Tag: iphone

iPad habit creeping in to MacBook

Apple's mobile devices

No matter how hard you expect it to happen, those keys on that MacBook’s keyboard won’t ever flip and reveal additional characters. Oh, and there’s no .?123 key on the MacBook to tap and flip the keyboard. Maybe in the future when Apple introduces context aware touch-enabled keyboard for its Macs as per their patent, but not now, not yet, and definitely not on this MacBook you’re typing on.

This is something I have to remind myself almost daily since May. The time spent typing on the iPad has definitely taken over my muscle memory on using the MacBook and its traditional (I’m trying to avoid describing it as quaint) keyboard.

Speaking of additional characters, I wish Apple would incorporate special characters and symbols into the iOS keyboards. All they have to do is make it an additional keyboard option that can be activated by tapping the globe icon.

More than a year ago I got so used to double tapping the space bar to end a sentence when typing on the iPhone, I started doing it on the MacBook.

The Man Who Makes Your iPhone

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Business Week interviews Foxconn’s CEO. A fascinating look into the truly-massive operations involved in making an iPhone.

When Apple’s iPhone 4 was nearing production, Foxconn and Apple discovered that the metal frame was so specialized that it could be made only by an expensive, low-volume machine usually reserved for prototypes. Apple’s designers wouldn’t budge on their specs, so Gou ordered more than 1,000 of the $20,000 machines from Tokyo-based Fanuc. Most companies have just one.

The Man Who Makes Your iPhone

Designing iOS app icon

Designing iOS app icon

Update on Homescreen.me

I love what these guys do and it looks like they have plenty of things coming up that will make homescreen.me a much better website/vanity board 😉

Update on Homescreen.me

Music videos shot on iPhones

I’m collecting clips of music videos that were shot on iPhones as I discover them across YouTube. I’m accepting submissions of iPhone video clips that may be noteworthy, so if you know any that’s not yet listed, shout me out and pass me the link on my YouTube account or via Twitter @aulia

Music videos shot on iPhones

No iPod touch on homescreen.me

I just realized @homescreen doesn’t have an iPod touch section. Sure you can lump it with the iPhone but what a way to alienate half of iOS device owners. I should’ve noticed it on day one. Funny how I thought splitting up iPhone and iPhone 4 was odd but totally missed out on the iPod touch omission.

Apple takes 48% of smartphone industry profits

Apple may be shipping less than 5 percent of the world’s mobile phones and “only” 14 percent of worldwide smartphones but according to a research by Asymco, it managed to grab almost half of the entire industry’s profit share.

While Android fans are cheering the massive rise of their platform through multiple vendors and models, Apple quietly moves towards enlarging its bank account with what is essentially one phone.

HTC isn’t included since their numbers aren’t as comprehensively available as the other manufacturers’. 

Market share vs profit. Pick one.

Apple takes 48% of smartphone industry profits

Hey look at my homescreens!

So I signed up to the brand spankin’ new homescreen.me from the guys behind Smoking Apples and you can see how I arranged the home screens on my iOS devices. The site draws inspiration from firstand20.com but it’s for everyone (who has an invitation).

You can upload a single shot of each of your iPhone, iPhone 4, and iPad home screens but no more. I suppose one reason the iPhone 4 gets its own entry because of its higher resolution display but other than that, I’m not sure why it does. I hope the older iPhones don’t get all upset and cry about it because Preshit and Milind are playing favorites to the new kid.

I expect a gallery is on the way to make it easier to browse through people’s home screens. Somehow I see this developing into something like Flickr for, well, home screens. Would be better if we can submit them directly instead of having to switch to the computer and upload from there, but for a start, it’s neat.

Speaking of which, someone should come up with a collective name for these iOS devices.

Hey look at my homescreens!

It turns out a few days ago Adobe updated its Photoshop.com Mobile app for iOS and renamed it as Photoshop Express, which made a lot more sense and a lot less mouthful.

Many of you might not know this but Adobe used to run a web project called Photoshop Express about two years ago on the domain photoshop.com. It was designed to be a free and light photo editing web app. They’ve since launched it properly and added links to other services such as Flickr and Facebook but dropped the Express name.

For whatever reason, they’ve now repurposed the name for the iOS app and added iPad compatibility. While the app itself is pretty neat for a light editing app, it’s kind of stupid how you can only launch it in portrait orientation. If you launch the app on the iPad while holding it horizontally, the app will quit and hand over whatever file it was going to open to a random app.

WSJ: Jobs lost confidence in Papermaster months ago

According to a report by Engadget, the Wall Street Journal revealed that former iPhone chief Mark Papermaster never settled on his job at Apple and had difficulties fitting in with the expectations of being an Apple Senior VP.

That confirms my earlier suspicion that there was something much larger behind his departure than simply as a scapegoat, evidenced by how much of iPhone 4 is actually Bob Mansfield’s work and his absence from the iPhone 4 video as well as the press conference.

WSJ: Jobs lost confidence in Papermaster months ago