I just said to Tracy "I'm going to read my book" and picked up my Kindle.
I don't think I'd ever say that about an iPad – even if the reading experience was superior – because an iPad will always be a computer first; everything else is secondary. The Kindle was designed to replace books, not let you read books, watch movies, listen to music, browse the web and play games.
If you're building a single-purpose device there shouldn't be any compromises with the design, and the overall experience while using it for its sole task should always be more enjoyable than with a multipurpose competitor.
I don't want my Kindle to do more, I just want it to be better at what it already does.
A couple weeks ago I announced my intent to codename all my future projects after Steven Seagal movies.
My first Seagal-themed project is off to a roaring start, and I built a custom DMG packaging script purely so I could force the beta testers to look at Seagal's (self described?) "striking and somewhat boyishly handsome" mug while they rush to install the latest build of my project.
Beta testers, this is what you have to look forward to for the next release!
Since OS X 10.5 a command called PlistBuddy has been available.
It's useful for things like extracting the version number out of your Info.plist during a Run Script Build Phase.
PlistBuddy wasn't in my existing path, I found it at /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy
Example Usage
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print :CFBundleVersion" Info.plist
Outputs: 0.14, or whatever the value of the CFBundleVersion key in Info.plist is.
Today Google released Google Latitude for the iPhone, something BlackBerry and Android users have been enjoying for quite some time.
One paragraph in particular jumped out at me, emphasis mine:
We worked closely with Apple to bring Latitude to the iPhone in a way Apple thought would be best for iPhone users. After we developed a Latitude application for the iPhone, Apple requested we release Latitude as a web application in order to avoid confusion with Maps on the iPhone, which uses Google to serve maps tiles.
So Google was working "closely" with Apple, built a native iPhone application for Latitude, and then Apple essentially rejected it and told them to build a web application. Isn't building an entire application only to have it wholly rejected one of the leading complaints about the nightmarish App Store approval process?
