OS X Mountain Lion gets Notification Center do-not-disturb -- Can we have that for iOS 6?

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 a 10:40 am

Apple updated their OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion developer preview 8 distribution yesterday and with it came a new feature for Notification center -- do not disturb. It looks like a great feature and something that would be very much welcome not only in OS X, but in iOS 6 as well.

iPhone & iPad Live 291: WWDC 2012, Q2 results, Google Drive

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Apr 26, 2012 a 8:50 pm

Rene and Seth talk WWDC 2012 and iOS 6, Apple's Q2 2012 financial results, free iPhone games, Instapaper vs Pocket vs Readability, and Google Drive. This is iPhone & iPad Live!

Why Apple chose Twitter over Facebook

By Andrew Wray, Sunday, Feb 26, 2012 a 6:44 pm

With the upcoming release of OS X Mountain Lion, Apple will be fully integrating Twitter social sharing across all of their included apps, as well as extending a developer API for 3rd party apps available through the Mac App Store. This follows similar integration in iOS 5 last year and leaves one huge, lingering question: where's the Facebook integration?

Apple agrees to disclose app privacy permissions before download or purchase

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Feb 22, 2012 a 5:25 pm

California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced today that Apple has agreed to better protect iOS users' privacy by disclosing the permissions an App Store app will require before a user downloads or purchases an app.

Back to the iPad: What Apple should take from OS X Mountain Lion and give to iOS 6

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Feb 17, 2012 a 11:44 pm

Apple is clearly bringing the best parts of the iPad to the Mac, but how about bring iOS some of the best parts of OS X as well?

Yesterday Apple released the OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion developers preview, and like OS X 10.7 Lion before it, front and center was a drive to take what worked best in iOS in general, and the iPad in specific back to the Mac. To make an Apple experience that's more consistent across their two platforms.

But how about a little quid pro quo? There are several aspects of OS X, including some of what's being implemented in Mountain Lion, that I'd love to see in iOS 6.

iOS 6 wants: Granular privacy control

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 a 12:19 pm

Like with Notification Center, Apple should look to and improve upon what Google's done with Android to better keep our Contacts safe.

Earlier this week the internet got itself into a kerfuffle over Path, a small-circle social networking app for the iPhone, which took Contact information without asking and openly transmitted it to Path's servers. It's an important issue to be sure, one worth getting into a kerfuffle over, and Path eventually apologized and vowed to make changes. But Path was only one of many, many apps to act this way.