WholeThinking essays with keyword tag: iOS

H.264 Opens Up a Free & Clear Video Codec Landscape

By | August 26, 2010 | Machine Logic

Another salvo was fired in the battle for the future of Internet video today. MPEG LA is making permanent, thats forever, the royalty free use of their license portfolio for AVC/H.264 for free Internet video applications. The moratorium for payment was to be reconsidered in 2014 and recently extended to 2015 but as they say […]

Skype App Update 2.1.1 for iPhone

By | August 21, 2010 | Mobile Nature

If you missed the update of iPhone iOS to version 4 and its highly anticipated ability to multitask then you also missed the sometime downside of this ability, rapid battery consumption. With the new iOS 4 and their updated app I could continue a call or text chat and jump to another app without dropping the […]

Camera+ Dodges and Ducks but Apple Rejects

By | August 21, 2010 | Mobile Nature, Shape of Intent

After initial rejection by the app approval process of the Apple App Store, TapTapTap managed to get Camera+ approved. Two months later and a reported $500,000 in their pockets, the app is yanked from the App Store for violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement section 3.3.7. TapTapTap has been a successful iPhone app […]

Finally, WiFi Coming with New Apple iPhones in China

By | August 7, 2010 | Mobile Nature

It has been a Long March to put WiFi on the Apple  iPhones released in China, but starting next Monday, August 9, all new iPhones will be equipped with WiFi. Chinese regulators prevented WiFi abilities on mobile devices while authorities attempted to get their own WAPI standard adopted. A combination of Western patience and Chinese pragmatism […]

Google Follows Microsoft Kin, Ends Nexus One -Lessons Learned?

By | July 19, 2010 | Machine Logic, Mobile Nature

Another smartphone is added to the mobile device graveyard with the Google announcement, “Nexus One changes in availability,” a quick interpretation, the Nexus One will not be available from Google online but will be available through carrier partners, or maybe not. The real memorial is for the web store and Google’s ill fated attempt to match […]

Flash on iPhone? Lookout for Some Crazy Backdoor Juggling

By | October 5, 2009 | Mobile Nature

One of the most conspicuous absences from the iPhone, other than 3rd party VOIP, is the lack of a Flash player and the content it plays. That condition may or may not change in the near future. From day one of the iPhone launch, Adobe has been determined to pry-bar Flash onto the platform but […]

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