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iPads Running iOS 6.0 at Apple's Campus Showing Up in Web Logs
With iOS 5.1 apparently sitting in a holding pattern awaiting the launch of the iPad 3, it should be no surprise that work is well underway on iOS 6.0, the next major update which should appear to the public later this year if past history is any indication.
Ars Technica server log entries showing iPads running iOS 6.0 visiting from Apple's campus
In support of the notion that work on iOS 6.0 is progressing, Ars Technica reports that browser user agent strings appearing as iPads running iOS 6.0 are indeed showing up in their server logs. While user agent strings are easily faked, Ars Technica filtered its logs to isolate only those entries coming from IPs assigned to Apple's corporate facilities and found a number of visits from devices reporting themselves as iPads running iOS 6.
The problem with speculation about these resolution entries representing the iPad 3 is that the new device should still report 1024x768 as its resolution. With the higher pixel density intended to increase sharpness rather than screen real estate, web content would appear far too small on the device if it reported itself at its true 2048x1536 resolution. This situation can be seen with Retina-capable iPhone 4/4S and iPod touch models, which report their resolutions as 480x320 instead of their actual 960x640 resolutions.
Ars Technica server log entries showing iPads running iOS 6.0 visiting from Apple's campus
In support of the notion that work on iOS 6.0 is progressing, Ars Technica reports that browser user agent strings appearing as iPads running iOS 6.0 are indeed showing up in their server logs. While user agent strings are easily faked, Ars Technica filtered its logs to isolate only those entries coming from IPs assigned to Apple's corporate facilities and found a number of visits from devices reporting themselves as iPads running iOS 6.
[W]e began looking at iPad user agents coming from Apple's corporate IP block in Cupertino and discovered that Apple appears to be surfing the Web using iPads running what looks like iOS 6.0. The whole listing shows iPads running iOS 5, iOS 5.0.1 (the current public release), iOS 5.1 (the upcoming release currently available to developers), and iOS 6. The iPads that appear to be running iOS 6 are also using a slightly newer build of WebKit—the older OSes all show WebKit 534.46, while the ones claiming to be iOS 6 show WebKit build 535.8.The report also cites a separate observation of a 2048x1536 screen resolution showing up in Google Analytics. The entries are not specifically linked to the iPad, but there are few other reasonable displays on the market that would be likely to yield such a resolution.
The problem with speculation about these resolution entries representing the iPad 3 is that the new device should still report 1024x768 as its resolution. With the higher pixel density intended to increase sharpness rather than screen real estate, web content would appear far too small on the device if it reported itself at its true 2048x1536 resolution. This situation can be seen with Retina-capable iPhone 4/4S and iPod touch models, which report their resolutions as 480x320 instead of their actual 960x640 resolutions.
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95 months ago
seriously......this is the most ****** rumor ever. I would rather believe the drop on the 64gb ipad 3 then to believe this.
You know how relativly easy it is to make such a website report trick youre visitting the site wich those settings?
Now who's going to fake iOS 9.3 and visit a website? ^^
easy traffic now for that article.
Did you even read the article? It came from Apple's corporate IP...
95 months ago
Obviously the 2048x1536 screen is really a 4096x3072 ultraretina display on the prototype iPad 7.
95 months ago
seriously......this is the most ****** rumor ever. I would rather believe the drop on the 64gb ipad 3 then to believe this.
You know how relativly easy it is to make such a website report trick youre visitting the site wich those settings?
Now who's going to fake iOS 9.3 and visit a website? ^^
easy traffic now for that article.
"While user agent strings are easily faked, Ars Technica filtered its logs to isolate only those entries coming from IPs assigned to Apple's corporate facilities and found a number of visits from devices reporting themselves as iPads running iOS 6."
Did you read the article?
95 months ago
so you think thats not fakeable?
it is. everything digital is fakable.
So, i call this rumor BS.
Why would this even be faked? Seriously? What is Apple NOT working on iOS 6.0? Are they really logging into websites with iPads/iPhones faking their OS for what point? So that investors think they are working on iOS 6 when they really aren't? So they can surprise us with iOS 7 instead? What gains do they have? Seriously, some people just want to believe the entire world is one big conspiracy....
95 months ago
seriously......this is the most ****** rumor ever. I would rather believe the drop on the 64gb ipad 3 then to believe this.
You know how relativly easy it is to make such a website report trick youre visitting the site wich those settings?
Now who's going to fake iOS 9.3 and visit a website? ^^
easy traffic now for that article.
... It's not a rumor, it's a fact. it's an update on the iOS 6 devolepment, calm down.
95 months ago
They see me trollin', they hatin'!
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Let's see that fake IP now. ;)
95 months ago
so you think thats not fakeable?
it is. everything digital is fakable.
So, i call this rumor BS.
I bet you think the moon landing was faked too.
95 months ago
I think some people are reading too much into these. Didn't people find evidence of Apple messing with plist strings a while ago? Apple's R&D people might as well tweak their browser strings to say something ridiculous like MacBook Air running on A9, iOS 8.0, with screen resolution 5120x2880 :eek:
Just multiple product strings like ipad 5,3 for example. No actual reported specs or anything like that. They want to throw people off as to how many new products are coming, not what those products may actually contain, because that will breed unrealistic expectations.
iOS is a yearly event at this point. There are no doubt a dozen or more devices around Apple running that stuff at this time. If Apple decides to start asking $5/iOS and they do progressive yearly updates which people want, they will begin raking in half a billion dollars a year rather soon... just from iOS.
Hope they don't charge, but expect it.
They just stopped charging for it and made their desktop OS upgrades only $30. Why would they reverse course?
95 months ago
From Ars Technica:
Update: This post is now being picked up by a number of publications that seem to be conflating the two pieces of evidence. The screen resolution numbers aren't necessarily connected to the iPads running iOS 6; they could be completely unrelated. The only thing we're sure of is that there are iPads that claim to be running iOS 6 browsing Ars Technica from Apple's campus in Cupertino. Whether those exact iPads are iPad 3s with "retina" displays remains unknown.
Update: This post is now being picked up by a number of publications that seem to be conflating the two pieces of evidence. The screen resolution numbers aren't necessarily connected to the iPads running iOS 6; they could be completely unrelated. The only thing we're sure of is that there are iPads that claim to be running iOS 6 browsing Ars Technica from Apple's campus in Cupertino. Whether those exact iPads are iPad 3s with "retina" displays remains unknown.
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