“Historically, closed platforms are typically limited in terms of scale and are confined to niche markets. Apple has built is business out of carving its own niche, which means that while Apple could see success with devices like the iPad, other players are unlikely to be able to replicate its result simply by copying”
Sure they won’t copy the iPad, but we should expect an explosion of tablet devices. Just look at what the iPhone did.
Iconlicious.com, the joint venture of the graphic designers Marcelo Marfil and Emanuel Sà (I interviewed both, here and here), is finally online and public.
As you can read in the About page of the website “Iconlicious has worked in the past years with companies such as AppZapper, Bohemian Coding, Droplr, Embraceware, Phantom Fish, Sophiestication, Taptivate and Vemedio”, developers of the most beautiful apps I’ve ever reviewed on MacStories.
Iconlicious features some amazing freebies ready to download, a sneak preview of an upcoming app by BohemianCoding (which is gonna be great) and a giveaway of software to celebrate the official launch. Just head over the giveaway page and follow the rules.
Congratulations Iconlicious, we’re looking forward to your future works.
“If one man can do it so easy, start thinking how media can manipulate news.”
Now it’s definitely a must have. Go download.
The Dev channel has been updated to 5.0.307.1. here’s the changelog:
Improved plugin stability;
Cocoa NPAPI plugins will now get:
NPCocoaEventMouseDragged and
NPCocoaEventFlagsChanged events
Fix crash that sometimes happened when dragging tabs;
Fix %cpu in task manager;
Give the cookies manager a search field;
Make copying of big images more robust;
Improve task manager resizing behavior;
Known Issue: Crash when deleting cookies
We’ve got another big news guys. Following our previous post about iPhone OS suggesting support for camera tethering and Wildcat references, our source reported that OS 3.2 beta contains references about video conferencing.
We don’t know too much about it now, but we can prove it with two images we received - two camera icons.
Clearly they’re very similar to the icons we can see on iChat on Mac OS X. Could this confirm the presence of a camera in the final version of the iPad? Or maybe Apple was forced to remove it right before the event, pretty much like they did with the iPod Touch? We’ll keep you posted about it.
This is interesting.There are numerous references to new features coming up in a later version of iPhone OS including image capture input devices as well as “wildcat”. We are yet unsure to what wildcat actually is. However there are several references throughout the beta 3.2 OS.
Here are some new API methods and preference list keys that mention wildcat:
”+(id)[SBDeviceLockKeypadWildcat keypadImage]” “[[UIDevice currentDevice] isWildcat];”
“SBDeviceLockViewWithKeyboardWildcat”
After our sources investigated properly they found that there are very strong hints about a cellphone device with sms and mms running the iPad OS.
Is this the “wildcat”?
Should I say it’s beautiful?
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