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Developer Sees First Crash Report From iOS 5.0
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I so so SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hope that iOS 5 is something very special.
Let's be honest, the 1st iPad was just a test version with a, let's not spend too much time and money, tweak of the iPhone OS, in case it flops.
They increased the revision number a little when they added folders and the task switching bar.
Now they know they have a worldwide hit, and the are bumping the OS revision number, not to a 4.something, but jumping way up to 5.0 This must mean a major overhaul and something very much modified to make use of the much larger real estate of the tablets screen.
I mean, the totally empty lock screen with a little slider at the bottom is so silly just for starters.
I'm so hoping this will be a major change and upgrade for their tablets for the future.
Let's be honest, the 1st iPad was just a test version with a, let's not spend too much time and money, tweak of the iPhone OS, in case it flops.
They increased the revision number a little when they added folders and the task switching bar.
Now they know they have a worldwide hit, and the are bumping the OS revision number, not to a 4.something, but jumping way up to 5.0 This must mean a major overhaul and something very much modified to make use of the much larger real estate of the tablets screen.
I mean, the totally empty lock screen with a little slider at the bottom is so silly just for starters.
I'm so hoping this will be a major change and upgrade for their tablets for the future.
w00t first iOS 5 developer preview has been posted to my dev account!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go check it out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
i was hoping that they would have an IOS event before WWDC but i guess not, but its good they are testing apps and the OS together to grantee the best experience possible.
Yes. iOS 5 is a big secret. Nobody knows it is coming.Everyone thinks Apple is calling it quits at 4. It would defy logic for them to release an updated version of the OS with the next number following the previous version's number
Expect the first developer preview in June, at WWDC. Final release will likely be around September, to coincide with the iPhone 5 / "4S".
No I didn't misunderstand anything. Knowing how paranoid Apple is about any information geting out about upcoming products, I would think that if your business depended on them, you would be extremely careful about releasing any information that might get them upset. Just common sense.
It's time for a major revision of iOS. 5 versions later and it is essentially the same as when it was first released -- conceded, with some nice additions such as multi tasking, multiple pages for apps, and a few UI improvements.
Apple really needs to step up the game and come out with an iOS that puts it once again ahead of the competition.
What revolutionary changes do you all think we'll see in iOS 5?
Apple really needs to step up the game and come out with an iOS that puts it once again ahead of the competition.
What revolutionary changes do you all think we'll see in iOS 5?
Sorry, but you're not going to get it. I think the way Apple does multi-tasking on mobile devices is great as it saves on battery and RAM requirements. Instead, expect more capabilities for the limited multi-tasking that already exists.
I like how iOS handles multi tasking. It's an ingenious way of delivering the multi tasking experience without deprecating battery life and CPU cycles.
However, I'm not a fan of the double home button press to access the recent apps tray. This method feels like an after thought -- and indeed it is.
I'd like to see an Exposé like multi tasking as was leaked from the Vietnamese prototype iOS. To call up Exposé, perhaps a swipe from the margin of the device could work, although if iPhone loses its border with an edge to edge screen, this would no longer work. Any other suggestions?
However, I'm not a fan of the double home button press to access the recent apps tray. This method feels like an after thought -- and indeed it is.
I'd like to see an Exposé like multi tasking as was leaked from the Vietnamese prototype iOS. To call up Exposé, perhaps a swipe from the margin of the device could work, although if iPhone loses its border with an edge to edge screen, this would no longer work. Any other suggestions?
True, if I as a developer received a crash report like that I'd probably not talk about it.
I have no real issue about how it handles task switching, however, as you say the way it handles multitasking is, in effect by not multitasking.
We can argue all day, but apart from the Apple code, and a few bits here and there, the iPad does not multi task, it freezes a program.
That's not multitasking.
If you employed people, and when you stopped looking at one person they froze in their tracks with whatever they were doing at the time, and only started moving again, when you were looking at them again, you would not call them multitasking
But I'm fine with what the iPad does, I just don't like the lies from Apple trying to redefine the accepted meaning of multitasking and them people accepting this new meaning of the term.
The Playbook multitasks for real. It can play a movie and play a game at the same time. that is multitasking.
But, again, let me say, I'm fine with the "Task Switching/Freezing" system that Apple have implemented as it works fine in general.
Honestly, I don't see the next iPhone being called the iPhone 4S, because the "S" in 3GS stood for Speed. It was like the 3G, only with more speed. Maybe this next iPhone will have something more to offer than just speed. It's Just my opinion. What do you guys think? Would they really re-use the same moniker or surname for a completely different device?
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No they probably wouldn't if it was a completely different device. But it could very well be that there will be something like an iPhone 4S, which looks essentially like an iPhone 4 but with internal improvements.
And then next year they'd release a completely redesigned iPhone 5
