[FRIAM] iPhone at WWDC07.moscone.SF (no Apple Proprietary content, I promise!)

[Douglas Roberts]

It's interesting to observe how when one of the LANL staff members escapes
the present evil, oppressive, water table-polluting, Plutonium-manufacturing
funding-threatened corporate environment of Los Alamos for a week of techie
fun in the Real World, they open up, becoming positive cheerful little
chatterboxes!

;-}

Myself, I can't *wait* to hear how the iPhone is going to help LANL and DHS
(and whatever darker forces can be brought to bear) to make this a safer,
more secure Homeland.

;-} ;-}

--Doug

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On 6/12/07, steve smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
>
> allright Boys (& Girls )-
>
>
> I'm at the WWDC07 and as you can imagine the Buzz is all around the
> iPhone.
>
> I didn't think to keep you guys up to date until I checked my FRIAM
> mailbox today.
> Maybe I even assumed one or more of you were here at the Moscone with
> me... I
> haven't seen a single familiar face (except for Jobs himself!)... back
> in the day I
> couldn't go to a conference without seeing a dozen familiar faces (and
> all of them
> older than I).  The median age here is about 30 I think...
>
> My purposes.
> I'm here to get early intel on the iPhone (those of you from Sandia,
> close your ears)
> so we (LANL) can get the jump on our competitors (you too Doug...
> fingers in ears
> now... lalalalalLAlalaLALalalaLaaaa!  you caaaaan't hear me!) in the
> arena of mobile
> applications for Homeland Security (and darker forces too).  From here I
> proceed to
> the HIFLD all-hazards workshop in San Diego (Thursday-Friday).
>
> Development Environment.
> It is, as expected, very closed except via Safari using AJAX.   Apple
> folks here
> (numbering about 1000 vs the 5000 attendees!) are very adamant that they
> will
> not be supporting Java or Flash.   JavaScript, QuickTime, GoogleMaps are
> the
> only announced native extensions beyond HTML.  I attended a VERY
> informative
> session on developing web services for the iPhone... it covered a lot of
> obvious
> but also subtle things.  More detail below.
>
>
> iPhone/ATT/unlocking.
> There is no reason to believe Apple will openly or deliberately unlock
> the phone...
> I'm pretty sure their deal with ATT precludes this somehow for some
> time.   Unless
> there is a non-US version.   That doesn't mean you won't be able to get
> one unlocked...
> I just don't know how yet.
>
> A nearly as important announcement was Safari for Winderz and
> VisterWinderz...
> looks like Jobs is going after Gates' ankles again.   The buzz (outside
> WWDC) is
> that Safari sucks and will never catch up with, much less beat it's
> competition...
> of course they mix their implications here as it is only Firefox they
> claim to be
> superior, not IE... and they don't acknowledge that Apple's tech folks
> have pulled
> some pretty fancy rabbits out of their hats/sleeves/armpits in the past,
> and there is
> no reason that Safari as the Dark Horse can't pull ahead and kick dust
> in IE's face
> as it blows past.  Especially with the iPhone development/compatibility
> angle.
>
> GooglePhone.
> There are *lots* of GoogleBrats here.  Some great T-shirts... logos with
> the myriad
> variations on the Goo(ooo)gle  they used to put up for holidays.   There
> is NO buzz
> about Google blowing the iPhone out of the water with their own
> device.   I think
> Apple and Google are playing nice this year (decade?), maybe/probably
> double-teaming
> Redmond like young Coyotes going up against an old, overweight  Cougar.
> The
> WinderzMobile crowd are likely to try to respond... they've had plenty
> of warning, no?
>
> iPhone detail.
>
> multi-touch and double-tap
> Yes.   The multi-touch is that inspired/demonstrated by Han (at TED?)
> last year.
> Nothing was said about their relationship... if any though and they call
> it "pinch-mode"
> s maybe they are not on friendly terms with Han (perhaps they have been
> developing
> multi-touch for decades and Han scooped them?).  In any case, it is key
> to using the iPhone
> effectively.
>
> double-tap is the related trick for contextual zooming.   It can bring
> up a "block" such as text or image or table to full-screen or it can
> zoom text.
> There was  a whole session on the subtleties of designing for this
> device w/o
> making bad design decisions for other things... I'm not sure what is
> proprietary
> and what is not... look for tutorials coming soon.  Apple wants as many
> web apps
> to run well on the phone on June 29 as possible.
>
> The point was made that a finger is not a mouse... they use single fingers
> in 4 modes (including mouse) and two fingers (pinch-mode) in
>
> The high points were:
>     Use columns for text.
>     Don't use frames
>     Separate CSS from HTML
>     use their (added) Viewport (Meta) tags to hint
>
> I didn't do justice to this "report" and I need to go back to my "day job"
> (LANL-over-the-wire) before COB... (too late)!
>
> - Steve
> PS.  We get a beta of Leapord to mess with... it has some kewl features.
>
>
>
>
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