By John Gruber
Mux — Video for developers
Linked List: September 12, 2008
Friday, 12 September 2008
- Dan Moren on What’s New and Improved in iPhone OS 2.1 ★
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The iPod app now features more information in song lists (a la the Remote app), triple-clicking the earbud clicker goes to the previous track, and more
- Jeremy Horwitz Reviews the New iPod Nano ★
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Detailed, thorough review. Here’s the nut of it: “Doubles past year’s storage capacity for same price. Best audio quality yet in an iPod Nano.”
- The Worst Case Scenario Extrapolating From the iTunes App Store, Fully-Expressed in the Form of a Single Tweet by Steven Frank ★
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This is where it leads.
- iPhone ‘Podcaster’ App Rejected Because It Duplicates iTunes Functionality ★
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Flabbergasting. This is the worst reason for an app to be rejected yet. As the author points out, by this logic, Apple could have rejected PCalc (for duplicating the built-in Calculator app), or any of the various note-taking apps. Check out the demo — Podcaster is clearly a serious app that provides functionality far beyond the iPhone’s built-in podcast support.
This stinks to high hell. Jon Rentzsch nails it in this tweet: the NDA is a mere annoyance, but a “you can’t compete against Apple” policy is so wrong it breaks the platform. It is indefensible.
- Security Updates in iPhone OS 2.1 ★
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The application sandbox peeping I wrote about with regard to OpenClip is listed as a security fix.
- BBEdit 9.0.1 ★
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World’s best text editor gets a tiny bit better.
- iPhone 2.1 Software Update ★
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I’m installing now. Can’t be worse than 2.0.x. I’ve archived a copy of the release notes here on Flickr.