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iPhone OS 4.0 Preview Event Scheduled for This Thursday

Doctor Edge said:
Would they charge iPad users to upgrade their firmware a couple of weeks after buying a brand new device? I doubt it, but I don't know how they'd reconcile it with past statements.
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The iPad's software license structure provides for one major version upgrade for free. Ostensibly because Apple knew that OS4 was coming quickly on the heels of the iPad launch. Future major version upgrades will be provided at some cost. I suppose similar to that charged for iPod touch upgrades.
 
GeekLawyer said:
The iPad's software license structure provides for one major version upgrade for free. Ostensibly because Apple knew that OS4 was coming quickly on the heels of the iPad launch. Future major version upgrades will be provided at some cost. I suppose similar to that charged for iPod touch upgrades.
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Ah, thanks, I missed that.
 
I do think we'll see some form of multitasking on iPhone OS 4.0--much of it geared towards the iPad. It won't be full-blown multitasking, but just enough so it will have minimal effect on the stability of the iPhone OS, very important from an end-user standpoint.
 
The "4" image released reminds me of the Welcome video for Mac OS 10.4 Tiger. I wonder if there is a hidden meaning there... :confused:
 
*LTD* said:
Did you ask us the same question when Apple implemented and perfected copy and paste?

The Kool-Aid's great, by the way. It tastes a lot sweeter when you keep backing the winning horse.
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i was more making light of the blind faith and obliquely blanket statement that apple can do no wrong the earlier poster made. im very well aware of how well they pulled off copy & paste.
 
M2M said:
Would rather go for OSX Mobile
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iOS vs. OSX Mobile vs. Touch OS got me thinking. The answer is more than semantics as I believe it will tell us where Apple thinks this is all headed.

OSX Mobile would speak volumes about both Apple's sense of the brand value of OSX and a desire - on a permanent, going forward basis - to remind everyone of the unified underpinnings of the OS run by Apple hardware.

It's not as fun sounding IMO as iOS or Touch OS though.

BTW funny that 66 people voted negative on this :)
 
anthonymoody said:
iOS vs. OSX Mobile vs. Touch OS got me thinking. The answer is more than semantics as I believe it will tell us where Apple thinks this is all headed.

OSX Mobile would speak volumes about both Apple's sense of the brand value of OSX and a desire - on a permanent, going forward basis - to remind everyone of the unified underpinnings of the OS run by Apple hardware.

It's not as fun sounding IMO as iOS or Touch OS though.

BTW funny that 66 people voted negative on this :)
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You can likely mark iOS off the list because Cisco owns that name. I find it highly doubtful that Apple would take another "shoot first, ask questions later" approach with Cisco, but I could easily be wrong. Personally, I like touchOS
 
All I know, is on Thursday we'll get our sneak peak. I don't expect to know all the features, but I do expect to see some of the majors features of 4.0
 
diamond.g said:
I still don't understand how the flash in the iPad/iPhone etc can be seen as SSD. I was under the impression that SSDs use many (read more than two) flash chips to achieve the crazy speeds they are capable of.
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Wikipedia has the line "An SSD emulates a hard disk drive interface, thus easily replacing it in most applications".

If the flash memory looks like a disk drive to the OS and applications, it's a Solid State Disk.

Clearly this is the case for 2.5" type drives with SATA/PATA interfaces. They even look like disk drives to the hardware controllers.

And yes the good SSDs do parallel reads/writes to multiple chips to get their speeds. The cheaper ones - not so much.
 
Fran-tastic said:
I'm starting to believe that some people vote negative regardless the content, or that are just pessimist on every rumor that comes up.
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haha

My big question is -- how could such news be negative?

"Oh, Apple is going to do a conference discussing their newest update to the iPhone OS... HORRIBLE."

It just doesn't make sense.

I could see if the news was "Apple decides to stop making iPhone; will set fire to all technology and software associated with it."

However, this is quite the opposite. I think it's exciting.
 
AidenShaw said:
Wikipedia has the line "An SSD emulates a hard disk drive interface, thus easily replacing it in most applications".

If the flash memory looks like a disk drive to the OS and applications, it's a Solid State Disk.

Clearly this is the case for 2.5" type drives with SATA/PATA interfaces. They even look like disk drives to the hardware controllers.

And yes the good SSDs do parallel reads/writes to multiple chips to get their speeds. The cheaper ones - not so much.
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Ah, fair enough. So it is possible to say the iPod Nano has/uses SSD as well.

I just rebooted my iPhone I had 140MB of free RAM. as I do things (and still close the apps) it has dwindled down to around 125MB. After 56 days with no restarts I had around 70 MB free. So something is using RAM and not letting it go...
 
anthonymoody said:
iOS vs. OSX Mobile vs. Touch OS got me thinking. The answer is more than semantics as I believe it will tell us where Apple thinks this is all headed.

OSX Mobile would speak volumes about both Apple's sense of the brand value of OSX and a desire - on a permanent, going forward basis - to remind everyone of the unified underpinnings of the OS run by Apple hardware.

It's not as fun sounding IMO as iOS or Touch OS though.

BTW funny that 66 people voted negative on this :)
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You aren't going to get IOS from Cisco. It's the operating system running on almost every networking device on the planet.
 
Aduntu said:
One thing makes me wonder...

If they are going to update the iPad with 4.0, why would they put so much effort into the 3.2 OS that's only going to be on the device for a few months? All the developers were scrambling around to get their apps ready for 3.2 before launch. It seems harsh to turn around and make them do it all over again for 4.0.
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Nobody makes us do anything. Apps written for 3.2 still work.
 
Seems like when OS 4 was first talked about, Apple mentioned something about organizing your apps differently. That's what I've been looking forward to since the first iPhone came out. I think some form of multi-tasking is inevitable, but scrolling through 4 pages of apps to find the one I'm looking for is very inefficient. Hoping there is a way to put your apps in folders, or groups, based on categories of my choosing. Then hopefully, by combining that with multi-tasking, if I'm in an app and need to select another it will be that much easier.

Also would like to be able to customize the home screen, icon size, etc..get tired of the black background.

Someone mentioned custom SMS alerts...that's on my list too.
 
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People may be voting it negative because they can't afford an iPhone os powered device and are upset.... You never know! :p
 
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