I have an idea to distract from all the 'regular' speculation

[MacDryCleaner]

Hi Gang -

Far too many fake iPhone photos and endless speculation as to whether or not there will be video ichat or will 3.0 come out next week or not (it won't) or when will the new iPhone come out?

Instead, let's have some fun and some of you pull up the podcast of the 3.0 demo special event and go to 27 minutes, 18 seconds into the presentation. Scott puts a big picture up with many of the new features. He breaks down and describes about 10 of the features (they are featured using larger print). But what about those dozen features he doesn't discuss? Let's talk about SOMETHING new and speculate what some of those features are and what they might lead to.

Here is a list of the features:

View Controller
Audio Recorder (ok, we know that one now)
Open URL
GPS Lingo
UI Table View
UI Action Sheet
UI View
Battery API
Nav Bars
UI Scroll View
Toolbars
iAP
UI Alert View
Text Selection
Localization Coliation
Cell Styles
UI Scroll View

I have no idea what most of those mean so how about we take a break from speculating about the big ticket items and see what we can teach each other about some of the not so glitzy features.

I'm looking forward to the reading...

 

[Small White Car]

Those aren't "phone features" so much as they're things that developers can use in their apps in 3.0.

So while they're real things, what matters more is what developers do with them. And we can't really know that until the developers start telling us about them.

 

[JosephBergdoll]

Flux capacitor, maybe?

 

[Gathomblipoob]

Chronosynclastic Infendibulous Cravistat?

Apologies to Kurt Vonnegut.