Not the Apple Way

Two big developments that have emerged lately concerning Apple’s tablets and iPhone could well just be rumours.

Two big developments that have emerged lately concerning Apple’s tablets and iPhone could well just be rumours. The first was that it’s dropping Google Maps from its upcoming mobile platform iOS 6, in favour of a mapping system called OpenStreetMap. Experts say that this is all speculation, and no matter how much spite Apple bears Google, it is unlikely to replace Google Maps with an inferior product. “That’s not the Apple way,” says Rajat Agrawal, who runs bgr.in, a popular technology portal. And the second came from WSJ and Reuters, which reported that the company had placed orders for bigger display screens in a move to ape Android phones which have 4.8 inch screens. The current iPhone uses a 4 inch screen. No confirmation has come from Apple Inc of these ‘developments’. Gadget trackers, though, are uncertain if the company will tamper with the current 3:2 aspect ratio of iPhones. Any change, they fear, risks messing up the display of current apps. “Nothing is confirmed till Apple acknowledges these developments. They may be testing out options, but that does not mean that the next iPhone will have a bigger screen and will display its own maps,” says a confident Agrawal.

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Arindam Mukherjee