Do you think apple is hiding/saving features in 2.0 for launch date?

[Chupa Chupa]

Nah, I think they'll start treating it like Mac OS. They will have the usual updates and applications that come with the iPhone (for mac it is Mail, iCal, iTunes, Automator, etc.) but then also release others that people can buy if they want (for the mac, this is iWork, Final Cut Pro, etc.). That makes sense to me.

You have to remember though that the only reason Apple came out with Mac s/w is because no other major 3rd party s/w company was willing to make decent Mac s/w. No s/w = no h/w sales for Apple. Jobs has always said he sees Apple as primarily a h/w company, and that is where it's profits come from. It's s/w sales other than OS X don't even register.

This is not the case with the iPhone. Companies are jumping all over each other to make iPhone apps. Heck Adobe is practically BEGGING Apple. They never begged w/ the Mac. In fact they usually say "screw Mac." There is no reason for Apple to spend R&D money developing iPhone apps when others are doing it for them. It doesn't make any sense for Apple to make iPhone apps. In fact, they haven't made one yet. All the widgets on the original were made by Yahoo or Google.

 

[ChrisWilder07]

Mmm....

I really think apple puts in MMS and some more apps in... i think it'l be under staff picks/featured so it'll be obvious...or apple will have a section in App Store

 

[nlivo]

Jobs has always said he sees Apple as primarily a h/w company

Actually, he has said the exact opposite. Apple is a software company. I could find a video of an interview with him but I cantt be bothered. But I do remember him saying this...."Take a look at the iPod and its success, it's great software, wrapped in beautiful hardware."

 

[christall109]

Actually, he has said the exact opposite. Apple is a software company. I could find a video of an interview with him but I cantt be bothered. But I do remember him saying this...."Take a look at the iPod and its success, it's great software, wrapped in beautiful hardware."

I Remember SJ always bringing up the quote, "A company that is really serious about software, should make their own hardware."

So I guess Apple is number 1 a software company, and number 2 a hardware manufacture (even though all the insides of every product contain Samsung, Intel....etc)

They just design the design of the hardware's user interface.

 

[rockstarjoe]

I really hope they give us iChat (whether at launch or at a later date). Maybe they will have it as a last minute surprise like the Youtube app... doubt it though.

 

[razorianfly]

I really hope they give us iChat (whether at launch or at a later date). Maybe they will have it as a last minute surprise like the Youtube app... doubt it though.

Unless Apple place it on the App Store, it's not happening.

Software v2.0 has now gone 'Gold Master' -- It's completely finished -- and the last build I recieved didn't have iChat.

R-Fly

 

[earnjam]

Actually, he has said the exact opposite. Apple is a software company. I could find a video of an interview with him but I cantt be bothered. But I do remember him saying this...."Take a look at the iPod and its success, it's great software, wrapped in beautiful hardware."

One such example is the interview he did alongside Bill Gates a year ago.

http://d5.allthingsd.com/20070531/d5-gates-jobs-transcript/

And so the big secret about Apple, of course–not-so-big secret maybe–is that Apple views itself as a software company and there aren’t very many software companies left...

and

Alan Kay had a great quote back in the ’70s, I think. He said, “People that love software want to build their own hardware.”