“Sorry, Adobe, you screwed yourself. You made a business decision in 1996 to screw Apple when it needed you most to gain credibility for its fledgling OS with the creative crowd. Somehow, Apple making a business decision to protect its customers from your shitty product is the most egregious ethical concern of our time.”
You always get what you paid for, you know.
I do miss the original iPhone clock app on my iPad. I miss the possibility to set alarms on this awesome new device, just as I miss the simple weather application. Fortunately, developer Steve Troughton-Smith has found a solution to this. Sorta.
I guess the “Twitter bought Tweetie” should have scared the hell out of many 3rd party developers. And I quite understand their position, as it’s not easy to develop a Twitter client knowing that Twitter itself bought the best client on the market and made it official. And free.
That’s why many devs are freaking out. I’ve heard many of them claiming that they will quit development of their apps, others who are simply very sad about the situation. And some who decided to sell their own suite of applications on eBay. Keep on reading to find out what exactly happened.
Remember Windows ‘95? Sadly, I do. Well it turns out that a team of russian developers have managed to run Windows 95 on the iPad, using an emulator called BOCHS, modified for the iPad.
Be sure to check out the video after the break. How long before a Linux distribution for the iPad?
We’ve heard so many times that the iPad is the perfect device to consume content and you know what, after some days of testing I have to agree. The iPad is just perfect to read, watch movies and listen to music. Instapaper on the iPad feels great, and so does the iPod app. Safari is very well developed, it’s fast and makes it easy to jump from one page to another just to read what’s new. I’ve never done stuff like this on my iPhone. But on the other hand, don’t listen to those who say you can’t produce content on the iPad: I’m finding myself writing entire posts, taking notes and storing screenshots with it. All in all, it’s a great productivity device.
Back to using the iPad as a reading device, there’s Instapaper and a couple of good feeds readers that allow me to stay up to date with the latest news and read longer articles from my couch or bed without having to worry about carrying the MacBook with me. It’s a good environment. I’ve just found out this other application though, free in the App Store, which is called Offline Pages and might come in handy if you’re not a fan of Instapaper.
There’s a been a lot of talking about the now famous Section 3.3.1 of the iPhone Dev Agreement, the one that bans applications written in other programming languages than Objective C. As Gruber pointed out in his Steve Jobs-endorsed post, Apple wants to make Obj-C and the Cocoa Touch API the de facto standard for mobile applications, period.
But in my opinion that of banned cross-compilers is not that a big of a deal compared to what developers found out in Section 3.3.9 of the iPhone Dev Agreement.
Seriously, something must be wrong with people. I don’t know how to explain otherwise these pictures appeared over at OS X Daily of some people using their cats as iPad stands. Read again, cats as iPad stands. And quite useful stands, they say.
[UPDATE]: Turns out the cat actually happened to be at the right place at the right time. The idea could be explored, anyway.
According to Mashable, Steve Jobs has replied to some emails from Greg Slepak from Tao Effect (developers of Espionage) regarding the situation of Apple banning applications written in languages other than Objective C. Apparently Steve Jobs is endorsing John Gruber’s take on the subject, but I suggest you to take a look at the full post here.
