iPhone OS "multitasking"

→ 18 June 2010. Tags: iphone, programming, apple

So apparently iPhone OS 4 (or iOS, as it’s now awkwardly named), still has no way to sync data in the background. “Multitasking done right” indeed.

To be clear, that means that for every application that syncs data with the web, you must explicitly open it (and maybe tap some buttons) to initiate a sync. If you have a third-party mail client, an RSS reader, a todo list and instapaper, that’s quite a lot of tedium to go through every time you want to sync data. Heaven forbid you have more than a handful of apps that might need to talk to the internet without your explicit direction.

Get over your ego, Apple, and just copy android properly next time.

The metaphysical angle against apple's new developer agreement clause

→ 10 April 2010. Tags: apple

A really nerdy joke, but also a perfectly arguable stance within the language of the agreement. I love it.

Personally, I can’t believe the nerve of Apple these days. It’ll be interesting to see what fallout (or depressing lack thereof) comes from their ever-increasing paranoia.

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PastryKit

→ 18 December 2009. Tags: apple

John Gruber discusses PastryKit, Apple’s fancy webkit library for making surprisingly native-looking apps in the MobileSafari browser. I'm uneasy:

Everything related to scrolling is implemented within the app itself, in JavaScript.

Ugh… Is that sort of thing really what we want to encourage in app development? For particularly well-thought out examples, like picasa’s, it makes some sense. But for a mobile device, with limited resources, handling low-level UI events in Javascipt? Come on…

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