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by pvidler 14y ago
The rumoured iPad mini is supposed to have them same 1024x768 resolution as the iPad 1 & 2. Apparently, if you stuck to Apple's developer guidelines and used the same 44x44 point minimum size for both iPhone and iPad, then any touch co
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by pvidler 14y ago
Yep, location-based alerts such as when you have reminders using 'geofencing' (e.g. remind me to xyz when I leave work) -- they could fire as you leave your actual office, instead of after you drive away (which is often not as helpful).
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by pvidler 14y ago
True, although I feel there is still plenty of room for as-yet-unseen ambition in projects that fit within the rules (for every app store). And it's worth pointing out that there is a significant benefit to the users for restricting what a
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by pvidler 14y ago
Yeah, one that brings huge numbers of potential customers to your door, processes credit card transactions for you and may give you some free publicity (featured spots, etc.).
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by pvidler 14y ago
Except that the main app stores are fairly transparent about how much of the money you get and they generally let developers set their own prices.
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by pvidler 14y ago
True, but surely you can retain the ability to alert or otherwise communicate these things to your users without putting any of the main GUI in a web view? Minor bugs require only a little communication and major show-stoppers can be avoid
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by pvidler 14y ago
One hour is appalling? Are your users that dependent on running the latest version of your app, or is it a concern about fixing show-stopping bugs in reasonable time?
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by pvidler 14y ago
> or even the iOS App Store that is almost indistinguishable from a native app Are we using the same app store? It's awful! It's painfully slow and it frequently 'forgets' what I was doing when I press the back button after viewing an
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by pvidler 14y ago
It won't help you with your phone, but isn't there a version of thunderbird on portableapps.com? These install and keep their data on a USB stick, so you can take it with you between desktop, laptop, work and friends' computers (no install
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by pvidler 14y ago
If the government gives up any and all control over the internet, then they simply cede it to the ISPs and carriers; they win by default simply because our access must go through them. I don't want to be paying extra to access certain popul
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by pvidler 14y ago
Is it likely to be a $100 premium? The iPad 3 is $499 and the iPad 2 is $399, so I'd expect what amounts to a mini iPad 2 to be maybe $299... So based on that I assume you are comparing it to the new google tablet, except that this is bei
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by pvidler 14y ago
Yes, but if i recall correctly, apple's patent claim is quite specific about dragging an on-screen picture across a visually represented path -- isn't that how google got around it in android? The neonode, on the other hand, doesn't look t
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by pvidler 14y ago
That is a fair question -- the neonode phone may count as prior art (although it looks a bit different to Apple's patent claims), but it's not exactly a well known phone. It's very unlikely that people at Apple would have been aware enough
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by pvidler 14y ago
Surely there are lots of possible solutions -- tapping multiple points of a photo in sequence (am I the only one who prefers tapping for the reduction in finger prints?), camera face recognition, etc. You could even use a physical gesture,
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by pvidler 14y ago
Yes, it seems that many devices -- even phones -- have had a physical slider to lock/unlock. What I find strange about the lcd-touch-panel version is why everyone wants to use it? I thought skeuomorphic design was something that everyone
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by pvidler 14y ago
Just tried his test case and at first I couldn't reproduce it at all. On my iPhone 4S, you have to do the second finger tapping quite quickly for it to go wrong -- just touching it the way he does in the video is not triggering it for me.
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by pvidler 14y ago
I actually prefer controllers for FPSs now, but mostly because I rarely game on PC anymore. In addition to those you list, I would say that anything largely mouse controlled on PC should work reasonably well on mobile devices -- RTS games,
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by pvidler 14y ago
True enough, but there are also the mobile ports of older games -- notably the touch-friendly ones like monkey island, but more serious 'gamer' games are also coming, such as the Baldur's Gate rerelease. There are variations on C&C and
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by pvidler 14y ago
Mobile gaming is already huge. They are mostly casual games, certainly, but they are selling quite well. Also, I have been to a steadily increasing number of offices in recent years where everyone had laptops (typically Dell, I think) with
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by pvidler 14y ago
In fairness, the video seems to be comparing exactly this -- the sports questions seem to show that he's using iOS 6. Speed and voice quality are irrelevant to me, but I do really like what he was able to do with the image search on android
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by pvidler 14y ago
I answered with a question because no-one here is in a position to actually answer any of these questions -- it all really hangs on what was said and done behind the scenes; I'm just playing devil's advocate and providing an alternative poi
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by pvidler 14y ago
> How much of a MacBook Pro is Apple innovation? and how much of it is doing a great job of pulling together supplier's innovations with some great design and system integration? And how much was it that suppliers were being pushed by A
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by pvidler 14y ago
I think I must have very nearly every app of this type in the app store. All have noticeable lag with a jot pro stylus, though some are reasonable when just using a finger -- I guess the lag simply can't be seen in that case. I find handwr
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by pvidler 14y ago
I tend to use whiteboards with a team who are all in the room with me, rather than as an individual (although I'm thinking of installing one in my home office, just to see how useful it would be). The iPad is less useful in this case, altho
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by pvidler 14y ago
> Possibly with walkmans/iPods And do books count as well? Not really devices, but just as absorbing, for some of us. I don't really understand why we think about electronic devices differently from every other human invention. A year
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by pvidler 14y ago
Their engineering team produced a much smaller version and their competitors had products very similar to the mini. So there was a very good reason to release the superior product -- why hold back? What was great about the mini -> nano
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by pvidler 14y ago
People who keep it disabled on all but a few white-listed sites.
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by pvidler 14y ago
That would be nice, but the battery life would be really poor. There's no optical drive to ditch for more room in the Air. I expect this to be the main differentiator between the 13" Air and Pro models going forward.
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by pvidler 14y ago
Also works fine on mobile safari (iPad).
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by pvidler 14y ago
Very interesting, but most of these examples look like they would be fairly nonsensical to someone without JavaScript enabled (especially the line chart). To say nothing of those who use screen readers. Is there a handy way of providing so

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