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  • Josh 6:46 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    That’s it for this event. Remember to come back to CTA for all of the Apple events! We’ll cover them with the best news stream available. All of our updates are pushed right to you as we hit the return key. Maybe next time we’ll get more people involved in the conversation :D

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  • Josh 6:43 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

     

  • Josh 6:39 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Someone asked about the older devices… again… and the lack of multitasking. Steve explains: the majority of our user base is running on newer devices. Everyone is going to love the update, they just might not be able to multitask. If it encourages them to upgrade… that’s not really a bad thing.

     

  • Josh 6:37 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    After thought… where is Genius for the iPad App Store. I’d love to have that functionality, but haven’t seen it in there.

     

  • Josh 6:36 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Hmm… it looks like we could see some App Store updates in the near future. Steve’s explaining them as two separate ecosystems that they can modify independently. I think he realizes that the App Store browsing structure could be improved and hopefully they’re working on that. For example, right now… we can’t just browse the free apps… we get the top free apps but not all of the free apps. Kinda sucks for people who don’t want to drop $10 on every app.

     

  • Josh 6:33 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Steve: if our competition ever develops something like the iPad, they’ll be lucky to reach 3,500 applications in a year… we did that in a week.

     

  • Josh 6:31 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Steve said that he’s received thousands of emails saying how the iPad has changed people’s lives. It hasn’t changed ours… yet. It’s just cool.

     

  • Josh 6:30 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Someone just asked about unsigned applications… steve says it won’t happen. here’s why: there’s a porn store on Android and if Apple went the unsigned route, that would show up on the iPhone. He says they don’t want to go there, so they won’t be allowing unsigned applications.

     

  • Josh 6:28 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Steve and I agree… this is a problem, according to him. Basically, he’s saying that you’re still going to be able to use the apps, just that older devices are under powered and that you won’t be able to multitask. I’m happy they decided to limit it and make it work for the newer devices… if you read our article about future-proofing the iPad, you should get that.

     

  • Josh 6:26 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Developers will be able to put restrictions on certain features of their app by checking the hardware. So, you’ll still be able to use the applications but you won’t be able to multitask or some more complicated functions on older hardware.

     

  • Josh 6:24 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Haha, Steve just admitted that Apple tried to buy AdMob but Google snatched them out from underneath them. Awesome. He’s a big fan of Quattro wireless though.

     

  • Josh 6:20 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Steve answered the lock screen post in a very non-committal way. We hope that they see the value in it and add it to the new features of the OS before it’s launch. Please, Steve… pretty please?

     

  • Josh 6:19 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Someone asked about lock screen information… we’re still surprised that they didn’t release an API for display your app information on the lock screen… it’s really a handy tool.

     

  • Josh 6:17 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    I guess Scott makes a good point. They don’t need “multitasking” when they have on-phone push notifications. That would work just fine. In fact, I can’t think of a way twitter or AIM could use multitasking that push notifications would handle.

     

  • Josh 6:16 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Hmm… someone just asked about twitter timelines and AIM conversations… that’s a good question, there wasn’t any discussion of that at all.

     

  • Josh 6:15 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Ads are all done in HTML5. Ad developers have free reign as long a they stick to that environment.

     

  • Josh 6:14 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Apple will be limiting ads in some fashion… obviously no porn ads, but they want to make money like the next guy, so don’t expect it to be all THAT limiting.

     

  • Josh 6:12 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Question: will your social gaming network kill those from the likes of ngmoco and aurora feint? My answer: yes. Scott’s answer: they wanted something everyone could be involved in, instead of something only a few people use. Basically that’s him working his way around the issue and saying that yes, it will kill aurora feint.

     

  • Josh 6:10 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    International iPad launch is still the end of April.

     

  • Josh 6:10 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Someone asked if AT&T was ready for the increased data with multitasking… Steve says it’s not going to be an issue, I’d agree. We’re going to be using the same amount of data, we can just get it done quicker.

     

  • Josh 6:08 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    We’re sticking around for the Q&A… but we’re nearly done here.

     

  • Josh 6:07 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    So we didn’t see anything blatant about wireless printing, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t show up before the release. It still feels like a hug oversight for the iPad. Apple wants to make it a productivity device, but it’s very unproductive to sync it and try to print documents that way.

     

  • Josh 6:06 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Hey, Apple. Hire more developers so you can work on the iPad OS this spring and release it this summer. It’s not rocket science. I actually just hated my iPad a little bad. Damn.

     

  • Josh 6:05 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

     

  • Josh 6:04 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    All the features are coming to the iPad this fall… WTF? why wouldn’t you release side by side?

     

  • Josh 6:03 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Finally, they’re killing some app support for older devices. This sucks for people who own them, but it needed to be done so we can keep the innovation moving.

     

  • Josh 6:02 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    The Developer SDK is available today, I think… they keep saying that it’s a developer “preview.”

     

  • Josh 6:01 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

     

  • Josh 6:00 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    He’s now demoing an ad for target where you can build your own dorm room.

     

  • Josh 5:59 pm on April 8, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

     

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