Apple: iTunes 11 will release in the coming days

On the last day of October, Apple, has promised this month to release a firmware application iTunes 11 , solemnly declared that brings release until November. Then it was reported that the company need to finalize the program.

The publication MacRumors discovered that on 21 November, nine days before the deadline, Apple sent out to performers and record labels official letter, which asked them to start downloading images and galleries in the base of iTunes. The new version of Media Player, as it is known, provides the artists own pages where they can post information for the fans. A singer or a band can easily send their pictures to the library by Apple-program.

In addition, Apple notified the musicians that release iTunes 11 will take place in the coming days.

According to an official statement made in October, work on the new version was longer than anticipated, and the company decided to take a little more time for completion.

Skin and iTunes 11 as a whole resembles the musical version of the application for the iPad. The program has a tight integration with the cloud service iCloud and thus is more productive.

ITunes 11 interface greatly simplified, and the design of the program with an updated search function is described as "light" and "sweet." Current events are now located at the top of the iTunes 11, and if you select one of these icons of music albums, movies or other content occupy almost the whole screen of the program.

In iOS 6, codenamed «Sundance» will be given access to the Siri for Developers

A new version of mobile operating system iOS 6 is expected to fall this year, possibly even later than that will be released  OS X Mountain Lion . Perhaps the next platform for the iPhone and the iPad will be announced at the conference WWDC, and then follow months of testing and debugging of the OS.

Publication of TechCrunch, citing programmers, close to the development, argues that the sixth version of iOS will be really integrated a new mapping service from Apple, "a startling three-dimensional maps." Previously, once two sources told that the next major software update for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad company refuses to Google services, and will rely entirely on their own and acquired development.

According to the newspaper, iOS 6 will be released in the form of pre-release to developers conference in June at WWDC. When it became known that the operating system is code-named «Sundance».

The main innovation of the platform, in addition to 3D-maps will be available to the voice assistant Siri for third-party developers. Apple will open API so that developers can integrate voice aid support to their applications, said a source. In this regard, we can assume the appearance in the App Store a new class of software, built on the voice interaction with the user. In addition, as reported to the owners of iPad, finally, will benefit from an assistant. Apple engineers are now trying to integrate different versions of the interface Siri Tablet PCs.

Also, according to the newspaper, along with iOS 6 will be represented by a major upgrade iTunes multimedia platform 11. Apple software will move toward desktop client for Spotify functionality and the interface receives a major update, writes TechCrunch. iTunes 11 more will be a cloud service iCloud, which is its integral part.

Most likely to appear in iOS 6.0 and other innovations. One can only hope that all of these sensory-cloud benefits will not kill the battery smartphone or tablet in half a day, and set the update is possible, including the relatively old iPhone 3GS, iPod touch and iPad 1.