Most fun I've had all day moving the balloons around with my finger. Tapping makes them pop. Wheeeeeee! 😂
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Apple Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Apple Store App With Balloons
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[...] loyal Apple defenders arguing that Apple should not allow third parties to create native iPhone applications
Sure, but the Apple Store app (which this story pertains to) is first-party and unrelated.
Okay. I’m glad this was clarified. I thought it was to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the iMac design.
I thought the same thing until I read the headline very carefully 🧐
Apple...Store...App
So we're off of the anniversary date by 1.5 months? I hope my future wife is as lenient as Apple is.
Interestingly, playing with the balloons by dragging them around each other only allows them to revolve up to 180° around each other in either direction (360° total). They rotate around each other within the bounds of the screen (but not by finger-only multitouch manipulation), but it’s unclear how far an angle they can rotate around each other; they can rotate & bounce each other up to at least a full 180° (so “10” shows up upside down). Strings appear to hang “downward” vis-a-vis display orientation, freely & naturally.
Interesting sprite animation, almost definitely through Swift calls.
Interesting sprite animation, almost definitely through Swift calls.
Maybe it’s been there all along but someone in Apple got sick of nobody talking about their handiwork and decided to give hints!
We need to start question this Michael Steeber guy with some enhanced interrogation techniques and find out where he got this information.