Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Monthly Round-Up: New GTA, Android Accused of Copying Features from iOS 5 and Much More

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First things first, let’s start with the news that there’s finally been a new Grand Theft Auto announced. At long last, for the first time since 2009 there’s been a new GTA game announced, GTA V as it’s been called.

There’s not much news out there about it as of yet, just that there’s set to be a trailer released on November the 2nd and other than that, and that the “V” in the logo looks a little like it is relating to money, so that could be a big part of the game, as in every other game.

Also, Android has been accused of copying some of the features from Apple’s highly anticipated and eagerly awaited iOS 5. When asked about it, Hugo Barra, the product management director for Android at Google claimed to have not heard about what has been said in Steve Jobs’ biography where he “swore to destroy Android” and he was so annoyed at what he saw as blatant copying in the 2.1 version of Android that was released in January 2010.

There’s the sad news that ex Apple CEO and co-founder, Steve Jobs died the day after the new iPhone 4S was announced at Apple’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” event on the 4th of October. His biography was released not so long ago and there’s been much controversy surrounding it and what is written in it.

Also, Blackberry users suffered a fair bit this month. The Blackberry servers suffered an outage meaning that Blackberry Messenger, internet services and a couple of other aspects of the whole Blackberry package were also unavailable. So as you may imagine, there may be a few people switching from Blackberry to Apple after this fiasco.

So, too summarise, you can say that it’s been an eventful month in the world of tech and also a sad one. Let’s hope that next month there’s no more sad news, just good, in the build up to Christmas!


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