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That’s a detail. It takes one third of a second for a full opened folder to close, in iOS, yet these effects are there.
You never actually see what’s going on, you can only “feel” the smoothness of the transition. One of the causes of this smoothness is this:
I guess Apple did it for money.
Horace Dediu @Asymco is talking about the huge prepay market:
“It may be time for the iPhone to more than just grow. It may be time for it to grow up and take on the whole market. Five billion people are waiting”.
The prepaid market usually means two certain things: cheap phones and low monthly service costs. I do think though the number of users that don’t want their hands tied for 24 months contracts is increasing, but not by that much.
A cheaper iPhone although possible, shouldn’t be a compromise compared to a full fledged one.
Now, let’s make an exercise of imagination; say you’re Apple: what would you get rid of from you iPhone 4 in order to make it cheaper, without compromising the quality or the functionality? Start naming software and / or hardware features.
Is it the camera? Maybe, but it’ll compromise the pictures quality. Is it the display? Maybe, but you’ll have to forget about retina display shout. Is it the RAM? It’d be like downgrading the iPhone 4 to iPhone 3G: forget about it running flawlessly the Infinity Blade… How about putting cheap plastic instead of Gorilla glass? Yeah, right, over Jobs’ dead body maybe.
The only thing a “prepaid iPhone” would have to do is to cope with the apps / iOS; this means: same display resolution, same CPU, same RAM, same connectivity, same interface; maybe not necessarily the same storage (I wonder whether that’d be enough to lower the price with 200$…). Altogether, let’s not forget the iCloud that can possibly act like a remote storage…
I don’t think lowering the specs is a solution; the only one I can imagine now is a dramatic change in iPhone’s architecture, which means a new production line, from scratch. The result could hardly be named “another iPhone”, but “another Apple product”. Wouldn’t that better be some kind of iPod, instead?
Will be ready this summer, says Jon Virtes:
Jon Virtes (@FlipboardCM)
4/14/11 22:37
@UtestMe we’re working on iPhone, it’s due out this summer.
I can hardly wait!
Although it may look quite the opposite, Apple’s main task was not to make a popular, thus a visible device, but to make it fully transparent and even invisible, from user perspective.
They managed to build a device that you can easily forget about, especially when you are using it heavily. The paradox is the hardware is working so fine compared to user’s expectations, thus you can dive deeper into what you were doing, i.e.: into your favorite apps.
The main user focus is on the app utility and beauty, and not on the device; the second one disappears, letting the developers do their magic, in a direct connection to the end-user.
Speaking of magic, what’s undeniable magic about iPhone or iPad is their apps and how well they’re running, and not the devices. The devices have a single scope: to let the user dive and be captured by magic, novelty and high creativity which are the result of thousands of professional, hard working and sometimes genius developers, willing to please, help, amaze and bewilder the user. If they don’t succeed in any of those, they don’t make money, therefore they starve.
Apple’s magic is just a word Jobs’ using to prepare the user for what’s beyond the hardware specs: the real magic of the beautiful, extreme designed, addictive apps.
Going back to beginning: when diving into an app, the only task the device should be taking care of, is to let you do whatever the developer lets you do within the app’s universe, not limited by the device. In front of the user, the relation between the app and the hardware (or OS) is one between the master and the slave. Of course, this is the last mile to the user, and there are many other types of relation between the devs and Apple, but this is not our concern. All I need to know is that in front of my eyes, the app has to absolutely rule over the device and make it do whatever the dev intended, never ever less. Should anywhere in this journey to me the device fail or should the app ask too much from it, or should they not communicate well enough to know from each other’s limitation, then my user experience is ruined.
The real magic of Apple is, mark my words, to make the iPhone disappear just in front of your eyes thus clearing the path from the dev to his user.
Secured corporate data that you’re using on the PlayBook while tethered is essentially on loan — it’ll disappear as soon as you disconnect [your BB phone]
All the data is transferred between PlayBook and BB phone via encrypted Bluetooth connection. That will limit the extent of tethered traffic, therefore I don’t think we’re going to see massive streaming or syncing between the two. At least there’ll be no AirPlaying, anyway. It still is a good argument for enterprise usage, unless…
I remember Apple filing for somehow a similar patent back in august 2010
The communication between two devices goes beyond just iPhones. The two devices could be any combination of devices that include an iPod, a Blackberry, MacBook/notebook, camera and/or medical equipment
We see today iOS 4.3 coming with the first step – airplaying everything from any app. Imagine what if, at the of 2011, we’ll be able to “airplay” something else than multimedia.
Doesn’t it taste like Matrix to you? The editing of the matrix was creating duplicates…? Anybody?
Prin cupoane valorice (“gift cards”) emise in US.
Detalii aici.
Un exemplu de site care vinde in toata lumea vouchere iTunes americane este PC Game SUpply. Plata se face prin cardul de debit Visa sau Mastercard sau prin contul PayPal. Selectarea tarii (Romania) nu afecteaza tipul de bon valoric iTunes, adica ceea ce cumperi este gift card de US, nu de tara emitenta a cardului bancar.
