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Old iOS apps truly die.

It didn’t occur to me until I pur­chased my third iPhone that I couldn’t retrieve older apps for use with my older iPhone. Your old iPhone/iPod touch becomes obso­lete in a mat­ter of 4 years under Apples approach to serv­ing up only the lat­est apps. Sure, some of the apps in the app store will still work, but even­tu­ally your device will be left in the dust. I real­ize you can keep the device around for play­ing music and some other basics but, on the whole who’s going do that? So where does that leave the device? Who is going to want this as a hand-me-down if you can’t even install new apps as the iOS for the device is no longer sup­ported? Why doesn’t Apple allow older apps for their respec­tive devices? Before you go scream­ing greed, it seems to me that new pur­chases of old apps would be a pretty good chunk of rev­enue added to Apple’s bot­tom line from the sup­posed end-of-life products.

I don’t see this being a sup­port issue as the prod­ucts could be labeled as such and respec­tive devel­op­ers would have the option of decid­ing when a prod­uct would be shelved. Regard­less, if an app is work­ing per­fect with an older ver­sion of the iOS, and the user is con­tent with the older device, what’s the big deal? It’s free money at that point and it works in it’s own anti­quated atmos­phere. If this doesn’t change,  I see these not-so-older devices head­ing to the land­fill faster than their desk­top counterparts.

With regard to the Mac App store, I see the same sce­nario being installed right before our very eyes and this wor­ries me. The Mac App store han­dles all your pur­chases and keeps your copies in wait­ing for you. But what hap­pens if you need to down­grade to an older com­puter you keep in your closet for that just-in-case moment? We’ve been able to back up and keep copies in the past for those just-in-case sce­nar­ios, it seems it’s all going to be trusted to iCloud or your Apple ID. Should we be concerned?

Posted in Commentary.


Site redesign for Gregory Kunde

Gregory Kunde

Gre­gory Kunde is an Amer­i­can oper­atic tenor par­tic­u­larly asso­ci­ated with the French and Ital­ian reper­to­ries. He has sung in the great­est opera houses of the world and is regarded by audi­ences world­wide as the most ele­gant and accom­plished bel canto singer on the opera stage today. He has made a career of per­fect­ing the bel canto tenor reper­tory for the past twenty-five years, earn­ing wide­spread acclaim for his per­for­mances of the most demand­ing tenor roles of the French and Ital­ian bel canto operas.

Hav­ing designed the orig­i­nal site, this time around Mr. Kunde’s site was fresh up to date look and feel.

Check out the site at: http://www.gregorykunde.com/news/

Posted in Graphics, Identity, Web Site Design.


Chrome Glow Identity

Chrome Glow Identity

New iden­tity cre­ated for Chrome Glow which sells an amaz­ing array of LED light­ing solu­tions for motor­cy­cles and other vehicles.

A sam­ple of the logo; please click to view at high res­o­lu­tion version.

Using After Effects, I cre­ated this ani­mated ver­sion of the logo for use in brand­ing the many tuto­r­ial and prod­uct demonstrations.

Below is a mock-up for a vinyl graphic ver­sion for the Chrome Glow truck.

Posted in Graphics, Identity.


Buttered Cat Software

I cre­ated a new look for this pro­gram­mers web­site, tak­ing a com­pletely dif­fer­ent direc­tion than pre­vi­ous projects. I struck a bal­ance with tex­ture and light­ing giv­ing the site a fresh feel.

The but­tered cat para­dox is a joke para­dox based on the tongue-in-cheek com­bi­na­tion of two adages:
– Cats always land on their feet.
– But­tered toast always lands but­tered side down.

View the site here — http://buttered-cat.com/

Posted in Graphics, Web Site Design.


Sinbad’s Mediterranean Cuisine

Finally, one of the sta­ple restau­rants of Park Avenue area in Rochester, NY is online. The nice thing about this site is that it will auto detect mobile devices and for­mat itself cor­rectly, so look­ing up items on a menu while out and about makes life so much eas­ier! If you’ve never expe­ri­enced Sinbad’s I highly rec­om­mend it,  my wife and I have been loyal patrons for well over a decade now.

View the site here - http://mysinbads.com/

Posted in Web Site Design.