Those static images comparing the actual early beta release of Apple’s iOS 7 compared to the 2+ years old Windows Phone User Interface are a little scary … but I’m sure that the actual (and final) release in live mode will be a different story.
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In many ways, Apple’s keynote … had perfectly personified its culture and personality. In doing so, they have succeeded in not only creating the future, they’ve succeeded in becoming clearer at what they do, and who they are.
To paraphrase Ive, design is more than how it looks — it’s how everything works and plays together.
Andric Tham ☞ Surf Pop: Apple’s Stylistic Return to California
Jony Ive Redesigns Things
Jony Ive Redesigns Things is a funny Tumblr hosted gallery of humoristic takes on the new Apple’ iOS UI/UX paradigms
Apple has set fire to iOS. Everything’s in flux. Those with the least to lose have the most to gain, because this fall, hundreds of millions of people will start demanding apps for a platform with thousands of old, stale players and not many new, nimble alternatives. If you want to enter a category that’s crowded on iOS 6, and you’re one of the few that exclusively targets iOS 7, your app can look better, work better, and be faster and cheaper to develop than most competing apps.
Marco Arment ☞ Fertile Ground
I’m not a developer, but I agree with Marco. The 3d and parallax effects seen in the demo looks really promising to me…
This is a pretty big deal, as it is probably the first step towards PCIe storage in a mainstream consumer device that we’ve seen. I’m still awaiting official confirmation as to whether or not this is an M.2 based solution or a proprietary connector. Update: It’s a custom Apple design, not M.2. Since there’s no PCIe routed off of the CPU in Haswell ULT, these 2 lanes come from the on-package PCH.
AnandTech ☞ 2013 MacBook Air: PCIe SSD and Haswell ULT Inside
getting back login credentials after an iTunes backup restore
While discussing with some ‘friends’ over App.net I have read that many gets all their passwords back with an iTunes backup. Some cannot achieve that with ‘cabled’ backup but only with iCloud one.
Personally I’m into wired iTunes backup – for a number of reasons – and having recently restored a 32GB iPhone 5 from a backup of my previous “old” 16GB one I can say that I had to insert again MANUALLY both usernames and passwords for the following apps:
- Dropbox
- Tumblr
- WordPress
- Google+
- Netbot (only the password)
- Foursquare
- Felix
- Riposte
- Twiggy
- Waze
- Readability
- Reeder (only the password)
- Whisper
Also I had to re-authorize apps like Day One and iaWriter to take advantage of Dropbox’ sync.
What’s your experience with this aspect of living with iOS ???
Apple Is Using Sass, And They’re Doing It Wrong
☞ Apple Is Using Sass, And They’re Doing It Wrong
from Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent, a french front-end developer, a nice article on Apple’s not so smart usage of the SASS tecniques in their latest web Store update.
Camino reaches it’s EOL
The sad, but predictable, news came yesterday evening (for me here in Italy) in this short announcement on the Camino developers’ blog…
On my old PowerBook Camino is still my default browser … and probably will be until it’s end.
