Apple holding iPhone OS 4 event, April 8th!

I swear Steve Jobs shot himself in the foot. Why would you talk about the iBook app on the iPhone? Talking about how the iPhone is great for reading shows his iPad is a bit of a gaff.
 
skippi90 said:
The other sites where you can watch TV shows for free. :p
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Um quite honestly? I never use them!
(there is TV catchup but I rarely use that).

I genuinely am not as fussed as others are regarding this Flash hooha. Obviously each to their own :)

I guess it will probably be more of an issue with the iPad when people are browsing on a full(ish) screen.
 
Durzel said:
I was replying to the guy that pre-supposed that I wanted "proper multitasking". I don't, I've never said I wanted that, it's a misrepresentation of my position with an attack on it based on speculation (battery life, performance, etc). Like I said, a straw man.

Again for the cheap seats - pausing an application in the background and/or allowing privileged applications (GPS, etc) to do minor things is a good idea, but withholding "task pausing" from 2G/3G simply because Apple want to force those users to upgrade, not for any technological constraint (ala MMS), leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. Non-iPhones manage proper multitasking with less RAM and less processing power, but apparently iPhone 3Gs are ZX Spectrums now.

I'm somewhat unaffected by this turn of events because I was intending to get the next gen iPhone anyway, but this is yet another reminder that Apple persue a modus operandi of forced obsolescence, and whatever new iPhone they release this year probably "won't support" whichever new features Apple come up with in iPhone 5.0 or whatever, simply because Apple decide it won't.
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So you own an iPhone 3G? Mine was a laggy POS on iPhone 3.x. It's certainly no worse or better on 4.0. I can't imagine what it would be like with multitasking though. No doubt it would be a lot worse. I'm glad its not there.*


*I will be getting the next iPhone, however.
 
Well i was starting to get tempted to get a 3Gs. But seems as how OS4 wont be released to all intill summer and around the time of the 4th gen iPhone it looks like the best thing to do is wait :)
 
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JonB said:
So you own an iPhone 3G? Mine was a laggy POS on iPhone 3.x. It's certainly no worse or better on 4.0. I can't imagine what it would be like with multitasking though. No doubt it would be a lot worse. I'm glad its not there.*


*I will be getting the next iPhone, however.
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I've got a 2G. The reason I haven't got a 3G/3GS is not due to cost, it's purely because I've had no need to upgrade - I don't have a decent 3G signal around where I live and all I typically ever use is WiFi either at work, at home or via O2 Cloud.

My gripe really is about features being withheld purely for business case reasons. I firmly believe there is no technical reason why 2Gs can't do MMS. They have a camera, they support GPRS - that really is all that's needed, and it's been a feature in older phones with slower hardware since time immemorial. Yet, despite the iPhone being a revolutionary phone I still have to pick up MMS by going to a website, simply because Apple thinks I'm a lower-class citizen.

Same with this "task switching" really. I don't believe the 3G is incapable of doing it, there isn't a huge difference in processing power between the two and if apps are being "state frozen" then who says it has to use the internal memory to do that? It could suspend to the 16GB of storage if it so chose. Same with 2G really. Task-pausing and minor background task jobs isn't exactly taxing and the iPhone (all of them) is no slouch compared to other phones that have done these things for years.

I'll likely be buying the next iPhone "just cos" but it's a sobering reminder than come next year whichever one is released this year will probably be excluded in some fashion for nebulous "technical reasons" that don't stand up to scrutiny.
 
Durzel said:
My gripe really is about features being withheld purely for business case reasons. I firmly believe there is no technical reason why 2Gs can't do MMS. They have a camera, they support GPRS - that really is all that's needed, and it's been a feature in older phones with slower hardware since time immemorial. Yet, despite the iPhone being a revolutionary phone I still have to pick up MMS by going to a website, simply because Apple thinks I'm a lower-class citizen.
I'll likely be buying the next iPhone "just cos" but it's a sobering reminder than come next year whichever one is released this year will probably be excluded in some fashion for nebulous "technical reasons" that don't stand up to scrutiny.
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That's business, and to a lesser degree, life. Apple, of course, would never be so evil.... wait. :o
 
Anyone want to start guessing now as to what "revolutionary" feature will be added to OS 5 next year but won't be available to 3GS phones due to "technical limitations"?
 
No-One said:
Anyone want to start guessing now as to what "revolutionary" feature will be added to OS 5 next year but won't be available to 3GS phones due to "technical limitations"?
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Just look at what new fetures come out on phones comming out between now and then, and thats what apple will probably add :p
 
dimo said:
Just watched the iPhone OS4 presentation... looks interesting. Have Apple well and truely 'nailed it' now?
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they already have it nailed, market leader ?

looks a nice makeover.... still no live feeds / widgets, thats all thats missing really.
 
Looks like grand central dispatch has been added silently to the OS too, this just shouts that the next iPhone will have a multi-core CPU which will be nice.

Folders and games center were the big supprises for me, everything else had been rumoured for a while. I can't wait for folders though, finally some organization!
 
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