It seems like webapps for iPhone and iPad are about to get a lot better. There’s always been some skepticism about web applications having the same quality of native apps, and despite amazing tools like JQTouch and such, people were right to doubt that webapps can get even near to native applications. But things are about to change, and even if webapps won’t get as good as App Store’s apps, I’m pretty sure we’ll see something interesting coming our way.
Sproutcore Announces Sproutcore Touch, HTML5 iPad Apps with Hardware Acceleration
Touchpad Winners Announced
Thanks everyone who entered the Touchpad giveaway.We also want to thank the Edovia developers for the promo codes they offered to MacStories readers.
Here are the winners:
Mason Phillips
Bruno
Pipokkio
Timmeh_
Markus
You’ll receive the promo codes 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 Federico as @viticci
Apple Patents Subtractive Displays That Could Revolutionize Printing
Before the mainstream success of the iPod and, later, the iPhone, Apple was well known for making computers geared towards professionals that wanted to do some serious work with a computer and not just play some games. As of today, you can still hear many people (including me) saying that if you want to really work, you have to buy. But this is not the main story.
An Overview of GoodReader for iPad
There’s this iPad application which is going pretty good in the App Store, GoodReader. I heard a lot of people talking about it and, after a while, I was curious. So I decided to buy it and see if it can effectively hold up to the expectations I have.
Here a my impressions so far.
Gizmodo Gets the “iPhone HD”, Video and Teardown. It’s Real.
It happened. Gizmodo has somehow managed to get the much rumored iPhone 4G model we’ve been talking about for days now, and the thing seems definitely real. They’ve posted a complete teardown and analysis of the iPhone, which is real - it’s even got internal components labelled with Apple.
Sable, Beautiful Movist Mod
Jailbroken iPad Gets Voice Control, Backgrounder
Developer Will Strafach has managed to jailbreak an iPad, but we talked about this before. What’s new is that he succesfully installed Voice Control on the device, and as you can see from the video embedded after the break, it works.
A few people also haven’t noticed that his iPad is running Backgrounder, the Cydia tweak that allows to leave applications running in the background and thus multitask by switching from an app to another one. I bet Pro Switcher is working as well.
The iPad jailbreak may be only a few weeks away. Sure it will be a great solution while waiting for iPhone OS 4.0.
Apple To Integrate Facebook in iPhone OS 4.0
An Engadget reader running iPhone OS 4.0 on a jailbroken device found references of Facebook contacts integration into the OS. The references come in the shape of a .plist file called “FacebookContactsConstraints.plist”, but Engadget also reports that Apple may include a larger social network support by integrating services like Twitter. Indeed, it seems like “SocialKitInternal.framework” is mentioned somewhere in the OS, but they’re waiting for proof.
The Correspondence of Steve Jobs, Prior to 2010
Interesting post over at Technologizer, analyzing many emails Steve replied to before 2010. Let me quote just one from the collection:
“Mr. Jobs,
I was first in line for this phone. I paid a premium. The screen broke from a short drop. $250 dollars?
I have sold at least 3 of these things for you. I feel dirty.”
Steve’s reply:
“Imagine this for a car:
I was first in line for this car. I paid a premium. Then I crashed it. $2500.
I have sold at least 3 of these cars for you. I feel dirty.
Sent from my iPhone”
Someone should write a book about these mails.