s a compatibility fix — Dev-Team will announce on Twitter when this becomes available. As for those who are eligible for this new jailbreak, head over to Dev-Team’s website for the download links, and make sure you have the corresponding IPSW files handy as well — you can find them over at iClarified or on your favorite search engine.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
redsn0w untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 released for Windows and OS X, lacks iPad 2 support originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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written by raymoayr001
\\ tags: apple tv, appletv2g, ios, ipad, iphone4, ipod touch, ipod touch 3g, ipodtouch, ipsw, jailbreak, windows
Can you feel it in the air? I surely can. I get the same feeling before virtually every big jailbreak solution.
There’s an eerie quiet among the folks taking the lead in the jailbreaking community, demos have been demonstrated, and tweets have been tweeted.
Now all we can do is wait, and wait patiently. Although we’re expecting it literally any hour or day now, it’s always a nice surprise when it finally arrives…
To tide us over, MuscleNerd dropped a few hints about the imminence of the Dev Team’s new version of RedSn0w and PwnageTool; each will support 4.3.1…(…)
Read the rest of iPhone Jailbreak for 4.3.1 is Getting Closer
“iPhone Jailbreak for 4.3.1 is Getting Closer” is an article by iPhone Download Blog. Make sure to follow us on Twitter and friend us on Facebook.
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written by Script Alert
\\ tags: among-the-folks, apple tv, download, facebook, finally-arrives, getting-closer, hour-or-day, ios 4.3.1, ipad 2, iphone news, jailbreak, phone-jailbreak, pwnagetool, read-the-rest, taking-the-lead
Can you feel it in the air? I surely can. I get the same feeling before virtually every big jailbreak solution.
There’s an eerie quiet among the folks taking the lead in the jailbreaking community, demos have been demonstrated, and tweets have been tweeted.
Now all we can do is wait, and wait patiently. Although we’re expecting it literally any hour or day now, it’s always a nice surprise when it finally arrives…
To tide us over, MuscleNerd dropped a few hints about the imminence of the Dev Team’s new version of RedSn0w and PwnageTool; each will support 4.3.1…(…)
Read the rest of iPhone Jailbreak for 4.3.1 is Getting Closer
“iPhone Jailbreak for 4.3.1 is Getting Closer” is an article by iPhone Download Blog. Make sure to follow us on Twitter and friend us on Facebook.
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written by admin
\\ tags: apple tv, facebook, finally-arrives, getting-closer, hour-or-day, imminence, ios 4.3, ios 4.3.1, ipad 2, jailbreak, nice-surprise, phone-jailbreak, pwnagetool, read-the-rest, redsn0w
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In one of the smaller announcements today, Apple announced that iOS 5 on the iPad 2 will support a feature called AirPlay mirroring. This feature is something that I’ve been telling people would eventually come to the iOS world and basically backdoor Apple into the console market.
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