App developers would then have three sets of resolutions to support for the iPhone instead of two, and scaling from 960 x 640 to 1080 x 720 wouldn’t be anywhere near as simple as the pixel-doubling that got developers by in the early days before they were able to scale apps up from 480 x 320 resolution.
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For the third installment of “ Writers I Read,” I’m sharing my conversation with Ben Brooks, writer of The Brooks Review, a great blog about Apple, tech and other nerdy stuff. Stephen: Ben, thanks for taking some time to talk to me about what you’re doing over at brooksreview.net. “Meteoric” is the first word that comes to mind when I think about your site. In less than a year, you’ve grown it to one of the must-reads.
Be sure to check this great interview at Cult of Mac on the new Gmail client for the Mac.
Apple is betting that the allure of being tied into their incredibly efficient iTunes payment ecosystem (along with its 100 million + accounts tied to credit cards) will outweigh the downside of having to pay them a 30 percent fee. The same 30 percent fee they currently take from the thousands of app developers collectively making billions of dollars off of the App Store. And the same 30 percent fee they currently take for all other types of in-app purchases.
Low End Mac’s Dan Knight takes a look back at the MacBook Pro.
A week ago, my Verizon-powered iPhone 4 showed up at my door.
Longtime readers know that I switched to Verizon over a year ago, and carried a Motorola Droid, a Palm Pre Plus and a Razr over the last 13 months.
For me, Verizon’s coverage is better than AT&T’s. In fact, AT&T’s coverage was so poor where I spend most of my time, even the iPhone wasn’t enough to keep me on the network.
I’m quite comfortable with my nested folders. I like having a place for everything, and knowing that everything is in its place.
I like folders, don’t get me wrong.1 But unless Notational Velocity learns some new tricks, I’m not willing to use them for plain text storage.
Oh, HTC. You hurt me.
Dave Caolo, on using file names as an organizational method:
The trick is in how files are named. Ben Brooks wrote about this today. I like his method, though I’ve adopted a simpler syntax. For example, a note meant for 52 Tiger (be it a post idea, reference note, etc.) starts with “52tiger.” The note that became this post was “52tiger text post.” This keeps things in alphabetical order and acts as a simple categorization for the apps that don’t support tags.
This is one of the main reasons I sold my tablet.
Like many of our customers and others around the world, we were disturbed and deeply saddened to learn that factory workers were taking their own lives at the Shenzhen facility of Foxconn.
Recognizing that we would need additional expertise to help prevent further tragedies, we launched an international search for the most knowledgeable suicide prevention specialists—particularly those with experience in China— and asked them to advise Apple and Foxconn.