Saturday, July 4, 2009

More on OS 3.0

Here are some more things I wanted to say about OS 3.0

1. Apple has provided support for Greek Keyboard in 3.0. It looks pretty much the same as what I had but the good thing is that its in-built. So I would be discontinuing any upgrades or support for the Greek Keyboard. It would still be there in bigboss repository though till he decides to remove it.

2. Now comes the important part on how Apple has chosen to ignore so many Indian users. Just look at the following
(a) 3.0 has got all asian keyboards starting from Chinese, Japanese and all the way to Malay, Thai, etc. but not a single Indic language. Not even Hindi (6% of world population speaks the language).
(b) Even the simplest of Nokia sets available in India has got a Hindi/Regional language texting feature...
(c) No improved support for Indic fonts rendering either... C'mon apple, how much effort does this take ?? And you have plenty of Indian programmers in your teams... still??
(d) What more, Apple is fighting to make jailbreaking illegal too...
I guess that leaves me with just one choice... get a G phone the next time ... ;-)
or you can go to following link and tell Apple to put one for the next OS release

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html


Say 'Hindi Keyboard' in subject and 'Enhancement Request' in feedback type....

Keyboards and OS 3.0

Hey All

iphone OS 3.0 is out and many of you may have upgraded already. You may also have noted that none of my keyboards (hindi, easyhindi, punjabi and greek) work on 3.0. That's because 'ikeyex', the keyboard framework extender by KennyTM isnt compatible with 3.0 yet. He is working on it and it might take some time. Once the 3.0 version is out I will update the keyboards as soon as possible. You can come back here for updates or subscribe directly to his feed at
http://code.google.com/p/networkpx/issues/detail?id=83
The keyboards still work fine with OS 2.2.

Thanks for all the nice and encouraging e-mails :-)