So when can we expect the OS 4.0 roadmap Keynote to be held? It's usually been held in March but hasn't happened yet.
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iPhone OS 4.0 to Bring Exposé-like Multitasking?
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Being able to do two things at once is a scary thought for this cowboy
I'm just wondering this... how much will this add to the 'distracted driver' syndrome that's sweeping the nation (world)?
And all of a sudden, the iPad makes more sense
Only question is how to evoke - press and hold the home button?
I agree. The multitouch at this point is severly retarded. Why cant we do like a five finger circle to activate expose? They are moving too slow with the full multitouch implementation for me.
Apple is running out of buttons to use. 1 tap already takes you Home from any page, takes you to Finder. Pressing the Home Button for 3 seconds enables Voice Control. Double tapping on the Home Button already give me this option
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and if you Double Tap the Home Button wile listening to Music, I get this:
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and 3 Taps enables accessibility options.
the iPhone needs more buttons.
and if you Double Tap the Home Button wile listening to Music, I get this:
and 3 Taps enables accessibility options.
the iPhone needs more buttons.
This would be good. Though judicious use of multitasking is necessary to preserve battery life.
If apps just held their present state when the home button was pushed and could resume from where they were left off when going back into the app it would go a long way toward pseudomultitasking without the battery hit
If apps just held their present state when the home button was pushed and could resume from where they were left off when going back into the app it would go a long way toward pseudomultitasking without the battery hit
2010 iPhone Coming to a WWDC near you 6/28 - 7/2 ...
A+ Update.
Aggresive software updates that the competition will not be able to keep up with.
Not official but could be dubbed "iPhone HD".
A+ Update.
Aggresive software updates that the competition will not be able to keep up with.
Not official but could be dubbed "iPhone HD".
Is 4.0 going to be on iPad as well? Meaning within the next few months we'd get multitasking? That would put me closer to buying it.
March?!!? I think you mean May... but WWDC has quite a liberal kickoff date...
Until 2002, WWDC was held in mid-May.
From 2003 to 2005 it was held in June
In 2006 it was moved to August (scheduling conflict?)
From 2007 to 2009 it returned to June
2010 - Is anyones guess at this point, since Apple hasn't made any formal announcement yet... However an 'unspecified corporate event' appears on the Moscone Center scheduled for June 28 through July 2.
This is exciting, but I'm waiting for universal inbox way more!
its such a PITA to check my 3 mail accounts in the morning . . . it almost makes email more difficult on my ipod . . .otherwise it would be perfect for browsing!
its such a PITA to check my 3 mail accounts in the morning . . . it almost makes email more difficult on my ipod . . .otherwise it would be perfect for browsing!
not really, pro switcher (available in cydia) will allow lots of ways to switch between apps.
pinching the homescreen for example, swipe in from right/left/top/bottom etc etc
And of course there is the volume buttons....
Friscohoya said:
Because then you can't multitask using one hand. Besides pinching, you can do everything on the iPhone with one hand.
I am going to miss the double click for iPod controls. Hopefully there is a way to bring it up along with notifications a la Pre. Perhaps a drag doen from the status bar?
I disagree -- any special multi-touch feature they implement for a Home-screen or OS control feature instantly becomes something that cannot be used for an app. While this may not seem to be a problem, today, that kind of thing will cause problems down the line. How many iPad apps, using your example, might lead people to use a five-finger circle (drawing application, etc)? It would essentially be limited the ability of the OS long term.
If this report is accurate, they will be using the Home button to consistently control all Home-screen or OS-centric features of this sort (hot keying, app quit, voice dialing, etc). It's much simpler, and it's a good long-term strategy.
One thing Apple has been very good about with the iPhone is to always go for cautious, simpler implementations of basic features rather than just going for things that can look cool in a demo.
Just what the Home Button needs; double clicking. They're flimsy enough already!
+1 Less dependance on home button. More gestures.
The home button on my 1st Gen is crap. I have to PRESS so hard, and forget about double press. It's completely worn out. I'm upgrading to whatever iPhone comes out next.
Well WWDC is when i expect them to unveil the new iPhone. They still need an event to unveil the new OS so they can release the SDK and give devs enough time to update or create new apps for the new iPhone. So I hope that OS 4.0 unveiling event is soon.
The last two years there has also been an iPhone OS preview keynote held in March at Apple’s Cupertino campus.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/preview-iphone-os/
Exposé is fine. I don’t think it’s quite as spiffy as the “deck of cards” multi-tasking used by Palm’s WebOS. I hope they’re also working on Dashboard-like widgets for the iPhone OS.
Push Notifications would still be handy when you don't happen to be running an app though.
I think 'a few months' is wishful thinking... The SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS will **likely** they their 1st TASTE of what 4.0 has in store for us... but I would be SHOCKED if 4.0 was declared DONE and ready to ship @ WWDC (End of June) - what the developers will get is almost certainly an ALPHA/BETA version that Apple will expect the developers to develop on AND test the over all quality of the 4.0 code. Apple will then make changes to 4.0 and reseed the developers 1, 2, 3 or more times until its finally deemed 'okay for release'.
If I had to guess... I'd say JANUARY or perhaps late fall... but January feels more right to me...
Edit... however being reminded that the iPhone OS major updates are done PRIOR to WWDC then my numbers may be WAY off... If Apple hold an iPhone OS keynote in April then perhaps by the end of June they might be well on their way to wrapping it up... So much depends on how solid the code is when it 1st gets released to developers.
So 'end of summer' would be a 'hopeful possibility' and 'fall/winter' being somewhat more realistic.
With multi-tasking out of the way, people can find some other missing feature to bitch about.
Yeh, like Flash....
Funny, how all the fanboys kept shouting "i don't want no Cut/Paste, I don't want no Search, I don't want no GPS, I don't want no multitasking!" for years, only to embrace it as the perfect move by Apple a year or two later.
Of course, there is no guarantee that my 3G S iPhones will be allowed to do multitasking - it may be reserved for the 4G models.
This Flash thing on the iPad has been the last drop for me. My next phones will be Androids.
I have loved Apple for so long, but it has turned into a poisonous, litigious and arogant apple.
I am not touching the locked down, greedy little world of the iPhone (and the iPad) with a ten foot pole again.