Posts Tagged: iphone

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Sep 10

iTunes Ping – Finding people, adding friends

There’s a lot to write about Ping, but before I get to that I need to play with it for a while. iTunes 10 was only available for download late late last night, so I haven’t done a lot. I have created an account (yet another network to maintain – ), and like many other people I have been unsuccessful in adding a picture. People have hinted that Apple may review pictures. If that is the case, new Apps in the store will probably be delayed even longer ;)

Anyway, after I created the account I started looking for friends I knew had also created accounts, but I couldn’t find any. Again, somebody said that you probably only appear in the directory after your image has been approved (not that this is available as a status message somewhere).

But I have found a way to add people nonetheless: go to your profile and right-cllick on your name:

Click on “Copy Link” and send it to your friends, tweet it or post it on Facebook. Friends can then find you and connect to you easily.

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Aug 10

Web based jailbreak for all iOS devices available

It seems Apple’s relation to Adobe might take another hit – the latest jailbreak seems to rely on a weakness in Safari’s PDF reader. The cool thing is that it does not need any Mac or Windows software to run, just point your iPhone browser to http://jailbreakme.com/.

Disclaimer: try at your own risk!

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Jun 10

Farmville for iPhone is here!


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(Disclaimer: I’ve never played the game. But from what I’ve heard it’s the real reason for last year’s financial meltdown, so be careful…)

FarmVille by Zynga (AppStore Link) FarmVille by Zynga
Hersteller: Zynga
Freigabe: 4+
Preis: Kostenlos Download (Aff.Link)

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Mar 10

Windows Phone 7 – no copy&paste, no multitasking?? WTF??

Can anyone say deja vu?

Gizmodo says Windows Phone 7 won’t have multitasking to save battery life.

Engadget says Windows Phone 7 won’t have copy&paste.

OK, can I see some serious Microsoft bashing now, please? I mean, at least at the level that Apple was hit when the first iPhone didn’t have copy& paste? And Microsoft had quite some time to watch that happen and change, don’t you think?

It seems being a copycat is harder than we all thought…

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Feb 10

R.I.P. Palm

Come on, admit it: we all knew the Pre would not save Palm, didn’t we?

I mean, I must have bought/used Palm’s complete product line back in the 90s, but they really lost me with the Treo. They dropped the ball a few years ago when the competition started to do ‘proper’ USB, synced to Outlook without 3rd party software. Turning to Windows Mobile made Palm into e “me too” company, so I didn’t even take notice of their new stuff anymore.

Had the Pre come out before the iPhone it might have had a chance. Not that it’s technically necessarily worse, but it has lost the fight for developers before it even hit the market. The type of developer that is attracted by making money fast will certainly aim for the iPhone. Open source developers are much better off developing for Android, which also has a well established marketplace.

So, what would make anyone develop for the Pre? That’s a question I find hard to answer.

The marketplace seems to agree – this is what the Wall Street Journal writes:

“As we mentioned in our press release, our softer than expected performance is due to slower than expected customer adoption of our products, which in turn has prompted our U.S. carrier partners to put additional orders on hold for the time being.”

This means that the carriers have unsold inventory and will not buy any more devices from Palm. This happens at a time where the iPad will soon be here and new Android devices are appearing in the store any other week.

From a consumer side I can’t see a lot of buzz for the Pre either. O2 has TV spots in germany, but I have yet to see someone I know use a Pre.

OK, who wants to disagree…?

UPDATE 2010-03-22: Seems like I have a point: http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/03/21/who-will-buy-palm/

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Feb 10

A day without Flash

This is an experiment.

Disclaimer: This is NOT AT ALL about bashing Adobe or Flash, being an Apple fanboy or anything. I *love* Flash, FLEX, AIR and the rest of it, but I’m just not sure how much we need it *on web pages*.
(To my friends & colleagues developing in Flash: that experiment is probably not an option for you ;) )

Looking at the recent discussions around Flash on the iPhone/iPad it’s probably time for a reality check – what does having Flash _in the browser_ mean to you, really.

At first I thought about uninstalling Flash for a week and seeing what it’s like, but then I found an easier way:

Firefox: Install Flashblock https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/433

Internet Explorer 8: Try this http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/flashblock-for-opera-9

Then run like that for a day, and report back in the Facebook group I created (Firefox seems a lot snappier for me with Flashblock ;) )

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Nov 09

Mobile OS winners: iPhone, Palm WebOS, Android

At least that’s what Aral Balkan thinks, and I’m tempted to agree.

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“WTF?” I hear you say – what about all those years of Symbian and Windows Mobile dominating the market?

Well, these are great operating systems, and they deserve a lot of credit. But from *today’s* perspective, they bet on the wrong horse.

What makes the iPhone, WebOS and Android different are three main things:

  • As stupid as it sounds, the fact that you could only buy the phones with a data plan finally proved the point that connected devices are far more usable as non-connected devices. Yes, you could use all those other smartphones online as well, but people only seriously started doing this (in numbers) when they were ‘forced’ to buy proper data plans.
  • Having many more users with ONLINE smartphones paved the way to app stores and mobile consumption of online services. They also had proper browsers that you could really use on the go for the first time (don’t give me Opera Mobile now – please….).
  • The three mobile operating systems above were designed with ONLINE in mind, and they only make sense in online scenarios. This point is made very well every time I leave the country and can not afford the rip-off data roaming rates, which turns my great iPhone 3GS into a quite bulky iPod that can’t even do GPS without data.

Now the next step is affordable data roaming. I’m pretty sure this will happen over the next few years.

The first step towards this may be – strangely enough – that Amazon started selling the Kindle (US version) in the rest of the world. I heard someone from the US say yesterday that he’d be buying an international Kindle in the US (!) to use it on international trips.

If that kind of madness doesn’t trigger innovation nothing will.

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Oct 09

T-Pain feat. Barack Obama

Hilarious:

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