Apple reveals new 3rd party software

[DaYuMu6ft7]

Hmm...

Thoughts on this article and will it have any affect on Android Market ?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29735963/

[bigzae]

Good article and i think it will have an affect seeing as how we already have a number of the same apps as the iphone

[DaYuMu6ft7]

I see the reporter just updated the article and change the title from..

"Apple shows off new iPhone software

Peer-to-peer connectivity for gaming, renewable subscriptions featured"

To..

"Copy-and-paste ability to be added to iPhone

Peer-to-peer connectivity for gaming will also be part of 3.0 software"

[sinistersai4d]

This update may make me ready to take the iPhone plunge. MMS, Copy & Paste... the physical keyboard and MicroSD I can manage to live without, in exchange for a bigger screen and a better designed phone that doesn't squeak or reboot randomly.

(I love android but the rebooting has been killing me lately. The other day it was raining and I'm at a bus stop and I take out my phone to call a cab and the phone reboots. 3 minutes later I can make a call since it takes FOREVER for the thing to reboot.)

[joshtheitguy]

Whoopty Doo

The iPhone can get whatever and I will never care because I hate Apple.

I hate their phones, audio devices, computers, laptops, home networking appliances, emo, monitors, software, smugness and anything else they produce.

[agentaaron]

Whoopty Doo

The iPhone can get whatever and I will never care because I hate Apple.

I hate their phones, audio devices, computers, laptops, home networking appliances, emo, monitors, software, smugness and anything else they produce.

Why?

Just out of curiosity...

[LazyGenius]

Whoopty Doo

The iPhone can get whatever and I will never care because I hate Apple.

I hate their phones, audio devices, computers, laptops, home networking appliances, emo, monitors, software, smugness and anything else they produce.

im right there with you buddy! stay strong and boycott apple!

and i love how apple presents copy and paste/mms like they invented it.
"The iphone 3g... now with revolutionary copy and paste! WOW!" lol...

[agentaaron]

App and developer functionality

• Peer-to-peer connectivity over Bluetooth for gaming and other info-swapping.
• Paid apps will have the potential to be subscription fee-based, and can include optional paid content that can be bought from right inside the app.
• Developers can now build apps that call out to Google Maps, and can also finally bring Apple-blessed turn-by-turn to the phone.
• Devs can also connect with hardware accessories over in their apps now, such as a blood pressure monitor -- or perhaps a keyboard? Connectivity works through the dock connector or over Bluetooth.
  
• Long-promised push functionality will at last be included, but apps won't run in the background.
• Developers can add streaming video and audio to their apps, along with in-game voice use.

General functionality

• Cut, copy and paste. At last! You can shake the phone to undo and redo the action, and it works with both text and photos, allowing Mail to send multiple photos at a time.
• MMS, along with forward and delete for multiple messages.
• A2DP stereo Bluetooth.
• Unlocked Bluetooth functionality on 2G iPod touch.
• Spotlight has been added to a new home screen page to the left of existing pages, allowing for universal search on the phone.
• Tethering is built into 3.0, and Apple will work with carriers on that -- who will have the last say on its implementation, most likely.
• App Store will be available in 77 countries.
• Parental controls for TV shows, movies and App Store apps.
• Auto-login for WiFi hotspots.

Apple apps

• A new app called Voice Memos which lets you record notes and reminders.
• A revised Stocks app, with news stories and a landscape view.
• Landscape view available for Mail, Text and Notes.
  
• CalDAV support has been added to Calendar, along with subscriptions support in the .ics format.
  
• Apple's major apps have all been expanded with search functionality.
• Note syncing to Mac and PC.
• YouTube account support.
• Form auto-fill.
• Phishing protection.
• Shake the shuffle iPod playback.

As long as the UI looks nothing like the prototype that was pulled from Ebay...I would be all over it. As soon as I could unlock it on Tmobile of course.

[sbig79]

also, the 3.0 update will include A2DP Stereo Bluetooth.....

read it on

http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/a...iphone-os-3-0/

[LazyGenius]

also, the 3.0 update will include A2DP Stereo Bluetooth.....

read it on

http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/a...iphone-os-3-0/

yeah i heard that.

b4 people start ogling over this update, its not set to release until the late summer. by then or soon after we should have cupcake which has stereo bluetooth as well.