Earlier today I blogged about the complete and utter rip off of a really cool iPhone app from Realmac Software, Clear. Well the rip off version has been removed from the App Store quick smart, and the ‘not dev’ had this to say.
Clear app wasn’t my fault. Apologies to everyone upset. The acc was shared & unfortunately has my name in the Dev. Its been removed.
— Samuel (@carbonr) February 13, 2012
And that’s all she wrote….for now.
I posted the other week about an upcoming iPhone app named Clear, from Realmac, that looked really awesome and had a very unique UI (user interface). Well it seems that someone has gone and directly ripped off the UI of Clear, all of it’s functionality, named itself Clear-Todo, and has somehow managed to launch first….wtf
This is likely to get very messy seeing as Clear is currently going through the App Store approval process now, and is likely to launch later this week. Also, considering Apple’s recent push to kill off copy-cat applications, who is copying who?
Wow, the classiness of the Clear-Todo developer is amazing!
via Federico Viticci
Swipe the Linen is a website where you can upload your iOS home screen for others to see and talk about your favorite apps.
A new tumblr for people’s iPhone home screens. I dig this stuff. Shawn Blanc‘s is a fav.
When I give talks or have students at my workshop there are a few questions that always surface, and a very common one is “What is a typical day for you like?” My immediate response is “Depends on which day you’re talking about. Pick one: Blogger, Photographer, Troublemaker, Traveler.” Of course I know they want to know what being a photographer is like so I thought I’d take Demaris’ lead and create A Day In The Life for myself.
Matt creates one of my favourite cooking blogs, and his photography skills are pretty much second to none in the food business. It’s quite interesting to get a glimpse of an average day for him. 4am starts though, ouch! Early to bed, early to rise….I guess.
If you’re like me, your Mac’s Downloads folder is full of long-forgotten mystery items, much like a college student’s refrigerator.
I bought Hazel ages ago, and while I have used it plenty of times to re-sort images into different folders, rename files, I’ve never thought to use the app it for something so simple, and so obvious. Doh!
Thanks Dave.
“Since” refers to time. “Because” refers to causation. e.g., Since I quit drinking I’ve married and had two children. e.g., Because I quit drinking I no longer wake up in my own vomit.
This is one I use incorrectly, not all that often but often enough that I should know better by now.
New iPhone 4S ads from Apple today, simple but effective, and not a spec in sight.
Sources say the company has chosen the first week in March to debut the successor to the iPad 2, and will do so at one of its trademark special events.
I’d suggest it is a reasonably safe bet that we’ll see a new iPad some time early on in March, most likely known as iPad 3.
I would definitely be avoiding buying any expensive accessories for your current iPad if you’re anything like me and likely to buy the iPad 3 near launch date. I wouldn’t mind betting we see a slightly different design / dimension this time around with the likelihood of a new A6 processor, higher resolution display, etc. potentially adding a little thickness to the iPad 3.
Of course this is all pure speculation and we won’t know anything for sure until Tim Cook and his colleagues get up on stage and announce it.
Thank you for your honesty in this little “debacle”.
I felt like iOS had given me far too much access to Address Book without forcing a user prompt. It felt a bit dirty.
And this is yet another reason why you should pay good, honest, hard working, developers, money for their apps.
And developers, we users appreciate this sort of candidness, I guess you could call it open-ness, or full disclosure. It makes us trust you. It makes us feel like we matter. I guess it’s kind of like a relationship, there’s some give, some take, but at the end of the day neither of us feels like we’re giving up, or settling.
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It seems there’s a bunch of whinging going on about Tweetbot not being a Universal App; see articles from Macstories and Culture Milk defending Tapbots decision to not make Tweetbot a Universal App.
After reading both these articles, and the linked tweets, a thought hit me.
Now that OS X is steadily being iOS-ified, and that numerous applications that were released on iOS have successfully been launched on OS X, does that mean that the future definition of Universal App will be adjusted so that it not only includes iPhone and iPad, but also Mac? And if that is the case, will users then expect developers to give them 3 separate versions of the app for the one price?
God help the devs if that is the expectation!
Seriously people, this is such a dumb argument. Pay developers for good applications, plain and simple. If these guys and girls don’t make an income off of their hard work then they won’t continue to bother putting the effort in, and in some instances they may abandon developing apps altogether, and we will all get stuck with a bunch of crappy apps that won’t be supported at all and all the innovation will be gone.
Does anyone remember how much you had to pay on average for Palm apps in the Handango store?
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