One of the most exciting features of the iPhone 4 is the Retina Display, which at 326 ppi exceeds the limits of human’s retina, thus making it impossible to see pixels on screen.
Raymond Soneira, president of DisplayMate Technologies (Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Princeton, displays expert) told Wired that Steve pushed it too far. The Retina Display is a misleading marketing term, he says.
The iPhone 4 glass is the result of years of engineering and Apple told us that it’s way better than the previous iPhone’s glass. It’s more robust, and they even proved on video that bending it doesn’t break it. But what about a sudden impact?
You might have noticed that Scott Forstall said that the new iPhone 4 is all about connecting people. Of course that didn’t go well with Nokia, which is considering a trademark dispute with Apple.
So there’s this couple that’s always dreamed to have a wedding ceremony with vows read off of an iPad and iPhones to update Twitter and Facebook status. And so they did. If they’re happy, we’re happy - and we even have the video after the break.
Cheers.
[via Edible Apple]
Steve Jobs said that 95% of applications are approved in the App Store within 7 days, and the 5% is made of crashy apps, apps that don’t work as advertised and developers who keep using private APIs in their software. Then, there are developers who submit working apps and don’t get a single word from Apple for months. It’s a limbo, a quite undocumented zone which Apple hasn’t clarified, yet it exists and, according to many devs, it’s the worst place you can find yourself in. What’s going on with Reeder for iPad, for instance?
There are two kind of applications in the App Store: those that help you accomplish tasks for your digital life, and those that help you in the real world. Think about twitter clients and apps to remember the World Cup schedule. Don’t get me started on Twitter clients.
As for the “real world” apps, we could go on talking about them for hours. I swear I saw apps to help women remember their period. There are apps that comes with entire databases of international recipes.
Now, we have a Ruler.
When Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac ships later this year, you won’t be able to run it at 64-bit. It will be a 32-bit only app, quite unusual nowadays on Mac OS X.
Why? Because they’ve focused on making the Windows and Mac compatible with each other so much that they don’t have time left to do the transition.
Since when Twitter acquired Loren Brichter’s Atebits, lots of rumors have been spreading around about a) Loren dropping the development of Tweetie for Mac, b) Loren planning to keep working on the Mac version and c) Loren enjoying his truckload of bucks and nothing more.
Actually, the situation is a little bit more complicated than that.
Think about your iPad, and tell me what’s the thing you do most with it. I bet that of all activities, reading with the iPad would be the most popular answer. So much has been said about the tablet being able to revolutionize the print industry and old media (e.g. Newspapers that still have to figure out a way to monetize their online presence), but let’s face it: revolutions don’t happen in two months. It’s a constant and daily evolution, led by Steve Jobs, the App Store and developers.
Third party applications is where it’s at. Creative devs coming up with innovative solutions that show how a new device such as the iPad can indeed reshape the industry. We’re waiting for a second wave of great iPad apps to come along, and those apps will do even better than the ones we’ve seen in these two months.
