If you have any questions, you can post them here and I may try to ask them ... though no promises.
- Anthony Ha
"Why did it take so long to get cut and paste? It seems so obvious." Apple: Well, uh, actually, no, not that simple. Great question, Time Magazine.
- Anthony Ha
Access other people itunes libraries through p2p feature? Not included in built-in itunes application, there may or may not be ways to make that happen.
- Anthony Ha
Question about more transparency about what apps are acceptable in the app store. Apple: "the numbers speak for themselves." Bringing up item that I don't think I got a chance to mention earlier: 98 percent of apps that get approved are aprpoved in seven days.
- Anthony Ha
More on transparency: majority of our communication is about technical issues, also about language, pronography, privacy, which they say is stuff all mentioned in developer agreement.
- Anthony Ha
"We have a great solution that's working, and we're constantly amking it better."
- Anthony Ha
And that's the end of the Q&A. They didn't call on me, alas. Many people still had their hands up.
- Anthony Ha
Engadget asking question about performance issues, like lagginess, stutteriness. "We absolutely take performance very seriously." Demo units were more laggy than standard units. "addressing it in a number of ways."
Don't hurt yourself patting yourself on the back Sieg
- Adam Valentine
Let's all pitch in to get MG a medal :)
- Mike Nayyar
Spotlight just KILLED the best reason to Jailbreak - QuickGold. Wow!
- vijay
SOunds like Apple has been paying attention to the jailbreaking crowd and seeing what works/doesn't and are making 'must have" JB apps now a part of the legit OS.
- Josh Haley
@Josh does this mean we can expect a legit Qik app soon? ;)
- Mike Nayyar
@Mike supposedly a legit SlingPlayer is in the works...streaming video is streaming video, no? I hope so.
- Josh Haley
Pretending to "walk in the shoes" of Maddy, a 15-year-old girl with diabetes.
- Anthony Ha
This would be excellent for my father.
- Mike Nayyar
At lunchtime, Maddy has to decide how much insulin to take to cover her meal. She has to prick her finger to make this test.
- Anthony Ha
Here it is: LifeScan remote patient monitoring of glucose levels. THis is a potential killer app for iPhone as health care gets automated
- Francine Hardaway
Meter can now transmit the insulin reading to her iPhone
- Anthony Ha
The diabetes app is really useful, not just cool for geeks
- Francine Hardaway
Maddy can then email her parents with her glucose numbers and how she's feeling to her parents.
- Anthony Ha
so... wouldn't it make more sense for the pricky instrument to do the calculation?
- Nate True
carb counter is a cool thing to have anyway.
- Josh Haley
Nate has a point. But it is geeky - so there Nate.
- Roberto Bonini
Nate: Good point. Embed all this in the monitor.
- Ken Sheppardson
App also allows her graph her readings over time, then drill in on specific readings.
- Anthony Ha
Blood glucose monitor could run Andoir/webOS
- Ken Sheppardson
Don't get me wrong, some of the stuff this app does is *cool* but probably doesn't justify the price tag of a bluetooth-enabled glucose monitor
- Nate True
If it automated pushing data to your digital health records, for authorized family to check on, for sure
- Christian Burns
Automated online data pushing will require opt in, I think
- Francine Hardaway
That's unsurprising. Battery life is bad enough now
- Francine Hardaway
Re: Background processes. How about let the customer decide what's good for them?
- Tony Ruscoe
Damn it! Let the customer decide that!
- Mark Philpot
Test of IM app that runs in background: standby time of phone dropped by 80 percent or more.
- Anthony Ha
Tried using similar app with push notification, standby time of phone only dropped by 23 percent.
- Anthony Ha
So they've decided on push rather than background processes on the basis of battery life tradeoffs?
- Francine Hardaway
Continuing with instant messaging example to illustrate how push notification works.
- Anthony Ha
The apple push notification service has a persistent connection through the phone.
- Anthony Ha
Three types of notifications: badge, audio alerts, text alerts. Text alerts can include button to go straight to apps.
- Anthony Ha
LOL I called this. I knew they had to scrap the previous arch.
- Bwana ☠
well, i like the idea of push IM - it really will be handy. right now it's nearly useless.
- Karoli
The reason they're doing this is because "it scales"
- Anthony Ha
Oh yeah, he also said it maintains performance of phone.
- Anthony Ha
"We're doing all the hard work for you."
- Anthony Ha
Push vs background also gives them a way to deny jailbreakers, no?
- Ken Sheppardson
I really hope it doesn't let apps hijack your phone: imagine being in an app, and another app pushes a notification, quitting you out of your other app, to advertise something.
- Mark Trapp
From the Gizmodo liveblog: This means no background apps YET. This means something is in the future when battery problem can be solved?
- Mike Nayyar
It won't. Current SMS alerts don't do that, and that's what they're modeled after.
- Nate True
Nope. i still have many freinds who arn't on any Social Netwroking service.
- Roberto Bonini
How long is the battery life on the iPhone nowadays anyway?
- Brian Chang
Ranges from half a day of heavy use to 2 days of light use for me and the folks I know.
- Nate True
Yeah, nate is about right. More if you turn off 3G, BlueTooth and Wi-Fi when they are not needed
- Roberto Bonini
Ouch, yeah, I can see why they're concerned about background apps draining battery life. I have 2 BlackBerries, and they run at minimum 4 background apps full time. With light use even with background apps, I can swing at least 2 days out of the battery. If the iPhone is only getting that without background apps, it's probably wiser to hold off until they can improve the battery.
- Brian Chang
Unfortunately Apple has an obsession with things being 0.001 inches thinner than the last model every time, so bigger battery not likely :(
- Nate True
Push notification with location apps like foursquare will be killer
- Mike Nayyar
