AirPlay Streaming to Hit Safari, Third-Party Apps in 2011

By Chuong Nguyen on 11/30/2010 12:02 PDT

According to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, AirPlay will be more widely available in iOS devices in 2011. Jobs was responding to user concerns about the limited scope of AirPlay support in the current version of the iOS operating system on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, version 4.2. One user had emailed Jobs inquiring about extending AirPlay functionality “for videos in safari and 3rd party app,” to which the CEO responded, “Yep, hope to add these features to Airplay in 2011.” Because of its limited implementation inside the iOS environment thus far, AirPlay has been hacked by enterprising users, via the jailbreaking process, to extend functionality to third-party apps.

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iOS was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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