January 2010
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iPod plugins
Perhaps the biggest reason to allow multitasking on iPhone OS — for me, at least — is to allow media apps like Pandora or Last.fm to continue playing while you’re messing about in other apps. Honestly, when I try to come up with other reasons to allow multitasking, I have great difficulty coming up with scenarios that can’t (can’t) be solved with push notifications. Of course,...
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Message Control
It’s what they do. They’re working on computing products that are several years out from production (or even introduction), and not a single person will ever open his or her mouth about it. And honestly, I think that’s a great way to do it. Mystery breeds curiosity, and in Apple’s case, fanaticism. And sometimes it pays off big, but only when they also master the messaging...
“When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said:...”
– Alan Kay
I disagree. I think it’ll take us perhaps one more year to realize that they absolutely NAILED IT with the iPhone. The weight, the size and the ergonomics of the iPad are going to eventually prove themselves as sub-optimal in terms of everyday use. Better value than a Kindle or Nook?...
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Getting it right the first time
One would imagine that this post should be wrapped into my multitasking post from the other day, but I felt it necessary for this point to stand on its own:
If, by some strange chance, Apple finally allows us to multitask in the next major release of iPhone OS, I urge every currently-published developer to really take a moment to assess what it will mean to their revenue stream as it currently...
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The Obligatory Multitasking Post
As I’ve mentioned, I’m not one to hop onto the hot-button topics. I just don’t see the point. Why state what’s obvious to everyone?
But, in the case of multitasking on the iPhone, I’ve felt for quite a while now that nobody is really putting a finger on what multitasking could mean for the iPhone, were it to show up tomorrow. And I think a large part of that is...
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Maps.app and Google’s “My Maps”
I have to say, it is a continual breath of fresh air whenever I go into YouTube.app these days. My favorites are pulled right from my YouTube account, my subscriptions are readily available, my posted videos are there. It was painful, for so long, to go into YouTube.app, only to be greeted with a glorified search engine. Having true integration with the web service is just where it’s at.
So...