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It was on one of the early versions of the Yelp iOS app as well. Don't really remember if it was there on day one, but I remember playing around with it in iOS 2 or 3.
Exactly. It’s an abstraction, you will always be a few libraries and components away from implementing what you actually want, but that’s a lot to build on just to use a system provided tool. For instance, I’m working on upgrading my company’s app to use iOS 11’s new password auto fill APIs. All it needs is for you to set the UITextField’s contentType properly to one of a dozen enumerated values, in this case Username and Password. React Native doesn’t expose that propertie on the TextField component however, so I have to either build my own extension on top of the TextField component or form the React Native project and submit a PR to get this feature working, a feature that’s explicitly supposed to be painless to implement. There are so many cases like this around React Native, the community mindset is usually just to find another dependency to integrate.
Correct. Every React Native component actually renders into a native view, so on iOS if you use a View (RN) it maps to a UIView when React Native actually builds the UI.
Yes, that is certainly possible. It doesn’t have to be 100% either way, you could do any combination of React Native and proper Native you want.
Could not agree more. There are certainly benefits to using React Native, especially when bootstrapping an app and you've already got a React shop, but once your app and user base gets larger it creates a serious barrier to actually taking advantage of the native platform and it's capabilities.
Certainly does, which is why our score went down last year before Trump took office.
I think they're trying to say that the democracy is now worse because we have a leader who is lying to the media, threatening voting rights based on unsupported claims, silencing scientists from sharing publicly funded research, and is charging journalists with felony charges for covering protests against him.
Even if they don't sell it, their business model requires that they have access to it. Apple's argument here is that they don't have it.
A good precedent has already been set for this. The first iPhone got two major updates, iOS 4.0 being the first version that didn't support it. The 3GS added an extra year to the lifespan, launching with iOS 3.0 and only being left out of support for iOS 7. The 4S added even another year, recently having received the fourth major update of it's lifespan.
So yeah, while there is certainly some performance lost on a 4S running iOS 9, it's not nearly as bad as the original iPad running iOS 5, or the original iPhone running iOS 3. I imagine the 6S will easily be able to handle iOS XV.
Also noteworthy is that the only iPad not still receiving updates is the original model, meaning the iPad 2 has received the most major updates of any iOS device at five.
I think there is a public image component to Ive as well. The image of Jobs' era at Apple is Ive and him running the show. As great as Tim Cook is doing in the CEO position, Ive is still seen by many as the remaining influence of Jobs. Regardless of his day to day responsibilities having him at Apple in some design role allows them to keep that perception. If he were to leave I think it will have a very negative impact on stock.
I really like Estimote, but it seems like they're selling premium hardware in a space that's racing to the bottom. Most beacons really don't need the temperature sensors or accelerometers. I finally got my nearables order last month, over six months after the first promised delivery date, and as great as those are ten dollars each is still a bit much IMO. Their solid SDK and developer relationships aren't going to matter too much if stuff like Facebook's beacons take off, making it so that businesses don't even need people to download an extra app.
Correct. You cannot just sign up and get a free 1 PM cloud storage account. The more registered users you have, the more storage space you are allocated. If you go over your allowed storage space you start moving into the paid tier.
The goal isn't to be secure. As far as I understand it would basically be similar to Starbuck's current mobile payment service, where the scanner reads the code which maps directly to an account and processes the transaction. No two way communication.
They've actually set the number of permission groups to 8. But at least you can accept/decline each individually.
EDIT: The permission groups are
Location
Camera
Microphone
Contacts
Phone
SMS
Calendar
Sensor
I think it's perfectly acceptable to expect that the enthusiasts will be the ones to preserve the things they love that fall out of favor. I enjoy driving on a nice empty road as well, but I don't think it's something that "need[s] to be preserved." It's something we have to do that we've learned to enjoy and do more than we need to. If it stops being something we have to do it's up to us to make time to do it for pleasure.
As far as I know the Apple Watch is the only one that doesn't sync to a server somewhere. All data is kept stored in HealthKit on your device.
Moving the space app centric is a pretty big deal for me at least. Even if it requires teathering to a phone, and with the performance issues, it's a big step above the notification centric nature of Android Wear. Plus the ability to run on wifi and stay connected with the phone.
Not saying the device isn't worthy of most of its criticisms, but let's not pretend this is and iOS-ified version of Android Wear.
I recently started watching live TV through a digital antenna and SlingTV, and I've actually seen a handful of ads for Google. I've only seen one or two search ads, but a bunch for Android thought their new "Be different, not the same" campaign. Still, many more than I've seen for Facebook.
They're competing to create the most compelling ecosystem. If people are lead to believe that Android+Android Wear is a better pair than iPhone+Apple Watch then people will switch.
They use Square, so you set up a payment method attached to your phone number, and they use your phone number to check out.
It creates a higher demand for green energy production.
But I'd imagine that if a society were starting over there would still be a lot to be learned, even with whatever guides were left behind. These animations could serve as a starting point for engineers to work from, discovering problems and solutions along the way. As far as sheer information density goes, I think these get a large amount done even if there is much left out.
Objectification and viewing private photos without consent ≠ Love and Attraction
Chomp was much more than the results interface though. There were filters and suggested alternatives to make your queries more specific. The closes the official App Store has come to this is the Trending Apps section in iOS 8, which still doesn't help me find apps I'm specifically looking for but don't come up in the first half dozen results of a search.
Apple doesn't usualky care if someone else did something first though. If they decided the Hamburger Menu works well in particular use cases, and want to use it in an app of theirs at some point in the future, they'll just drop it into a new iOS SDK and hope everyone forgets about this advise.
If the subject you'd like to bring to discussion is the quote, post the quote. If you want to bring up a humorous Twitter account dealing with security concerns, post the Twitter account. Reposting a meme posted by that account doesn't serve either purpose very well.
Interesting, it certainly gives an explanation to the not very clear "Why do we need this equation to get people off the planet" question, but then why build the ship as a cylinder (which by design takes advantage of centrifugal force) if they're going to use localized gravity to keep things on the ground? I assumed they had taken advantage of gravity manipulation to save on immense fuel costs of getting the giant payload out of Earth's gravity well, and used centrifugal force while en route.
The ball scene at the end happened because the ball hit the 'escape velocity' of the spherical habitat, which allowed it to break the gravitation pull of centrifugal force and get caught by the other side. I don't see how this references the fact that being sent near and even into the black hole didn't cause some massive time differences between the two scientists as it did earlier in the film.
Certainly, but my problem is that they then take up space on my computer and will put up a badge for app updates. I can guarantee that those apps will never be synced to a device.
It works that way for videos. If I purchase a movie from iTunes it gives me the options to download it or not. The movie is available to stream (actually watch while it downloads, but the difference is indistinguishable) from other devices, so a similar option to avoid downloading the app into iTunes and get badges for updates would be nice.