Monday Morning News

Apple’s decision to ship iBooks as a default app in iOS 8 caused controversy, according to MacRumors, because users can’t delete the default apps that come on an iPhone. But the numbers speak for themselves: the iBooks platform has added one million new users per week since the introduction of iOS 8, most likely as a result of the change.…


Originally published at: http://appletalk.com.au/2015/01/monday-morning-news/

I’ve used iBooks (since it was released). The issue I have with it now is I have a bunch of PDFs and non iBooks purchased content in there which blows out my backup out to over 10GB for some reason. In iOS 7 I could exclude this from backup (it was synced with iTunes on my Mac), now because it’s built into the iOS I no longer can.