From the desk of

Monat: August 2009

  • An iPhone API I’d like to see

    Just tal­king about the iPho­ne, the­re is an API that I’d like to see and I’m sure many appli­ca­ti­ons would bene­fit from: A down­load mana­ger.  I ima­gi­ne that an app could regis­ter to pull the con­tent of a spe­ci­fic URL or the ans­wer from a Web Ser­vice at a spe­ci­fied time or at spe­ci­fied inter­vals,…

  • Some thoughts on Apple’s answer to the FCC

    Rea­ding Apple’s public ans­wer to the FCC’s ques­ti­ons, I can­not but noti­ce a few very spe­ci­fi­cal­ly worded parts of the ans­wer that I’d like to highlight. The App Store pro­vi­des a fric­tion­less dis­tri­bu­ti­on net­work that levels the play­ing field for indi­vi­du­al and lar­ge deve­lo­pers of mobi­le appli­ca­ti­ons. We pro­vi­de every deve­lo­per with the same soft­ware…

  • epaper and touch?

    Would the epa­per dis­plays the modern ebook rea­ders use, com­bi­ned with a touch inter­face work as a gra­phics tablet that shows your sketches?

  • Apple Tablet

    So let’s assu­me for a moment that Apple is real­ly going to to a Tablet. Why should they me model­ling it on the iPho­ne, and not the Mac? If it’s going to be with a 10″ or 12″ dis­play and have at least a half­way decent pro­ces­sor, I think the natu­ral choice would be to…