iFixit iPad app arrives to bring disassembly knowledge with you everywhere

By Matthew Chung on 12/23/2010, filed in Home > Apple

We’ve seen plenty of teardown pictures from the folks over at iFixit, showing the world how to disassemble complex gadgets and offering useful step-by-step processes. Now they’ve taken it one step further and come up with an app for the iPad, allowing you to easily take all that disassembly knowledge with you. While you can obviously access the information via the website, the iPad app makes it easier to navigate the data and find what you’re looking for, and of course, bringing the iPad along with you when you fiddle with your car’s engine is a lot easier than bringing a whole notebook along. If you’re in the mood for tinkering with gadgets over Christmas, check out the app that’s already up for download.

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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