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Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 Media Event: 'Sneak Peek Into the Future'
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Let me break it down for you:
iAd - crap...if you're not a dev, it's just garbage cluttering up your phone. out of the 85 million iphone/itouch users....how many are devs? that's right, not many.
Folders - these folders showing multiple icons looks hideous. at least make the "folders" look like folders or something more clean and presentable. not an icon with 4 little squished icons in it to represent a folder. very un-apple like in the design department.
Lock screen - nothing...nada.....no useful lock screen, no tweat to the notifications, nothing. this is where apple really needed to focus their attention, not multi-tasking. super fail apple.
Wallpaper - this works on the ipad because there is a huge screen, but when you take a small screen like the iphone and clutter it with tons of apps and then throw a background pic in there....it looks like a MESS!
the whole iphone is becoming a congested mess.
no bueno dude
i'll have to agree as well. Don't get me wrong some of the features presented today are certainly a leap forward but did not meet my expectations.
By expectations i mean the ones Apple set to me, the ones that make me shiver about anything new.
aybe it was the overall presentation maybe there are more things down the road. But after all i realize that was just a software presentation, just a part of the complete-finished product and not not the product itself.
I guess ill just have to wait and see.
funny, it seems like you are trying to use fanboy as a negative, i'm quite the fan of several things - dallas cowboys, jeeps, xbox, apple, etc... - you imply you are a fan of nothing? quite boring indeed.
This only applies to apps that support a background task of some sort. Other apps will start and quit like usual.
Pair this with some form of iphone OS /Apps running on the mac and I have a prediction. Apps will be able to be installed on Apple TV or possible MAC's to be on the big screen using you ipod Touches & iPhones as the controllers. You kind of see this vision in one increment on the ipad with Scrabble.
Wow, I'm really disappointed with some of this thread. I've been coming here on and off for a while but I've never seen so much negativity until today.
It's been said a lot but I just want to reiterate:
- Developer's conference means ads ARE a feature to DEVELOPERS.
- As someone else said, Apple's hardware functions for a lot longer than some other companies' hardware, however...
- Apple updates their software and stops supporting old hardware pretty often, as has always been the case.
If you don't like iPhones or Apple, no problem. You don't have to. You can think they're overpriced and worthless. So, buy something else, and um, don't hang out at Apple fan sites. It's called common sense. And if you really have nothing better to do than complain or troll on a Thursday afternoon, maybe you should spend that time doing something more productive.
As for myself, I have nothing better to do with my time today, I admit it. But I'm not trolling Windows communities, either, or exaggerating about how awful things are. It's a phone. You don't even need one. People got along fine without them. If you like it, and you like the changes, awesome. If you have an iPhone and feel shafted for some reason, get a different phone.
My 3G iPhone, the only iPhone I've ever had, which was a gift this Christmas, won't get multi-tasking. That sucks, I guess. I don't know if I'd use it. I'll deal with not having it, and maybe someday I'll get the 3GS. No one dies. Life's not that bad. It's just a tech gadget for a company. You're a consumer. Buy it or don't - let your money tell Apple if you're unhappy with them. Complaining about it on the internet isn't constructive.
Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes.
Wise stuff... Somebody with common sense finally...
Lets make a fund to buy you an iPhone 4.
Sorry. I used the wrong terminology, but my point was that the operating systems for the iPad and the iPhone are essentially the same.
It's not just flash they should have improved performance of, try Illustrator. Illustrator CS 3 is crazy slow. They want people to adopt Air, no way. I much rather see HTML 5 and bag Air and Flash.
No it'll apply to ALL apps as all apps now will run in the background when you open a new one.
Time will tell but the new iphone better be on par or better than the HTC Evo
Big shoes to fill !
If not , bye bye iphone.....Hello Evo
Big shoes to fill !
If not , bye bye iphone.....Hello Evo
Yeah, I don't get this either. If I know I won't come back to a game until tomorrow, I wanna be sure that my iPhone's cache is free of it. I wish they had elaborated on this part.However Apple will not allow any task managers at all:
A: (Steve Jobs) In multitasking, if you see a task manager... they blew it. Users shouldn't ever have to think about it.
Most stuipid decision ever!
Biggest bummer is only 3GS+ users can enjoy multi-tasking but then again it's not a shocker. My 1st gen can barely handle an intensive app like Asphalt 5 or NOVA, but switching from 1st gen to 4th gen should be fun!
It sure was nice of Apple to continue selling the 3G as a 99 dollar iPhone when they decided the were going to gimp it.
At least with the original iPhone they had the kindness to stop selling it when the 3G came out.
T-Mo was still selling the G1 with Android 1.5 when they decided to support the Nexus one and other newer phones. is there a 2.1 Android update for the G1?
what exactly is your point?
You've got a point, but I see it like this: There are two competing interests:
A: Devs want to make money
B: I don't want to view ads
If devs use iAd to satisfy A, then I don't get to have B. Of course devs can charge for apps to satisfy A, but I also don't want to pay "too much" for apps either. So there's a balance to be found.
So something the balance will work out so that I have to give up B to get an app I really want.
That will annoy me -- that's the bad thing, in my opinion.
Where did you see that?
I looks like being put in the background requires the app to use one of the new APIs. Old apps won't background.
Most ad systems on iPhone apps don't quite the app when you click them today. Of course leave to Jobs to make that sound revolutionary. Also, the new ad system isn't going to unify ads on the app store. They will certainly get lots of devs in the program. But app developers aren't going to be loyal to apple when it comes to ads. They will use whatever system gives them the most results.
There's a third option: You want new free apps, but don't want devs to eat? Write your own apps!
Wow, I'm really disappointed with some of this thread. I've been coming here on and off for a while but I've never seen so much negativity until today.
It's been said a lot but I just want to reiterate:
- Developer's conference means ads ARE a feature to DEVELOPERS.
- As someone else said, Apple's hardware functions for a lot longer than some other companies' hardware, however...
- Apple updates their software and stops supporting old hardware pretty often, as has always been the case.
If you don't like iPhones or Apple, no problem. You don't have to. You can think they're overpriced and worthless. So, buy something else, and um, don't hang out at Apple fan sites. It's called common sense. And if you really have nothing better to do than complain or troll on a Thursday afternoon, maybe you should spend that time doing something more productive.
As for myself, I have nothing better to do with my time today, I admit it. But I'm not trolling Windows communities, either, or exaggerating about how awful things are. It's a phone. You don't even need one. People got along fine without them. If you like it, and you like the changes, awesome. If you have an iPhone and feel shafted for some reason, get a different phone.
My 3G iPhone, the only iPhone I've ever had, which was a gift this Christmas, won't get multi-tasking. That sucks, I guess. I don't know if I'd use it. I'll deal with not having it, and maybe someday I'll get the 3GS. No one dies. Life's not that bad. It's just a tech gadget for a company. You're a consumer. Buy it or don't - let your money tell Apple if you're unhappy with them. Complaining about it on the internet isn't constructive.
Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes.
classy, and well-said - worth a re-read...
That is simply not true. Only apps that use the 7 service apis will run in limited mode in the background. Other apps can use the new api to save its state and restart its state when switching back to the app. They certainly will not be running in the background.