For developers, they will get the ability to do subscription services for apps, get the ability to use the iPhone's map program in their apps, send alerts for closed apps through push notification and enable peer-to-peer experiences for games and other others programs over Bluetooth. They can also use the iPhone to control outside accessories. All told there are more than 100 new improvements to platform.
Some of the missing pieces continue to be tethering, which Apple said it's building support for but is leaving up to operators to implement; video capture; voice-dialing; background processing and of course Adobe Flash support.
Richard Boss on 23 May 14Apple's Internet-based messaging service, iMessage, has long had problems when it comes to interacting with non-Apple devices. Now the company is finally acknowledging the problems and rolling out a slate of bug fixes to make Apple-to-Android messaging less of a nightmare.
