Cool as a cucumber, Steve Jobs isn’t worried about Google’s latest ventures between Android and Google TV. In fact, MacRumors reports that Steve Jobs promises, “You won’t be disappointed,” at this year’s WWDC. When questioned whether Google had leap-frogged Apple, Jobs replied, “Not a chance.” This year’s WWDC is bound to be huge, and keep in mind that Jobs promised that this would be one of Apple’s best years to date. With a new iPhone, iPods, and maybe new MacBooks yet to be unveiled, Apple will surely have some interesting responses to Google’s latest attacks. And working demos.
Steve Jobs Promises Awesome WWDC, Dismisses Google
Yes, You Can Create Plugins for iPhone OS
Developer Steve Troughton-Smith has developed and Objective-C plugin for iPhone OS, and he’s sharing the source code on Github here. As he explains, it’s possible to create plugins for iPhone OS’ Safari, and the code structure is very similar to the one for desktop Safari. You just have to change NSView with UIView, he confirms.
Steve goes even further and suggests that Apple should release a public Safari Plugin SDK and “let developers decide”, and sure this would be an interesting perspective. As long as a plugin is developed with Apple’s technologies and is submitted to the App Store for approval, a whole new category of “applications” might be available for purchase and be able to change the way we use Mobile Safari.
Think about some sort of Flash built in this way. Or 1Password, or Evernote’s web clipper. Got the idea? Great, now take a look at the video after the break, where Steve shows Lights Off (an iPhone app he created) running inside Safari on the iPad simulator. Impressive.
New Leaked Photos of White iPhone HD Surface
We’ve seen many images of the iPhone 4G / HD, components and black and white panels. What we’re seeing today seems to be an actual white unit, sitting next to a black one.
AppAdvice has found these images on Apple.pro, the same website that some days ago posted pictures of the white panel. As you can see, the device is the same we’ve now gotten used to see - front facing camera and all.
Check out the photos after the break.
Notably Winners Announced
Thanks to everyone who entered the Notably giveaway. We also want to thank Derek Lyons for the licenses he offered to MacStories readers.
Here are the winners:
Chris
Oskar
Rob Weber
You’ll receive the promo licenses in your inbox in a few hours. Stay tuned for other giveaways coming this week. You can follow the official MacStories Twitter account as @macstoriesnet or Cody as @codyfink.
First Screenshots of AutoCAD for Mac
Back in April we reported that AutoCAD was probably coming soon to the Mac, considering all the OS X references that were spotted in the SDK. Today we’ve received the first screenshots of an actual beta, running at 64-bit on Mac OS X.
The app is names “Sledgehammer Beta 1”, doesn’t seem very polished yet (it’s coming from Windows) but at least there’s already support for Magic Mouse gestures. Check out the screenshots after the break.
New Images Of Next Gen iPhone Parts Surface
iPhone repair site uBreakiFix has posted some images of parts of the alleged next iPhone, which - again - show us the black and white front panels. Quite interesting, you can see that there’s a physical feature right above the earpiece, and the website claims that it’s the proximity sensor. We find it quite hard to believe, considering that Apple has always hidden sensor under the glass to make them invisible to the users.
Check out the images after the break.
Sneak Peek at Reeder for iPad
People have been talking a lot about the “second wave” of iPad apps these days. It’s pretty obvious that many developers rushed to have apps out in the iPad App Store on day one and many others are still working on new ones to be released / announced after the WWDC. That would be the second wave, if you’d like to call it so. And you can expect it to be freaking good.
To get straight to the point, we all know what’s the app currently missing on the iPad. If you’re an active Google Reader user and have an iPhone, I bet 10 bucks that you’re waiting for Reeder to be available on your tablet. If so, you should take a look at the screenshots we have below.
UPDATE: Check out our review of Reeder for iPad here.
Apple’s Latest Trademark Is A Giant Figurative iPhone
Discovered, once again, by Patently Apple, seems like Steve has managed to trademark the classic iPhone figurative icon.
Check it out after the break.
Chirpy, Twitter DMs As Text Messages
If you spend many hours a day on Twitter, I guess you’re quite into having conversations with your followers, but sometimes you’d like to keep these conversations private. And you have an iPhone too, perhaps running the recently released Twitter’s official app so that you can send direct messages with it. But, Twitter for iPhone doesn’t support push notifications for DMs. Hell, it doesn’t support push notifications for anything.
If you’d like to receive instant notifications for your Twitter DMs, look no further than Chirpy.