Archive for July 25, 2008

iPhone App Review: Mandelbrot (Now iFractal)

Note: Mandelbrot has changed it’s name to iFractal and even more features have been added since this review was written.

Mandelbrot1A few friends of mine and I were talking about our eagerness to see  Apple fix the code to allow for true IM clients to run on the iPhone. The big thing is that Apple doesn’t want anything running as a ‘background process’ so they are doing a few different things that the App developers are going to have to do differently to get it all to work. One thing that someone said off hand was “you won’t be able to do anything like render a fractal in the background”. Not to long after that I was perusing the App store and found Mandelbrot.

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