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iPhone OS 4.0 Preview Event Scheduled for This Thursday
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I'm sure Apple couldn't use "iOS" without drawing fire from IBM and/or Cisco.
Cisco uses IOS as the operating system for their networking devices and IBM has i5/OS (which is commonly called i/OS) which is OS/400 running on their iSeries servers.
Wow, I think this is the earliest Apple has announced an event before the actual date. Usually we have to wait a few weeks. I guess they didn't want to upstage the iPad release.
What do you guys think the likelihood iPhone OS 4 running on original iPhones and touches is? Pretty much nonexistent, right? Especially if multitasking is included. Looks like it will be time to upgrade this year...
What do you guys think the likelihood iPhone OS 4 running on original iPhones and touches is? Pretty much nonexistent, right? Especially if multitasking is included. Looks like it will be time to upgrade this year...
They sent invitations to the media so i suspect it will be very similar to years past and have a keynote presentation.
I am so excited for this! I vote they will rename the OS to Mobile OSX (Even tho it's nowhere near the tenth version of the software it still draws similarities to OSX. I would like better notifications, springboard customization, a way to organize apps (ex. games folder), the ability to hide default apps (ex stocks, compass, other apps that some users don't use, like Nike+)... I don't care about multitasking but some (lol) would like that... Make those android users Jealous!
Depends on the phone. Some features trickle down but the new stuff is with the newest phone.
Yes
I'm real glad a didn't buy the 1st ipad but it looks awesome, this event I hope it announces a new ipad but I doubt it. I'm surprised on how low profile apple kept this event. There better be multitasking in the new OS.
everyone cross your fingers for a CDMA compatible iphone w/video conferencing (via Ichat)
I'm real glad a didn't buy the 1st ipad but it looks awesome, this event I hope it announces a new ipad but I doubt it. I'm surprised on how low profile apple kept this event. There better be multitasking in the new OS.
everyone cross your fingers for a CDMA compatible iphone w/video conferencing (via Ichat)
I am so excited, my iphone is boring me and the future of the ipad coming to my house is all based off this!!!!
No more beta firmwares for me. Damn buggy, all the way up to the last one.
Unfortunately, from the way it sounds... "sneak peek" sounds like we're not going to have the real deal until the next-gen iPhone comes out in, say, June.
Unfortunately, from the way it sounds... "sneak peek" sounds like we're not going to have the real deal until the next-gen iPhone comes out in, say, June.
Considering the 3GS was such a modest "upgrade," I think this year Apple will really step it up. Not to mention Steve said it will be an A+ update. So yes, I'd wait.
I'm real glad a didn't buy the 1st ipad but it looks awesome, this event I hope it announces a new ipad but I doubt it. I'm surprised on how low profile apple kept this event. There better be multitasking in the new OS.
everyone cross your fingers for a CDMA compatible iphone w/video conferencing (via Ichat)
They are not gonig to announce a new iPad. Come on now.
I think we all recall when Apple took "iPhone" and Cisco took issue. Yeah, "iOS" will be a smack in the back of Cisco's head again.
Remember how everybody expected the iPad to start at $800 (and possibly $999)? The whiners complained that was too high a price! It need to be sub-$600, or maybe sub-$500 to have any chance in the marketplace!
iPad came out at $499. Whiners immediately switched their argument. Now it was $499 that was too expensive, and the price had to be dropped to netbook levels to have any chance in the marketplace!
For the whiners, some of them anyway, it's not about facts on the ground. It's about picking a side and sticking to it no matter what. So Apple could add multitasking and Flash and every single thing asked for to-date, and what would happen the very next day?
Right, the whiners would flood this site with some other complaint.
Wow! I was resigned to waiting until June/July for a preview, August to ship!
The iPad and iPhone are about to get that much better. (And I don’t even care about removing the limitations of current multitasking—EXCEPT I’d like a streaming audio background services of some kind for Pandora and for Skype calls. So audio in AND out in the background.)
Let’s hope for leaks of dev builds with clues to future hardware
I agree. 3.x has been great feature-wise, but it really pushes the limits of RAM on my 3G. In fact, I wonder if 4.x will have to be more limited on the 3G. (3GS and iPad have double the RAM.)
As for 3.2, I got the impression that was iPad-only. Something to fill in until 4.0?
The iPad and iPhone are about to get that much better. (And I don’t even care about removing the limitations of current multitasking—EXCEPT I’d like a streaming audio background services of some kind for Pandora and for Skype calls. So audio in AND out in the background.)
Let’s hope for leaks of dev builds with clues to future hardware
I agree. 3.x has been great feature-wise, but it really pushes the limits of RAM on my 3G. In fact, I wonder if 4.x will have to be more limited on the 3G. (3GS and iPad have double the RAM.)
As for 3.2, I got the impression that was iPad-only. Something to fill in until 4.0?
I'm real glad a didn't buy the 1st ipad but it looks awesome, this event I hope it announces a new ipad but I doubt it. I'm surprised on how low profile apple kept this event. There better be multitasking in the new OS.
everyone cross your fingers for a CDMA compatible iphone w/video conferencing (via Ichat)
Yeah, announcing a new iPad 5 days after the first wouldn't be wise...