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iPhone 3.1 Spotted In Field Testing
kai_hiwatari writes "Digitizor reports that the next generation of the iPhone was spotted in the analytics log of an iPhone app called iBart. The device, it seems, was identified as iPhone 3.1 in the log. When iPhone 2.1 was spotted, it was followed by iPhone 3G."
Company is developing follow-up product to an existing successful product!!
Details at 11.
Important update: Its version number is 1 higher than the old one!
I read the internet for the articles.
...if Apple WEREN'T bringing out a new iPhone sometime next year. An annual cycle is predictable; some manufacturers would consider it TOO long between launches.
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With more and more providers getting the iPhone, it seems like Apple just isn't feeling exclusive enough. Time to make a new version.
The only thing that could make this, like, even more awesome is if it were being used by Britney Spears!!!!!!11!
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...at MacRumors. Relevant quote:
References to "iPhone3,1" was first discovered in the iPhone firmware files back in August, but this seems to be the first time that it has been spotted "in the wild". Apple similarly began testing the iPhone 3GS (iPhone2,1) back in October of 2008 about 8 months ahead of its launch. At the time, the usage was similarly focused in the San Francisco Bay Area where Apple is located.
So, if history repeats itself, the actual product will be released sometime in April or May.
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That's certainly a nice little news tidbit, but there's not much more to say. I'm an Apple fan, but really it would be more newsworthy if they announced no more phones and then something new was seen. I think everyone knows they are going to be coming out with a new one at regular intervals. If we had a section for 'News Headlines that are Their Own Articles' this would go there.
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Apple's cycle is well known.
But could this mean that it should be amended?
For example, with a new, secondary, starting point such as: "An obscure software developer spots references to what could conceivably be a next version of Apple hardware in one of its logs".
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That should be a comma in ("iPhone %d,%d",majorversionnumber,minorversionnumber), not a period.
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How can you not care? It's so shiny :)
Summation 2
The summary says, "The last time when iPhone 2.1 was spotted, it was followed by iPhone 3G."
But the version numbers actually are:
iPhone: 1,1
iPhone 3G: 1,2
iPhone 3GS: 2,1
The mistake in the summary isn't a big deal. But it does go into the big pile of little mistakes that we see all the time around here.
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Ah, yes... the "Bubastis" release... Never go for the first released revision, though, it tends to have a way of falling apart on you. Wait for the dot-one version, "Nuku-Nuku". That one will be a lot more reliable.
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Multitasking for one. If you are in Skype and want to run another program, you can forget about it with the current iPhones.
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I sure as fuck don't.
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Former iPhones were labeled like this:
* Original iPhone = 1,1
* iPhone 3G = 1,2
* iPhone 3GS = 2,1
So if i set my firefox useragent as iPhone/Tablet 5.0 and start visiting iPhone related sites a lot of noise will be generated?
Announcing that they are looking specially to an info so easily modified is a good recipe for unfounded hype.
It's a false limitation though. The software & hardware is completely capable, Apple just doesn't allow it for third party apps. (the first party apps like the Phone & iPod multitask just fine).
I agree though, there are certain apps which definitely need to be allowed to run in the background like Skype and Pandora.
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For XI, they are using dogs, not cats, as code names. Performance is better, but sleep support doesn't work as well...
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who cares?
I sure as fuck don't.
Oh, boo hoo. It's Slashdot's fault you couldn't scroll past the story instead of spending 20 seconds plus CAPTCHA to say you don't care. I don't like FireFox, Windows 7, or Google, so I'm going to go into their threads and post that I don't care and get modded up for it.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
They could back key features they pulled a bait and switch on (tethering) and not only that they could open it up a bit, since power users jailbreak them anyhow, and preventing hacking is nearly impossible. Someone somewhere will crack it when they have unfettered physical access. Somehow I don't think they're going to take the steps required to prevent hacking, i.e., require iPhone owners to use their phones under supervision at Apple stores and not let customers take them outside the store. ;)
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Yeah it says http://slashdot.org/ ... thought maybe I'd typed macrumors
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that iBart is "spying" sorry "analytics" on its users by sending who-knows-what-else data
to a third party
if this behaviour was on Windows app it would be condemmed instantly
and users would demand they stop it
i wonder how many other of the iPhone apps spy on its "users"
A little more ram might be nice. I notice if I have push alerts enabled on certain apps, or any task basically sitting in the background (an alarm or something) the phone gets a little sluggish, and this is on the "fast" 3GS.
I'd also like to see a higher-res OLED screen.
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It worries me a lot that random iPhone apps are allowed to phone home with this kind of data, especially after that story a while back where the user's phone number was being sent in order to spam call them.
There seems to be a lot of protection for Apple (against jailbreaking or doing anything they or the carrier does not authorise) and pretty much none for the user.
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Couldn't they just make OSX longer?
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The 3GS had an oleophobic screen you didn't have to clean quite as often. I however seriously doubt they're going to finish development on, test, announce and ship a new iPhone before Christmas.
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
So what are the odds that this is a falsified user agent and that someone with a jailbroken iPhone is having a good laugh at this article?
So when do we see an iPhone 3.11 for workgroups?
What's more interesting, is that probably thousands of rumor site addicts are now checking out iBart (I know I just did). That's the real news in this story: a lot of iPhone programmers are now going to let their app phone home with as many details about the device as possible hoping to get a scoop out with their app's name!
FFS - we do expect certain standards here. And if that's too much to ask, at least a little self-respect from Taco. Fanboism is one thing, but posting this on main page?
Slashdot is ad-driven. Bitching about a story is supporting the story. Ask where it's helpful to ask instead of asking where the opposite of what you want will happen. There are far too many stories about Google here for you to not understand how this works.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Mac OS 0xb?
