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hope Square Enix make their Final Fantasy games Universal... and how would that work? would there be two built in resolutions to support the iPhone then the iPad?
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Apple Officially Invites Developers to Submit iPad Applications to App Store
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cool really
hope Square Enix make their Final Fantasy games Universal... and how would that work? would there be two built in resolutions to support the iPhone then the iPad?What would be mysterious about an iPhone app not being made for the iPad? Not every app makes sense on both devices.
Shipping without testing on a real device ( simulator only ) is indicative of "Gold Rush" mentality. Not confidence of the device. Those developers are going to be playing a Oklahoma Sooner like game of rushing to put a stake out a claim ( a spot in the iPad store) before technically should be. (it won't be illegal like real Sooners were. ) Hoping that folks will tolerate their software and not label it as bad before they can get a truely real tested version out there.
Apple is playing a "Gold Rush Days" game here. I expect there will be more than a hand full of folks playing that game. It isn't really a new game. Tons of garabage apps are in the AppStore. Lots of chessy (snag some data off the web and jam it into an app and sell it. ) stuff that Apple has finally started to filter through.
Expect a rapid succession of updates weeks after most of these apps show up.
The other effect here is Apple is allowing a few developers to get out in front of everyone else ( those that they give pre-access iPads to. ) Those folks will get to stake their claims early in a somewhat more legitimate fashion.
P.S. the bulk of apps that show up first day will be indicative of how much "cruft" the iPad section of the store will have. If the rest of the AppStore is indicative .... it will be lots.
Apart from iLife integration, none of those are even good ideas. Nobody is buying an iPad because it's a nine inch monitor. And I certainly hope no one would buy two iPads just to use one as a keyboard just get a bluetooth keyboard. It's cheaper and much better as a, well, keyboard.
Yes sir.
I have a question though to the others: if the app works fine will it be approved or there are other criteria? I mean are they going to select specific apps?
I suspect most apps will come this summer. Hard to design stuff without the actual device. Also, with a new OS coming out, many developers may sit this round out so that they dont end up duplicating their efforts in such a short period of time.
There is an assumption here that the simulator is highly accurate of the hardware. For example, funky movements in 3D space effect on the accelerometers. Fingers/Hand obscuring issues. Essentially, finishing refinements to the software.
Would you fly on a commercial plane where the pilots had only had simulator time on that specific model ? Or ride in a car with someone who only had worked with driving simulators?
Same issues. Depends upon what your quality threshold is. Conceptually you can release software that is simulator only. However, that is not an industry standard best practice.
I am currently developing an iPad specific application, one that should be available from launch day, and converted another application, which I originally developed for the iPod Touch and iPhone, but that can run on the iPad as well.
The biggest challenge now is to get a trademark [in time] because I was late to come up with a new idea
There's quite a few widgets that will allow you to take pictures of apps without scrolling by expanding it and automatically pasting it together then taking the screenshot. Look around.
This I agree with. It is simply the idea that apps have to go through the approval process again. Competing apps, like say the kindle, would have to go through the process again. With Apple getting in stride to release its own apps, apps that were approved for the iphone, may not be approved for the iPad.
The simulator fits in Landscape mode, so I made my shots only in that orientation. With some work, I could take upper and lower half shots and composite them together in PhotoShop, but my screenshots look better in landscape anyway.
By the way one important reason to test on a device is that there ARE some differences in the simulator. A big one is that the simulator does not simulate the RAM constraints on the device. An app that takes up a lot of internal memory might run on the simulator but crash on the device, for example.
The first is already submitted. I don't know If I will finish the second in time for April 3rd.
Then I'll port all my others....
All of you who pre-ordered for pickup in two weeks are brave early adopters.
The more I read about the legitimate problems and complexities raised here the more confident I am in waiting for at least generation 2 before considering purchasing an iPad.
The more I read about the legitimate problems and complexities raised here the more confident I am in waiting for at least generation 2 before considering purchasing an iPad.
I've read nothing in this thread that would cause me to rethink my decision to buy my iPad. This thread has to do with third-party software, which will be consistently improved by devs throughout the life of the first-gen iPad.
Nothing wrong with being an early adopter. I pre-ordered the 32GB version just for kicks. Not sure I will use it much, but the novelty will be neat. I am sure that the next generations will be better, but nothing wrong with enjoying the device while in its infancy. I still have no idea why I bought it. I think the wife wanted it.
If you're a developer then you should know the answer to that... but Apps only get approved if they conform to a specific set of written rules (these rules are made available to all iPhone developers that are current with their membership fee) and then a set of unwritten rules that are only known to Apple...
However you can usually trust that anything even remotely threatening to Apple will get the heave-ho.
Like I said, you are brave souls. I'll wait until all that improvement has occurred. This is bleeding edge stuff. I give you all the credit in the world for working out the usability problems for the rest of us.
Since Apple has the highest satisfaction rates, if theirs has decreased, I wonder about everyone else?
Glad to do it. This feels EXACTLY like the days leading up to June 29, 2007, before I bought my first iPhone on launch day. I'd never held one, didn't quite grok what I was getting into. Not a single regret. All expectations exceeded in every way imaginable. This is how and why Apple works.