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Apple to Preview iPhone OS 3.0 on March 17th
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This is going to amount to a "whatever the Pre can do, we can do better" conference. We'll see if Apple really has become tone-deaf to consumer complaints on the 17th.
The even also serves as psy-ops to prep iPhone 2G owners for their obligatory upgrade to the iPhone 3G. June will be the 2 year anniversary and ATT/Apple wants us back on contract. I've got my money on the iPhone 3.0 not being compatible with the iPhone 2G.
The even also serves as psy-ops to prep iPhone 2G owners for their obligatory upgrade to the iPhone 3G. June will be the 2 year anniversary and ATT/Apple wants us back on contract. I've got my money on the iPhone 3.0 not being compatible with the iPhone 2G.
No, it's pretty much you over-expect. You guys--and you know who you are-- want the latest unreleased chipset operating at the highest possible clock speeds, with a thought-control UI and an antigravity case with a cloaking device and petabyte storage, all for less than you pay for a weeks worth of grande latte.
I'm convinced that nothing less will make you people happy.
What is anyone expecting for the next hardware update? I can't see any features that other phones have that the iPhone doesn't. Software-wise, yes. And it could use performance boosts, but I don't see how they could reconcile that with keeping the App Store open to all platforms (i.e. IPT + iP 1-3G).
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
Yea you are probably right...I just hope my parents will get the new iPhone as a graduation present for me when our contract ends in September. (I bought my 2g iPhone the day after the $200 price drop)
I really hope this OS doesn't break NetShare....
What was the name of that company Apple bought "xxx Semi" I think. I'm thinking that Apple may be making some muti-core ARM chips from use in phone and other tablet devices. Other devices like the one that will use those 10 ich screen Apple just ordered.)
Once you get more powerfull processors, that still use little power then you can have true multi tasking and you no longer need push notifacations. Although "push" is always smarter than polling.
For years I've always thought "asymetric" multi-core would be a good idea. That means one processor core is very powerfull and the second one quite small. You then power the cores up and down as best fits the demand.
I've only actually used one computer that had different kinds of cores mixed in the same box. It was a 40 year old CDC mainframe. It worked well we had 20 small 12-bit processors and 2 big number cruncher processors. Just waiting for this 1960's vintage ideas to be re-used in a cell phone.
Most people here are asking for user-facing GUI features in 3.0 but I'm guessing 3.0 will like Snow Leopard be mostly aimed at developers. With features like Grand Central and Open ML that let developers make use of asymmetric multiprocessing
That means at the WWDC, 80% of the time won't be devoted to the iPhone, which means more room for Snow Leopard and the truly exciting stuff 
But put me down for a faster iPhone 3rd-Gen... needs a significant hardware speed bump.
But put me down for a faster iPhone 3rd-Gen... needs a significant hardware speed bump.
Push, jailbreak"proofing", and... Screen size advisory!
I expect 1) Push. 2) A new effort to jailbreak-proof the system. This is not to prevent apps that do unsupported stuff like video recording, but to prevent piracy and competing app stores. 3) An announcement to developers that they should make sure that their apps support varying screen sizes. Why? I'm sure they won't say but it's for the NetPad, DUH! See my predictions on this here (and I guess bump the screen size from 7.75" to 9.75).
In v3 we might also see long awaited stuff like video recording and maybe text to speech ala shuffle, and "Ink" support for um, future use. For far out predictions, I'd like to see speech to text, i.e. integrated voice dialing and stuff like iPod control by voice.
Copy and paste? Meh. Maybe, but I'd look for... Data Detectors!
I expect 1) Push. 2) A new effort to jailbreak-proof the system. This is not to prevent apps that do unsupported stuff like video recording, but to prevent piracy and competing app stores. 3) An announcement to developers that they should make sure that their apps support varying screen sizes. Why? I'm sure they won't say but it's for the NetPad, DUH! See my predictions on this here (and I guess bump the screen size from 7.75" to 9.75).
In v3 we might also see long awaited stuff like video recording and maybe text to speech ala shuffle, and "Ink" support for um, future use. For far out predictions, I'd like to see speech to text, i.e. integrated voice dialing and stuff like iPod control by voice.
Copy and paste? Meh. Maybe, but I'd look for... Data Detectors!
I have a feeling that this software is going to require a faster iPhone processor for its coolest features. Our current iPhones will still be able to use it, but some features may not be supported without faster or multi-core processors that are supposedly going into the next generation devices. I don't see how true multitasking will be missed-out on by Apple, yet our current devices really can't handle it very well.
I also predict that there will be a new home menu hierarchy, since there are so many apps out there that scrolling through window after window of app "launch buttons" is not efficient anymore.
I also predict that there will be a new home menu hierarchy, since there are so many apps out there that scrolling through window after window of app "launch buttons" is not efficient anymore.
Woah woah woah, slow down there young lad!
LoL!I'm excited to see what's not coming as well as some of you others.
Currently I am missing only very few funtionality like copy/paste and in mail I would like to see all my new messages at once and not have to go to each and every email account I have. Besides that - DON'T BREAK IT !
Reverse psychology? Nice.
Why would Apple go ahead and leave the millions of 3G users out like that and also, why would they announce that they have faster iPhones coming. Most of the changes they need to make, are simple OS features... I don't think they need faster hardware for most of that stuff.
Apple has had 2 years to give us copy and paste... why would they give it to us now?
I'm looking forward to it. Apple's leadership may be on a power trip, but the OS guys always deliver.
Woah woah woah, slow down there young lad!
I'm excited to see what's not coming as well as some of you others.
If you think about it Copy-Paste and push and many of the other features people want are really just 2.X releases, they could be released anytime. The only things I can think of that would truly require a new version of the OS are background apps and threading stuff. derryquinn: A nice real Apple Store in Ireland would be great. The resellers just dont cut the mustard anymore, who do we have to lobby