Apple: iPhone 4 has 960x640 quad size display. Moto: Droid X has 854x480 random size display. Legacy vs. Fracture #andyrubinwaswrong
Talking of stylishly-designed iPhone apps, I’d be remiss in not drawing your attention to The Coding Monkey’s very excellent official Carcassone iPhone game. It’s slickly-designed, and fun to play. It’s not perfect: the matchmaking experience relies on email invites, which contain URLs to launch a specific game, however it’s our current Game du Jour at Realmac HQ - and there’s a free iPad update coming later this year.
Tim Van Damme posts an excellent followup to his first article on designing for that 326ppi screen. If you’re a designer or developer, with access to the iPhone Developer Portal, this link is the one you’ll want to check before June 24th.
Gray Powell will be forever known as the guy who lost the iPhone, thanks to Jesus Diaz. But now Jesus Diaz will be forever known as the guy who calls himself a technology reporter, yet had an iPhone 4 in his hands for a week and missed almost everything that was interesting about it.
That works for me.
Dan Wineman, via Jeff Rock
A great post on the Admob/Google/iAd/Apple saga from David Barnard.
Blunt, to-the-point advice with plenty of reasoning from one Michael Arrington.
Whilst there were no OS X awards this year, ADAs were handed out for iOS apps.
As I don’t yet own an iPad, I’ve yet to play any except for Flight Control HD: I loved Flight Control on the iPhone, and the iPad version is just as fun (and stylishly designed).
I own three of these: with the Jamie Oliver app making an appearance on my homescreen. Articles is slick (congratulations Sophia, and DoodleJump addictive. But to see the Jamie Oliver app win made me particularly happy. I use it pretty frequently, and it’s a genuinely awesome app. I’m really excited to see if there’s an iPad counterpart in the wings, too.
A great post from MG Siegler
This can only be good news: Apple’s current modal notifications are just not cutting it for folks.
Adobe is warning of a “critical” vulnerability in its Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat software, installed on almost all PCs, which it says is already being exploited by hackers and which “could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system”.
All platforms - Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris - are vulnerable.
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