iOS 8 (1 Viewer)

[Clinton McClure]

I don't care about multi tasking on the iOS level. That's why I have a MBP. I am concerned about what it may do to battery life.

 

[Clinton McClure]

I don't care about multi tasking on the iOS level. That's why I have a MBP. I am concerned about what it may do to battery life.

 

[Sam Posten]

Doing the math on the rumored bigger iPhone resolution:
http://9to5mac.com/2014/05/14/likely-iphone-6-with-sharper-larger-1704-x-960-resolution-screen-in-testing/

From a developer’s perspective, the current iPhone 5/5s/5c display has a resolution of 568 x 320, up from 480 x 320 in the original iPhone. However, there are actually twice as many pixels in each direction to create a sharper image. In other words, an iPhone 5s with a non-Retina (or “1X”) display would have an actual resolution of 568 x 320 (which is the 1136 x 640 resolution divided by 2). We’ll call this the “base resolution” of the iPhone 5/5s/5c.
3X mode:
Fast forward to 2014, and Apple is preparing to make another significant screen adjustment to the iPhone. Instead of retaining the current resolution, sources familiar with the testing of at least one next-generation iPhone model say that Apple plans to scale the next iPhone display with a pixel-tripling (3X) mode.

 

[DaveF]

I've argued that Apple had two basic choices: bigger pixels (same count) or more pixels (more count). Or some combination of both ... Hand waving...no idea what that would be...Apple might be doing that middle ground: increasing actual pixel count by 50% while keeping the logical pixel the same with a new 3x scaling (150% relative to the current 5/5S). I didn't expect that. I haven't wrapped my head around it yet. As a 40-something, starting to lose my visual accommodation, I'm cautiously enthused. But I don't know it's the best solution for a bigger phone. We may know more after WWDC.

 

[Sam Posten]

Doubtful. I suspect WWDC is going to be all iOS8, Mavericks v2 (Yosemite?) and new form factor Macbook. With an August / September special event for phones pads and maybe more.

 

[Sam Posten]

If you want insight into the pain weighing on Devs right now I couldn't point to a better list than this:http://nikf.org/blog/the-state-of-the-ecosystemToo good to even pull a sound bite from

 

[DaveF]

Interesting essay. It was so long and ranging, I'm not sure what to say about it. It adds to the perception that:
* No one understands photo stream
* No one understands iCloud / syncing
* Sandboxing is still really hard on the Mac and developers struggle with it
* Everyone's still waiting to see if/how sandboxing of files and cross-app sharing of files gets worked out for both iOS and OS X

 

[Sam Posten]

Financial Times is reporting that Home Automation will be a big play in WWDC next monday:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/26/5751816/apple-developing-home-automation-features-for-iphone-report
http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/26/apple-said-to-be-prepping-smart-home-software-platform-for-wwdc-reveal/

Starts to make sense why Google bought Nest. All of these companies finally taking it seriously, drinking the milkshake of Microsoft who laid out a vision for this as far back as Bill Gates' Road Ahead and earlier with things like X-10...

 

[Sam Posten]

Yay! Streams for everyone on Monday!
http://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2014/

 

[Sam Posten]

Looks like Yosemite for 10.10http://instagram.com/p/ot3oIYrkS5/

 

[DaveF]

I look forward to spending tomorrow evening catching up on all the apple news!

 

[Sam Posten]

Good video of unannounced new features:
http://9to5mac.com/2014/06/03/top-10-hidden-features-of-ios-8-video/

Also: Yay for not pushing multitasking! We'll see when the new iPads come out if that changes.

 

[DaveF]

Just read that WebKit is getting access to the optimized JavaScript interpreter than Safari currently only has. This will be a big deal for all the apps with their own webviwers! This will feed up RSS apps, to say the least.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

I am intrigued by what I saw in the iOS 8 demos.

...not that there is anything significant (within my interests) that
Android doesn't already have.

...that is, except the hand-off/continuity/phone to Mac features.

That, along with the 5.5 iPhone hardware, may sway me to return
to the iPhone brand.

I just don't want to be locked into the iOS environment. There is a
report this morning that hackers are very confident of an iOS 8 jailbreak.

 

[Sam Posten]

I'll go on record saying I don't think you are gonna see a 5.5. The 4.7 rumor seems too prevalent with actual replacement parts leaks but the 5.5 seems like a pipe dream based on internal tests only, for this year anyway.

 

[Sam Posten]

I know there is excitement and expectations for improved multitasking coming in future iOS revs but please don't get any expectations about how multitasking will work in future iOS devices based on this:http://9to5mac.com/2014/06/11/heres-the-ipad-split-screen-app-mode-apple-is-working-on-in-ios-8-video/It looks terrible because it's still not even announced yet.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

I'll go on record saying I don't think you are gonna see a 5.5. The 4.7 rumor seems too prevalent with actual replacement parts leaks but the 5.5 seems like a pipe dream based on internal tests only, for this year anyway.

Don't know, Sam....

Speculation is heating up. I am with the speculators...

http://www.cultofmac.com/283612/apples-iphablet-might-cost-extra-100/

 

[Sam Posten]

This is exactly what we wanted:http://www.imore.com/sharing-ios-8-explained

 

[Sam Posten]

huge welcome changes.http://lmjabreu.com/post/ios-8-privacy-updates/

 

[DaveF]

Family sharing can't get here soon enough.

(My wife bought Ticket to Ride. We both have it on our iPads and play locally. She bought the in-app Europe expansion. I can't download it nor can I buy. I'm willing to pay an additional $5 because I want to play the game. iTunes won't take my money unless I first delete and buy my own copy of TTR. I'll just wait until September to play TTR Europe.)