{"id":2551,"date":"2012-10-20T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2012-10-20T10:00:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T15:00:58","slug":"didnt-take-long-for-ios6-only-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/10\/20\/didnt-take-long-for-ios6-only-apps","title":{"rendered":"Didn&#8217;t take long for iOS6-only apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/09\/24\/my-pre-upgrade-ios6-thoughts\">prediction<\/a> on 24 September to come <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2012\/10\/11\/the-magazine\">true<\/a> on 11 October. My suspiscion was also correct, it would be led by Marco Arment, but it had nothing to do with Instapaper, it was the launch of a new product titled <a href=\"http:\/\/the-magazine.org\/\">The Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2012\/10\/11\/the-magazine-faq\">reason<\/a> to make it iOS 6 only?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>It uses some iOS 6-only features and fonts, and it\u2019s architected for iOS 6\u2019s gesture handling. Setting this high baseline also greatly simplifies testing, maintenance, and future updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow. Fonts &amp; gestures. Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Greed or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2012\/09\/30\/ipad-1\">tradeoff<\/a> from Apple?\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Didn%27t%20take%20long%20for%20iOS6-only%20apps&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2012%2F10%2F20%2Fdidnt-take-long-for-ios6-only-apps&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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