Ryan Block » software http://ryanblock.com Editor and technology critic in the midst of founding a new web startup: gdgt. Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:38:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Podcaster: what you’re missing in the app Apple rejected http://ryanblock.com/2008/09/podcaster-what-youre-missing-in-the-app-apple-rejected/ http://ryanblock.com/2008/09/podcaster-what-youre-missing-in-the-app-apple-rejected/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:11:32 +0000 Ryan Block http://www.ryanblock.com/?p=1309
In light of last week’s controversy over Podcaster, pal Niall took a deeper look inside the App Store process for developers, and what may lead to some apps being rejected. I got a chance to check out Podcaster and kick its wheels a bit — it’s definitely early software, but I can certainly say it’s a real shame the app is getting pushback from Apple (besides all the obvious reasons). If you’re anything like me, podcasts are the content on your device that is most frequently changed or updated, and the inability to do this over the air (or even over WiFi) seems like both a misstep on Apple’s part, as well as a huge opportunity — which appears to be roadblocked. Think I’ll be writing more about this whole thing soon.

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So I was looking over my Macworld 2007 keynote coverage the other day and noticed something just about everyone — myself included — glossed over as the months passed between its January introduction and June launch: the iPhone once had a two-pane email client. (You can even see the view mode selector up top! This later became the edit button.)

Anyone who knows me and my email-addicted ways knows how desperately I loathe the iPhone’s mail client, and, given its frequency of use, how much I wish they’d improve it. Apple: three simple steps to make email nerds like me happy.

  1. Add delete for multiple / all messages.
  2. Fix the annoying bug that just lets the iPhone idle while some HTML messages are not downloaded / parsed.
  3. Give us (back) the two-pane view mode!

That’s not so hard, now is it? One more minor email client diff after the break.

iPhone email direction change
Oh yeah, and they nixed the “x of y” messages indicator in the email selector.

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