Personally, I find it offensive. We get c/p and it seems like a priviledge now. It's a frickin basic feature on smartphones. Next, people are going to start saying Apple invented it. It's in the "iPhone patent".
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iPhone 3.0 Copy and Paste Described
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Personally, I find it offensive. We get c/p and it seems like a priviledge now. It's a frickin basic feature on smartphones. Next, people are going to start saying Apple invented it. It's in the "iPhone patent".
All they have to do is offer a new, cool form factor and it'll sell just fine. For the past year Apple has been selling a technologically obsolete cellphone and it has been selling just fine. Have you been in an Apple Store lately? All these teenage girls have to do, after seeing the new design, is smile and wink at daddy and he'll get them one. They don't know and probably don't care how much RAM it has, as long as it goes well with their new handbag.
There seems to be two issues: firstly the performance of video capture (fps) and secondly the issue of storage (NAND).
Ignoring future hardware, and only talking about iPhone and iPhone 3G, then:
1. Capture performance can be improved with a software update. (Video-recording is not an official feature and so the software has not been optimised for that.)
2. Capture could be direct to RAM to reduce NAND-wear (file-system only used for clips the user chooses to keep). Clearly this limits clip duration, but it would still be great for updloading short clips to Video services (such as twiddeo and 12seconds etc.).
So what exactly are all the advantages that the Pre has over the iPhone?
-multi-tasking/background apps?
-MMS?
-copy & paste?
What am I missing? Because these features don't exactly wanna make rush out to Apple Store to see a demo. I sure hope Apple has more in store for 3.0 than just bringing it "up to the level of the Pre."
I don't know what to think. Copy/paste would be amazing, but this could be a bunch of BS.
Although, he was almost 100% correct on predicting iTunes 8.
Although, he was almost 100% correct on predicting iTunes 8.
Wish you folks would speak English.....
Still don't know who or what a Kevin Rose is......why doesn't he include a bio or a definition the next time....
[/QUOTE]Oh you poor dear... "keep the R in MR" means keep the RUMOR in MacRumors in mind when reading all this. They're RUMORS. It's only fact when Apple says it. Or something like that. LMAO.
Im just hoping that apple will add MMS to the SMS application and allow us to have a landscape keyboard. i know from working in an AT&T store that the number one reason people return the iPhone is because they see sending pictures through email as a pain in the ass, and it boggles them (and me too) why the keyboard doesn't activate landscape mode in all applications. I can record video on my 2G iPhone with Cycorder, so i think that "hardware limitation" is a bunch of bull.
I don't see video on version 1 or 2 of iPhone (officially). The sensor aint the best. But not 3? Would take the proverbial biscuit.
Does the Flip have the problems described? Surely the bigger problem would be getting a decent lens in there? Is Apple basically saying no to video, just because it doesn't want to have removable media?
Don't be silly.
The double-tap to select will only be active when editing a text field. When viewing a web page, double-tap will continue to zoom/unzoom. Obviously I don't have any specific information, but this seems very obvious to me.
I think Kevin used the crowd noise to just answer the questions he knew about. C&P. Wow. Insider knowledge. Some of the other stuff - maybe.
He doesn't have too much it would seem. Tuesday seems to potentially have more - this is basically an SDK update - brining in new features, outlaying what will be capable for the next iPhone, and how the developers might be able to use it. It might give some hints to 10.6, and also multitouch implementation - if there is a likelihood for an Apple slate etc.
No mention of use of magnetometers, or other hardware. No mention about spec bumps. So kevin doesn't know or at least want to say about any iPhone v3 hardware really, just software limitations.
Matching Palm Pre like features sounds much better.
He doesn't have too much it would seem. Tuesday seems to potentially have more - this is basically an SDK update - brining in new features, outlaying what will be capable for the next iPhone, and how the developers might be able to use it. It might give some hints to 10.6, and also multitouch implementation - if there is a likelihood for an Apple slate etc.
No mention of use of magnetometers, or other hardware. No mention about spec bumps. So kevin doesn't know or at least want to say about any iPhone v3 hardware really, just software limitations.
Matching Palm Pre like features sounds much better.
Yeah, yeah... I'll believe it when I see it. Kevin Rose has been too hit-and-miss as a source to take anything he says at face value.
BTW, am I the only one who gets tired of this frat-house environment the Digg guys seem to encourage out of their audience?
BTW, am I the only one who gets tired of this frat-house environment the Digg guys seem to encourage out of their audience?
Apple wouldn't add MMS to the SMS app, it would be a separate app.
Unless they change name.
And Apple probably wants video recording to not take up a lot of memory and be in a good quality.
if this is supposevly a memory issue then how does my fist generation iphone do video on a jailbreak? and my 3G.....
cant they just reroute some crap in the OS though and update and let it save somewhere.. seriusly theres plenty of memory space
I highly doubt Apple would have a press conference just to show off copy + paste, seems like a waste of time for everybody. I'm sure 3.0 will have some great features that Apple is keeping really close under wraps.
In other words, it's just like the Copy & Paste we have now. So apple waits two years on Copy & Paste, until hackers figure it out, and then copy their work. ...kinda like the appstore itself...
Not impressive, Apple.
And no video? Prepare to take a back seat to the first company that does figure it out. Dumb.
Not impressive, Apple.
And no video? Prepare to take a back seat to the first company that does figure it out. Dumb.
Native Hulu built in?
I'd wet my pants...
So with the video thing... If it's a hardware limitation explain this. [It's from 2007. I'd assume there are better apps for that now.
Also, why can't it just use the Flash chip as RAM? I'm assuming it's not as high quality memory as RAM, but wouldn't it be good enough for video capture?