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Strange, it doesn't recognize my Apple ID at all. It knows the one I use for iTunes but when I try to use my developer ID it says the login doesn't even exist. It's a paid account and it works fine in the developer portal. (I would ask for help in the developer forums but I can't login to those either. It just keeps redirecting me to the splash page.)
The team involved really spent the time to make the web versions of these apps have an aesthetic unified with the iOS and Mac versions. As someone who does web stuff day in, day out... the difference between working and polished is huge. Apple has pulled out all the stops to make these polished apps. Kudos to them.
They don't preload the images for the three iWork apps. Any, any small hint of web loading breaks the 'app feeling'.
The team involved really spent the time to make the web versions of these apps have an aesthetic unified with the iOS and Mac versions. As someone who does web stuff day in, day out... the difference between working and polished is huge. Apple has pulled out all the stops to make these polished apps. Kudos to them.
They don't preload the images for the three iWork apps. Any, any small hint of web loading breaks the 'app feeling'.
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While many people on hacker news might roll their eyes at the UI design, many novice users seem to like these interfaces- it signifies to novice users that they can stop keeping a paper address book and paper calendar and move to the using their iPad and the web, something they might have previously only thought business or techy types did. Additionally, I don't think the functionality of these apps suffers at all fr…
John Siracusa makes the case against these kinds of UIs well in his Lion review: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.a...
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John Siracusa makes the case against these kinds of UIs well in his Lion review: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.a...
But he is not quite as outraged and his points are a lot more subtle than your rant.
Not everyone with an Apple ID can log in, only paying developers. who knows which mysterious rules Apple uses to let people in. Here are some screenshots: http://9to5mac.com/2011/08/01/icloud-com-opens-up-for-develo... http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/01/apple-icloud-dot-com-web-ap... All three apps (Mail, Contacts, Calendar) are very feature rich, responsive and quite shiny. At least Calendar uses local storage (but wi…
Not everyone with an Apple ID can log in, only paying developers. I have a free developer account and was able to log in. I don't have a @me.com address so I couldn't check Mail, but the rest worked.
I tried enrolling in the safari dev program, but it returned an error at (probably) the last step: http://gyazo.com/532d0284618b6da84043f2acbfc9184a.png
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They don't preload the images for the three iWork apps. Any, any small hint of web loading breaks the 'app feeling'.
I'm guessing those are placeholders for full fledged web-versions of the iWork suite, and hence they figured it's too much effort to code a preloading mechanism for those images.
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Curious. I edited my comment.
For me: Access to technical resources such as pre-release software and associated documentation, and information related to distributing iOS or Mac apps on the App Store are benefits offered to Apple Developer Program members. Either the Apple ID and password you entered is not associated with an Apple Developer Program, or the Program that you are enrolled in does not have access to this resource.
With a developer account, and old-school non-email login, it will not accept my password. It says it is incorrect.
I change it. Try it again. Same result. Changed it, tried all three passwords, still says the password is wrong.
So I get the skeuomorphic UIs, complete with bits of torn paper at the top of the calendar pad and all, without even the justification of a touchscreen? No, thanks. Are they going to put a scent generator in my next Mac so my trash starts to stink if I don't empty it?
