{"id":7307,"date":"2009-03-13T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-03-13T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T08:51:00","slug":"next-generation-iphone-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/7307-next-generation-iphone-software.html","title":{"rendered":"Next-generation iPhone software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple on Thursday invited news reporters to a &quot;town hall&quot; event at its headquarters in Cupertino, California, and promised a &quot;sneak peek&quot; at the upcoming iPhone 3.0 operating system.<\/p>\n<p>The maker of iPhones, iPods, and Macintosh computers said the event will centre on a new software developers kit for its popular multi-purpose mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>More than 500 million applications for the Apple iPhone have been downloaded from the company&#8217;s online App Store since it opened in July of last year.<\/p>\n<p>A study released in February, however, indicates that users quickly lose interest in those applications.<\/p>\n<p>The study by Pinch Media found that fewer than five percent of iPhone users are still actively using an application a month after downloading it.<\/p>\n<p>Apple iPhone users lose interest in free programmes slightly faster than in paid ones, said Pinch Media, a company which offers advice to developers of applications for the hot-selling smartphone.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=162180\">iPhone software discussion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple plans to give the world a peek next week at its next-generation operating system for iPhones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}