Marco.org: A smartphone retrospective
great point by Marco. as usual.
This is what high-end smartphones looked like in 2007:
Smartphones were an established consumer-electronics market with devices that people thought were pretty cool, but often frustrating and with serious shortcomings and design flaws.
Then this happened:
Other manufacturers had…
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Marco.org: The iPad doesn’t need to do everything
first balanced and logical ipad review I’ve read. btw: checkout instapaper.com
Rationalizing the purchase of an iPad usually includes a few of these:
- I’ll carry it around most of the time.
- I’ll be able to replace my laptop with it.
- I’ll be able to replace my Kindle with it.
- I’ll bring it on trips instead of my laptop.
- I’ll respond to email with it.
- I’ll get work done…
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More on Apple New Developer agreement
Apple spokesperson:
“Yes, we still allow developers or other advertising companies to serve ads within their apps,”
However
The use of third-party software in Your Application to collect and send Device Data to a third party for processing or analysis is expressly prohibited
which means
An ad network such as AdMob (hint: Google) would clearly fall under the third-party category
but also the repercussions for developers are significant
“That rule change is potentially scary until it is clear what Apple is prohibiting,” said this developer of several prominent apps, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid drawing scrutiny from Apple, because his or her apps collect usage data. “Being able to … test some things in your apps [to] get an idea of how users are using the apps can be very, very useful for making the apps better and learning about what users really want and enjoy.”
You can read all the details in this wired article
