iOS 7.1 Release Date to Bring Special Streaming App to iPhone 5s, iPad and Other Devices
The iOS 7.1 release date will introduce Apple users to a new streaming app that will broadcast iTunes Festival performances directly to the iPhone 5s iPad Air and more.
This information was released by John Gruber of Daring Fireball.
"Apple's first iTunes Festival in the U.S. starts a week from today at SXSW in Austin. Apple is going to stream the performances to iOS devices using an app, but I've heard from a little birdie that the app requires iOS 7.1," he said. "That means iOS 7.1 should ship any day now."
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The festival will feature performances from Coldplay, Imagine Dragons and London Grammer and will kick off the SXSW iTunes Festival on March 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Apple has been testing the new software since November and has released five different developer betas with the latest version that launched on Feb. 4.
The latest update brings minor security tweaks to iOS devices that seem to affect the jailbreak system as iOS 7.0.6 protects the software from being violated by attackers that can capture or modify data in sessions protected by SSL/TLS. It was released three weeks after the previous build, iOS 7.0.5 and is only available to the iPhone 4 and later. Previous devices such as the iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 4th generation model can download up to iOS 6.1.6.
Previous rumors have pointed to a March release for iOS 7.1 so Gruber's prediction seems reasonable, considering past information. The only issue with this is that Apple still has not issued a Golden Master build to developers. This is something the company normally does weeks before a software roll out.
