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How does 3.0 beta 1 compare to last year's 2.0 beta?

TheSpaz

TheSpaz

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This one goes out to the devs that had to use 2.0 beta.

In terms of bugs and problems... how do you think 3.0 compares to the early betas of 2.0?

I'm wondering how much work Apple has to do to 3.0. I'm really, really, really hoping we don't end up with a final release of 3.0 that is like how 2.0 was at first. By the time 2.1 came around... it was like a breath of fresh air and when 2.2 hit it was like "Holy cow this is nice!" and when 2.2.1 came out... it pretty much fixed the last few big bugs.

Just as they get things pretty much perfect, they have to go ahead and change it again... hehe. I'm not complaining though because we're getting really great stuff in 3.0 and it's only gonna get better with 3.1 and 3.2!
 
Just a little slow that is all....well maybe a little more then a little slow :)
 
Way more excited with 3.0 than I was with the 2.0 beta. Well, to clarify, Apple didn't let me into the dev program until well after 2.0 went public so it had a cloud of mystery around it that made it seem exciting but as far as features go, 3.0 is where it's at.
 
The General said:
Yeah, but the features 3.0 comes with are actually useful.
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Just because you didn't find the features introduced in 2.0 useful doesn't mean that everyone else feels the same way. The ability to connect to the WPA Enterprise WiFi network at my job as well as using email on the Exchange server here made my iPhone 10x more useful than it was with 1.0.
 
PoitNarf said:
Yes, it had tons of new features.
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2.0 features:

OS Enhancements
Certificates and Identities
WPA2/802.1X
Ability to turn Wi-Fi back on while in Airplane mode
Cisco IPsec VPN support
Ability to take screen-capture by holding the Sleep/Wake button and pressing Home
Ability to save pics from Safari or Mail to Photos[9]
Bonjour service discovery protocol
Support for SVG
Parental controls
App Store (to manage third-party applications) with home screen icon
Password letters are momentarily visible while typing
Ability to turn Location Services on or off
Applications that use Location Services prompt user for confirmation 3 times.
Tapping the title bar scrolls to the top in most apps
Language Support
Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Dutch, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese language interface in iPhone, previously these languages were only in the iPod Touch since 1.1.1[10]
Extra keyboard languages including Chinese and Korean and Russian
Support for Traditional and Simplified Chinese handwriting recognition
Mail/Contacts/Calendars
settings grouped
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support
Support for Apple's new MobileMe service
Mail
Push e-mail
Ability to select an outgoing email account within Mail appliction[11]
Support for BCC in Mail application
Multiple email delete/move
Ability to view MS Office attachments
Ability to view iWork attachments, including Pages, Numbers, and Keynote[12]
Contacts
Contacts icon on "Home" screen
Ability to search contacts
Global Address List
Push contacts
Ability to import SIM contacts
Calendar
Multiple calendars supported in Calendar with color coding (desktop colors only preserved if using Mobile Me)
New "Calendar" menu in "Settings"[13]
Push calendar
Enterprise enhancements
Enforced security policies
Device configuration
Remote wipe
iPod
Video can be shown in either landscape orientation (instead of just landscape left)
Videos in playlists & music videos can be shown in portrait or landscape orientation
Sound fade-out when exiting a video
Other Apps
Updated calculator with extra features in portrait mode, a scientific calculator in landscape mode and an updated icon.


The updated calculator in the iPhone 2.0 firmware.
Updated iTunes with a new icon and reordered category icons within iTunes application.
Camera now supports Geotagging[14]
YouTube plugin for Safari[15]
 
I'd say it's about at the level of Beta 3 or 4 for OS 2.0 from a stability level. You have to remember though that OS 2.0 was a massive architectural change from OS 1.0 (before 2.0, everything ran as root, there was no sandboxing, etc, etc) so I don't know how much can realistically be inferred fro m that.
 
Well, yeah. Those features were in the final release of 2.0 ... but half of them weren't in the beta, and of the half that were in the beta, most were unusable.

Let's compare this beta to the 2.0 beta, just like the title says.
 
Phil A. said:
I'd say it's about at the level of Beta 3 or 4 for OS 2.0 from a stability level. You have to remember though that OS 2.0 was a massive architectural change from OS 1.0 (before 2.0, everything ran as root, there was no sandboxing, etc, etc) so I don't know how much can realistically be inferred fro m that.
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I thought I remember the "mobile" user being introduced in OS 1.1.3. That's what a lot of 1.1.2 jailbroken apps wouldn't run in 1.1.3.
 
TheSpaz said:
I thought I remember the "mobile" user being introduced in OS 1.1.3. That's what a lot of 1.1.2 jailbroken apps wouldn't run in 1.1.3.
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Yeah, but the Springboard and all apps were run as root. I'm not sure why mobile even existed.
 
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