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Actionable notifications: The opposite of widgets
Last week I ruminated out loud about whether or not Apple needs to redesign the iOS Home screen. We've continued to discuss it on the podcast and in the forums and I realized something: as much as it'd...
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The 4 inch iPhone
If Apple changes to a 4-inch screen in the next iPhone (iPhone 5,1), how could they do it while minimizing impact on users and developers? Assuming everyone wants a bigger screen, how does Apple...
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How Apple could provide direct document access in iOS 6
The Photos app has provided a centralized iOS image repository for years. A Files app would bring the same functionality to iOS documents.For a couple of years now, before every major release of iOS,...
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The 16:9 iPhone
A few days ago rumors began to focus on the idea that Apple was moving to a 4-inch screen on the iPhone 5 (or whatever Apple ends up calling iPhone 5,1). I went through the mental exercise of mocking...
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iOS 6: Is it time for Apple to revamp the multitasking fast app switcher?
A look at the history of mobile multitasking and how Apple could implement better fast app switching in iOS 6At Macworld 2007 Steve Jobs showed off mobile Safari's Page switching interface, but despite...
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iOS 6: Higher hanging fruit
Features and functionality from Android, BlackBerry, webOS, Windows Phone and more, still ripe for iOS 6 inspirationWhat will Apple bring to iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with iOS 6? What will be the...
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iOS 6: A fresh coat of paint
A brief look at the history of Apple's mobile UI, and what hints it may hold for iOS 6Sometimes you break out the sledge hammer. Sometimes you knock down the walls and rebuild from scratch. Palm did...
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History of the iOS App Store
Where the App Store is, where competitors are, and what Apple could do to better the platform for developers, users, and themselves in iOS 6As much as what Apple may or may not do with iOS 6 will...
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Podcast app, Power Nap, and how the future of iOS will be automated
One of the more intriguing aspects of both iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion is the way in which Apple is further enabling intelligent background activity when iPhones, iPads, and Macs are otherwise...
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Solving for 7: How Apple could implement the iPad mini interface
There's been a lot of discussion surrounding why Apple would release an iPad mini, but maybe even more concerning how Apple would go about implementing it. iMore originally heard back in May that the...
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iOS 7 wants: Album art centered on Lock screen
Album art has never been perfectly centered on the iPhone or iPod touch Lock screens. It's been placed immediately on top of the slide-to-unlock bar. Because of the 3:2 aspect ratio of previous iPhone...
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Would you want an iPad 5 that looks and feels just like an iPad mini?
It's not rocket science. Apple's continuously working on next-generation iPad prototypes. Given the realities of time, technology, and economics, they're seeing how far they can go and how quickly....
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Imagining a 5-inch iPhone
Never mind rumors of an awkwardly named 4.8-inch "iPhone Math", the concept of a much larger iPhone has been floating about ever since the realities of early LTE chipsets -- and the batteries that came...
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Imagining an all-aluminium themed iOS 7
Skeuomorphism -- the use of real world design in a digital context -- has been a target lately. It's also been lumped together with heavy design, elaborate themes, or highly textured skins, to the...
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iOS 7 and my continued, unrequited desire for a Files.app!
Every year, for the lastthreeyears, I've asked Apple to consider what amounts to a Files.app and FilePicker control in iOS. It would be analogous to the Photos.app and ImagePicker control, but allow us...
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iOS 7 wants: Actionable notifications and push interface
Notification Center debuted in iOS 5 and began transforming Apple's old, unscalable, modal alert system into something less obtrusive and more robust. Unfortunately, iOS 6 spent so much time setting up...
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