Monthly Archives: April 2010
Steve Jobs’ Thoughts On Flash
Adobe recently announced that it has stopped working on Flash for iPhone, which caused some uproar among iPhone users.
Steve Jobs has posted an open letter on Apple’s website offering his “Thoughts on Flash”. It is a must-read to find out the reason for not allowing Flash on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Steve Jobs has provided six reasons for not allowing Flash on its iPhone OS devices.
Open Standards:
Steve Jobs points out that Adobe Flash is proprietary. He admits that iPhone OS is proprietary but argues that web standards should be open giving examples of HTML5, CSS and JavaScript etc. He has also given an example of how Apple had started the open source project and created WebKit, an open-source HTML5 rendering engine that is the heart of the Safari web browser, which is widely used in almost every smartphone web browser.
The Full Web:
Steve Jobs points out that Adobe’s claim that iPhone OS devices
Spirit Jailbreak for iPhone and iPad Delayed.
This will erupt lots of cries and disappointment but this was important to post as I know many of you have been really looking forward to it. The creator of Spirit has posted an update, “now” confirming that he is not going to release his jailbreak tool on Friday (tomorrow). Moreover, he has also deleted his “update” where he said that it was coming this Friday.
therefore, it is probably better not to release on Friday. (ugh, drama)
23 minutes ago via webhttp://bit.ly/xNdBr <- old article, but I didn’t realize just how quickly updates can be made available.
29 minutes ago via web
The decision was made after he read
Apple previews icon of iPhone video chat app? Probably not.
On their Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 page, Apple has posted a series of icons, one of which looks like it could be the new icon for the rumored iChat video conferencing app that will be used to take advantage of the 4G iPhone’s front facing camera.
As you can see from the series of twelve icons above, only four of them are definitively app icons (Maps, Calendar, Photos, and Messages), four are icons for new iPhone OS 4.0 services or features (multitasking, iAd, Game Center, and Enterprise), while the last known three are
AT&T: iPhone Tethering Not Coming Anytime Soon
Is AT&T a better network today than it was a year earlier?
Executives at Ma Bell would definitely say so. The company is noted to have been working on improving the network infrastructure in several high iPhone density areas in the past few months. The results have been positive with many of our readers noticing fewer dropped calls and better reliability on an average.
Despite the improvements seen in AT&T’s network, the company is yet to allow iPhone tethering to their customers. The feature, that was introduced in iPhone OS 3.0, allows users to connect their iPhone as a wireless internet modem to surf the internet on other devices like the laptop. AT&T has noted that iPhone tethering may lead to a terrific rise in network data usage that could potentially cripple the company’s wireless infrastructure. This is despite promises made by AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega in November 2008 that tethering on iPhone shall be made available “soon“.
Apparently, AT&T users are
‘Spirit’ Jailbreak For iPhone OS 3.1.3 And iPhone OS 3.2 Might Be Released Tomorrow
The Spirit jailbreaking tool for iPhone OS 3.1.3 for iPhone and iPod Touch and iPhone OS 3.2 for iPad is coming soon and might be released as early as tomorrow (April 30).
Comex, the developer of the popular untethered jailbreaking software solution has announced that the much awaited tool shall be released on Friday. The announcement comes courtesy a Twitter conversation between Comex and an iPhone user: