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The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment

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Re: The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment

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Post by jasonlbaptiste »

navs wrote: post #5

I'd love to see this as a webapp. I'm one of those folks that just doesn't use apps or even sign in to my apple account. I'm sure more of my kind exist. EDIT: Whoops I see this has paid in-app purchases. I wonder if there's something out there that can offer as seamless an experience as iTunes in-app purchases for webapps.

Someone should build a service on top of Stripe to do this.

Re: The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment

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Post by MatthewPhillips »

jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #10
navs wrote: post #5

I'd love to see this as a webapp. I'm one of those folks that just doesn't use apps or even sign in to my apple account. I'm sure more of my kind exist. EDIT: Whoops I see this has paid in-app purchases. I wonder if there's something out there that can offer as seamless an experience as iTunes in-app purchases for webapps.

Someone should build a service on top of Stripe to do this.

Stripe for payment, Persona for auth.

Re: The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment

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Post by s_henry_paulson »

noirman wrote: post #4
janfoeh wrote: post #3

Too bad it is iOS6 only, leaving my iPad 1 out in the cold.

Wait, iPad 1 supports iOS6 no?

No, but I can't for the life of me figure out what technical reason is preventing Apple from allowing this.

If an iPhone 3GS can run iOS6, I am perplexed why the same can't be true for the iPad 1.

Re: The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment

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Post by weiran »

s_henry_paulson wrote: post #15
noirman wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, iPad 1 supports iOS6 no?

No, but I can't for the life of me figure out what technical reason is preventing Apple from allowing this. If an iPhone 3GS can run iOS6, I am perplexed why the same can't be true for the iPad 1.

I imagine they don't see it worth the effort to squeeze iOS 6 into the iPad's 256MB RAM.

(I know the 3GS also has 256MB of RAM but it's display resolution is much lower).

Re: The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment

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Post by buzzkillr2 »

s_henry_paulson wrote: post #15
noirman wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, iPad 1 supports iOS6 no?

No, but I can't for the life of me figure out what technical reason is preventing Apple from allowing this. If an iPhone 3GS can run iOS6, I am perplexed why the same can't be true for the iPad 1.

The ipad1 has a larger screen which strains the gpu more than the 3gs does. (that is the paraphrased reasoning iirc)

Re: The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment

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Post by macieka »

creativityhurts wrote: post #7
noirman wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, iPad 1 supports iOS6 no?

No, it doesn't. Marco has been talking a lot on his podcast about dropping support for the iPad 1 for Instapaper as well in order to use some of the new iOS6 features.

I think he said it would have made it easier if he could use the iOS 6 features, but he wasn't planning on dropping support for iPad 1 yet/
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