Jonathan Saggau's Blog

The iPad/iPhone DevCon will be held in San Diego from September 27 through 29 and I've been invited to give four classes! If you put my last name, SAGGAU, in when you register, you will automatically save a hundred bucks ($ 100.00) -- and it's combinable with their other promotional discounts, like Early Bird Specials and so-on.

The conference program at iPhone/iPad DevCon includes more than 40 full-day workshops, half-day workshops and technical classes over three days – in addition to keynotes by Mike Lee and Aaron Hillegass.

CLASS DATES AND TIMES

My courses are currently scheduled as follows:
103 Optimizing Data Caching for iPhone App Responsiveness
Tuesday, Sept. 28, 8:30 — 9:45 am

203 Is It Real or Is It Virtual? Augmented Reality on the iPhone with Jonathan Blocksom (most recently of Google)
Tuesday, Sept. 28, 11:15 am — 12:30 pm

303 TANSTAAFL: Using Open Source iPhone UI Code
Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2:00 — 3:15 pm

403 Connecting Apple's iPhone to Google's Cloud with Noah Gift (of AT&T Interactive)
Tuesday, Sept. 28, 3:45 — 5:00 pm

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About a year ago, I used a G1 dev phone as my primary phone for a few weeks. It was okay, had a lot of potential, but didn't do it for me like the iPhone did at the time. I remain curious how the other half lives, so I will soon receive a Nexus One from a good friend of mine via UPS today. Thanks, dude! You know who you are.

I have to mention that I'm apprehensive. Playing with my neighbor's new Sprint Evo briefly was rather disappointing; Sprint bloatware aside, from a usability and UI standpoint the version of Android on the Evo (2.1, I believe) needs serious detail work to pull even with iOS 2.0.

I find myself flummoxed as to how anyone manages to use email on the thing. One can't forward just selected parts of an email (no kidding, all or nothing) and responding to an email inline is not supported. In both of the two (!) email apps that come on the phone (one for Gmail and one for, um, other email), once received, email text is not malleable. I love to read the comparisons of Android and iPhone, am glad that Apple has a solid competitor, and am excited to use Android again (and possibly develop software for it) on fast hardware with their latest OS, but right now I'm thinking "make email work, then we'll talk" or, as my neighbor puts it, "This is 2010, right? Doesn't Google know how to do email?"

Stay tuned for more Android / iOS comparisons in the coming weeks. I'm excited to dig in.

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