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Book Publishers Offer Details on Apple’s Tablet Plans?
9 to 5 Mac summarizes information it has received from contacts in the publishing industry in recent days, revealing that Apple has been pushing aggressively forward in discussions with publishers about bringing their content to Apple's tablet rumore...TiPb Give Away: 10 FREE Copies of Twitbit for iPhone!
TiPb loves to give back to our readers with our give aways, so why not give away my personal favorite Twitter app in all of the Apple App Store, Twitbit!
Our good friends over at High Order Bit have been generous enough to share 10 FREE copies of their Twitbit application to give you! If you want in on the action, all you have to do is visit this thread in our iPhone forums and leave a single post telling High Order Bit what feature you would like to see added to the already feature filled Twitbit!
Contest starts now and ends Wednesday, January 27th at 12pm PT. And remember, promo codes require a US iTunes App Store account (Apple’s rule, not ours!) Good luck!
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TiPb Give Away: 10 FREE Copies of Twitbit for iPhone!
AutoPark for iPhone aims to eliminate parking tickets
The $5 app remembers where you parked, finds it via GPS, and sends you push notifications when it's time to feed the meter.Politics and Practicality the Reason for no Flash Player on iPhone… and iTablet?
Daring Fireball has an interesting post up regarding the continued lack of a Flash Player for the iPhone, and the reasons why Flash support for the iTablet/iSlate/iPad is unlikely:
I’ll leave the last word to Apple COO Tim Cook, who a year ago said, “We believe in the simple, not the complex. We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.”
Flash is owned and controlled by Adobe.
Gruber breaks it down into several broad strokes.
- According to Apple plugins in general, and according to sources at Apple, Flash in particular, is the leading cause of crashes on Mac OS X.
- In order to make a 64-bit version of Safari on Mac, Apple had to create a new plugin architecture because Adobe (still) only makes 32-bit Flash and since Apple has no control of the Flash code, they have to work around it.
- Flash is the only remaining major web technology that’s proprietary and controlled by one company, which is not good for the web, and if Apple can’t control something, they’d rather it be non-proprietary.
- Flash performance on Mac OS X is poor compared to QuickTime. Adobe would like to address this via direct hardware acceleration, Apple would rather developers use the existing, higher-level QuickTime APIs.
- Flash is used as a runtime, which Apple doesn’t support on the iPhone.
I’ll add two more things to this list, especially applicable to the iPhone:
- Flash is an increasingly large target for malware attacks. While Apple is slow to respond to zero day exploits, Adobe is as well. The idea that Apple would have to wait on Adobe to patch an iPhone exploit is likely not appealing to Apple. Imagine how long iPhone firmware updates would take then?
- Flash is privacy hostile, allowing sites to store “Flash cookies” which can restore deliberately deleted browser cookies and otherwise track user data. That Adobe still doesn’t better inform their users, and relies on an obscure website to provide controls is troubling to say the least. (That page is supposed to contain site-specific permission for Flash to access webcams. Mine contains entries for major online media sites and e-commerce stores).
Apple believes control helps them create the best user experience. It’s incredibly frustrating at times, but it’s how they’ve built their business and arguably attained some of their success.
I don’t believe for one moment Apple is pushing open standards over Flash for altruistic reasons. In this instance, however, their reasons happen to coincide with what’s better for the web. They’re also are one of the few companies powerful and popular enough to push HTML5 video.
The iPhone and quite possibly the iTablet are their best shot at doing that.
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Politics and Practicality the Reason for no Flash Player on iPhone… and iTablet?
Flurry sees fifty devices that look like tablets
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Hardware, Rumors, iPhone
Mobile analytics firm Flurry tracks usage of mobile apps and lo and behold, look at what popped up this week. There are 50 devices running iPhone OS 3.2 within the Apple Campus.
Flurry also reports that they've been tracking 200 apps across 50 devices since October of last year, and that usage has really ramped up in the last few weeks. Internal testing typically increases sharply just prior to a release. Flurry's report doesn't give a lot of concrete evidence that these devices are tablets, but they do note that "...we have a fair level of confidence that we are observing a group of pre‐release tablets in testing." If only they had shared what raised their "level of confidence."
As you can see from the chart above, the majority of these devices are running games, with the entertainment and news & books categories tied for 2nd place. Apps in the lifestyle category come in third. Flurry also reports that they've been tracking activity on these 50 devices since October of last year, and that usage has really ramped up in the last few weeks.
It's interesting for developers to note that the devices seem to be running iPhone apps. If they are tablets, that means it'll be easy to move applications over (though we don't have any information on how they will scale or the final resolution for the device).
At the end of the day, we have data collected by Flurry from apps installed on 50 or so devices placed inside Apple via geolocation that are running on iPhone OS 3.2. They could be tablets -- rumors have suggested that the tablet's release is delaying the next iPhone OS upgrade -- or they could be test unit iPhones running an unreleased version of the OS. Either way, two things are certain:
- There's cool stuff inside 1 Infinite Loop
- All of this conjecture will end on Wednesday
[Via Engadget]
Flurry sees fifty devices that look like tablets originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Flurry sees fifty devices that look like tablets originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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New York Times Reportedly Working Closely With Apple on Tablet App
As part of a broad report in advance of Apple's media event scheduled for Wednesday, The Los Angeles Times claims that a team of New York Times employees has been traveling to Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California to work on a new version of ...Epson supports mobile printing apps
Epson has announced global support for its open-source development kit, the ESC/P-R library, including Apple iPhone and Google Android integration.Review: eBuddy Pro for iPhone
Both the free and pro versions of this multi-protocol IM app work pretty well, though not right out of the box. But if you're willing to tweak a few settings, eBuddy performs quite capably.iPhone AMOLED Screens to Bring Back Apple II-style Green on Black?
Marco Arment has a fun post up today about designing for AMOLED (active matrix light emitting diode) screens, currently used for Google’s Nexus One, and something many hope Apple adopts for the 4th generation iPhone and — even though cost and supply prohibitive — the upcoming iTablet/iSlate/iPad as well.
Most significantly with OLEDs, power consumption is greatly reduced when displaying black or very dim colors, so a dark layout option is even more beneficial than with LCDs.
Another consideration is that the blue subpixels have the shortest lifespans, a problem that has always plagued OLEDs and is one of the biggest reasons they’re still rarely used.
Armant’s tongue-in-cheek solution? To go old school, Apple II ancient CRT-style green on black. Not that we’re not nostalgic (I rocked that green screen for many years on my Apple II), but here’s hoping AMOLED technology gets better with blues before iPhone developers have to go retro with their text, yo.
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iPhone AMOLED Screens to Bring Back Apple II-style Green on Black?
AT&T Losing iPhone Exclusivity on Wednesday?
HotHardware claims that AT&T maybe losing it's iPhone exclusivity as early as Wednesday at Apple's media event:According to an inside source close to the going-ons involved in all of this, a new tablet of some sort may not be the on...
