Same reason why there's Office Mobile on WinMo phones. You at least have the option. Only seems like a logical move for Apple to include this if they are truly going to make the iPhone a productivity device.
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Apple to Preview iPhone OS 3.0 on March 17th
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Same reason why there's Office Mobile on WinMo phones. You at least have the option. Only seems like a logical move for Apple to include this if they are truly going to make the iPhone a productivity device.
And Apple started WebKit with code from the KHTML linux project, so your argument is invalid.
Really wasn't trying to be clever or substantial. akula34 was saying that the list of features that soundsgoodtome has listed could already be found in the Pre even though the Pre hasn't launched yet. So it's full feature set has yet to be determined. But I guess you missed the point.
This would be an odd move considering Steve stated before that this in NOT a mobile version of OS X it is FULL OS X with a different interface. And they made it clear last year that it was OS X Mac and OS X iPhone.
Maybe creating them, but if you had some set up you'd like to add data to on the move, like a budget tracker (so you don't have to sync app data to iWork data) then iWork on the phone would be very useful.
Yes. I do remember and I actually hope something along these lines is included. It would be so nice to have the notifications on the lock screen. I'm imagining it to be something kind of like what we've seen on JB iPhones except a more polished Apple-esque look.
What about home screen design? Do you think that layout/look will stay the same? I think it may be time for them to refresh it with a similar look but enough difference to make it look 'spiffy.'
I want a completely customisable home page. With the app store, people will have icons spread across multiple pages, so let us choose how many to have on the home page.
Personally I'd like to get rid of most icons and have my wallpaper there, unobstructed. A quick flick of my finger brings up my apps. The four icons at the bottom are always there for essentials, which I'd like to be able to customise more to any app.
Maybe allow ical events/new unread email/texts to appear on the homescreen too - adjustable widgets like any normal web 2.0 page.
Personally I'd like to get rid of most icons and have my wallpaper there, unobstructed. A quick flick of my finger brings up my apps. The four icons at the bottom are always there for essentials, which I'd like to be able to customise more to any app.
Maybe allow ical events/new unread email/texts to appear on the homescreen too - adjustable widgets like any normal web 2.0 page.
In my immediate circle of friends and colleagues, there are at least 2 dozen iPhones owners (several who hate Macs, amusingly enough) and as many openly contemplating getting an iPhone. Not only do I not know anyone who owns a G1, but I've never been asked by anyone about them nor have I heard people talking about them. They just don't exist from my perspective.
Now, I realize that, like your post, is anecdotal, but you do have to question the ongoing price slashing of the G1. That's not a good sign.
Yes. I do remember and I actually hope something along these lines is included. It would be so nice to have the notifications on the lock screen. I'm imagining it to be something kind of like what we've seen on JB iPhones except a more polished Apple-esque look.
What about home screen design? Do you think that layout/look will stay the same? I think it may be time for them to refresh it with a similar look but enough difference to make it look 'spiffy.'
Now that you mention it, I did see that a few of the jailbroken phones had changed their home screen to look like the ipod touch, with the refelctive dock. That actually looked really nice. So yes, definantly with you on that one. Can't be too diffiuclt to implement either, they already have all the required sources, so would surely only be a case of making it a menu option. Glass dock or Metal grate
I'm not certain I understand what you mean in your first paragraph? You want a wallpaper on the home screen and no icons? Can you not do that already, with the locked screen? And you can customize the number of icons on the home page, unless you mean get rid of the default apple ones?
I am however totally with you on the ical notifications. It would be great if you could tick a box or whatever, that allowed all of your events for that day to be displayed in the morning, surely wouldnt be too dificult to implement. But for single events, you can make them appear at on the home screen, 5mins b4, 10 mins etc. Though it is annoying having it beep at you, just to appear would be nice.
Apologies if I have misunderstood what you siad on anything.
A rebranding to Mobile OSX would make sense if the rumored 10" device is indeed on its way...
i don't think anyone has ever called iphone os "full os x". that would have been an outright lie. if we had "full os x" there would not be need for separate sdk's. the osx programs would run on iphone after a simple recompilation, some might need a little ui touch up to enhance the user experience on small touch display, but that's all.
