Happy new iPhone to you all! I ordered a iPhone 5s from Apple early morning on Friday, but unfortunately I wasn't quick enough to get in before shipping stretched out to 7-10 business days. (I ordered the 32GB Space Gray, in case you're curious.) So, I thought, "what the heck," got into my car, and drove over to the AT&T store at the Pacific Place mall in downtown Seattle. As luck would have it, when I arrived at 10:00AM, the line in front of me was only about 8 people long, and I was able to pick up one of the last 32GB Space Grays they had in stock. I would've been completely out of luck if I'd wanted less storage or one of the other colors.
Availability of Apple's new hardware is usually pretty tight, which makes the 5c especially interesting. It seems that, given its iPhone 5-like innards, Apple is having absolutely no problems meeting demand for it. Either that, or it's a flop, but I'd bet you a share of AAPL that it is absolutely not a flop. Most people I've talked to who want a new iPhone are basing their purchase decisions between the 5c and 5s entirely on price and color. I am not making this up. They recognize that the 5s is the more "premium" of the two, but aren't particularly aware of any other features, and therefore aren't basing their purchasing decisions on anything but those two aforementioned criteria.
Meanwhile, in case you haven't seen it already, Mixpanel is publishing stats on iOS 7 adoption. As of late last Saturday, iOS 7 usage exceeded iOS 6's. Pretty impressive. It only took two days. If you're starting work on a new iOS app, I don't think you should even consider supporting iOS 6. Existing app? Issue one more update and then pull the plug.
Best,
Aaron
What We're Reading
- Apple Market Share Facts and Psychology - I think the 5c is going to be ridiculously huge. My 70 year old mom is upgrading to it from the 3G (she wanted the pink 5c); I'm splitting the cost with her. I bet I'm not unusual in this. Whether it's parents or children buying an iPhone 5c for their loved ones, I bet a ton of people are going to buy a 5c for someone that is not them.
- iOS 7 Redesign: Before and After Pics
- The Dribbblization of Design
Control of the Week
FSImageViewer
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FSImageViewer is a photo viewer (photo gallery) for iOS with AFNetworking and caching. MIT licensed. |
Weekly Roundup
UIView+MWParallax
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UIView category which brings parallax effect like iOS 7 to iOS 6 and earlier Apache 2.0 licensed. |
OneBusAway
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The OneBusAway iPhone app. OneBusAway provides access to real-time arrival and schedule information for public transit vehicles operated in Seattle, Atlanta, Tampa, and beyond. For more information on setting up your own OBA region, visit http://onebusaway.org Apache 2.0 licensed. |
TheCapper
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iOS based utility for conveniently generating resizable UIImage code BSD licensed. |
IQIrregularView
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IQIrregularView is a UIView subclass, played with CAShapeLayer to create IrregularView. Irregular view responds to touches on only visible part of view i.e. CAShapeLayer.path. Suggestions and help accepted to improve this more. MIT licensed. |
AIMTableViewIndexBar
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Custom index bar for UITableView. Easy to customize, gives user great experience. Works on iOS 5.0 - 7.0. Tested with Xcode 4.6 and 5.0 MIT licensed. |
RATreeView
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RATreeView is a class designed to support implementation of the Tree View on IOS. Thanks to the great number of methods in delegate and data source protocols it is highly customizable. You can create Tree View with behaviour and look matched to your needs. It supports unlimited number of tree levels. Works on iOS 5.0+ (tested 6.1). Available via Cocoa Pods (Pod "RATreeView"). MIT licensed. |
ITShadowScrollView
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A simple subclass of NSScrollView that draws a shadow if appropriate License unspecified. |
RippleTableViewController
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TableViewController with ripple effect on scroll and tap. MIT licensed. |
ZGExpandZoomView
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just another Parallel Zoom Header image expand and zoom. Less than ten lines of code. Apache 2.0 licensed. |
ZGNavigationBarTitle
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ZGNavigationBarTitle -- Subtitle on NavigationBar with awesome animation. MIT licensed. |
AGPhotoBrowser
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A photo browser for iOS6 and iOS7 inspired by Facebook. Apache 2.0 licensed. |
TSActivityIndicatorView
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This is very simple view class that looks like an UIActivityIndicatorView but is fully customizable. It's great for you if you want to add indicator view to you game or app and it should be customized. If you use this class you can not only make circular Indicators, you can add images that are wide and have e.g. 3 rotating balls etc. (instead of one object which rotate in native UIActivityIndicator). Apache 2.0 licensed. |
Datatify
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Simple single class used to display network status change notification (switch between WIFI, 3G and No connection). MIT licensed. |
UAAppReviewManager
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UAAppReviewManager is a simple and lightweight App review prompting tool for iOS and Mac App Store apps. The average end-user will only write a review if something is wrong with your App. This leads to an unfairly negative skew in the ratings, when the majority of satisfied customers don’t leave reviews and only the dissatisfied ones do. In order to counter-balance the negatives, UAAppReviewManager prompts the user to write a review, but only after the developer knows they are satisfied. For example, you may only show the popup if the user has been using it for more than a week, and has done at least 5 significant events (the core functionality of your App). The rules are fully customizable for your App and easy to setup. MIT licensed. |
ABMToolbox
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iOS classes and categories for UIAppearance and UITableView MIT licensed. |
JNWCollectionView
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A customizable and performant collection view for the Mac. MIT licensed. |
AIMBalloon
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Example control showing how to use UIDynamicAnimator in iOS 7. In addition it shows how to create CAShapeLayer which reacts to gravity. MIT licensed. |
RPTokenControl
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A re-implementation of NSTokenField that works out some of the bugs, supports Cocoa bindings, allows token size to vary with "count" of item (tag cloud), can append count to item text. Various cosmetic effects. Based on "Tag Cloud View" originally published by Robert Pointon. I need to add Accessibility support but other than that it works pretty good. Manual retain/release. Public Domain licensed. |