by Junaid Ahmed | Sep 10, 2012 | Apple
Apple on September 4th informed their list of media, bloggers and other content creating companies to come see them at the Yerba Buena Center in San francisco to announce something we’ve all been waiting for.
With an announcement on September 12th for the iPhone 5 (6th gen device) along with possibly other items. It will also means that they’re going to discontinue iPhone 3GS 8GB (which was free with 2 yr contract) and drop the price on iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 making it an even more compelling reason to pick up an iPhone.
These are my guesses for the pricing structure on the iPhone lineup.
- iPhone 4 8GB free (with 2 yr contract or no contract)
- iPhone 4S 8GB $99 (with 2 yr contract)
- iPhone 5 16GB $199 (—– ditto —–)
- iPhone 5 32GB $299 (—– ditto —–)
- iPhone 5 64GB $399 (—– ditto —–)
All of these devices will be available in both black & white, the new one might have more color options but that is just a rumor. The carriers expected to carry the new iPhone 5 will be AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile (possible) and Verizon.
It’s also rumored to have support for LTE networks.
Let’s see what happens on the 12th 🙂
I can hardly wait!!
by Junaid Ahmed | Jun 11, 2012 | Apple
Apple today announce iOS 6 with 200 new features and focused on 10 features in the keynote. I just finished downloading it and cannot wait to install it on my iPhone 4S. Apple also updated iTunes to version 10.6.3 for everyone which lets you install the new OS to your iOS devices as well as to update Apple TV 2nd and 3rd gen.
by Junaid Ahmed | Jun 4, 2012 | News
I was referred to a great video today posted by the CEO Michael Lazerow of BuddyMedia 2 hours after he had signed a deal with Salesforce. I’m very proud and inspired by his life.
Here’s the video that brought tears of happiness and warm fuzziness to me: http://youtu.be/LjwEfaxM4Bc
It’s a great lesson to be learned and a quote by Gandi “The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.” I’m amazingly inspired by this video and the journey Michael took to get to this point. Kudos to Michael and BuddyMedia!
Thank You Michael!
by Junaid Ahmed | May 30, 2012 | Lifestyle
Job Searching, what to do when you’re down in the dumps and have recently been laid off? Well it’s pretty awesome times right now to be able to be at 10 places at the same time, or ever more if you’re up to the challenge.
With the greatest times that we’re in right now, its so easy to apply for jobs and search for a job in the career that you’re interested in. I’m not going to waste your time with what to do and what not to do, because tell you the truth.. you already know what to do. I’m just going to point you in the places that I found interesting and which are very different from all the other places that give you the ability to apply for jobs.
The key is to have your finalized resume open at all times and then visit the following sites and start building your profiles on each and everyone of them. The key to being found by companies is by having your resume up everywhere that you can think about, the following list will be a perfect start, please feel free to add a website that I probably missed out in listing it here.
Jobfox.com – This is the most comprehensive site that I’ve been using for quite a time as it matches your experience with the openings in their database.
by Junaid Ahmed | May 24, 2012 | Software
We’ve all been reading rumors about Retina displays for Mac since December 2011, and with the arrival of the new iPad with a retina display, the updates to the current OS X (Lion to include @2x icons) hardware specs aiming for graphics with very high resolution capabilities. It’s no wonder why the rumors make sense. WWDC 2012’s icon displaying the tons of screens representing iPhones, iPod Touch and iPads is another hint.
From a developers point of view and looking at the resolutions of iPhone 4/4S and iPad (3rd gen) we’re some trouble designing for retina iPad with a resolution of 2048×1536 which is higher than any display smaller than a 30″ apple cinema display to show the entire view of the retina iPad. We’ve having to design for a 1024×768 resolution on our MacBook Pro 17″ or a hi-res MacBook Pro 15″ (with 1680×1050, which barely fits the iPad in portrait mode) plenty of scrolling to see the screen, infact designing for iPhone 4/4S’s retina display with 960×640 resolution we’re cramped a little in portrait mode.
When laying out the storyboard in Xcode we’re presented with a 1x design/layout of the iPad and as you add screens and views the display again feels cramped and you have to keep zooming out and then back in and eventually we start using the sidebar for the storyboard.
The iPhone is also displayed in 1x when laying out the storyboard and as you add more screens you start scrolling a lot (which is much easier when using a mouse or touchpad thanks to the gestures)
A retina display mac would rightly be in place as it’ll let the user display the entirity of the iPad or iPhone display as we’re testing the app we’re building in the iPhone Simulator and wouldn’t have to switch between retina and regular.
As rumored a 15″ MacBook Pro would have a retina resolution of 2880 (reg. 1440) x 1800 (reg. 900) which would easily fit a retina display of a retina iPad (2048×1536) in landscape but not so much in protrait thats where the higher res (1680×1050) 3360×2100 would be perfect to display a portrait retina iPad and portrait retina iPhone along with the ability to layout storyboards with out a lot of scrolling.
And if they continue the tradition with a 17″ MBP with 3820*2400 would make it a blast to design clean UI for the retina displays.
So I’m looking forward to these new MacBooks with sick retina displays and beefy graphics from nVidia.
Update: I just noticed in the iOS Simulator that I can use the scale-down feature when simulating using the retina display modes by up to 50%. They did think of everything 🙂
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