Skip to main content

Used Apple for patent not pull to refresh Twitter?




The pulling down a list to refresh is now one of the best known functions in many iOS apps. That while it is still not possible to do this in Apple's own apps. Designer Dustin Curtiss thinks he knows why : the pull to refresh patent is owned by Twitter , which got him after they took over Tweetie. Apple probably wants no patent case with Twitter risking.

Tweetie was the first iPhone app that made use of pull to refresh. Subsequently, the developer of the app acquired by Twitter and the app renamed Twitter for iPhone. Although a patent on the idea was completed, many developers did this not against the idea still in apps to implement. Meanwhile make apps like Facebook Tweetbot and frequent use of.
Apple would be possible to have chosen because of the patent itself does not pull to refresh use. The company has itself a number of patents for certain interface features in IOS. Apple would of course also choose to license the patent to take on Twitter.
Is your iPhone jailbroken, you can simply use it to pull refresh in a number of Apple apps. To add the tweak Pull to Refresh for Mail in the BigBoss repository the possibility to Apple's default mail app.

Popular posts from this blog

SiriCorrectInfinity: correct your Siri repeatedly commands (jailbreak)

You can make a wrong command given to adapt Siri by tapping on it. Handy, but you can do this only once. Sit next to your correction, you will have to give a whole new command. SiriCorrectInfinity makes you a command as often as you want to customize. The correct command is one of the lesser known features of Siri. By clicking on the text of your statement appears pressing the keyboard of your iPhone, which you can type something else. Although it is convenient that you SiriCorrectInfinity constant you mispronounced commands can correct, seems modifying your commands somewhat cumbersome: if you have the time to typing commands, you would indeed itself through the menus of your iPhone can navigate to anything done to obtain. SiriCorrectInfinity is immediately after you've installed to use. You do not go in to tweak.

Announcement !

Visit our new and site! Thanks for your love.     http://smartphonetechie.com/

Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing temporarily free on iPhone / iPod touch

Now that the App Store price changes again permits, flows back into the latest bargains. SEGA has chosen to give away a free game and that is not the least: Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing is a racing game with the world's fastest hedgehog and other stars from the SEGA stable artists. You choose one of your favorite characters and tear after about 15 tracks, so it comes first at the finish line to be. Along the way, you avoid obstacles, weapons disposal and attacks on your allies. Update : Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing is also the 12 Days of Gift today. In total there are 10 characters available, and different vehicles such as a bicycle, truck, airplane or banana. Each vehicle has different properties and any other SEGA character talents. Got the 25 missions, you can participate in three Grand Prix Cups or switch to the Battle Mode. Can be done via local Bluetooth multiplayer gaming with up to three friends. Your scores will appear in the game center and OpenFeint. ...