iPhone OS4 reveal on April 8th

[KeypoX]

Multitasking, changeable wallpaper, app folders... Steve just jailbroke the iPhone 🙂

LOL good stuff, wonder if he will sue the creators of those now.

 

[Kmax82]

iirc one of the new features that was on the slide they showed was "persistent wifi" or something like that...I wonder if it would address your issue.

Hmm.. that'd be cool, if so. We shall see. Plus I was reading some stuff from Engadget today and it shows that there's an iChatAgent in the new SDK, plus refs to "Frontfacing" camera APIs. 😉

 

[TheWart]

Hmm.. that'd be cool, if so. We shall see. Plus I was reading some stuff from Engadget today and it shows that there's an iChatAgent in the new SDK, plus refs to "Frontfacing" camera APIs. 😉

Yea I think the next iphone will have a camera for videochat, but I wonder if it will be wifi only or if it will work over 3G as well.

 

[Kmax82]

Yea I think the next iphone will have a camera for videochat, but I wonder if it will be wifi only or if it will work over 3G as well.

Yea.. that will be the question. On top of that, I don't know, honestly how much I'd use it. Although we shall see once it's released.

 

[mchammer187]

Is there anything left that can be added for the iphone 4G? A front facing camera for video chat would be amazing

or is it just gonna be a simple cpu / storage upgrade and maybe faster?

I forgot exactly what features the 3GS added besides a compass

 

[Kmax82]

Is there anything left that can be added for the iphone 4G? A front facing camera for video chat would be amazing

or is it just gonna be a simple cpu / storage upgrade and maybe faster?

I forgot exactly what features the 3GS added besides a compass

Video support was another, and then just speed.

 

[theeedude]

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscent...he_hand_that_feeds_it_with_new_app_rules.html

No Flash developed apps for iPhone 4.0, period. Not even through the app store.

 

[mchammer187]

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscent...he_hand_that_feeds_it_with_new_app_rules.html

No Flash developed apps for iPhone 4.0, period. Not even through the app store.

I'm pretty much sure that is one thing they are intent on not supporting. They are pretty adamant about HTML5 and have pretty much drawn a line in the sand over that.

But they have done the same with say firewire and USB but this seems much bigger than that.

 

[Kmax82]

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscent...he_hand_that_feeds_it_with_new_app_rules.html

No Flash developed apps for iPhone 4.0, period. Not even through the app store.

I feel like they're actually just protecting themselves..

Gruber has a very good article about it. Whether you think they're being evil, or not, you have to think of them as a company (which they are), and not a friend.

http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/why_apple_changed_section_331

 

[DnetMHZ]

I'm posting this from my iPhone typing on my Microsoft Bluetooth keyboard.

It works pretty well. As far as I can tell there really isn't much in the way of navigation options using the keyboard other than tabbing between fields. You can highlight text with shift+arrow keys, and copy and paste with command+c, etc (in my case, windows key+c). The media buttons on this keyboard also work. (play pause volume +/- / mute, skip. The home button also works (not the "home key" but a media button labeled home").

I'm going to keep playing around with it and see what else I can do with it.

 

[Qbah]

The hands-on on Gizmodo and Engadget look awesome! 😀 I don't really care how they did it, as long as apps will be able to do stuff in the background...

However Apple being stubborn again (like with the other shit they held back on and now claim it's amazing...) with no background API for IM clients... They say that push is the "right approach"... Sounds like more Apple bullshit to me. Well, as long as I can keep my IM in memory and instantly switch to it to get the messages received (and not like it is right now when I have to log into the IM servers each time...) I don't care tbh... But they created nice APIs for other shit, why not for IMs...

The other stuff looks really cool (not the ads, obviously...). Can't wait for it to go live - my 3GS will surely offer a better experience (and I'm not complaining now - love it!).

 

[episodic]

I have no need for an iphone. I just wish they'd put a GPS in the ipod touch OR let me manually set my location (prefer the GPS). Also, give the touch some camera love.

 

[episodic]

the one thing I'm worried about is that if they put the ibook app on the phone, will the ban kindle/stanza apps for duplicate function. I love my kindle app on the ipod touch.

 

[theeedude]

I feel like they're actually just protecting themselves..

Gruber has a very good article about it. Whether you think they're being evil, or not, you have to think of them as a company (which they are), and not a friend.

http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/why_apple_changed_section_331

They are a company, not a friend. Fanbois should realize that too. Apple is not making these rules up with your best interests in mind, but theirs.

 

[TheWart]

the one thing I'm worried about is that if they put the ibook app on the phone, will the ban kindle/stanza apps for duplicate function. I love my kindle app on the ipod touch.

I don't know why that would happen, given Apple has no problem with the Kindle app on the ipad.

 

[0roo0roo]

windows phone slam
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/ne...oys-windows-phone-7-without-even-shipping.ars

 

[sourceninja]

I'm really starting to hate apple. First they announce features for the iphone that make me go "hell yea, my next phone will be another iphone", then they announce crap like this

".3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited)."

Apple stifles innovation AGAIN.

 

[bearxor]

windows phone slam
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/ne...oys-windows-phone-7-without-even-shipping.ars

The 'multi-tasking' in iPOS isn't true multi-tasking. Most applications are simply suspended so they can be quickly restarted when the user wants to switch back to them. Guess what else does this? That's right, WP7.

Microsoft has also said there are some background service API's available to developers but haven't been specific as to what those are yet. I would put money on Microsoft being mostly feature-parity with Apple by next summer.