iPad Release Day
Apr. 4th, 2010 01:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aI just had a moment of vertigo. The day has been so busy that I momentarily couldn't figure out if it were Saturday or Sunday. Whew. Saturday, check.
The busyness is of course because of iPad release day. I spent the week before last converting Money for the iPad and then last week, after recovering, I spent a bit of time prepping ourselves for the release with PR and such. So I've been in the middle of it for two weeks, leading up to today.
I thought for a while that I wasn't going to get my iPad today, as UPS missed delivering it on their normal Saturday dropoff around noon. However it turns out that they had so many iPads going to the Bay Area that they did an extra dropoff around 2pm.
The bad news is that when I got Money running on an actual iPad, I found it had some bugs. Two to be precise. (Two that I've found? I'll stick with just "two".) First, a graphic that's used for the sidebars isn't showing up--apparently because the iPad Simulator isn't case dependent in file name lookups and the iPad is, though I need to verify that on Monday (so that I can write about it if it's the case). Second, one of the outputs is messed up if you start the iPad in face-up orientation (e.g., parallel to the ground), because that's something that's uncheckable in the Simulator.
The good news is that neither of those bugs is likely to be noticeable to the average viewer. The missing graphic just results in white space which *could* have been intentional, though it's not attractive (or not as attractive if you know what should be there). The display bug only showed up when I really slouched on the couch.
The other good news is that I've already downloaded the release version of the SDK, fixed both bugs, and uploaded a fix. Hopefully Apple will be able to get that fix in for the next couple of days and definitely before the next wave of iPads hits.
(Hopefully no one will give us reviews dinging us on either bug before the fix goes out; not being able to test on the physical device before actual release is a real drag.)
Other lessons learned today: though the iPad does do emulation of iPhone apps, it's a wholly inferior experience to an actual iPad app. Caveat developer.
The busyness of the day has also been the result of: working on my history book; starting work on another eurogame app for a game created by a friend; and reading Jim Butcher's Changes, as libraries don't tend to pay any attention to street dates. (I've had it for days now and I've been very happy with it thus far, though I have some concerns that the theme of "changes" may be taken too far.)
And now it's off to read a bit before bed.
The busyness is of course because of iPad release day. I spent the week before last converting Money for the iPad and then last week, after recovering, I spent a bit of time prepping ourselves for the release with PR and such. So I've been in the middle of it for two weeks, leading up to today.
I thought for a while that I wasn't going to get my iPad today, as UPS missed delivering it on their normal Saturday dropoff around noon. However it turns out that they had so many iPads going to the Bay Area that they did an extra dropoff around 2pm.
The bad news is that when I got Money running on an actual iPad, I found it had some bugs. Two to be precise. (Two that I've found? I'll stick with just "two".) First, a graphic that's used for the sidebars isn't showing up--apparently because the iPad Simulator isn't case dependent in file name lookups and the iPad is, though I need to verify that on Monday (so that I can write about it if it's the case). Second, one of the outputs is messed up if you start the iPad in face-up orientation (e.g., parallel to the ground), because that's something that's uncheckable in the Simulator.
The good news is that neither of those bugs is likely to be noticeable to the average viewer. The missing graphic just results in white space which *could* have been intentional, though it's not attractive (or not as attractive if you know what should be there). The display bug only showed up when I really slouched on the couch.
The other good news is that I've already downloaded the release version of the SDK, fixed both bugs, and uploaded a fix. Hopefully Apple will be able to get that fix in for the next couple of days and definitely before the next wave of iPads hits.
(Hopefully no one will give us reviews dinging us on either bug before the fix goes out; not being able to test on the physical device before actual release is a real drag.)
Other lessons learned today: though the iPad does do emulation of iPhone apps, it's a wholly inferior experience to an actual iPad app. Caveat developer.
The busyness of the day has also been the result of: working on my history book; starting work on another eurogame app for a game created by a friend; and reading Jim Butcher's Changes, as libraries don't tend to pay any attention to street dates. (I've had it for days now and I've been very happy with it thus far, though I have some concerns that the theme of "changes" may be taken too far.)
And now it's off to read a bit before bed.