Apple Begins Pushing iBooks to iOS4 Devices

Posted on June 11th, 2010. Written by Arron.

With just 4 days to go before the US, France, Germany, UK and Japan can pre-order the iPhone 4, Apple has reportedly today started pushing its previously iPad-exclusive application iBooks to its paying ADC members.

iOS4 GM candidate, a feature-complete version of the pre-release software which was released to paying ADC members on late Monday night, and has since leaked publicly, is consequentially now in the hands of hundreds of iPhone and iPod touch users the world over, despite the software not being officially made available publicly until June 21st.

Today @Engadget is reporting the company has began its roll out of the previously iPad exclusive e-book reading software to the iPhone. The move comes as Apple is positioning iOS4 to introduce a new wireless ‘syncing’ feature, which will see bookmarks and notes made in iBooks sync seamlessly across all devices.

According to the site users are now receiving a push notification alert, much like when downloading iBooks for the first time on the iPad. Interestingly, the software doesn’t yet seem to work on iPhone 3G – which will be more bad news for those 3G users planning to update to iOS4 later this month.

[via @Engadget]

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Hi, I'm Arron. I'm 20 and I am currently working as a freelance graphic designer and blogger. While managing RazorianFly, I currently also write for AppBoy.com, have previously written for 148Apps.com and have been approached by many others. I've been into graphic design for about 7 years now, and now offer iPhone and iPad Interface Design to developers professionally. Along with James, I also co-founded our brilliant new shortening service, RFly.Me. I'm very much tuned into both the App Store and Apple in general. I like the design, presentation and clarity of a product. If it doesn't cut it I'll tell you straight. I'm on Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook!

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