Posts tagged “iphone”
I tweaked Pete Warden's iPhoneTracker to remove the deliberate grid aggregation, revealing the full granularity of the creepy location data your iPhone has been silently collecting. The results are striking, if not entirely accurate. Download my extra-creepy version if you trust me with your Mac.
Apple's ban on intermediate platforms kills our hopes of building iPhone apps with web technologies. It's shortsighted: the web is the world's biggest development platform. Native apps are better now, but that won't last. The web always wins eventually. Until then, learn Objective-C.
I'm bullish on iPhone and skeptical that Android will ever surpass it in market share. Apple's closed, integrated approach is a feature, not a bug, especially in resource-constrained mobile hardware. Android's openness means overhead, inconsistency, and fragmentation. Geeks will love it; consumers won't care.
Built a simple iPhone site and finally added the long-requested RSS feed that mixes in the scratchpad. Also made RSS feeds more visible and added autodiscovery.
Apple dropped the iPhone price $200 after just three months. Ouch. But hey, the new 160GB iPod Classic will finally hold my entire music library, and my birthday is coming up. More Apple purchases seem like the obvious cure for Apple purchase regret.
The iPhone keyboard is really very good. I'm faster with it than I ever was at T9. Landscape mode in the browser makes it excellent. Autocorrect handles most punctuation needs. The web experience is so good I find myself using it as a third screen.
My iPhone wishlist: landscape keyboard everywhere, cut-and-paste, better SMS options (send to many, resend, character count), a Windows-compatible calendar app, and a live weather icon. Also finally sorted my wi-fi issue -- turns out HEX and ASCII passwords aren't interchangeable, apparently.
Just got my iPhone and I'm blown away. Tabbed web browsing on a phone nearly broke my brain. The wifi is flaky, the headphones suck, and selfies are basically impossible, but as a portable internet device it's incredible. Worth every penny, maybe twice that.
Camping out for an iPhone today. Currently 76th in line at the Burlingame Apple store (smarter than fighting the SF crowds). Got one! Impressions to follow.
Apple intentionally kept the iPhone camera mediocre to leave room for the iCamera: a photo-focused device with a big screen, intuitive touch interface, and seamless syncing. Cameras need a usability revolution, and Apple is positioned to deliver it.
Safari on Windows is odd -- likely motivated by an easy port and a desire to boost market share. iPhone web apps are interesting but raise security questions. The new Apple.com is slick but busy, and every clueless CEO will soon be demanding their site look the same.
The iPhone blew my mind. It's OS X in a phone, with multi-touch, wireless internet, camera, and widescreen iPod built in. It's going to crush Motorola, Samsung, and SonyEricsson, and possibly Blackberry too. Nokia is the only real contender. 2007 just got very interesting for mobile.
