Cycroder and VideoRecorder3g, the two main video recording apps available to jailbroken iPhones, both have pathetically low frame rates. But hey, don't take my word for it, just spend 2 minutes on YouTube to see for yourself. Including that function at the time would meant a faster processor, meaning a larger battery, meaning a larger phone.
I honestly doubt you even own an iPhone, or any Apple product for that matter, because you clearly don't understand the defining characteristic that makes them so successful. They don't lock their devices down because it gets them off or something, they do it because it lets them offer an unparalleled level of usability and service. Maybe if we were having this discussion a month before the original iPhone was released and this tactic was still untested in the mobile arena, then you might potentially have a point, but if the iPhone's monumental success has proven one thing, it's that the tired old tactic you're suggesting DOES NOT WORK. People are moving in DROVES to the iPhone because it's the first device that didn't focus on including every feature under the sun and letting the user decide every little aspect about it. PEOPLE SIMPLY DON'T WANT THAT!
I know it's fun to offer up paranoid theories of Apple intentionally crippling their device to build in obsolescence, but in todays extremely competitive mobile world that just isn't an option. If you want to create a sales successes you need to offer up the absolute best device currently possible, and you don't have the luxury of holding back when you're dealing with devices that have 1/3 the lifetime of a regular computer. Nokia, HTC, RIM, Palm, etc... are offering up new phones on a monthly basis and Apple needs to rely on their iPhone to withstand that constant barrage and still come up superior in customer's minds.
Obviously they know what they're doing, a fact that's backed up over and over again with consistently good sales figures, so suggesting a drastic change in the very fundamentals of the iPhone is totally ridiculous.
I was thinking that too but I think it's safe to say they've learned a lot from the last 2 times and probably know how to better keep it under wraps. Keep in mind we still have months for some sneaky factory worker to grab a picture with their phone so I wouldn't give up just yet. Apple has good reason to be tight lipped about this release with it coming out so close to the Pre and probably don't want to risk Palm copying any more featuresI'm sure they want an absolute knockout to come and show the Pre what's up and keeping any surprising new features under wraps in just the way to do it.
Obviously, you don't own a iphone worth having and that is a non-jailbroken iphone. Cycorder frame rate is fantastic, the video smooth and clear. How would you know anyway? It isn't like you have a jailbroken iphone. You mean to tell me you are basing you-tube videos that are "so called' made on the iphone as evidence of your pathetic attempt to discredit the apps in question. Give me a break.
The video the apps in question are no better or worse than anyother video app on any other smartphone OS out there right now. None of them willl replace your camcorder, so what is your point?
I also have flash working in the browser and all my icons are cleaned up by using categories. How is that a bad thing?
Oh SB settings gives me one swipe access from my home screen to turn on/off 3g, WiFi, turn on/off flash, etc.
They all work flawlessly. No problems at all. Apple sets standards on how they want their software to run, and apparently they want a video, recording app that sets a better standard than the current iphone 3G allows.
Don't you think that they already have tried a video recording app out already, to see how the 3G iphone can run such a app, of coarse they did.
That does not mean that it is a poor maching in video recording, It only means that it does not live up to Apple's standards. Simple as that.
