BGR has learned from a trusted source that Apple is planning to demonstrate a brand new version of the Apple TV operating system next week at WWDC. This new OS is said to be much more feature-complete than the current OS that runs on the Apple TV, and is apparently the one that Apple’s upcoming HDTV will run.
Lovely.
Now, screens are changing not just in size, but also in pixel density. In other words: we do not just need responsive layouts, we also need responsive typefaces. To test that assumption, iA has created its new website with responsive typography and a custom-built responsive typeface.
The site is clear and crisp on my iPhone’s retina display.
Why build a new messaging product when the basic functionality of email combined with a little effort from the user can achieve the same result?
Everyone is trying to tackle the problem of private group communication. Like, Google, Glassboard, Groupme, Life360, and I’ll even add Path to this list.
How necessary are they? Is email’s interface so broken that we need new ones, that make it ‘easier’ to manage how we share messages and content with different groups in our life?
Well, I wish I disagreed.
MG Siegler notes that Facebook’s new app, Camera, logs you in if you have the Facebook app installed (using this Keychain “hack”).
That’s clever. Anything that removes yet another login prompt is awesome.
The Find My Friends app also does something clever.
It’s clear that for logins, treating mobile apps like websites is the wrong approach. I’m glad developers are rethinking the process.
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The DuckDuckGo app is terrible so I’m replacing it and trying Google’s again. Looks and feels great, so far.
Launched Monday as an iPhone app, SpokenLayer takes text articles online and either gives them to a human to read and record, or it uses text-to-speech synthesis to meet instant demand in a matter of seconds.
I’ve wanted this. “Siri, read me this article.”
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They’re testing two approaches:
The first new approach will offer multi-tier usage allowances that incrementally increase usage allotments for each tier of high-speed data service from the current threshold. Thus, we’d start with a 300 GB usage allotment for our Internet Essentials, Economy, and Performance Tiers, and then we would have increasing data allotments for each successive tier of high speed data service (e.g., Blast and Extreme). The very few customers who use more data at each tier can buy additional gigabytes in increments/blocks (e.g., $10 for 50 GB).
The second new approach will increase our data usage thresholds for all tiers to 300 GB per month and also offer additional gigabytes in increments/blocks (e.g., $10 per 50 GB).
Seems fair to me. I don’t feel like I’m being ripped-off, unlike when phone carriers make these kinds of changes.
The WSJ confirms at least a 4 inch screen on the next iPhone.
But:
The move suggests that the Cupertino, Calif.-based company is trying to make its popular smartphone more appealing amid intensifying competition from rival Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea. Samsung, which became the world’s biggest cell phone maker in the first quarter, recently unveiled its new flagship smartphone with a 4.8-inch display, one of the largest smartphone screens.
If the screen-size increases but the iPhone’s size does not, I wouldn’t say Apple is responding to “intensifying competition”.
In designing the forum interface, we chose to go with a single unified back button (see right). That button serves as both a browser back button as well as the App’s own back button. While it does buck the tradition of giving the user a second Browser-specific back button at the bottom of the screen, it avoids another common issue — where you accidentally hit the App back button destroying your entire browsing session history.
Regardless, here’s the solution to get back to the App quickly from deep in the forums:
1) Press and hold the Back button or
2) Triple tap the Back button
I wish all apps started doing this. I’ve lost my browsing window so many times trying to go back one page in history but instead going back one level in the app. It’s a tricky problem but I prefer their solution.
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Sources describe the new Maps app as a forthcoming tent-pole feature of iOS that will, in the words of one, “blow your head off.”
Uncharacteristic big leak on this, no?
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