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iPhone 3.0 Software Announced
Apple unveiled the iPhone 3.0 software just now in Cupertino. Here's MacWorld's live-action blow-by-blow coverage. The announcement included new features for developers and users. For developers, the big items were in-app purchasing (for example for game upgrades, map content, and subscriptions) for paid apps only; peer-to-peer connectivity via Bluetooth; giving apps access to hardware via the dock connector or Bluetooth; maps embeddable in apps; and push notifications. For users, there's finally cut-copy-paste available in all apps; search across everything in the iPhone; landscape keyboard; MMS messaging; and voice memos. Developer beta starts today and 3.0 will be available in the summer — free for all 3G phones, $10 for iPod Touch.
Another story for the faggy mac users.
Honestly, who follows every single thing apple do.
All hail...our new bluetooth headset overlords! Oh, also our cut-copy-paste overlords!
Uhhhhhh ok.... this just isn't funny on any level. I understand the attempt to be absurd but it lands flat. How about no more overlord references for 2 weeks?
It's a sad and sorry state of affairs when "cut and paste" is consider a feature of a version 3.0, let alone anything after 1982. Stupid people buy this shit. I did. It's not good even as a stand-alone mp3 player. If it weren't for the lone home button, which acts like a transporter to dig you out of menus, ... well, why do I need to go home to the very top? Why can't I just back up one? Oh, right, what do I expect from something that doesn't even have cut-n-paste. Man, you are a bunch of stupid people who buy this apple crap. Windows users are losers, Linux followers are freetards, and apple's crowd a fan boys. Sorry. Sad. What year is this again? It feels like 1995, and going backwards.
MMS pointless? Dude, what? For real? So Apple has sold millions of iPhones... but there are hundreds of millions of cellular phone users in the world. Millions and millions of which have MMS capabilities. I think I get about 10 calls on a weekly basis from friends who are utterly baffled by the fact that I cannot receive picture messages. MMS is not pointless. Get a clue. Am I supposed to email my pics, one at a time, to a user who can't get email on his phone? That sounds pretty pointless. Think before you speak, jerk.
No, in that case, it was a genuine major version upgrade fee... $10 to go from 1.0 to 2.0. Not bad... LOTS of new featrues added.
Don't bitch, you can't even upgrade Windows Mobile at any price, nor Blackberry's OS, and the free Zune 1st get update that added features only added what they originally promised but failed to deliver...
There is no contest in life for which the unprepared have the advantage.
my G1 had that from day 1
My EnV2, for all that it annoys me with its wonky interface (I sure wish Verizon weren't such douchebags about charging for every stupid little thing I do that costs them nothing, then I could fix it), has cut-n-paste. And it doesn't even have a damned touch screen or track ball!
The iPhone is a crappy device with a brilliant marketing strategy and an enormous price tag. just goes to show how smart people really are that it's also one of the most popular phones out there.
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
My Blackberry has cut and paste.