Tag Archives: Apple
Macworld Keynote
A few thoughts, based on watching the keynote via QuickTime: Phil Schiller was great. He seemed to be a little nervous in his delivery, but he was interesting in a casual, friendly way. If he has a chance to do … Continue reading
iCal View menu
Here’s iCal’s View menu. What’s so confusing about it? You really need to see how it interacts with the iCal main window to understand. We’re going to be focusing on the group starting with “Hide Calendar List.” The iCal main … Continue reading
Are you sure?
My biggest pet peeve in iTunes is undoubtably how it asks you “Are you sure?” before doing anything, and always in an unhelpful way. As an example, I mentioned to my wife a Christmas album I used to love. I … Continue reading
Two strikes…
Apple’s sample code includes an annoying disclaimer at the top of each file. I can understand the need for a disclaimer, but this code takes it to an obnoxious level: every .h file or .m file you open, you can’t … Continue reading
iPhone NDA
Hooray! Apple’s iPhone developer NDA will no longer cover released software. It seemed inevitable that this NDA change would be made, but I admit I thought the change would come in January 2009. It’d be easy to overlook that this doesn’t … Continue reading
Another Apple App Store rejection
Duplicating Apple functionality? Well, not so much.
Microsoft doesn’t get it
The new Microsoft commercial starts with a John Hodgman dressalike (You can’t really call him a lookalike, but at the distance the camera is at it doesn’t matter) saying “I’m a PC and I’ve been stereotyped.” It then goes to … Continue reading
I hope he’s wrong, but it’s probably a vain hope. Some Geek In Tennessee recaps the disappointments Apple’s App Store.
September 17, 2008
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Fraser Speirs on iPhone development
Fraser Speirs is dropping out of new application development on the iPhone, and I don’t blame him: Apple’s current practice of rejecting certain applications at the final hurdle – submission to the App Store – is disastrous for investor confidence. … Continue reading
The sad case of Palm
I first started developing an application for Palm in 2000 with the Palm IIIc. I was amazed at how well-thought out the API was. A few things were missing, such as POSIX-compatible routines. ((Expecting full POSIX support on a Palm … Continue reading