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arashpayan / appirater

A utility that reminds your iPhone app's users to review the app.
http://arashpayan.com/blog/2009/09/07/presenting-appirater/
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What's the meaning of "type=Purple+Software" #201

Closed S1U closed 9 years ago

S1U commented 9 years ago

Noticed that templateReviewURL has type=Purple+Software, what is its meaning? Could it be ignored?

Is there any part of that template URL able to be ignored?

pkamb commented 9 years ago

"Purple" was the code name for the original iPhone, and it's hardcoded into bits of Apple's system to this day. If you remove type=Purple+Software the URL won't function.

Forstall reveals that Apple took over an entire building on the Cupertino campus to develop the iPhone, locking it down with security card readers. They would use colors for product code names — as we heard earlier, "Purple" was the name of the original iPhone — and the development building for the device was called the Purple Dorm. "Very much like a dorm, people were there all the time... It smelled something like pizza, and in fact on the front door of the Purple Dorm we put a sign up that said 'Fight Club'... because the first rule of that project was to not talk about it outside those doors."

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/3/3218164/scott-forstall-testimony-apple-v-samsung-trial/in/2971889

S1U commented 9 years ago

Interesting! thxs!