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One thing that strikes me about Chrome OS and Litl is that neither bother trying to do everything Windows or Mac OS X can do. Not even close. I don’t think either even bothers trying to serve as one’s primary computer.The idea that they’re designed to serve as secondary computers is a big part of the opportunity I see for n (Read More)
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Alexandre de Rochefort, finance director of French game developer Gameloft:
“We are selling 400 times more games on iPhone than on Android.”
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Requires a two-year service contract with Verizon, of course, but that’s $50 lower than Verizon’s price.
And Dell is selling it for just $120 (again, with a contract), at least in certain areas.
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This one seems to be a genuine incorrect rejection for private API use: Juicy Bits has a camera-based app that uses OS 3.1-only camera features, but still runs on OS 3.0 by disabling those features when the app runs on OS 3.0. This particular feature — customizing UIImagePickerController — was frequently abused by private A (Read More)
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Gdgt has a VMware image of the open source Chrome OS version that Google released yesterday. Engadget put together a video showing how to install and use it. If you’re curious to see it in action (as I was), this is far easier than compiling it from source. Hooray for VMware.But be warned — this release is far behind the ve (Read More)
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This YouTube video has the demo portion of yesterday’s Chrome OS announcement event. Best tour of the UI I’ve seen.
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By the way, if you haven’t seen it before, RogueSheep’s Postage is a very slick iPhone app: it’s a simple little “virtual postcard” app with tons of polish and style.
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This is admittedly a little technical. But the gist of it is that RogueSheep sort of got screwed by having their app rejected for this. Their app linked to a version of the Three20 framework that overrode, not called, a private API — i.e. it replaced a private method with its own method of the same name. And Postage, the ap (Read More)
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