Those Flurry folks are clever. Sifting through their app usage data, they identified usage from approximately 50 devices originating from — and never leave — Apple’s campus that appear to be the tablet.
The data suggests the device will run iPhone OS, specifically an as-yet unreleased iPhone 3.2 OS. The company tracked application usage over more than 200 apps, and noted an emphasis on news, books and other daily media consumption apps.
Read their analysis for details.
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Matthew Frederick 01.25.10 at 2:54 pm
I have an unfounded-but-strong-gut-feeling that the “3.2″ designation is an intentional mislead. No need to call it “4.0″ until it’s actually released.
Billy Gray 01.25.10 at 3:04 pm
+1 Matthew, it’s just a user-agent string, could be for misleading, could be for testing an incremental rev of iPhone OS on iPhones (this seems the simplest and most likely possibility to me).
That’s not to say that the Moses Tablet won’t support iPhone UIKit apps, it probably will, but how well it would do so is a real point of concern. Personally, I’d want to take some of my apps and re-write them with proper NIBs for a 10 inch screen than see them running poorly in an emulator window or some such.
Matthew Frederick 01.25.10 at 6:32 pm
Absolutely. I have current apps and apps in development that are strictly formatted for the iPhone screen size and will be a much less pleasant experience on a bigger screen, whether they’re scaled or just sitting there at normal size. Very excited about a new SDK.
Billy Gray 01.26.10 at 9:41 am
Yeah, man, fingers crossed! I’ve been having fun trying to think up ideas that I could start coding and then hit the ground running when it does come out. One could prototype in an NSWindow in Mac OS X as a starting point, but if UIKit is any indication, the overall programming paradigm may be radically different. And, y’know, poking at your laptop screen doesn’t do a whole beyond smudging it.
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