You have much less data on your iPhone compared to the average Macintosh, so Spotlight should have much less work to do. Most of the data is music + videos, and there is only a tiny amount of data that Spotlight needs to handle for those.
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You have much less data on your iPhone compared to the average Macintosh, so Spotlight should have much less work to do. Most of the data is music + videos, and there is only a tiny amount of data that Spotlight needs to handle for those.
This was an awesome update . . They pretty much covered everything that everyone wanted to see implemented and then some. 
I can't wait for the 3rd gen. iphone to burst on the scene. Its gonna be crazy. I'm still waiting for some other kind of tablet as well though. I'll never give up hope .
I can't wait for the 3rd gen. iphone to burst on the scene. Its gonna be crazy. I'm still waiting for some other kind of tablet as well though. I'll never give up hope .Jealous
I'm jealous. This is turning out to be quite a robust mobile OS.
I cannot justify affording an iPhone with the monthly payments though. My employer supplies our Blackberries (which are nice) and would pay for the monthly charges incurred by the iPhone but not the device itself.
The problem our corporate network team has with the iPhone is ActiveSync. On WinMo phones the ActiveSync chatter takes a lot of bandwidth, but for some reason they state that the iPhone ActiveSync chatter is much worse. Therefore they do not allow many users to use iPhones (execs only). Has anyone else experience this at your place of work?
I'm jealous. This is turning out to be quite a robust mobile OS.
I cannot justify affording an iPhone with the monthly payments though. My employer supplies our Blackberries (which are nice) and would pay for the monthly charges incurred by the iPhone but not the device itself.
The problem our corporate network team has with the iPhone is ActiveSync. On WinMo phones the ActiveSync chatter takes a lot of bandwidth, but for some reason they state that the iPhone ActiveSync chatter is much worse. Therefore they do not allow many users to use iPhones (execs only). Has anyone else experience this at your place of work?
Keep in mind Apple only showed us a few things. If you look at the screen shots from the various sites of the show, it says there are over a 100 new features.....
Trying to find the screen capture of this....
Trying to find the screen capture of this....
what are you basing that on? If it's my earlier post, I'm not saying that is true, I'm asking if someone with the beta can check on it. I've yet to see anything on this one way or the other.
nah, but whyshouldnt it be possible to invoke the "bubble" again after you marked the first lines you wanted to add?
i could imagine this for OSX too. hold cmd and mark.. do it again to add a passage to the clip
why not?
I know Office allowed multiple items in the clipboard, but generally any copy should overwrite the existing clipboard item. Maybe someone can verify?
Another Question...
Does anyone with the beta 3.0 know if the Address Book now syncs ALL of the Address Book data over from a Mac? For example, family member names?
This would be very nice as I can never remember related people names and this would a helpful feature to have on the go.
Here's hoping....
Does anyone with the beta 3.0 know if the Address Book now syncs ALL of the Address Book data over from a Mac? For example, family member names?
This would be very nice as I can never remember related people names and this would a helpful feature to have on the go.
Here's hoping....
COOL!! My passcode for mine is 26 random letters and I been jumping on a neighbors who doesnt have his WiFi locked, so I can save on battery life and be on that when the 3G is not in use.
Its great to see Copy and Paste finally being implemented, thank you . However, will we be able to copy text from websites on safari or will the Copy and Paste be solely implemented in notepad, address book, sms etc. Anyone who has access to 3.0 can you try this for me. Cheers!
. However, will we be able to copy text from websites on safari or will the Copy and Paste be solely implemented in notepad, address book, sms etc. Anyone who has access to 3.0 can you try this for me. Cheers!
I would love to know that too. Also, does Spotlight search inside Contacts, i.e. nickname, note, phonetic name, birthday, etc.?
I have tons of contacts, most of them with a picture and don't always know their first names; the 2.x iPhone software only searches for first and last name and company.
Getting it right
There's never been a cut and paste feature on a 100% touch based device before. Apple had only one chance to get it right. (edit - maybe I'm wrong here, maybe that Sprint abomination or the Storm has it, but they'll be relegated to the dustbins of history and are not platforms the way the iPhone is a platform)
There are a lot of simple interactions on a touch device - tap to select, pinch to zoom. But a complex interaction like select, cut, paste, copy - there's an infinite number of ways you could implement this, and many of them are really bad.
Apple doesn't want to try to introduce a new interaction into the touch lexicon, then decide later it was totally inadequate and replace it and cause user confusion.
Think back to all the would-be designers you've heard saying how easy it would be to implement and then gave their own ideas for a design. Some of them were pretty good. Some of them were downright awful. I think what Apple finally came up with here is pretty fantastic.
It comes off as something so easy to use my mom could do it, and she still struggles with the desktop standard of cut and paste - mouse, ctrl-x, ctrl-c, etc.
I'm sure we'll see copycat devices copy this interaction verbatim, just like pinch zoom and other things are permanent fixtures of the touch interface lexicon. That's how good it is.
There's never been a cut and paste feature on a 100% touch based device before. Apple had only one chance to get it right. (edit - maybe I'm wrong here, maybe that Sprint abomination or the Storm has it, but they'll be relegated to the dustbins of history and are not platforms the way the iPhone is a platform)
There are a lot of simple interactions on a touch device - tap to select, pinch to zoom. But a complex interaction like select, cut, paste, copy - there's an infinite number of ways you could implement this, and many of them are really bad.
Apple doesn't want to try to introduce a new interaction into the touch lexicon, then decide later it was totally inadequate and replace it and cause user confusion.
Think back to all the would-be designers you've heard saying how easy it would be to implement and then gave their own ideas for a design. Some of them were pretty good. Some of them were downright awful. I think what Apple finally came up with here is pretty fantastic.
It comes off as something so easy to use my mom could do it, and she still struggles with the desktop standard of cut and paste - mouse, ctrl-x, ctrl-c, etc.
I'm sure we'll see copycat devices copy this interaction verbatim, just like pinch zoom and other things are permanent fixtures of the touch interface lexicon. That's how good it is.
It's all good stuff but I can't help feeling a bit 'meh' because it's all stuff the phone ought to be doing already.
Problem with textfields in Safari
Anyone else noticed that you can no longer bring up the magnifying glass in any textfield in Safari? It just automatically jumps to the Copy context when you hold your finger down. So not only can we not paste into a textfield, we can't even move the cursor around.
Hopefully this is a bug and not a weird design decision.
Anyone else noticed that you can no longer bring up the magnifying glass in any textfield in Safari? It just automatically jumps to the Copy context when you hold your finger down. So not only can we not paste into a textfield, we can't even move the cursor around.
Hopefully this is a bug and not a weird design decision.
Its great to see Copy and Paste finally being implemented, thank you
You might want to look here:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/03/17/iphone_os_3_0_first_impressions_and_photos.html
This was in the first post.
yes, but now take into consideration all this + what we have today (in which most phones do not have) and it gives you goose bumps thinking about it
It only searches that current folder you are in - first what's on the device and then up on the server (of that one folder). And none of the body. There is an IMAP Search app coming out soon that searches all folders and content as well.