(Ebook) iPhone and iPad in Action by Brandon Trebitowski, Christopher Allen, Shannon Appelcline ISBN 9781935182580, 1935182587

(Ebook) iPhone and iPad in Action by Brandon Trebitowski, Christopher Allen, Shannon Appelcline ISBN 9781935182580, 1935182587

I do applaud the authors as I realize that completing a book is no small task and also acknowledge the difficulty in trying to complete a technical resource before it is outdated is a race against time. Unfortunately, this book has been outdated before it was released. iPhone 4 has been out for a few months but this book is written as it is some future technology to be released sometime in the unknown future. I am not sure why the title even mentions iPad. The only iPad content it has in the book is a simple "Hello World" app. It does not even mention any of the new iPad paradigms. WHile the book was in MEAP there was a placeholder for 2 chapters on the iPad which seems to have been replace by a simple mention in one of the other chapters. A sure case against MEAP. Why pay for a book that advertises chapters that are never published. A bit of false advertising I would say. Did we really need another iPhone 3 book in light of the releases in the past few months? I would save my money for a real iPad or iOS 4 book.