So, I might not be able to do much work on OSNews due to my internship (I always wondered what tumble weeds looked and sounded like on a website - now I know), but I did know one thing: Monday, June 21, is iTunes day. This means launching that horrid mess to go through the painstakingly archaic backup/update iTunes/update iOS routine (and yes, they still try to cheat you into installing Safari) - because Apple released iOS 4.0 today, adding a number of welcome features to bring the iOS up to par with the competition.
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On my 3Gs scrolling in the Settings Menu and a couple of other places now definitely seems more jumpy and not as smooth as before. When I think about it, now it feels sort of like my brother's 3G.
But I guess that's the price of progress 
The King (3GS) is dead, long live the King (4)
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that's just how apple make you feel like you've to upgrade. Same menus. Same app. Slower.
Was the same when they upgraded 2G to 3G.. the system menu scrolling lagged for no reason. It's the same damn menu.
I suppose they really do code in stuff to slow it down and make you feel like you need to upgrade.. yay for Apple's racket.
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Off Topic: Guys (and girls), you’ve been submitting lots of awesome news, that’s great, thanks! But if you only submit a single paragraph teaser, or just a link then that puts the onus on us to a) know about the technology and b) expand upon that news. With Thom (who eats through this stuff like none of of the editors) out of action, we’re seriously struggling to feature this stuff.
_Please_, if you have news, please write a teaser + your expansion / understanding / criticism / discussion of the news since in most cases, you’re submitting the news because you know more about it than I personally do. That will go a long way towards getting news published and featured rather than bit-rotting in our queue, thanks.
edit: That was strange. text duplicated.
Edited 2010-06-21 20:27 UTC
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My next phone will not be an iPhone...
It's about 12 months' old and less powerful.
Now, if they bent over backwards the way that Microsoft was doing for Windows, they'd be much better off, right? It seems to me that we've seen that argument here, also, and no one was happy about it, either.
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Sure they were selling it, but it was not the current model. Did you not tell him that? Did the advertising not tell him that?
I've found other devices available to me that weren't current and I would hardly expect, as quickly as phones (and other hand-held devices) come and go, that they would receive first rate treatment.
I'm not saying that it's fair but companies put limits on what they'll support. If anyone buys an iPhone 3G S next week, they shouldn't expect a lot of support in 1 or 2 years, even though that would be nice.
Imagine the poor first generation users who won't even get security fixes.
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According to this, performance was the reason: http://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/22/steve-jobs-on-lack-of-custom-wa...
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I don't quibble with the planned obsolescence being distasteful, but the 3G is 24 months old, the 3Gs is 12 months old. The 3G has only got about 40mb RAM free when booted, so multitasking is pretty much a bad idea, as is compositing a background image.
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Apple could have come up with "i" for "innovation"... iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, and now iOS? and maybe there are other "i"s I don't know about.
Frankly, "i" shouldn't mean "internet" (if that's indeed what it was meant to mean) in a world where it has become so common. It reminds me of those people who were eagerly adding "2000" to company or product names... 2000 today is still not stone age but close enough to sound outdated.
Not that the "innovation" isn't debatable but that's another story.
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