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Like Gruber said on The Talk Show recently (and I'll probably be downvoted given how unpopular he is here): Apple gets people to upgrade their phones by making them love their current one; Android makers get people to upgrade their phones by making them hate their current one.
Seems like the strategy continues to holds true here...
Aside of the fact that the app displayed an error message at first launch ("Notification error" - "no valid 'aps-environment' entitlement string found for application" - how did this pass review?), it a) doesn't support multiple accounts, b) is very laggy to use when you compare this to, say, the android version and c) feels like another one of these "let's embed the website above a little native toolbar"-apps Becaus…
> Because Safari gets to JIT-compile JavaScript and UIWebView embedded into apps can't I'm not sure this is still the case in iOS5.
Having a JIT requires you to execute writable memory which is a privilege given on a per-process level. So for an embedded webview to be able to do it, your app would need it, but third party apps are never allowed this.
It's possible that they changed UIWebView to spawn a background process for the actual rendering, but I guess we would have heard about that (we haven't we only heard about homescreen links now being JITed)
Interesting how they decided to copy the sliding panels from Facebook for iPhone. I wonder if it will become a standard on iOS.
I've overheard lots of discussion from iOS developers lately on this becoming a new trend. As certain apps increase in complexity the old Facebook home screen style becomes much less scalable, and this new method seems to be the answer. My guess is we'll see at least another half dozen popular apps take on this style as well.
Apparently not available in Germany. The AppStore search function only finds third party apps and the AppStore link from the blog post opens the AppStore and shows the unhelpful error message "Your request could not be completed".
If they on the other hand can't release it here because of the name GMail, which Google had some legal trouble with here in Germany, it would be a big letdown and a kind of poor decision by Google.
I don't see it in the app store, unfortunately. Edit: for me, the only way to get it is to download in iTunes and then sync
Aside of the fact that the app displayed an error message at first launch ("Notification error" - "no valid 'aps-environment' entitlement string found for application" - how did this pass review?), it a) doesn't support multiple accounts, b) is very laggy to use when you compare this to, say, the android version and c) feels like another one of these "let's embed the website above a little native toolbar"-apps Becaus…
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2452086/no-valid-aps-envi...
Other than better searching, and different management I don't know why this would be better.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've overheard lots of discussion from iOS developers lately on this becoming a new trend. As certain apps increase in complexity the old Facebook home screen style becomes much less scalable, and this new method seems to be the answer. My guess is we'll see at least another half dozen popular apps take on this style as well.
For us users that don't own an iOS device, what is this sliding panel effect you're discussing?
See here: http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/119/Purple/eb/62/0a/mzl.uvhm...
People were impressed with the GMail web app when it launched; this is basically a skin around that same app and they're recoiling from it in horror.
