Yesterday at the WWDC, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs announced the new iPhone, along with its new platform iOS4 (formerly known as iPhone OS 4). While talking about the ‘i’ platform, Jobs mentioned that the Apple App Store now has over 225,000 apps available for download while 15,000 new apps are received every week.

One of the ‘app’ highlights was the announcement that the iBooks application, which is now only available to iPad users, gets an update and will become available to iPhone and iPod users. The updated iBooks application will offer the possibility to share books across all iOS4 based devices. Book sharing across the iPhone, iPod and iPad will be extended with the sync of place, bookmarks and notes attached to the books. Another part of the update includes that iBooks users now can read PDF files just the way like they would read normal iBooks books.

Besides the addition of the iBooks application, the popular Facebook application Farmville will be available in the app store later this month. Zynga’s Farmville will feature in app purchase support, along with push notifications about events happening at your farm. The 35 million daily players will be able to play Farmville even when they are outside or on the way.

Ruben Heerdink

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