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Apple gets it seriously wrong with this email. I very nearly dismissed it as spam without reading.
What it should have said:
Apple developer program | iOS developer application. Action required.
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A desktop app store? Why has no-one thought of that before!? Well done Apple, always fucking innovating.
btw, if you decide that all apps should be installed via the Mac App Store I won’t Jailbreak. I’ll install another OS
I’ve been looking at Plug computers trying to find a suitable machine to run
USB RFID Scanner, USB Mini LED display, Arduino
It will also have to run the odd Python script to power the different peripherals but nothing too major. But it has to have a low power consumption, quiet (passive cooling) and small. Ideally it would also have built in Wifi and bluetooth. I was going to get a GuruPlug, but they have horrible over-heating issues
Then I remembered I had a small, attractive, silent machine just sitting doing nothing. My previous generation Apple TV. So I’m going down the rabbit hole and going to try and install Linux on it. Wish me luck
And a touch screen with no tactile feedback at all is going to be easy to navigate? Without stopping to look? I don’t think they thought this through…
I bought one of the original Apple TVs, and I wasn’t too impressed. I don’t quite remember what hard-drive size it has but I think I paid ~£300 for it. Quite a drop in price with the new version launching at £99!
At first I adored it, well that’s not quite true. After a lot of swearing and cursing and hair pulling I had it patched, and then I loved it. But it was so difficult to transfer files onto. sFTP transfer over Wifi was so fucking slow I would have to crawl around behind the TV so I could plug in an Ethernet cable. That sucked. I couldn’t run wTorrent directly on the ATV as it was so under-powered. Oh and good luck getting the (factory disabled) USB port to work so you can use an external drive!
So does this mean I’m not getting the new Apple TV? Err, well no. I’m actually really tempted, the idea of streaming everything suits me. But it hinges on one thing, what formats will it stream? I don’t want to convert all my video files to some Apple format to stream them from my Notebook.
Here’s hoping it’s the VLC of streaming boxes!
So I went and read the Tech Specs. I am now firmly in the meh camp. Not a “No” but I need to look into how difficult/annoying it would be to convert my current collection or even better convert on-the-fly while streaming.
H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
I have 3 Apple devices I use daily. My MacBook Pro, iPhone & iPad. I like the idea of having them all in sync but is a Mobile Me account worth it? All the features mentioned I already have via normal sync, ok my contacts might not update in realtime between all devices, but they change so infrequently this is not a hassle.
I use Gmail for all my email, so that is in sync automatically. And I don’t use the calendar at all, I prefer Things and Evernote for organising my life.
So what benefit does it provide me? The find me phone feature is a nice touch, as is the remote wipe. But other than that what is the best benefit of Mobile Me? What 1 feature makes it worth it for you?
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I constantly use Google as a spell-checker. Their ‘did you mean’ is great for quickly getting the correct spelling of words (although sometimes if a word has a very common misspelling it can actually recommend the incorrect spelling). But I hate having to be online and waiting for a page to load just to check a spelling.
Little did I know I’d had one all along. The built in dictionary which comes with OS X has ‘Did you mean’ functionality. Huzzah! I had always vaguely known that there was a built in dictionary, but not the fuzzy search capabilities. Maybe my search frequency might drop a bit now.
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Apple’s MobileMe Signup is badly broken. I can paste text into every field except for the password fields. So I now I have to meticulously type the 30 character, randomly generated password from 1password into their signup form, twice. FUCKING TWICE!!
Or I could just enter some short, easy to type but also easy to guess, password. I wonder which option most people will pick? Way to increase your user’s security Assholes Apple.
Good luck separating the signal from the noise in the Android store after this launches to general public. This might be the only thing to EVER make me thankful for Apple’s approval process.
Although it does remind me of something?
I’m getting an iPad. Thank you @kwwika!
If developing for Apple mobile devices do you need multiple devices for testing?
Because it could get really fucking expensive. Or is emulation good enough?
Sounds like someone on Apple’s (or maybe AT&T’s) development team needs to Google race conditions.
