Could Lowtide be targeted towards playback on the iPad? That’s what indications in the application’s Info.plist property list seem to hint at. As TUAW continues to explore the new Apple TV iOS disk image, all kinds of interesting hints keep bubbling out. The property list in question lists two entries for its UIDeviceFamily property.
UIDeviceFamily = (
3,
2
);
In human terms those numbers refer to both Apple TV (the 3 device family) and the iPad (the 2 device family). As you might guess, the 1 device family includes the iPhone and iPod touch. These device families generally group related physical form factors. All iPods and iPhones use a similar 320×480 base geometry, even though units with new Retina displays physically enhance the addressability of that screen size with more pixels per point.
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TUAWMore on Apple TV: Playback services may extend to iPad originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.