David Pogue "iPhone: The Missing Manual. 4th ed."
O’Reilly, 2010 | ISBN: 1449393656 | Pages: 450 | English | PDF | 13Мб
By way of a printed guide to the iPhone, Apple provides only a fold-out leaflet. It’s got a clever name—Finger Tips—but to learn your way around, you’re expected to use an electronic PDF document. This PDF covers the basics well, but it’s largely free of details, hacks, workarounds, tutorials, humor, and any acknowledgment of the iPhone’s flaws. You can’t mark your place, underline, or read it in the bathroom.
The purpose of this book, then, is to serve as the manual that should have accompanied the iPhone. (If you have an original iPhone, you really need one of this book’s earlier editions. If you have an iPhone 3G or 3GS, this book assumes that you’ve installed the free iOS 4 software, described in Appendix A.)
Writing computer books can be an annoying job. You commit something to print, and then—bam—the software gets updated or revised, and suddenly your book is out of date.
That will certainly happen to this book. The iPhone is a platform. It’s a computer, so Apple routinely updates and improves it by sending it new software bits. To picture where the iPhone will be five years from now, just look at how much better, sleeker, and more powerful today’s iPod is than the original 2001 black-and-white brick. Therefore, you should think of this book the way you think of the first iPhone: as a darned good start.
| 
Понравилась новость? Поделись с друзьями:
