This would be the most awesome launch ever if the phone is different to all these super-tedious leaks that have come out and shown us everything. People would cream themselves if the iPhone 5 was actually something new and exciting rather than just longer...
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Apple's Yerba Buena Decoration Shows Stretched iOS Icons, Possibly Hinting at Taller iPhone 5
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Oh come on now. Would anyone have seriously thought this if we didn't already know exactly what the new iPhone would look like?
Which, if you want to believe relates to the announcement, could mean they are lo going to talk about iPods, itunes and the media store. Say more timely releases, better quality, better pricing or how about now you can choose to download or stream something even when you just bought it
Stretched apps rather than stretched icons?
I may be completely wrong, but perhaps this is a reference to the way most apps will automatically stretch to use the full screen without needing any kind of update. Apps that play well with Notification Center can already compress a little to show a notification banner, I think. (I don't like notifications much and I disabled most of them, so I'm guessing based on stuff I've read mostly.) Basically, with toolbars at the top and bottom in many apps may use a fixed number of pixels, the content area in the middle can compress a little when a notification comes in, so that the notification pushes down the top toolbar instead of hiding it. That flexibility in the middle content area can be used to stretch the app to fill the new, taller screen without needing any kind of update to the app. Not all apps - or not all UI screens of all apps - work that way though, so some of them will probably have black bars at the top and bottom (or on the sides when in landscape mode). But a good chunk of the apps will probably work just fine with the new screen. I honestly can't recall where I read that. Probably Daring Fireball. Anyway, that's my take on the message.
I may be completely wrong, but perhaps this is a reference to the way most apps will automatically stretch to use the full screen without needing any kind of update. Apps that play well with Notification Center can already compress a little to show a notification banner, I think. (I don't like notifications much and I disabled most of them, so I'm guessing based on stuff I've read mostly.) Basically, with toolbars at the top and bottom in many apps may use a fixed number of pixels, the content area in the middle can compress a little when a notification comes in, so that the notification pushes down the top toolbar instead of hiding it. That flexibility in the middle content area can be used to stretch the app to fill the new, taller screen without needing any kind of update to the app. Not all apps - or not all UI screens of all apps - work that way though, so some of them will probably have black bars at the top and bottom (or on the sides when in landscape mode). But a good chunk of the apps will probably work just fine with the new screen. I honestly can't recall where I read that. Probably Daring Fireball. Anyway, that's my take on the message.
I wish apple made the iPhone screen wider the stretched screen is going to look funny when compared to siii galaxy or other windows and andriod phones.
Ah, yes iTunes icon is upside down too! Good eye. I wonder if it is just symbolizing that they have "turned those apps upside down" in terms of adding new features and overhauling them? Or we are over analyzing it and they just thought it looked better that way.
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Kudos to the creativeness of the graphic designers who thought this up.
But some people on these forums (and all other forums, Apple, Android and whatever) have way too much time to waste... I'm jealous...
But some people on these forums (and all other forums, Apple, Android and whatever) have way too much time to waste... I'm jealous...
Possibly there.. People might be so anxious... the adrenaline is running too high that you're seeing things.
Those are the color bars of the test pattern that will be used in the one more thing...while they are showing the TV set test pattern...the all new TV...Apple re-invents the TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZp7vUWEOyg
The TV will run iOS Apps, specially Games, and a more addictive Game Center.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZp7vUWEOyg
The TV will run iOS Apps, specially Games, and a more addictive Game Center.
I would be shocked if they did. Or if they did it the way I think they should. Mainly cause I don't see them doing it 'my' way in windows and I can't see them having two totally different styles.
But if they were that nutty, what I would do is split it.
1. The player. Merge DVD player into one Media Player app with the iTunes player bits.
2. Manager. This is where you add ratings, update metadata, create playlists etc
3. Import/sync. Not an app so much as built into the OS. CDs, devices appear on desktop, you click and your choices are right there. Faster than waiting for iTunes to open, access the store to verify your iTunes match blah blah. Just click and open like it's a hard drive or such. Even integrate importing photos via image capture with option for going to desktop or iPhoto/aperture when done
4. Store app. Either it's own or as part of same with Mac stuff.
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But folks are talking about it, which is what Apple wants. So in that sense it's a job well done
iTunes on the Mac and the Music App in iOS are really slow, and became even more slow with iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match. Both do need to be significantly improved, navigating through an extensive Music Library is a pain, and seriously need to be made faster and sleek, right now they are cumbersome and slow.
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Hidden Message in Apple Logo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VW49YKs0UM&feature=fvwrel
I noticed it yesterday and posted it
but NOBODY paid damn attention to me
Don't worry doll, it's not just you. I've seen like four postings of someone getting praise for making a joke that it's a tv test pattern etc when I posted the same thing way before and got ignored. It's just part of the nature of forums especially hen the same topic is milked for page hits with 4-6 different articles
the iPod shuffle is being dumped for the current iPod nano.
The 'new' iPod nano is actually the iPhone nano.
Phone
Contacts
Messages
Notifications
Wifi for iTunes match/purchase access in music only
Nike app
Radio
No external speaker or mic. You have to use a wired set or bt.
Message composition will be by dictation only owing to the lack of space for a keyboard.
There will also be a 'dummy' model that is useable only in sync with a full phone. It's Apple's answer to the Pebble etc. you can see notifications etc from your iPhone.
The notification banner doesn't scale the apple down, it overlays the app for the time its shown.
But yeah I assume it will be easy for certain apps with a top bar and bottom bar (as a lot are) and a central information field to scale easily to a longer screen
Apple knows all to well that this is just the kind of thing that gets all the fanboys wet and excited. It's truly an interesting phenomenon to watch.
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Nah, I think most of the ones on the left are upside down and most on the right are right side up (the music on the left is still right side up but it's aligned differently than the music icon on the right...). Note the game center one on the right is right side up...
So they change alignments on them and have re-used them.
