iPhone OS 4.0 liveblog if you're interested...

I saw OS 4.0 and mistakenly made an Amiga connection....
 
I'm going to stick my neck out here: you want one of these, don't you?
 
Robert said:
I'm going to stick my neck out here: you want one of these, don't you?
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heh, funny. Actually, iPad owners get a free upgrade to the next OS, and the iPhone OS4 is just a sneak peak at the next iPad OS. In fact, it might be one and the same. So there's no question about it, Wayne will have this sooner or later.
 
Glaucus said:
Robert said:
I'm going to stick my neck out here: you want one of these, don't you?
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heh, funny. Actually, iPad owners get a free upgrade to the next OS, and the iPhone OS4 is just a sneak peak at the next iPad OS. In fact, it might be one and the same. So there's no question about it, Wayne will have this sooner or later.
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Have one what? I already own both an iPad and an iPhone 3g.

I was just happy to see that Apple has address most of the major concerns from people in the next release of their iPhone OS which will make it's way to the iPad.

Wayne
 
Apple iPhone OS 4.0 Developer Preview Announcement

April 10th, Apple Inc. held a preview release conference for developers to disclose their upcoming release of iPhone OS 4.0.

Thanks in GREAT part to ArsTechnica, we were able to dig through their liveblog and come up with the major points for the pending release.

Milestones
- as of 4/7/10, sold 450,000 iPads
- 600,000 iBooks downloaded
- users downloaded over a million iPad apps on the first day, as of today 3.5 million
- Users have downloaded well over 4 billion apps
- over 185,000 apps in the app store
- over 3,500 iPad apps in the app store, accelerating
- iPhone won JD Powers Customer Satisfaction Award for Smartphones for 2010 (third year in a row)
- Sold over 50 million iPhones to date

About iPhone OS4.0
- shipping this summer, releasing a developer preview today
- delivers over 1500 new APIs
- releasing a framework called Accelerate with over 2,000 APIs for hardware accelerated math functions

Seven major "tentpoles" about the release
  • Multitasking[/*:m:30pta4nu]
  • Folders[/*:m:30pta4nu]
  • Enhanced Mail [/*:m:30pta4nu]
  • Adding iBooks to iPhone OS 4
    [list:30pta4nu]
  • "looks like iBooks on the iPad, just smaller"[/*:m:30pta4nu]
[/*:m:30pta4nu]
[*]Enterprise features
  • Even better data protection
    [/*:m:30pta4nu]
  • encrypt all of your e-mail and attachments with your pin code
    [/*:m:30pta4nu]
  • making APIs available so devs can encrypt data inside their apps too
    [/*:m:30pta4nu]
  • Mobile device management
    if your company has built a custom application, the employee doesn't need to plug in anymore to get the
    app the company can wirelessly distribute the app anywhere in the world from their own servers
    [/*:m:30pta4nu]
  • Wireless app distribution
    if you have an enterprise solution to deploy lots of phones within the company, now iPhone OS 4 helps
    to manage that
    [/*:m:30pta4nu]
  • multiple exchange accounts on a single phone
    [/*:m:30pta4nu]
  • Exchange Server 2010 support
    [/*:m:30pta4nu]
  • SSL VPN support from Juniper and Cisco[/*:m:30pta4nu]
[/*:m:30pta4nu]
[*]"Game Center"
  • A Social gaming network for Apple devices
    [/*:m:30pta4nu]
[/*:m:30pta4nu]
[*]iAd
  • Essentially, this is Apple's version of Google Ads for the iPhone and other Apple devices[/*:m:30pta4nu]
[/*:m:30pta4nu][/list:u:30pta4nu]
Expected Availability :
"For iPhone and iPod Touch, summer 2010. For iPad, Fall 2010.
 
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