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Re: IOS 6: Higher Hanging Fruit

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Post by glogla »

duiker101 wrote: post #59
credo wrote: post #26

My wish is that Apple adds paid upgrades for apps in the app store. I'm now close to releasing a major upgrade for an iPhone app, but these upgrades aren't going to be sustainable for me without paid upgrades (I don't want the new features to be IAP features) In the long run, this will also benefit customers because paid-upgrades will help developers add more features to the app. Users who want the new features can p…

Let's suppose you app uses an API, or whatever other thing that you do not have control over it. You make your app and release it. Then you make a paid upgrade. After some time, that thing your app rely on gets deprecated or changes. If you push an update to only people with the a paid upgrade you screw those who have not paid, leaving them with an non working app that they might have paid for. which sucks. But if yo…

And if you are unscrupulous, planned obsolesce combines with paid upgrades really well.

Re: IOS 6: Higher Hanging Fruit

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Post by hollerith »

cageface wrote: post #20

I think the major mobile operating systems are rapidly approaching maturity. I don't expect any radical changes in Android, iOS or WP at this point. iOS in particular hardly looks different than what Steve demoed in 2007. This is also why I think Android's upgrade problem may not turn out to be so important in practice. Even if the carriers utterly fail to roll out OS upgrades, the 2-3 year device churn cycle will ev…

Isnt Windows Phone 8 a completely different codebase (namely WinRT) from WP 7.5?

Re: IOS 6: Higher Hanging Fruit

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Post by ralfd »

marknutter wrote: post #60
jsz0 wrote: post #5

For iOS6 multi-tasking on the 5th generation iPhone, if the rumors of a ~170 pixel taller display are true, I would like to see a persistent dock mode when you activate the multi-tasking switcher. So basically you double-home-tap and the app resizes down ~170 pixels and the dock appears. The dock stays on the bottom of the screen as you switch between applications and use them. When you're done with your little flurr…

Tim Cook basically hinted in a recent interview that the screen size would not be changing: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/apples-tim-cook-rules-out-ipho...

The quote Tim Cook: --------------------------

"We have one App Store. We have one phone with one screen size, one resolution. So it’s pretty simple if you’re a developer.”

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Interesting! I regard this as a pretty strong hint.

I think they could make a 4 inch display and just keep the current resolution and aspect ratio. It is high enough. Who cares if it is 326 or only 299 dpi? But of course I don't think Apple works that way and they won't make something so highly advertised like the Retina display "worse".

Re: IOS 6: Higher Hanging Fruit

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Post by compteHN »

hollerith wrote: post #62
cageface wrote: post #20

I think the major mobile operating systems are rapidly approaching maturity. I don't expect any radical changes in Android, iOS or WP at this point. iOS in particular hardly looks different than what Steve demoed in 2007. This is also why I think Android's upgrade problem may not turn out to be so important in practice. Even if the carriers utterly fail to roll out OS upgrades, the 2-3 year device churn cycle will ev…

Isnt Windows Phone 8 a completely different codebase (namely WinRT) from WP 7.5?

It is. It will be using the NT kernel instead of Win CE 6/7. It will be sharing the same networking stacks, security subsystems as Windows 8.

Re: IOS 6: Higher Hanging Fruit

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Post by Splines »

_b8r0 wrote: post #46
credo wrote: post #26

My wish is that Apple adds paid upgrades for apps in the app store. I'm now close to releasing a major upgrade for an iPhone app, but these upgrades aren't going to be sustainable for me without paid upgrades (I don't want the new features to be IAP features) In the long run, this will also benefit customers because paid-upgrades will help developers add more features to the app. Users who want the new features can p…

I see where you're coming from, but perhaps a better way is to make it possible to offer discounts for a new app. E.g. Funky App 2 at half price, and to be able to notify users of the app at that new price. The rationale behind this is that users can still be notified of major release versions without forcing them to upgrade or die (sometimes people continue to support older versions for a bit while the new version g…

I like this approach - it doesn't break the existing experience of free upgrades.

While I can understand where the GP's idea of paid upgrades is coming from, the not-infrequent occurrence of apps going from Paid-->Free + IAP is often enough that I can see paid upgrades being yet another way App Store users get taken advantage of.

Re: IOS 6: Higher Hanging Fruit

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Post by cluda01 »

jquery wrote: post #45
credo wrote: post #26

My wish is that Apple adds paid upgrades for apps in the app store. I'm now close to releasing a major upgrade for an iPhone app, but these upgrades aren't going to be sustainable for me without paid upgrades (I don't want the new features to be IAP features) In the long run, this will also benefit customers because paid-upgrades will help developers add more features to the app. Users who want the new features can p…

"Fixes app crashing after extended usage. Only $2.99!"

Any app developer with that mentality probably is not going to make an iPhone app worth using in the first place

Re: IOS 6: Higher Hanging Fruit

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Post by gurkendoktor »

I see why someone with 250+ unread mails would also care about information density. I cringed all the way through the article, it screams information addiction throughout.

Not everything that a device can possibly display (or scream in the form of a notification) should be crammed into the OS just because it's possible and thus still "missing". I'm considering a Jailbreak to turn off Notification Center and Spotlight and other stuff I don't use, but can't be disabled.

Simplifying iOS is a high-hanging fruit. Or outdoing Google at maps. Or outdoing Dropbox at cloud services. Or outdoing amazon at books. Or taking some of the painful burden off iTunes.app.

Re: IOS 6: Higher Hanging Fruit

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Post by ZenPsycho »

christiangenco wrote: post #57
alper wrote: post #55

I am amazed at how every single one idea in there is either stupid from the onset or the concept given is executed in an absolutely braindead way. Just one: direct file access. The best thing Apple did for the learning curve of computing is destroy the concept of files for the casual user. The restrictions are put on the designer who has to figure out a creative way to enable task fulfillment within those restriction…

What's the solution to mobile file system management, then? Android has a lot going for it with its plug-and-play-esque filesystems: installed Dropbox? Now every app that uses the File API can save/load files from your Dropbox. On iOS each developer has to specifically implement each file service in each app - that's not the future.

no file system management. Or, put another way "We've invented this thing called an automobile" - "I don't get it, where do I attach my horses?"

Re: IOS 6: Higher Hanging Fruit

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Post by fpgeek »

cpeterso wrote: post #30

I would love to see a Swype-like keyboard. I'm surprised that Apple didn't acquire Swype. The user experience is fluid and iOS-like. Apple could use Swype's patents to keep the keyboard as a unique selling point for iOS.

I believe Apple didn't acquire anything from Swype because Nuance got there first.

Re: IOS 6: Higher Hanging Fruit

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Post by Terretta »

jsz0 wrote: post #18
twodayslate wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really don't think Apple is going to change the screen size of the iPhone. They have their designs down to a science. http://dcurt.is/2011/10/03/3-point-5-inches/

I'm not a fan of huge displays but 4" is actually pretty tame by today's standards. Apple may have come up with the perfect screen size for a SmartPhone circa 2007 but today the vast majority of SmartPhones sold in the world have larger displays so clearly 3.5" cannot be the only perfect size. I do think they have stood by 3.5" in part to see if this trend was just a temporary divergence. Now that is has endured for…

> 4" tame by today's standards... perfect for 2007 but today...

How the average human thumb grew 0.5" between 2007 and 2012, making today's 4" screens better than 3.5" screens of 2007, is one of nature's mysteries.

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