There has been a little talk of the naming of “The new iPad“. The pundits were referring to it as iPad 3 or iPad HD in the days leading up to the announcement, but it turns out Apple called it The new iPad.
Why?
The biggest reason is it doesn’t matter. Watch an Apple commercial for iPhone or iPad, no matter what the latest model is, there was never a 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S, or 2 at the end of it, just iPhone or iPad. Look at Apple’s Mac lineup, it’s always MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, never any other model number or specifier. Same thing with the iPod touch. It’s the antithesis to something like the name of the Samsung GALAXY S II and other borderline silly Android phone names that led to something like the Android Phone Name Generator.
One more reason to not use iPad 3 is the confusion it may cause with the “4G LTE” accessibly of the new device. When Apple went through the names of iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, some called the iPhone 4 an iPhone 4G, which led to some consumer confusion since the iPhone 4 could only access 3G networks.
Apple may have learned their lesson in overloading the meaning of the numeric suffix in their device names. It will be interesting to see what the next iPhone will be called.
Check out the new website for the newly formed Montreal Exiles RFC, www.montrealexiles.com , set up by yours truly for a great friend. Good luck with the club Alex! Hopefully this will help the Montreal Rugby community learn more about the Exiles!
3 Down News has been growing steadily in the number of users lately, and is now featured in the TapLynx App Spotlight!
3 Down News has been approved and is now live in the App Store!
When we upgraded from our 1GHz Titanium PowerBook to a MacBook Pro, I was finally able to dive into iOS App development. After a couple weeks of playing around, I’ve managed to piece together 3 Down News, and got it submitted to Apple for approval last night.
Along the way I’ve come across a bunch of tools that have been a great help, here’s the list:
- TapLynx: This is where it all started. TapLynx is a framework you can base your program on to get your own app into the App Store without writing one line of code – although you can if you want to (I did!). There are a bunch of very helpful posts and nice people in the TapLynx Google Group.
- Dropbox: Back it up!!!
- Cocoa with Love: Matt Gallagher’s blog has a nice example of how to get streaming audio working in an App.
- Inkscape: Created the 3 Down Logo with this great open source program
- Gimp: Images, screenshots, logos, artwork, all made pixel perfect with The Gimp
- Glyphish: Joseph Wain has created some free icons you too can use in your iOS App.
- iPhone-Simulator Cropper: Create screenshots of your App, in the format needed for submission to Apple, from iPhone Simulator.
- SimFinger: A great Mac OS X program that will help you create an environment to record a great demo video.
- Jing: I used Jing to record some demo videos to send around to friends
- Apple’s Dev Site: This is obvious, but I think it’s important to say. There are a couple reasons the App Store is huge – of course amazing hardware is one, but the development environment, tools, APIs, and documentation that Apple has put together is simply amazing.
I hope this will not be my last post regarding my iOS adventures!