January 2011
3 posts
The home button is going away
Recently, there have been rumors about the next iPhone not having a home button. Gruber thinks that the home button isn’t going anywhere, as does Benjamin Brooks. I disagree. iPhone 5 will look like this:
And you might be saying, “But how will you get to the home screen if there’s no home button?” “How will you take a screenshot?” “What if I need to...
Confusion in the App Store
The Scenario
Millions of Mac users are probably confused on how the App Store detects already installed apps and marks them as “installed” in the App Store. They believe that because the App Store detects it, they will get updates from the App Store. This is not true. The App Store only updates apps in the “Purchases” tab. The App Store marks apps as installed so as to...
Firefox does it wrong
The first launch of an application is arguably the most important. It’s the first impression; it’s when the user decides if they like your app or not. The app should have an immersive first-run experience, and here’s where Firefox does it wrong.
Once you’ve dragged Firefox to your Applications folder, ejected the disk, and trashed the disk image, you probably want to open...