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iOS 4.0 GM

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Golden master

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About this appearance

GM is a sourced historical archive page with 3 structured records and an explicit account of the evidence limits that shape its coverage.

Date
Jun 7, 2010
Availability
available
Revision
No

Release notes

What changed

Original editorial synthesis. Linked references appear with the claims they support and in the source ledger.

Release milestone

Apple seeded the Golden Master candidate on June 7, the same day the product adopted the iOS 4 name. Contemporary installation reporting ties the candidate to iTunes 9.2 beta, and Apple’s announcement fixes June 21 as the later public boundary.[1][2][3]

What this page indexes

GM has 3 structured records. Reader-facing titles and summaries are original synthesis, while short locators identify the evidence used for each factual statement.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Selection method

Three narrowly supported boundary records are retained: the iOS naming transition, the addition of Bing as a search option, and the iTunes 9.2 beta installation dependency. They do not stand in for a missing GM release-note document.[11][12][13][14][15]

Evidence gaps

No complete inspectable GM-specific developer-note artifact was located. The page therefore remains deliberately small and exposes that limit instead of receiving synthetic fixes or a guessed build identity.[11][12][13][14][15]

Source ledger

References

Sources are linked to the claims they support. Publication and access dates are shown when available.

  1. iOS 4 gold build now available to iPhone Developer Program members

    Engadget · Chris Ziegler · 2010-06-08T00:36:00.000Z · GM identity and timing

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  2. iPhone OS 4 renamed iOS 4, launching June 21

    Engadget · Nilay Patel · 2010-06-07T17:26:00.000Z · GM identity and timing

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  3. iOS 4.0 Golden Master and iTunes 9.2 Seeded to Developers

    MacRumors · Arnold Kim · 2010-06-07T18:51:02-07:00 · GM identity and timing

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  4. iPhone OS 4 renamed iOS 4, launching June 21

    Engadget · Nilay Patel · 2010-06-07T17:26:00.000Z · Bing search integration

    Independent contemporaneous report.

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  5. iPhone OS 4 Becomes iOS 4, Available June 21 for Free

    MacRumors · Marianne Schultz · 2010-06-07T11:08:56-07:00 · Bing search option

    Contemporaneous keynote report.

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  6. iOS 4.0 Golden Master and iTunes 9.2 Seeded to Developers

    MacRumors · Arnold Kim · 2010-06-07T18:51:02-07:00 · GM and iTunes 9.2 seeded together

    Independent confirmation that both candidates were seeded on the same date.

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  7. iOS 4 gold build now available to iPhone Developer Program members

    Engadget · Chris Ziegler · 2010-06-08T00:36:00.000Z · installation requirement; iTunes 9.2 beta

    Contemporaneous hands-on installation report.

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  8. Apple Presents iPhone 4

    Apple Newsroom · Apple · 2010-06-07T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 4 product name

    First-party confirmation of the resulting name and public boundary.

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  9. iPhone OS 4 Becomes iOS 4, Available June 21 for Free

    MacRumors · Marianne Schultz · 2010-06-07T11:08:56-07:00 · now known as iOS 4

    Contemporaneous naming report.

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  10. iPhone OS 4 renamed iOS 4, launching June 21

    Engadget · Nilay Patel · 2010-06-07T17:26:00.000Z · renamed to iOS

    Independent contemporaneous report tied to GM availability.

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  11. Apple Presents iPhone 4

    Apple Newsroom · Apple · 2010-06-07T00:00:00.000Z · GM evidence boundary

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  12. iOS 4 gold build now available to iPhone Developer Program members

    Engadget · Chris Ziegler · 2010-06-08T00:36:00.000Z · GM evidence boundary

    Back to text ↑
  13. iPhone OS 4 renamed iOS 4, launching June 21

    Engadget · Nilay Patel · 2010-06-07T17:26:00.000Z · GM evidence boundary

    Back to text ↑
  14. iOS 4.0 Golden Master and iTunes 9.2 Seeded to Developers

    MacRumors · Arnold Kim · 2010-06-07T18:51:02-07:00 · GM evidence boundary

    Back to text ↑
  15. iPhone OS 4 Becomes iOS 4, Available June 21 for Free

    MacRumors · Marianne Schultz · 2010-06-07T11:08:56-07:00 · GM evidence boundary

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Release changes

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Features, fixes, removals, and regressions first observed in this release record.