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Apple Seeds is iSource’s daily roundup of Apple-related stories for the most diehard of fans, or for the news junkie that has to have all of the day’s news:

Apple Pushes out Xcode 4.1.1 Update, Fixing Installation Alert Issue

Apple has released Xcode 4.1.1 which is a small delta update that addresses an issue wherein during the installation process an alert is presented to the user to shut down iTunes. Even after iTunes is quit, the alert remains, and won’t go away until the iTunesHelper process is killed using Activity Monitor. No new features have been added in this release. [Read More]

Apple Releases QuickTime 7.7 Security Update

Apple has released QuickTime 7.7 updates for Mac OS X Leopard, and Windows XP, Vista and 7. The accompanying support document states that this update addresses 14 different security issues. [Read More]

Steve Jobs Still Very Much Involved at Apple, Even Though He’s Still on Sick Leave

The Loop is points to a report from Tim Bajarin, who states that even though he’s on sick leave, Steve Jobs is still very active in Apple’s affairs. He still regularly calls the top brass at Apple, but he doesn’t micromanage the company like he used to. Now, he’s talking with the execs, and allows them to execute on their collective plans. [Read More]

Apple Looking to Buy an Additional $5 Billion in Patents

Bloomberg is reporting that InterDigital is planning to sell off it’s patent portfolio which could fetch a price of $5 billion. These patents outline technology for high-speed mobile phone networks, and are used by some of the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturers. So whoever owns these patents, could be making a lot of money in licensing. [Read More]

Apple Taking Legal Action Against Fake Apple Stores

After the internet brought China’s fake Apple Stores to the public eye, Apple has now filed suit against some 50 different defendants, most of which are John Does and unmanned businesses. The case is still under court seal, so no specifics are known at this time. [Read More]

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Business Insider has picked up a report by Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu, who claims that the forthcoming iPhone update will be larger in scope than was previously thought. Specifically, Wu believes the next-generation iPhone will have a dual-core processor, a larger screen, and a thinner bezel. Other than that, he believes the new iPhone will look fairly similar to the current iPhone 4. Wu also believes that 4G LTE technology will not be making it’s way to the new iPhone, due to power consumption issues.

Wu’s report doesn’t sound unreasonable to me. However, recent discoveries of cases designed for the next-generation iPhone, suggest a different form-factor than what Wu described in his report. First off, these cases appear to be tapered. Secondly, the new iPhones, if these cases turn out to be accurate, will likely be longer and wider than the current iPhone. In other words, take Wu’s report with a grain of salt.

Also worth mentioning at this time, is a report from BGR, which claims that the new iPhone will launch in Canada on October 1st. Traditionally, the iPhone first launches in the US first, and then follows internationally a few weeks afterword. Perhaps we’re looking at a mid-September launch of the iPhone here in the States.

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Apple made it quite clear they would be fixing the security hole discovered in Safari soon, and sure enough, here’s iOS 4.3.4 to close it up.  The so-called PDF exploit was recently, um, exploited by hackers to create the jailbreakme.com site, an untethered system which took just seconds to free your phone from Apple’s hold.

Syncing your iPhone with iTunes will bring up the ‘new firmware’ notification, which you may want to think twice before accepting depending on your situation.  If you’ve already jailbroken your phone, then updating to the new version of iOS will certainly cancel that, or may cause problems of a more serious nature.

Furthermore, if you’re planning to jailbreak your phone using jailbreakme, then updating would obviously not be the best idea either!  Otherwise, feel free to plug in your phone and update away, as any update recommended for security reasons is worthwhile applying.

If you’re wondering if anything exciting is included aside from the security fix, don’t bother, as that’s all there is.

Surely this will represent the final version of iOS 4 before the release of iOS 5?

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