iphone SW 3.0 preview on Paddys day..

copacetic

http://i.gizmodo.com/5168843/iphone-os-30-to-be-revealed-march-17

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10194846-37.html

Bump all the way to 3.0 would seem to indicate a large amount of change..

aidan_walsh

Well, its not. Its a preview event, same as the Roadmap Townhall that was done to announce 2.0 and the SDK. The actual launch itself will most likely be later in the year.

Tom Dunne

Title changed.

Looks interesting.

Wonder if they will do something with Bluetooth? It must be something big to have such a jump from 2.2.1 to 3.0.

Getting the masses ready for the new device in June/July?

copacetic

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Title changed.

Looks interesting.

Wonder if they will do something with Bluetooth? It must be something big to have such a jump from 2.2.1 to 3.0.

Getting the masses ready for the new device in June/July?

well the 3G came with 2.0, so maybe there will be a new phone announced too but the 3.0 SW will be backward compatible?

3.0 would normally indicate a new HW platform also, but who knows.

Personally flash support and push notifications are what I want to see, I guess copy and paste, video recording, sms forwarding and MMS support would shut the haters up a bit also..

Dman001

Maybe this OS might appear on an Apple netbook? It will be interesting to see what they come up with.

Necronomicon

Bump.

Anyone know what time this is on?

G-Money

Indeed, was just wondering about the timing myself.

Am almost gagging for an iPhone at this stage, despite their flaws

abouttobebanned

As well as the obvious copy and paste and mms and better bluetooth capabilities...I'd like to be able to forward texts and also receive business cards.

mobius42

Necronomicon wrote: »

Bump.

Anyone know what time this is on?

5 pm

copacetic

Necronomicon wrote: »

Bump.

Anyone know what time this is on?

10am pacific, so 5pm here.


edit. freaky, no-one replies for hours then 2 people at same time.

bobbbb

All i want is for them to allow software applications to stay running in the background.

jimogr

Is this being streamed live anywhere?

jimogr

Live blog here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10197216-37.html - best i can find

copacetic

gizmodo and engadget are always good for this

http://live.gizmodo.com/

http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/live-from-apples-iphone-os-3-0-preview-event/

CivilEx

*gets popcorn ready*

copacetic

turn by turn and push, happy with that even if that was all she wrote.

bobbbb

No multitasking.
What a load of balls

Dman001

Anyone notice the pic of a scissors icon in the pic of the SDK Globe. Copy and Paste me thinks.

copacetic

reasons makes sense to me, they allow it, people leave 5 apps running the whole time and go nuts when their battery runs out in an hour...

copacetic

Dman001 wrote: »

Anyone notice the pic of a scissors icon in the pic of the SDK Globe. Copy and Paste me thinks.

it says text selection also, so think its a given.

Creamy Goodness

ffs at gizmodo "blah blah blah oracle" tell us what they are saying it's your freaking job, just because you're not interested doesn't mean people on your website aren't.

bobbbb

copacetic wrote: »

reasons makes sense to me, they allow it, people leave 5 apps running the whole time and go nuts when their battery runs out in an hour...

Not really. All they have to do is make them dormant while not on the screen. Running for a few cycles out of every thousand to check to see if any work is required.

Would have been easy to select just one or 2 apps by the user to allow to run this way too.

Dman001

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

ffs at gizmodo "blah blah blah oracle" tell us what they are saying it's your freaking job, just because you're not interested doesn't mean people on your website aren't.

In fairness not majority of people don't care about Oracle:) I see they aren't showing all of the Home Screen, maybe changes to that are coming.

Creamy Goodness

Dman001 wrote: »

In fairness not majority of people don't care about Oracle:) I see they aren't showing all of the Home Screen, maybe changes to that are coming.

still though the majority of people may not care about insulin monitoring or epsn news alerts but they didn't brush over them.

as for not showing the full home screen i presume that's just because they want to emphasize the app that's being demoed.

copacetic

bobbbb wrote: »

Not really. All they have to do is make them dormant while not on the screen. Running for a few cycles out of every thousand to check to see if any work is required.

Would have been easy to select just one or 2 apps by the user to allow to run this way too.

running for a few cycles to check servers for new data, you kidding?

bobbbb

copacetic wrote: »

running for a few cycles to check servers for new data, you kidding?

You know what i mean. (I hope)
Dont take everything so literally.

Creamy Goodness

cut copy and paste is confirmed along with 100 more features.

gonna be interesting to see how apple implement cut copy and paste.

copacetic

pretty nice, I like shake to undo.

Dman001

At last, landscape keyboard in other Apps.

copacetic

mms too, about time & txt messaging forwarding.

Dman001

Never really cared about MMS. I've only used about once in my whole life.

Silverfish

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

cut copy and paste is confirmed along with 100 more features.

gonna be interesting to see how apple implement cut copy and paste.

Copy/Paste: Double tap to select, grab points at the end of selection to drag with button to Cut, Copy, Paste above. Double-tap to paste.

Hurrah!

copacetic

<shrugs>, don't use it much either but when people send you them it's nice to be able to open them.

search in mail was one I wasn't expecting and will be really handy, esp with server support.

aidan_walsh

Spotlight!

copacetic

stereo bluetooth and support for youtube accounts! last one is a big deal to me. have to say I am impressed with what they have stuck in. when though,when!

creating meeting invites was also a big miss until now..

Dman001

A2DP Bluetooth support and YouTube Account support. Nice.

Dman001

Whoops too late. Great minds think alike:D

copacetic

'This summer' hmm, when is that exactly??

pretty impressed but it's a ways off. prob easier to list what didn't make it. was hoping for video
capture support, personally don't care about background apps, as push should work just as well
for any proper developers. Otherwise not missing much once 3.0 is out?

Professey Chin

A2DP and MMS not gonna work on 1st Gen

CivilEx

Looking forward to the search function. I see that 3.0 is free for 3G owners

ironictoaster

I was gonna say the same thing as above.^

FFS, joke..

Silverfish

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

A2DP and MMS not gonna work on 1st Gen

You're looking at this the wrong way.

The correct way is yay, excuse to buy new iPhone.

CivilEx

No mention of tethering?

copacetic

wouldn't imagine there would be really? tethering is currently possible, doesn't need a new feature, just for them to allow it.


and it came up in q&a, basically said the above, built in support but it's a carrier issue.

ironictoaster

Swirly will have to do forever!

copacetic

ohh forgot about flash, no mention, it's a big miss.

Creamy Goodness

bit cheesed off that some features won't be available on the 2g phone.

Dman001

No Flash support either but they could be working on it.

copacetic

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

bit cheesed off that some features won't be available on the 2g phone.

personally thinks thats pretty unfair, most other mobile devices give you little or nothing, don't see how you can expect apple to make everything backward compatible to hardware thats over 2 years old.

Professey Chin

copacetic wrote: »

personally thinks thats pretty unfair, most other mobile devices give you little or nothing, don't see how you can expect apple to make everything backward compatible to hardware thats over 2 years old.

A2DP maybe. MMS id expect since phones have been doin it for over 6 years

Professey Chin

Silverfish wrote: »

You're looking at this the wrong way.

The correct way is yay, excuse to buy new iPhone.

.....hows about no