I'm really hoping this is not the case for 3.0. As great as the UI is, the OS is just so bloated for a mobile device. Why do you need a full-blown OS on a mobile phone; how much RAM and processing power does it use just so the iPhone looks pretty? I groan everytime I am doing nothing but using the iPod and there is a good 3 second lag switching screens from currently playing to current playlist to all playlists. Then there's the inexplicable lag in the SMS app. And you can just forget about holding the backspace key to delete text unless you want it to delete everything you've typed - or you just like to amuse yourself at guessing where the cursor will finally stop.
It is already here in a sense.
I do belive the larger iPod devices will use that custom PA Semi chip though. I used the plural form here because I expect multiple devices in the coming year. I say iPod devices because I see that as Apples ARM based family. None of this prevents an Atom based notebook, but that will be Mac OS/X based.
As to push that technology will always remain valid! It is not however the solution to every problem. Multitasking of apps is still needed and important in it's own right. The point is the technologies solve two different issues.
It will be interesting to say the least. I can't imagine Apple coming out with a version three OS, for iPhone, and not adding a lot of user features. As good as iPhone is there are many thin spots be it current apps or missing functionality. Honestly I'm not bothered by what is missing as much as some, I'd rather see E-Mail and Safari improved significantly. And syncing of more of the existing apps.
Dave
I'm not sure iPhone is special enough to warrant a special Apple chip when there are so many optimized cell phone chips on the market already. Hard to tell honestly but iPhone needs very high performance, high volume chips that are cost controlled. Then again the current Samsung chip has an Apple part number on it.
I do belive the larger iPod devices will use that custom PA Semi chip though. I used the plural form here because I expect multiple devices in the coming year. I say iPod devices because I see that as Apples ARM based family. None of this prevents an Atom based notebook, but that will be Mac OS/X based.
IPhone needs more RAM, it is the devices greatest short coming.
As to push that technology will always remain valid! It is not however the solution to every problem. Multitasking of apps is still needed and important in it's own right. The point is the technologies solve two different issues.
Look around it is only months away and is called OpenCL. Along with other multitasking improvements you will get very similar results to what you describe here. The GPU cores and the CPU cores each accel at different problems.
Think about OpenCL and see if the concept isnt close.
It will be interesting to say the least. I can't imagine Apple coming out with a version three OS, for iPhone, and not adding a lot of user features. As good as iPhone is there are many thin spots be it current apps or missing functionality. Honestly I'm not bothered by what is missing as much as some, I'd rather see E-Mail and Safari improved significantly. And syncing of more of the existing apps.
Dave
Resolution changes don't mean old device get ruled out.
Developers would build for the base format then would have options about how they use the extra space. If it's bigger screen they may have a bigger layout if it's a higher density then same layout but maybe smaller font options.
Developers already have two layout they can one, the other or both. What's a few more.
it'd be really d1ck if apple doesn't allow 3.0 to be installed on the 1st generation iphone... (but it'd be time to upgrade anyway)
GUi Improvements, folders, better app/icon management, lock screen info
iChat Video, camera on front. iChat video over wifi. Only over wifi.
Improved camera/video
iChat push notifications finally
Multitasking
Improved SMS and Mail (NO MMS, there will never be MMS, it sucks, always has, always will)
Improved maps, turn by turn
One more thing
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iChat Video, camera on front. iChat video over wifi. Only over wifi.
Improved camera/video
iChat push notifications finally
Multitasking
Improved SMS and Mail (NO MMS, there will never be MMS, it sucks, always has, always will)
Improved maps, turn by turn
One more thing
Copy and Paste
That is false. For a efficient mobile OS, like Symbian (s60 or UIQ), 128mb is plenty of RAM. They boot with more than double the free RAM of the iphone, available for 3rd party apps...just has an example, with the same 128mb, the n95 8Gb from nokia boots with more than 80mb of free RAM vs the iphone with around 40. And no, the n95 8gb is not slow with 3rd party apps on the background, and the battery life is way better than the iphone´s
Problem is, you (mainly americans) keep comparing the Iphone OS with crap like Windows Mobile, instead of comparing it with Symbian
In reality, the short coming is the Iphone OS itself. Make it more efficient, and the current hardware is more than capable.