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The “One More Thing”

iPhone 4 wasn’t much of a surprise to anyone paying attention. I think this FaceTime mobile videochat is the biggest news (of course his “one more thing”) — it has vast implications for mobile communications of all sorts (and the notion of telepresence, in general). Will consumers fall for FaceTime? That’s the [...]

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What about Ubiquitous Computing?
Yesterday, Pope Steven P. Jobs convened his disciples to unveil the latest creation of his orthodoxy. In surveying the mainstream, industry and social media response, we have observed the following archetypal reactions to the announcement as negative. We offer these playful animal names to stretch the archetype metaphor as far as it [...]

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Will iPhone OS 3.0 make Weather location-aware?
Why haven’t people complained about this?
Does this imply Weather might have been built on a yet-to-be announced Dashcode iPhone workflow? Dashboard Widgets as iPhone Apps.
Seems like the natural course of mobile ecosystem evolution. Web Standards as native app dev to expand the developer market. Learning Cocoa Touch is [...]

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Aurora Feint: The Beginning
by Danielle Cassley and Jason Citron
game type: Block puzzle role-playing game hybrid (MMo)
game platform: for iPhone and iPod Touch OS 2.0, free on iTunes App Store
Game Brief
A superb 10-week opus by 22 year old designers Danielle Cassley and Jason Citron, Aurora Feint is, indeed, a beginning. Their lush fantasy graphics situate you [...]

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Open Source Native App for WordPress
Although we began work last year on Safari based WordPress Theme and Plugin suite that had potential to offer the untethered convenience of mobile blogging, we were beat to the punch by Automattic/Effigent. Built on the iPhone SDK as a native Cocoa Touch app makes a robust touch UI crisp [...]

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