Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Mar 2009 18:43 UTC
Apple held an event today announcing some of the new features coming in iPhone OS v3. Thee were loads and loads of new features, but the big ones are cut/copy/paste functionality, push notifications (I guess most developers will believe it when they finally see it), spotlight search, and many others.
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There arent really any big new features for 3.0 though. Copy/paste, MMS, and a recorder app. Seems more like it would be a 2.3 or something. Hell, if palm took palm OS 5 and added 3 relatively small features like the ones above and increased the version to 6 everyone would think they were idiots. Hell, the upgrade from windows 98 to ME had more than this and everyone ridiculed Microsoft because it didn't change enough to warrant anything more than a service pack.
And as much crap as they are going though to design push (pretty much a workaround to a purposely designed flaw that is lack of multitasking) you would think that they would just enable the damn multitasking for user apps. The push will end up using just as much (if not more) battery life. And as far as multitasking being too difficult to understand for us apparently stupid users, look at what palm did with pre..
The only reason I can think of that multitasking (which it is clearly capable of already [itunes, and the phone app both run in the background]) REALLY isnt aloud is that apple wants to sell the same device labeled as new hardware a year or so down the road with this <sarcasm>NEW feature that would never have been possible on the old hardware</sarcasm>
Edited 2009-03-19 03:47 UTC