Am I understanding correctly that the Pre will allow (essentially) random HTML/JavaScript apps to directly access internal hardware? Wow.
Pull JavaScript out of the sandbox and watch all sorts of security issues crop up.
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Apple to Preview iPhone OS 3.0 on March 17th
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Am I understanding correctly that the Pre will allow (essentially) random HTML/JavaScript apps to directly access internal hardware? Wow.
Pull JavaScript out of the sandbox and watch all sorts of security issues crop up.
It's hard to match the Pre, it's an unreleased product that looks like only so much vaporware at this point. The innovative parts of the Pre appear to be rip-offs of Apple's intellectual property. Not too worried about it personally.
I do agree with one point you've raised. I suspect that the new functions in the AESB/TC & MobileMe will play a part in new features of the iPhone OS. Perhaps we'll be able to browse, access, and manipulate files stored back in our home network from the new iPhone?
This seems to be a software/firmware event, not an iPhone event. A next-generation (or next model) iPhone will most likely come out in June or July. Schiller even mentioned their product timetables with those months in it back at MWSF.
Even if they do come out with one in a week, why would you be pissed? New stuff comes out all the time. I didn't @#%C( and moan (too much) when my Mac mini purchase was followed 5 weeks later with the Intel models and my MacBook Pro purchase was followed 5 weeks later by a new revision that upgraded the CPU, RAM and HDD.
Why do you think they call it the WebOS? It's why 3D rendering will be capable for app writers on the Pre down the line. That is, if Palm survives.
w00master
While I agree with you about THIS update, let's not forget that this is the philosophy that has gotten Windows in trouble - having to maintain backward compatibility. It is a given that Apple will not kill several months of sales of the iPhone 3G while waiting for the next hardware by making the new OS incompatible with at least that generation of hardware. The first-gen iPhone will be out of its 2 year mandatory contract window by that time, so they can legitimately make it obsolete (but no less useful than it already is BTW) if they need to do so and have shown on the Mac side that they are willing to do just this for paradigm shifts (9 to OS X, PPC to Intel).
Who said the App Store will be a different store on 3.0? 2.0 and 3.0 will have the same store but some apps will be 3.0 only, like how every app works with the iPhone 3G but some don't work with the iPhone and iPod Touch due to the iPhone's lack of GPS and the iPod's lack of a camera, GPS, and cellular network.
IRISH TOO! HIGH FIVE!
BTW Ireland never even had snakes to begin with. Pretty easy for him to claim it was him who got rid of them
Now lets get to work on getting an Irish Apple Store, eh descsramble?
... the Genius Bar will have Guiness on tap, and the store will be called the iPub
I'll give you that, but the other reason why I doubt this is b/c it's well known that the current iPhone 3G has essentially the exact same guts as the original iPhone. Using my incredible deductive reasoning, if iPhone OS 3.0 works for iPhone 3G, why wouldn't they do it for the original?
Then again, Apple has done crazy things before. LOL.
I also mentioned the GPS/camera issue, however you will note that iPhone 2.0 still was available (for free btw) for the original iPhone. I have no doubt this will continue for 3.0.
w00master
You're correct about this. However, the difference here is that the processor, etc. for both the original iPhone and 3G are virtually identical. So, why not give it to original iPhone users then? It's not like there will be a "hit" in performance between original and 3G.
w00master
It's probably already mentioned (I'm not gonna read 17 pages...), but I seriously hope this OS has Copy/Paste, and some more customizable themes.
But it's Apple. They want you to keep buying their newest thing. A lot of their hardware, like mice, keyboard, and iPhones/iPods don't work with Macs unless they're running OS 10.4.10, even though they'd probably work fine with a slightly earlier OS. Everyone who bought a first generation iPhone will be up for a new contract soon. If Apple wants to give them a reason to upgrade they'll say "Hey, you can't get this software on your phone so buy a new one." And they'll do the same to the iPhone 3G when iPhone OS 4.0 is announced.
This is something I would like, too. Also, I'd like to see background notifications so that applications can either be set get messages from the same PUSH server that apple uses. I'd also like apps to be able to request the operating system to do something at a certain time -- for example, the app should be able ask the OS to open the original application at a set time for alarms and reminders.
I do not want copy and paste unless they somehow can make it easy. The touch interface is already complicated enough.
Contacts search exists in the current version.
What can WebOS do that the iPhone OS can't? Obviously, the WebOS demos have some features that iPhone OS doesn't. But most of the demonstrated advantages of WebOS are dependent on the newer hardware and application features. I haven't seen anything to indicate that WebOS is a better operating system than OS X.
I'm not trying to say one is better than the other. Just haven't seen enough of the WebOS to compare.
based on what?
ummm....how do you know that? those improvements would not warrant a new os. nither would enhanced bluetooth and tethering like boygenius mentioned. more than likely it is an major overhaul of the os itself.
ummm....how do you know that? those improvements would not warrant a new os. nither would enhanced bluetooth and tethering like boygenius mentioned. more than likely it is an major overhaul of the os itself.
It would be cool if your photos immediately recognized faces from your iPhoto '09 library, or at least, let you manually tag faces on your photos.
Absolutely free for iphone...we pay every month to subscribe. ipod touches will pay 10-20 bucks
Obviously, you don't know. Apple does not have a monopoly in the mobile phone market or the smartphone market.
