Andrew S. Allen, the interaction designer behind Paper, in an interview with Joost van der Ree:
We made the tools smarter so you don’t have to have settings. Like our writing tool, you don’t have to adjust it, it makes your handwriting look good. It’s funny how many responses we’ve got from people who haven’t sketched in 15 years and it makes them feel like they can draw. To me that’s the promise of technology used right, when you enable people to really do things that they’re proud of.
As a business, Apple has a right to fear that moving the assembly work from China to the United States will entail raising labor costs so high as to make the company less competitive and profitable. But for it to say that it has no obligation to help solve America’s problems is completely unacceptable.
I really don’t know what to think about this article.
The beauty of it being cross platform to me is situations like this. Because Instagram is becoming the ubiquitous camera app, it’s a great point of comparison. (It’s something we would have used Flickr for in the past, but no one seems to use Flickr anymore — at least not in the same way.) As a result, we can see how much better an iPhone camera is than a top Android camera. A lot.
Android fragmentation rears its head once again with Instagram on Android, forcing the company to leave out features it could have otherwise shipped in order to support the wide array of OS versions and hardware out there. I know people like to pretend this isn’t a problem, but it is.
Instagram for Android is a great example of an iOS developer making a great translation of their app that manages to be similar on both platforms, while retaining a singular theme between them. If you’re an Android user that has been waiting, this is a faithful and mostly whole Instagram experience, enjoy.
Apple is reportedly instituting mandatory weekend hours for some full-time employees and increasing the mandatory minimum hours for part-time employees. Under the new rumored rules, Friday will join Saturday and Sunday to become a weekend day. All full-time Family Room, Red Zone Specialists, Creatives and Geniuses may have to work two out of every three weekend days. Part-timers may have to work 24 hours a week, up from 16 hours. These new rules will supposedly go into effect on April 15.
There are a few troubling technical aspects of the new iPad that give me pause about the post-Jobs Apple.
I’ll skip the obligatory praise of the new iPad’s Retina display. And for those readers who want to call me a whiner, idiot, or Apple hater, go ahead, take your best shot.
Ok, I’m happy to oblige.
That said, the design decisions that led to this are a little worrisome and break – in my opinion – one of Steve Jobs’ cardinal rules: devices should get thinner and lighter, not bigger and heavier, as another review pointed out. Stay on this current trajectory and iPads become merely a better doorstop.
Mac OS X 10.6.9 might be right around the corner and with it comes rumored functionality to restore Calendar, Contact, and Bookmark syncing to Snow Leopard. Until that time comes use the instructions above to restore the synchronization capabilities lost on older Macs, and stubborn Mac users like myself, who were forced to upgrade to iCloud but refuse to install Mac OS X Lion.
Genius work here done by Brand.
This doesn’t surprise me at all. I try using it in apps like Mail all the time. I’d love to see it get implemented at the system level on iOS.
via The Loop
Poornima Gupta and Edwin Chan for Reuters:
Apple Inc and its main contract manufacturing Foxconn agreed to tackle violations of conditions among the 1.2 million workers assembling iPhones and iPads in a landmark decision that could change the way Western companies do business in China.
Good for Apple.
Update notes include:
Improves overall stability
Addresses an issue that could cause iPhoto to quit unexpectedly on systems with multiple user accounts
All in all, I’m impressed with iPhoto on the iPad. It’s a great mobile solution for editing pictures, and I have no doubt that any photographer worth his salt could churn out quality images without running to his computer. But as big of a leap forward as iPhoto for iOS is, and as enticing as its portability can be, it doesn’t make a good enough argument for ditching that desktop altogether. Not yet.