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• Arrested development: iOS 8 continues to trail forerunner by big margin

  Uptake of Apple's new iOS 8 mobile operating system has failed to catch up to the boom of last year's iOS 7, according to Apple and third-party measurements.

• iPhone owners rip Apple over botched iOS update

  iPhone owners are angry. Really really angry.

• New iOS 8 APIs trigger higher app crash rate

  In its first days of availability, iOS 8, Apple's newest mobile operating system, has exhibited an app crash rate significantly higher than iOS 7 did a year ago, an app performance management developer said yesterday.

• Apple, IBM join to make iOS the default mobile platform

  It's hard to imagine a more unlikely partnership: Apple, the highpoint of trendy consumer-focused mobile computing and IBM, the high point of, well, the opposite -- the business mainframe computer hulking in a data center.

• iPhone 6 rumour rollup for the week ending April 25

  Aesthetics reared its ugly, or beautiful (depending on your side of the debate), head in the iOSphere this week, as commentarians contemplated the question of whether real iPhones have curves.

• Oracle targets Australian mobility market with aggressive strategy

  Oracle has outlined an aggressive Australian channel-centric mobility strategy to take advantage of the increasing shift to BYOD and a “mobile first” marketing approach.

• Apple iOS battles back in market share struggle

  Apple's iOS is closing the gap on rival Android in the US market, according to new statistics released today by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, which says that the three months that ended in May 2013 saw iOS' share of the American smartphone market grow by 3.5 per cent.