Eight years ago, I watched a TED talk by Jeff Han on his innovative research into multitouch displays. Little did I know at the time that less than a year later, Steve Jobs would walk onto the stage at MacWorld to demonstrate not just a research prototype, but a real product that would be available to consumers just months later[1]. Last week marked the seven year anniversary of Jobs' introduction of the iPhone. The effect that the iPhone and iOS (and later the iPad) have had on the technology industry, Apple, and our daily lives cannot be overstated.
Smartphones are no longer unusual devices reserved for early adopters or Fortune 500s, but have become the norm. Keyboard and dialpad-equipped phones are on their way out, and YouTube is stuffed to the gills with pre-verbal children poking confusedly at magazines, expecting them to respond to their touches. Seven years ago, Apple changed not just the technology industry, but the way that we interact with each other forever.
Best,
Aaron
What We're Reading
- Friday Q&A: Let's Break Cocoa
- Seven Years Ago Today, Steve Jobs Introduced the iPhone
- A Postmortem of Failed Products
Control of the Week
SAMultisectorControl
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SAMultisectorControl allows you to create multiselect control with beautiful design and circular structure. It allows users to change values in an easy way. MIT licensed. |
Weekly Roundup
iOS-WebP
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Image encoding and decoding based on Google's WebP format. MIT licensed. |
P2MSStoryboard
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Animate the objects by simple instructions without requiring code Check https://github.com/ptwoms/P2MSStoryboard for more information Apache 2.0 licensed. |
FDSoundActivatedRecorder
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Start recording when the user speaks MIT licensed. |
Country List
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Provides a View Controller with Country List along with Calling Code and Country Code. CC BY 3.0 licensed. |
M13ProgressSuite
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A suite containing many tools to display progress information on iOS. So far the suite contains: A interchangeable set of progress views of different styles. All the progress views are based on the same superclass, allowing any of them to be switched with any other easily. A progress bar for UINavigationBar that works like Apple's Messages app. It also has the added feature of having an indeterminate style. A HUD overlay that works over any UIView. Uses the M13ProgressView class to allow easy customizability of the progress view. A progress view that is styled like terminal. Complete documentation and examples for each class. MIT licensed. |
OCBorghettiView
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An easy to use accordion view component for iOS. It was named after Renato Borghetti, a Brazilian folk musician and composer who works on the traditional style from his home state of Rio Grande do Sul. Borghetti's main instrument is the diatonic button accordion (known as 'gaita' in Brazilian Portuguese). MIT licensed. |
FSRotatingCamera
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Class helper that uses MKMapCamera to rotate around a coordinate MIT licensed. |
NewsMagazineApp
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Simple way to get informed. (Flipboard Like App) MIT licensed. |
Doppio
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An open source sample iOS app to find the nearest Starbucks store using NSURLSession, AFNetworking 2.0, Mantle and Starbucks private API. MIT licensed. |
KKColorListPicker
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Color list picker for iOS > 7.0 with Crayola colors MIT licensed. |
ADDropDownMenuView
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ADDropDownMenuView is an iOS navigation drop down style view MIT licensed. |
DRPaginatedScrollView
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Implement a paginated scroll view really easily using blocks.
Public Domain licensed. |
DPLocalization
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Provide easy way to change localization inside application. MIT licensed. |
FCOverlay
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FCOverlay allows you to present a new view controller hierarchy in a new window. When you present a view controller via one of the provided methods it is presented in a new window on top of all existing windows (including those previously generated by FCOverlay). The new window is transparent so you can use this to create HUD's, alerts etc... (run the example project to get some inspiration). MIT licensed. |
AMSlideMenu
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Sliding Menu for iOS (Left and Right menus) MIT licensed. |
NZAlertView
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Simple and intuitive alert view. Similar to push notification effect. MIT licensed. |
UIImage-Helpers
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UIImage category. Create a blurred images, take a screenshot, make a image with color... MIT licensed. |
PullToRefreshWP8
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Simple Pull to Refresh Control for iOS. Inspired by WP8. MIT licensed. |
Sidebar-Reveal-Taasky
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Sidebar like in Taasky app. Uses Paperfold under the hood. MIT licensed. |
SSPopupHeaderView
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This is a simple header view that can be used to make it look like your view is coming from a UINavigationBarItem item. MIT licensed. |
ZoomPopup
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A popup that zooms out of the underlaying view. The content can be any view, button, image, ... It zooms out in a smooth way and displays the popup above a darkened or blurred background. Even on OSes below iOS 7. The test app is very simple. It creates a dummy tableview and shows it in a popup while the background is dimmed. MIT licensed. |
NSEnumeratorLinq
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LINQ implementation on Obj-C NSEnumerator MIT licensed. |
REDActionSheet
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Tweetbot-style action sheet. Video: http://taylorswift.ly/T8B4 MIT licensed. |