In the years between Apple and Apple, Steve Jobs created a company that created iOS. That’s a gross summary. Steve Jobs died last year. Most obituaries mentioned his hiatus company. Yet you still didn’t know what it was in the title of this post. NeXT, the company, was founded in 1988. I bought one (#16469) … Read more
Vizzini (played by PC World): Inconceivable. Inigo Montoya (played by Apple Insider): You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means. When some people (like PC World) come up with lists of “What iPhone OS 4.0 Needs” they often lists items that are not thought about from a … Read more
Dwight Silverman recently provided a large number of “improvements” he feels are necessary for the next version of the iPhone. Here are my opinions on his thoughts: A better camera: A 3 megapixel to 5 upgraded seems a minimal upgrade that should be expected. If it does include a better camera, it should also provide … Read more
My Provisioning Profile for my iPhone app expired, so I renewed it, downloaded it. Added it into Xcode. Manually added it to ~/Library/Mobile Devices. It would build and install onto the device, but when launched via the debugger I received the following output: Error launching remote program: security policy error. The app would terminate, the … Read more
I was video chatting with my co-worker in Virginia, fellow FlipSide5 jack-of-all-trades Mike, and he decided to show me his quite impressive collection of iPhone OS devices. Different hardware versions of iPhones and iPod Touches with different versions of the operating system on them. Useful for testing the various possible compatibility issues, but really useful … Read more
Media coverage of iPhone application development (what? why is media even covering this?!) goes in a stereo-typical cyclical pattern that is almost weekly in its oscillation. This week chiming in is the New York Times: Hoping to Make iPhone Toys as a Full-Time Job. The Lede on this story sells the Gold Rush, no doubt leading … Read more