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I've read the rumor mills. The one thing I'm not seeing there is the distinct possibility that 3,1 may not include a increase or change in functionallity. With at&t's exclusivity ending, 3,1 could simply be the major hardware rev to include CDMA in the product line?
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Um, start your own fucking site?
Slashdot has ALWAYS been about things of personal interest to the editors. We have a LEGO icon, FFS, why? Because one of the founders likes Lego stories. And I'm fine with that.
Don't like it, GTFO, instead of bitching about how you feel entitled to have your "standards" met.
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Really? This has got to be the dumbest, most pointless story (and I use the term lightly) I have ever read on here.
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Slap an Apple logo on it and watch it hit the front page of /.
Couldn't they just make OSX longer?
Once Apple gets to OS X v.10.9.9, they'll be going hexadecimal with the next version: OS X v.B.0.
This ain't rocket surgery.
All I see here is a story about a foolish developer who decided it was smarter to let slip that they are mining their usage logs looking for "interesting" stuff like this, when they should probably keep their mouths shut if they plan on misusing people's (or, for that matter, a company's) personal data.
Yeah, but if you have to read literally daily stories about one of those products, no matter how trivial (in this case, a non-news item based on rumour, that even if it was true, tells us nothing other than the bleeding obvious that they are developing new products), you might get annoyed, or simply wonder why such disproportionate advertising was being given to them.
Yeah, I know, I was one of the people bitching about the constant Mozilla posts on Slashdot many moons ago. My bitching didn't work.
I can see it now: "New Opera user agent string spotting in field testing!" Is that news, do you think?
Get enough Opera enthusiasts actively perusing the site and, sorry to tell you this, but yes, front-page material. Slashdot runs on ad-views. That's why we also were presented with stories about installing Linux on a dead badger, fictional tales of Microsoft throwing Sony out of a trade show, and Ask Slashdot articles for people who don't know how to use Google. You're not going to like hearing this, but there are a number of people on this site interested in what Apple's going to do next. Same is true for anything Google does and anything Microsoft does. (Not sure why marketshare has anything to do with that, even people who hate Microsoft post in Microsoft threads.)
I'll summarize my point for you. Bitching doesn't discourage Slashdot from posting the stories. Meanwhile, you're being fed stories you care about that others don't. Life's unfair. Boo hoo.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
If this new version supports copy and paste finally
iPhone OS 3.1 supports copy-and-paste. Heck, iPhone OS 3.0 supports copy-and-paste. Presumably iPhone 3,1 will run iPhone OS 3.x or a future release, and will support copy-and-paste, just as every other damn iPhone on the planet running iPhone OS 3.x supports it, even my old iPhone 1,0 or whatever the first one was.
(I.e.: 1) "supports copy and paste" is a function of the OS rather than the device and 2) the OS has supported it since the 3.0 release. 3.x also supports MMS on 3G iPhones if the phone company allows it.)
You can create a custom browser user agent .
PS - the Mozilla analogy is flawed. The market share of Firefox dwarfs the Iphone market share many times over. And did it really get to the ridiculous state of having daily Mozilla stories, including extremely trivial non-news items? (E.g., "You can now view this one website ... On Mozilla"? Or "Person did something, oh and he happens to use Mozilla"?
Also consider how many Apple fans whine everytime once in a blue moon there's an article about something they don't like, such as the Amiga. Suddenly the "but people want to hear about it" doesn't apply. They can't have it both ways, so it's fair game to criticise Apple stories.
But wait - when the Iphone lacked these features, we had no end of "But the Iphone is better off without copy/paste and MMS, it has better paradigms to do these things (but I can't explain what), and what makes Apple so great is that they remove the clutter of items it thinks you don't want".
From Apple, or from idiot fanboys? (Wait, isn't "idiot fanboys" redundant?)
The point still stands though - when copy/paste and MMS came out, the fact that people queued in line for them doesn't show Apple are great, it shows that people wanted the "new" (for the Iphone) features.
If people queued in line for a new iPhone, when they already had an iPhone, when copy/paste and MMS came out, either they wanted something the new hardware offered (3G and/or GPS), or they were apparently completely unaware that they could just do a software update on their existing iPhone to get copy/paste and do a software update on their existing iPhone 3G (although, if their carrier was AT&T, they'd have to do a software update and wait for AT&T to get its act together) to get MMS.
If they queued in line for their first iPhone when copy/paste and MMS came out, that might, or might not, have been because they didn't want the iPhone before its OS supported those features because those features were a requirement. It could also have been, for example, because they wanted 3G and/or GPS, and the earlier iPhone had neither.
However, the poster to whom you replied said people queued up for iPhones before copy/paste or MMS were available, not that they queued up when they were made available. Perhaps that shows that there are people for whom those features might be nice, but not necessary (I'm glad I can do copy-and-paste now, but I wasn't suffering intolerably without it, and I've never been tempted to use MMS - which is good, considering I have a Boring Old 2G iPhone which doesn't do MMS even with the latest release and carrier settings; the only 3.0 feature that really made a difference to me was access to CalDAV servers, as it gave me access to the corporate calendar server).
Why would you queue in line for an unlimited product...
Of course you have the right.
You have the right to be a pretentious asshat pretending to speak for others ("we do expect certain standards here").
That doesn't mean you should.
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While you can speak for the editors? How rich of you!
A couple points, champ.
1) Defending yourself against criticism by accusing your opponent of the same is a fucking weak-ass fallacy. A favourite of politicians, in fact.
2) I don't claim to speak for the editors. Would you like a source?
http://slashdot.org/faq/suggestions.shtml#su600
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