Mar 22

-What is the secret to Apple’s success? Most will answer Steve Jobs, but others will answer Jonathan Ive, Apple’s lead designer who time after time, has crafted some of the most remarkable products we’ve seen. He was a consummate designer on all levels, especially around form, detail, materials and refinement and how that extends into manufacturing. Speculation that Ive would leave Apple to return to the UK is also false, says a former colleague: ‘I’m not sure there is any truth he wants to come back. My last conversations with him were that he was planning to sell his house in the UK.’

-Apple will reported release iOS 4.3.1 within two weeks to fix minor issues and close a jailbreak vulnerability, according to a BGR report. Here are the changes from iOS 4.3:

• Baseband updates for the 3GS and iPad (original)
• Fixed memory hang that results in memory corruption when reading large files from USIM filesystem
• Fixed problem with NTLM authentication in apps and on websites
• Fixed issue with the Springboard and 3rd party apps not recgonizing the gyroscope on the iPad 2
• Fixed iPad 2 jailbreak vulneratbility