Are you planning on making any iPhone/iPad development?
(This was a good question asked of me at formspring.) So far, I haven’t done anything for the iPhone, for three reasons. First, I don’t own a cellphone, and I find it quite difficult to write an app...
View ArticleRe: The private API thing
Just a thought to complement my previous post on the subject. A few days ago, Apple announced iPhone OS 4.0 with “over 1500 new APIs” (not a permanent link, sorry). It’s a safe bet that most of these...
View ArticleRe: iPad time
Via John Gruber, I just saw an interesting post by Steve Cheney: Its pretty evident that Apple isnt wed to individual suppliers. Not only are they back to creating their own chips, but they are also...
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richardl wrote: Rainer, it is interesting to note that Adobe built their ActionScript/Flash compiler for iPhone on top of LLVM. http://cs.illinois.edu/news/2009/Oct8-2...
View ArticleRe: Apps that work together — on iPad
Brent Simmons, author of NetNewsWire, writes: On Macs we have a long-standing culture of apps working together. … On the iPad (and iPhone) we can sort-of do the same thing. We don’t have AppleScript or...
View ArticleForward/back, hm
While reading the links pertaining to the previous post about a “back” button for the iPad – and, incidentally, for the Mac – it occurred to me that such a capability might be built into a future...
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WWDC: Keynote postdictions
Looking back over my WWDC predictions here, I was struck by how boring they were. The same sort of expectations every year, only everything was twice as fast, or large, or whatnot, than the year...
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Re: WWDC2011 (part2)
If you missed it, here’s part 1. Now, as I said, hardware details are becoming interesting only to developers – and even we don’t need to care overly about what CPU we’re developing for, now that we’re...
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Boom!
In keeping with recent meteorological themes – iCloud, Thunderbolt – yesterday Apple introduced the new “Lightning” connector for its mobile hardware. This will be the replacement for the venerable...
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Boom: A Follow-Up
This is a follow-up to my post about Apple’s new Lightning mobile connector. Thanks to all who linked or commented. Apple has since published mechanical drawings of the iPhone 5, iPod nano 7th gen, and...
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Boom: Teardown
This is yet another follow-up to my posts about Apple’s new Lightning mobile connector. The cool folks at iFixit have now published their comprehensive teardown of the iPhone 5. (Hopefully the other 2...
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Boom: Pins
This post has been updated several times (last update was on Feb.8, 2013); be sure to scroll to the end. One central feature of any connector/plug is the pincount. The ubiquitous AC plugs we all know...
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Boom: Final Follow-Up
My 2012 series of posts about Apple’s Lightning connector was (and still is!) the most-visited material here on the Solipsism Gradient: over 120 thousand visits so far, and counting. Most comments...
View ArticleRe: Obligatory iPhone SDK post
Posted by …from every angle: …from every angle linked to this post The Hubbub About iPhone SDK I’ve been thinking about the possibility of writing an app for the iPhone ever since it appeared on the...
View ArticleAre you planning on making any iPhone/iPad development?
(This was a good question asked of me at formspring.) So far, I haven’t done anything for the iPhone, for three reasons. First, I don’t own a cellphone, and I find it quite difficult to write an app...
View ArticleWatchKit: Watch this space
Apple’s (pre-)announcement of the Apple Watch left the tech world in the usual disarray. Is it an expensive knock-off of Android watches (people tell me there is such a thing!)? Is it an attack on the...
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Boom: the Return
A few years ago I wrote a series of posts about Apple’s then-new Lightning connector for iOS devices: Boom! Boom: Pins Boom: a Follow-Up Boom: Teardown Boom: Final Follow-Up No doubt you’re noticing a...
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