Everything is a Remix, the Ideas Episode

By Jake • June 21st, 2011 • 2 Comments

Sometimes things collide interestingly. I had just finished watching the latest installment of Kirby Ferguson’s awesome Everything is a Remix series when I ran into Ultan’s (@ultan) post about the iOS 5 Notification Center.

The short version is that iOS 5 finally cleans up notifications, which have sucked from the get-go, by implementing a system that borrows heavily from Android’s very popular notifications and improves on them. I’ve been running iOS 5 beta on my iPad for several days, and the Notification Center is very well done. If you’re wondering, it’s an apples-to-apples comparison because I also have a Galaxy Tab 10.1 running Honeycomb 3.1.

Anyway, watch Everything is a Remix, Part 3, and you’ll recognize what I mean. Unsurprisingly, for those who know the history of the personal computer (not the since branded Windows PC), Apple plays a part in the video.

h/t kottke.org

I highly recommend checking out the other two parts in the Everything is a Remix series as well, which cover movies and film.


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    Thanks for shout out. Can’t wait to check out the notification center myself. Wondering does iOS5 allow anything new with personalization of notifications (how, when, where you get them) too…

  • http://theappslab.com Jake

    You have a few more options in the Settings – Notifications area, but frequency isn’t one. You can set where to put them onscreen (center vs. notification pop up). Apps might implement frequency, but who knows. It’s disjointed a bit, like Anrdoid w the system and apps each having settings.

    Might change during beta.