OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/23465/Apple_Releases_iOS_4 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 20 May 2013 16:06:29 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Aah... Watching WC, eh? http://www.osnews.com/thread?430948 http://www.osnews.com/thread?430948 Unfortunately Spain looks pretty sharp tonight. Perhaps we can lend them a defender - or they could be talked into using those from North Korea ;)

And no... this year will be bad for Holland. We'll get our revenge in the finale ;) Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dylansmrjones) Comments Sluggish http://www.osnews.com/thread?430952 http://www.osnews.com/thread?430952 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) Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DhulKarnain) Comments Comment by Kroc http://www.osnews.com/thread?430957 http://www.osnews.com/thread?430957 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 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments Sigh http://www.osnews.com/thread?430962 http://www.osnews.com/thread?430962 Yes, backgrounds, that is if your phone is 'powerful' enough. If you own a few months old 3G, you miss out on multitasking... And backgrounds :/. Way to go Apple, a nice way of treating your customers.

My next phone will not be an iPhone... Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (danieldk) Comments RE: Comment by Kroc http://www.osnews.com/thread?430964 http://www.osnews.com/thread?430964 Fell free to remove "First release of Emumiga" from the queue. I'll rewrite it. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dylansmrjones) Comments Is it http://www.osnews.com/thread?430967 http://www.osnews.com/thread?430967 also available for iPad? Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Moochman) Comments RE: Is it http://www.osnews.com/thread?430971 http://www.osnews.com/thread?430971
also available for iPad?


It will be available in the autumn for iPad, from what I've read. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bousozoku) Comments RE: Sigh http://www.osnews.com/thread?430973 http://www.osnews.com/thread?430973
Yes, backgrounds, that is if your phone is 'powerful' enough. If you own a few months old 3G, you miss out on multitasking... And backgrounds :/. Way to go Apple, a nice way of treating your customers.

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. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bousozoku) Comments I'll wait until 4.0.1 http://www.osnews.com/thread?430975 http://www.osnews.com/thread?430975 I'm really interested in it and, though I have the second generation iPod touch, I'll wait until 4.0.1 to avoid two 290+ MB downloads since they'll fix quite a few runtime problems within a few weeks. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bousozoku) Comments One word: SLOWER http://www.osnews.com/thread?430976 http://www.osnews.com/thread?430976 My iPhone 3G was already slow to start with. iOS4 makes it even more sluggish. Very disappointing. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (theosib) Comments RE: One word: SLOWER http://www.osnews.com/thread?430978 http://www.osnews.com/thread?430978 Thanks! I will not be upgrading if that is the case. Sorry you had to be my guinea pig ;) Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (byrc) Comments RE[2]: Sigh http://www.osnews.com/thread?430983 http://www.osnews.com/thread?430983 They sold it up to recently. My dad bought an iPhone four months ago. Four months, and already outdated? Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (danieldk) Comments RE[2]: Sigh http://www.osnews.com/thread?430984 http://www.osnews.com/thread?430984 Custom backgrounds not possible on an iPhone 3G?, only because it is 12 months old. please that is not excusable Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (robmv) Comments RE: One word: SLOWER http://www.osnews.com/thread?430985 http://www.osnews.com/thread?430985 Yas, it is slower, and on the 3G it doesn't offer much more than folders and an improved e-mail client. Luckily I do most stuff onj the iPad now anyway...Edited 2010-06-21 21:43 UTC Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (danieldk) Comments RE: Aah... Watching WC, eh? http://www.osnews.com/thread?430998 http://www.osnews.com/thread?430998 I've put my money down on a Dutch v Spanish final. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (stabbyjones) Comments RE[2]: Aah... Watching WC, eh? http://www.osnews.com/thread?431000 http://www.osnews.com/thread?431000 In that case I'm supporting Holland. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dylansmrjones) Comments RE[2]: Sigh http://www.osnews.com/thread?431006 http://www.osnews.com/thread?431006 My jail broken iPod touch 2g does multi tasking and backgrounds fine. I don't see much if any lagging unless I'm trying to do too much at one time. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jptros) Comments RE: Sluggish http://www.osnews.com/thread?431013 http://www.osnews.com/thread?431013 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. Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (_xmv) Comments pre http://www.osnews.com/thread?431017 http://www.osnews.com/thread?431017 For real multitasking, try the Palm Pre. Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (2501) Comments RE: pre http://www.osnews.com/thread?431022 http://www.osnews.com/thread?431022 Or an Android phone ;) Edited 2010-06-22 02:09 UTC Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kwag) Comments RE[3]: Sigh http://www.osnews.com/thread?431025 http://www.osnews.com/thread?431025
They sold it up to recently. My dad bought an iPhone four months ago. Four months, and already outdated?


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.Edited 2010-06-22 02:12 UTC Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bousozoku) Comments RE[2]: pre http://www.osnews.com/thread?431044 http://www.osnews.com/thread?431044 Or Symbian S60 (any version). Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (darknexus) Comments RE[3]: pre http://www.osnews.com/thread?431047 http://www.osnews.com/thread?431047 Or BlackBerry. Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Morgan) Comments RE[4]: pre http://www.osnews.com/thread?431063 http://www.osnews.com/thread?431063 Or Windows Mobile 6! ;) Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JakeWharton) Comments RE[3]: Sigh http://www.osnews.com/thread?431100 http://www.osnews.com/thread?431100
Custom backgrounds not possible on an iPhone 3G?, only because it is 12 months old. please that is not excusable


According to this, performance was the reason: http://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/22/steve-jobs-on-lack-of-custom-wa... Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bousozoku) Comments RE[3]: Sigh http://www.osnews.com/thread?431103 http://www.osnews.com/thread?431103
Custom backgrounds not possible on an iPhone 3G?, only because it is 12 months old. please that is not excusable


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. Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (henderson101) Comments RE[3]: pre http://www.osnews.com/thread?431125 http://www.osnews.com/thread?431125 Better try Maemo. Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (shmerl) Comments RE[5]: pre http://www.osnews.com/thread?431160 http://www.osnews.com/thread?431160 Welcome to 2000 Apple! ... wait a second, it still isn't arbitrary multitasking. Bah. Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments RE[5]: pre http://www.osnews.com/thread?431208 http://www.osnews.com/thread?431208
Or Windows Mobile 6! ;)

// Runs away screaming in terror. ;) Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (darknexus) Comments The "i" prefix http://www.osnews.com/thread?431213 http://www.osnews.com/thread?431213 Are they ever going to stop using the "i" prefix?
Does anyone know what it means or stands for? Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vodoomoth) Comments RE: The "i" prefix http://www.osnews.com/thread?431218 http://www.osnews.com/thread?431218 Initially, it stood for "internet".

Now, it's just an expression of pure selfishness. Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Neolander) Comments RE[2]: The "i" prefix http://www.osnews.com/thread?431219 http://www.osnews.com/thread?431219 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.Edited 2010-06-23 13:26 UTC Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vodoomoth) Comments