Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 Media Event: 'Sneak Peek Into the Future'

[WestonHarvey1]

They'll talk about how Apple adds things that their products should have launched with, while ignoring how these gradual upgrades allow for pretty much seamless experiences, no crashes, great integration with iTunes, etc.

I'm sure people will complain it's not "real" multitasking. It just lets you inject code into blessed background services.

People want their solitaire app to shrink into the background, UI and all, using up tons of the tiny available RAM, and requiring a Task Scheduler to kill stuck processes.

 

[jsbaugh]

Damn, this is turning epic now. Their own xbox live.

 

[RebootD]

well done. you've just repeated the thoughts of dozens of other people throughout this thread. now go away and let us enjoy the presentation!

Are you five years old? Get out of the sandbox is your response? Here's your cookie and milk.

 

[*LTD*]

I still think it's funny that things like "Unified Inbox", "MultiTasking" and "Wallpapers!" deserve to be listed as huge deals.... most other phones have done this for years.

Different story when Apple does it. It's all about *how* you implement those features. On an iPhone, it's like candy.

 

[GermanSuplex]

Apple getting their own game social network? This could be big and the start of an entire social network. There are a LOT of Apple fans, people who listen to iTunes, etc... imagine a service that is like a convergence of X-Box Live, Last.fm and Facebook. That would be KILLER, especially since iTunes, a desktop app, is the hub of all of this.

 

[henrikrox]

xboxlive kinda stuff for the ipad, i kinda like this, didnt see it coming

 

[Greenman85]

will the home screen change?

 

[ChazUK]

10:46AM Wow. So Apple's got their Xbox Live. This is kind of huge. Achievements, leaderboards, match making.

Apply copying something from MS?

 

[nfl46]

I am officially leaving Apple for good. No new UI. Android UI is way better. I feel like I'm buying the same model car with enhancements for four straight years.

 

[Dooger]

Watch, they're gonna say that it's not TRUE multitasking just glorified app switching....just watch.

There's no glory here. It's just app switching.

 

[adztaylor]

Loving the game centre idea.

 

[Small White Car]

Oop..here comes the bitching about ads...

I'll say it again: Your apps already have ads. Nothing new here.

(Like that'll stop the complaining. Oh well.)

 

[caliguy]

No Google Nav

 

[arkmannj]

Freaking home Run !!! WOW ! not to see what hardware it will/won't run on.

 

[enberg]

I like how they're pushin' ads as a feature.

 

[Brometheus]

Doodle Jump





Same, I was hoping to have a homescreen with weather showing, calendar, recent messages, etc - rather than all apps.

The user interface is iconic. You don't mess with that. It's about your brand.

 

[diamond.g]

Damn, this is turning epic now. Their own xbox live.

Oh snap, I wonder what will happen to Plus+ and Open Feint?

 

[str1f3]

I guess Plus+, Agon, etc. are dead on the iPhone now.

 

[smiddlehurst]

Somewhere in Redmond furniture is getting broken right about now... Doesn't matter how good Apple's implementation of all this actually is, the fact is it's going to be out at least three months before MS (assuming it launches in the summer) and there's an 85 million device userbase already in place which could be pushing 100 million by the time the first Windows Phone 7 device rolls out.

 

[xgman]

They had me right up until iAd. Yuck! Who wants more ads built in. . .

 

[nfl46]

will the home screen change?

No. Only backgrounds.

 

[koobcamuk]

Different story when Apple does it. It's all about *how* you implement those features. On an iPhone, it's like candy.

Could you be much more of a fanboi?

 

[ethical]

I am officially leaving Apple for good. No new UI. Android UI is way better. I feel like I'm buying the same model car with enhancements for four straight years.

bye bye. hope you enjoyed your stay and time whining

Apple's Xbox Live thing looks awesome! Very excited about that!

 

[sishaw]

Feature Number 4:

"- Feature #4: iBooks for iPhone OS. Same as for iPad, same iBookstore...Buy books once and read them anywhere. Wireless syncing of content and bookmarks."

Anyone know if this means wireless syncing over Bluetooth? Could one buy a book with the iPhone and then sync it to the iPad, such that one doesn't need 3G on the iPad just to acquire books?

 

[Small White Car]

There's no glory here. It's just app switching.

Then you obviously weren't paying attention.

What part of "you can leave Skype and stay on the phone call" just "app switching?"