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App Store Rejections: Apple rejects iKaraoke app, patent filed published for a karaoke player {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 2nd 2009 7:00PM Hi nonnus!
Keep your head up, guy...and thanks for the great additions to cocoahttpd that helped many, many devs :)
-K
TUAW First Look: A behind-the-scenes peek at WorldVoice Radio {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 25th 2009 3:13PM 1,2 - No one thought of this as these two things are pretty big in the UI and Directory. We can add it, tho ;)
3,5 - These are not Unique: People didn't like the fact that they couldn't use a common name like STAN or whatever if someone else did.
6 - This is actually "HIG" compliant, but I understand your issue. As that info doesn't change from session to session, it is recommended to put in the Settings app for the phone.
Thanks!
-K
TUAW First Look: A behind-the-scenes peek at WorldVoice Radio {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 25th 2009 3:06PM Thanks Dick! It is funny that in a good, solid 40 days of testing, some of the issues people are seeing, we never did. I can confirm a couple, and we've got an update schedule to go to Apple Sunday, then however long it takes for them to put it one the store.
Sigh.
In earlier versions of the software, WorldVoice actually popped up an alert the first time you went to the studio, radio, etc to explain certain things, but the testers overwhelmingly found them annoying, so we re-designed certain things in an attempt to make them more clear. A tutorial video was done as well, but shelved, because so many changes were made that we felt it wasn't needed anymore.
Might have been a bit naive about that part ;)
You can email me any ideas you had, I am very receptive to what is "doable". You really didn't equate the button in the Studio with the Wifi Symbol entitled "Add Files" with...adding files?
-K
TUAW First Look: A behind-the-scenes peek at WorldVoice Radio {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 25th 2009 11:12AM Well Tony, I'm not very exciting...but I guess if they don't mind we can give it a go. I can tell you now that the hardest part really was trying to make something as potentially complicated as this a "two-level" app.
We got a LOT of feedback on the earlier versions about this...and the "trick" was finding a balance between 'casual users' that wanted to just tell us about the dude on the bus, and still have a way that the more ambitious could do something in Garageband and get a bit more fancy, but not have the two groups intersect :)
A lot of "do overs" and teardown/rebuilds were done towards this end...but I knew we were on the right track when one day, I go thru the directory and one day there is this...kid...telling us about cool sites for kids. He does a little show every week or so, no idea who he is, but he ended up being an inspiration to me to keep banging at it.
We still are...because in our pool of about 80 beta testers, over about a month, there are things that were missed so we have a bit more to do :)
-K
TUAW First Look: A behind-the-scenes peek at WorldVoice Radio {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 25th 2009 11:03AM Try it again, Kender. If you tune to the RNSK Channel, 010101 (I know, I am such a geek, heheh) I explain briefly what is going on. Just erase it from your phone and resync. It should work now.
An aside: There are some *REALLY* funny people out there. It has been an enjoyable morning, server stupidity notwithstanding.
-K
TUAW First Look: A behind-the-scenes peek at WorldVoice Radio {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 25th 2009 11:00AM Yikes!
Ok, this is very likely due to Apple's push servers not giving you what is called a "device token", as that is the very first thing it does. It didn't happen very often, but we did see it in beta testing.
Erase the app from your device and re-sync and give it another go.
-K
Estimates of 500K iPhone 3G S weekend sales too low by half {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 22nd 2009 12:39PM "Slightly Better" specs? :)
A whole generation up cpu and gpu, clocked faster, is "slightly better" now?
Interesting, indeed :)
-K
iLounge releases speed test videos of iPhone 3G S {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 21st 2009 4:09PM There are other differences as well, but unfortunately, at this time
I cannot explain them in detail, with the level of detail I would
like to, until such a time Apple says I can.
And this leads me to something else:
There is a LOT of MISINFORMATION and assumption about the 3.0 update
and the 3G S itself. Just take it as read that the 3G S, and the
improvements you'll see will become much more obvious in the coming
days/weeks/months as software that is able to take advantage is made
available.
I am the first person to rag on Apple for abuse/abusive hyperbole,
but that is not the case with this hardware. It isn't the "same
thing" with a "speed bump"...
-K
iLounge releases speed test videos of iPhone 3G S {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 21st 2009 3:33PM Because unlike YOU, Kai Cherry isn't surmising and assuming from secondhand knowledge and correlation/causation fallacy? :)
Let me break it down for ya...
You are familiar with "fat apps"...Universal Binaries, yes?
Well, the 3GS has a different processor than the previous iPhoneOS devices and as such, to get the *maximum* speed advantages from it, software needs to be re-compiled to take advantage of these differences.
Sound...familiar?
-K
iLounge releases speed test videos of iPhone 3G S {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 21st 2009 3:07PM Some crappy quick 'n dirty vids:
iTunes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e6f4PCycCQ
App Store
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2vYkfmT9CU
YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDvdC4qyIPg
-K
