Apple Releases iOS 4.2 Update, Find My iPhone Is Now Free

By Matthew Chung on 11/22/2010 06:53 PDT

You’ve been waiting for it, and now it’s finally here. We’re talking about the iOS 4.2 update for the iPad, iPhone 4, 3GS, 3G and iPod touch, giving all those devices the latest version of Apple’s iOS software. iPad users will particularly be happy about this news as they will finally be able to enjoy multitasking on the iPad. iPhone 3G users should also have cause to celebrate as the update will bring about some performance improvements that should pacify many dissatisfied owners. Finally, it’s also worth mentioning that the Find My iPhone service is now free for all users, allowing GPS-enabled iOS devices to be located from a web interface for free, instead of having to shell out money for Apple’s MobileMe service.

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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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