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Looks like the behaviour is the same as before.

This is the first version of Coda I’ve tried. Wish I knew about that before buying it. :P

I’m sure they’re working on it.

In the meantime I highly recommend Textastic, which does exactly that.

Ahahhaha. Wow. I’ll remember this comment when the next iPhone is announced and will be curious to see how betrayed you feel when the inevitable screen size-up is revealed.

I don’t think I’d feel betrayed. That would be stupid. I’d just consider it a bad decision.

When the first iPhone came out, 3.5" was amongst the largest mobile displays on the market.

Yes.

It was a decision based on screen technology limitations of the time, not some noble attempt to spurn larger displays.

Seriously? You’re implying that Jobs walked into the boardroom and said, “I want to make the best phone in the world. What screen-sizes are available?”

No. The form-factor would have been decided upon at the design stage. If a 3.5" display didn’t exist for them to test, they would create it. They don’t sit on a mountain of cash for nothing, you know. Apple start from the user and work backwards to the technology.

Since 50% of potential iPhone users are women with smaller hands I am almost certain the original size of the phone was not decided upon lightly.

Yes of course there would have been limitations on screen-resolution, contrast-ratios, response-time, and viewing-angles at the time, but size?

3.5" was retained between generations only to retain inter-operability and app compatibility, despite the obvious trend towards larger screens.

Statements like this utterly baffle me. Apple in its current state has been around for 15 years already. Why hasn’t the message got through yet? You still think that Apple’s values are the same as its competitors? Do you not think it’s possible that they haven’t changed the size because they got it right in the first place?

I’m willing to bet that the “trend towards larger screens” speaks more about the “spec sheet” mentality of Apple’s competitors than it does about the increased number of big hands in the general population.

There seems to be a strong correlation between “telling people how to behave” and hat-wearing.

No shit Jobs was involved. That’s stating the bleeding obvious (although it appears to have gone over the heads of a myopic few here).

As for a bigger screen I call bullshit. Imagine the pains Jobs, Ive, and others went through in order to settle on the original 3.5 inches. Imagine the dozens of prototypes we’ll never see because Jobs “hated” them for not being right. Imagine the contortions that had to be made in hardware and software in order to achieve retina but keep the same sized screen as originally conceived.

Sure the materials and aesthetics have changed since 2007, but the overall form-factor hasn’t. I simply cannot believe they’d change something so fundamental to the iPhone’s success. Something that’s helped give Apple more profit than the rest of the industry combined.

I think you’re right.

The original 3.5" size was not chosen lightly. Jobs himself was a tall man with large hands, but still didn’t opt for a design that suited himself over the average hand-size of the WHOLE population — that includes boys AND girls.

If they bring out a new iPhone size then it’ll be alongside the existing one. I think that’s unlikely, and counts against these rumours.

I’m not John, I’m just stealing his bit.

You mean girls?

Sure, Apple would love to alienate 50% of its potential buyers with a bigger screen.

Filed for Claim Chowder.

This kind of argument is always levelled at ambitious scientific endeavours. The kinds of endeavours that make solving everything you’ve mentioned worthwhile.

Not that our Earth-bound problems aren’t worth solving in and of themselves — I didn’t mean to sound callous — but it’s entirely possible to budget for something breathtakingly inspiring while still trying to solve the mundane issues we’ll continue to wrestle with long into the next millennium.

Your ramblings are so wooly and contradictory it’s hard to know where to start. Excuse me; your actual ramblings are so actually incoherent it’s hard to actually know where to start. You sniff the RMS toejam and endorse Windows in the same paragraph? Actually curious.

Anyway, I must protest this last post of yours.

What defines a “modern” company? What is an “actual” product and how does it compare to one that is, say, un-actual? Which “facts” are the ones that tell me how “highly regarded” C# is (or any language for that matter). Would those facts come from C# programmers, perchance?

Gee, I wonder if Java programmers think of their language as being “highly regarded” too. Maybe the same is true of other languages? Funny that — how programmers tend to endorse the languages they’re invested in.

I won’t lie; I don’t want to spoil it because the game grew on me as I progressed. It really did become unsettling, almost chilling. Very strange considering how basic it looks and plays.

I’ve not had a sensation like that in a long while so I didn’t want to spoil it.

It saves your progress by the way, so you can keep coming back to it.

It’s… unsettling.

I take that back.

There’s a mothership, a spaceman, crystals, baddies, and a large planet to explore; but other than that Redder has nothing in common with Solar Jetman.

I’m on the last crystal. This game is fuuuuucked uuuuuuuup. o_O

Reminds me of Solar Jetman.

No Storystream?

Fuck everything, he should make it with FIVE chimneys.

I hate it. >:^|