Samurai Coder

BOMBERMAN on iPhone.

Check their YouTube channel.

iFlashCard:

This is a very simple native flash card application for your iphone. Follow the installation instructions to get it running on your phone.

This is not Adobe Flash. Just a flash card to learn foreign words or technology terms.

I don’t think Adobe Flash is coming soon. Flash is fairly CPU-intensive. Read John Gruber’s article on Flash on iPhone if interested. Apple and Adobe are separte companies; they don’t always share the interests. Provided that MobileSafari started to support Adobe Flash today, would the sales of the iPhone increase?

August Trometer:

When Apple announced the iPhone, they also ushered in yet another mobile browser for web developers to contend with: Mobile Safari. While Safari is built on the typical web standards supported by other browsers, Mobile Safari brings in an entirely new paradigm of web browsing. With its touch-screen display, users tap and “pinch” on web pages to bring the content into view. And while most web sites “should” work normally on the iPhone and iPod touch’s Mobile Safari, there are some additional tweaks web designers can make to their sites to enhance the user experience.

The title is “Optimizing Your Website for Mobile Safari: Ensuring Your Website Works on the iPhone and iPod touch”. Now available on O’reilly Safari as a Short Cut.

Here’s a list of dates of last-updated Apple products.¹

• Mac mini — Last updated on September 6, 2006
• iMac — Last updated on September 6, 2006
• Mac Pro — Last updated on August 7, 2006
• MacBook — Last updated on November 8, 2006
• MacBook Pro — Last updated on October 24, 2006
• iPod — Last updated on September 12, 2006
• iPod nano — Last updated on September 12, 2007
• iPod shuffle — Last updated on January 30, 2007.

My assumption is that full-screen iPods are delayed not for technical reasons, but delayed to avoid distracting customers into iPhone, which is scheduled to ship in June. Macs may have something to do with iPhone integration, but given the fact that iPhone is compatible with both Windows and Mac, it’s not a good reason.

This long release interval of Macs is possibly due to two reasons: one is the processor; the other is the OS. Now All Macs are based on Intel processors. Intel is soon releasing their new processors. Apple, I think, will adopt the new processors as soon as they are available on the market. The OS is another reason. In WWDC 2006, Apple announced that “Leopard” would be available in Spring. As we are all curious, Apple is still hiding “top secrets”. The security level of the “top secrets” seem to be fairly high. It hasn’t leaked anywhere. Developer seeds of “Leopard” have numerous enhancements not discussed in WWDC last year. Still none of them look like having “top secrets”. I speculate the security level is as high as that of iPhone. People weren’t sure how iPhone look and what it does until MWSF 2007. Even most critics were dubious about the existance of Apple’s plan of iPhone. Based on the experience we had about rumors of iPhone, can anybody have a concrete idea about “top secrets”?

I have no clue if Apple’s development on “Leopard” is on schedule or not. But, a recent leak on MacRumors indicates that “Leopard” will not ship anytime soon. Apparently developer seeds are not the same builds that Apple’s OS team, who are working on “top secrets”, have now.

The facts are:

• Recent developer seeds have a long list of known issues.
• Apple has been adding features to the seeds.
• The two facts above are about the Leopard without “top secrets”.
• In WWDC 2006, Apple annouced that Leopard would be available in Spring 2007.
• WWDC 2007 is scheduled for June 11-15.

In conclusion, Leopard is not the final stage of its development. Spring 2007 ends on June 30. This is the most boring season for me.²