Facebook takes on Apple and Google with HTML 5 / web app App Center
Facebook today announced the App Center, a new place to find apps — but not just Facebook apps like FarmVille. The App Center includes both free and paid Facebook apps, as well as HTML 5 apps that exist within the Facebook app itself.
Web traffic from tablet computers is growing 10 times faster than smartphone traffic (via Adobe: Web Traffic From Tablets Growing Faster Than Smartphones)
Rethinking the iPhone’s App Switcher
Some interesting ideas from Verge Forums user brentcas.
I’m a little crazy about user interface design. And while I am no professional, new ideas for how software could or should work can keep me up late into the night, sketching in my Moleskine. About a week ago a really simple idea hit me as I was falling asleep: the App Switcher in iOS should be taller.
And why not? When you double click the home button and the screen rises, the status bar also vanishes, and you only have visible access to four apps. If you want to change the volume, you have to swipe over twice. Meanwhile, the raised app is taking up a lot of real estate.
(via Mobile Now Accounts for 10% of all Internet Usage Worldwide) my prediction: 50% by 2020
