By Hathem Brand
It’s mid-September, and for techheads that can only mean one thing: The iPhone 5 is now up for grabs on store shelves. In retrospect, have the cynics (and conversely, the promoters) been proven right? Did the iPhone 5 really deserve the waves of hype it made on the tech front?
Let’s go over some of the most prominent promises made and kept.
The A6 chip
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An Apple patent (number 201202237) shows that Apple is working on ways for cursors in Mac OS X to more easily transition based on where it’s located on screen and what activity is underway at the time.
Responsive to a trigger event, a first cursor state having a first visual appearance is transitioned into a second cursor state having a second visual appearance. A transition type and transition time can be specified so that the transition can be visually perceived by a user. The cursor states can be associated with different cursor types and/or cursor schemes.
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An Apple patent (number 20120233569) for managing user interface control panels on the Mac has appeared at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
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Apple has filed a patent (number 2012022970) with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for “zoom indication for stabilizing unstable video clips.” It involves the improved stabilization feature found on the iPhone 5 and latest iPod touch, as well as its various video editing applications.
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Yesterday’s Apple media event held no major surprises. The iPhone 5, a new iTunes, a new iPod touch and a new iPod nano were revealed — as everyone expected. There was no iPad mini, 13-inch Retina display MacBook Pro or updated iMac announcements. But they’re coming.
With that in mind, here are some random thoughts that occurred to me during the media event:
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