Fingerprints

I get the feeling that the gray rings are significant. — Craig Hockenberry (@chockenberry) September 3, 2013 It looks like my hunch about the iPhone invite was right: new phones are likely to have “silver rings” that are fingerprint sensors embedded into the home button. So what does this mean? Most people assume that it’s […]

Cheap as in Computing

There’s a good case for an iPhone that costs less. But with this lower cost, developers fear that device specifications will suffer: If Apple really wants to compete with Android in the cheap device market, they’re gonna need to start selling iPhones with iOS 4 again. — Nick Arnott (@noir) August 14, 2013 As someone […]

AMBER Alert Usability

If you live in the State of California, you got an AMBER Alert last night just before 11 PM. If you have an iOS device, you saw something like this on your lock screen: Or like this in Notification Center: And if you’re like most people, you had no idea what it meant. Considering it’s […]

App Updates for iOS 7

Like many of my fellow developers, I am in the middle of an update of an app for iOS 7. As you’d expect, it’s a lot more work than previous versions of iOS. But results are stunning: both David Lanham and I have commented that our shipping version was “feeling old and clunky.” While cranking […]

The Origin of Tweet

Last week, one of my colleagues informed me that the word “tweet” was now included in the Oxford English Dictionary (see “Quiet announcement” at the end of the page.) The noun and verb tweet (in the social-networking sense) has just been added to the OED. This breaks at least one OED rule, namely that a […]