Durante il seguitissimo keynote della WorldWide Developers Conference, Apple ha presentato (con le parole del suo attesissimo CEO Steve Jobs) gli importanti aggiornamenti che riguarderanno Game Center, con l’arrivo del nuovo sistema operativo per gli iDevices.
iOS 5, infatti, trasfofmerà ancora di più il servizio di social-gaming introdotto un anno fa circa da Apple su iPhone, iPod Touch ed iPad, rendendolo più simile alla funzione “Xbox Live” già presente sui Windows Phones.
Ciò vuol dire che con il nuovo aggiornamento ci sarà supporti già di base per le applicazioni con turni di gioco, e la lista amici è stata migliorata in modo tale che sarà possibile confrontare i nostri tioli con quelli dei nostri amici, così come vedere i loro amici.
Sarà inoltre possibile introdurre un avatar nel nostro account, utilizzando una foto salvata nel nostro rullino fotografico, così come scaricare i giochi direttamente dall’interfaccia di Game Center. Tutte queste novità, insieme ad altri piccoli ritocchi, saranno disponibili con il rilascio di iOS 5 nel prossimo autunno.
Davvero bella la possibilità di scaricare i giochi direttamente da Game Center. Apple lo sta trasformando sempre più in social network, decisamente migliore di Ping, fallito in partenza.
wrote:Thats true, the weird thing is when I take out my XT sim and put in my Vodafone sim, everything fixes iteslf. It makes me wonder who is not following the proper standards, if there are any standards. Knowing the reputations of Apple and Telecom, the natural reaction is that Telecom is going take most of the bashing lol regardless of whose fault it is.(koruki has made 2 comments)Yes, because Vodafone are an official carrier. The problem *only occurs* when you insert a SIM card from an unofficial carrier. It has nothing to do with proper standards at all. The simple matter of fact is that when you put in a SIM card from an official carrier, the phone does different things to when you put in a SIM card from an unofficial carrier.In this case, it would appear that the things that the phone does when you have an unofficial carrier’s SIM card in results in a bug appearing. As mentioned above Apple are working on the problem and one would hope the problem is fixed in 5.0.1. I don’t see how Telecom should be taking any blame at all given that they have never sold the device, don’t support the device, and no other devices on their network exhibit the same problem.FWIW I cannot see how this could be the fault of Telecom. The bit that isn’t working is the part where the phone matches numbers to names. The carrier has no involvement in this process, not from a network level and not from a SIM card level. It is all in the phone software. The *only* way this could possibly be happening is if Apple has started relying on some weird field in the SIM card for some crucial piece of information, but I highly doubt this is the case this time around.As mentioned above, Apple are aware of the issue and they are working on a fix. That is all. Any anger towards Telecom is severely misdirected as there is so far absolutely no evidence that this has anything to do with their actions or inactions. In all likelihood Apple will fix the problem in a subsequent update without Telecom lifting a finger.(rdw11 has made 15 comments)