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iPhone OS 4.0 Brings Multitasking, Ad Framework For Apps
Low Ranked Craig writes "Apple had an event today to show off the next major update to the iPhone OS. iPhone OS 4.0 should arrive this summer (presumably with a new iPhone) for iPhone and iPod Touch, and in the fall for the iPad. According to Apple the update has more than 1,500 new APIs and 100 new features including the sorely missed multitasking. Other highlights include unified inbox, improved security, support for multiple Exchange accounts, application folders, iBooks, and iAd, an advertising framework for developers to put ads in their applications. The official word from Steve on Flash and Java remains a simple 'No.'" Updated 20100408 22:09 GMT by timothy: Read on for more information, including some bad news if you want to program for the iPhone in C# or Flash CS5.
alphadogg points out some what he calls surprise capabilities targeted at enterprise users and IT departments, including e-mail encryption and "mobile device management."
And CWmike adds more infomation at MacWorld about iAd, which he considers the biggest news in today’s announcement, writing that one way to look at the new advertising hooks "is that Apple can now leverage the App Store/iTunes ‘ecosystem’ lock-in in effect, and deliver to advertisers a huge captive audience."
Finally, binarylarry writes with a look from Daring Fireball at the new user agreement that goes along with 4.0: "Looks like Adobe's release of CS5 with the Flash-to-native compiler has been nixed by Apple's new user agreement: '3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs.'"
And CWmike adds more infomation at MacWorld about iAd, which he considers the biggest news in today’s announcement, writing that one way to look at the new advertising hooks "is that Apple can now leverage the App Store/iTunes ‘ecosystem’ lock-in in effect, and deliver to advertisers a huge captive audience."
Finally, binarylarry writes with a look from Daring Fireball at the new user agreement that goes along with 4.0: "Looks like Adobe's release of CS5 with the Flash-to-native compiler has been nixed by Apple's new user agreement: '3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs.'"
Or, you jailbreak, install Backgrounder and Kirikae, and have an even better implementation than the one crApple demonstrated... all on your hardware that "can't possibly support it".
I swore to never get an iPhone, but now that it supports ads... sign me up!
This is what I've been waiting for. Apple is a true innovator.
Sent from my PDP-11
Yeah, I can't wait for Google to implement multitasking, live wallpaper etc into Android.
What's that faggot? Didn't bother to read the latest cellphone marketshare numbers? Apple down in marketshare, Android more than doubling its marketshare.
That's right you piece of shit. Keep running your mouth off while Android continues to rock your Apple Hipster Douchebag world.
Go cry over your Starbucks loser.
Nice straw man.
I never said multitasking was unneeded. Nor did I ever said Apple invented multitasking.
The anti-apple people like you are as bad as the 'hipster douchbags' you mentioned.
Its a phone, get over it and go back to digg.
Going from 5 users to 20 users is an amazing 400% increase! iPhone is doomed!
Not only are you flat-out wrong, you throw out "sheep" which proves you're an Apple-hating troll.
See you in line for an iPad.
> Easier and cheaper to develop for
If Cocoa Touch and Objective C are too complicated for you I don't think I'm interested in the applications you are about to develop.
Of course, there are other valid reasons to prefer different frameworks / languages, but I don't see "easier" an one...
All the Apple apologists out there were lauding the lack of multitasking as a feature, not a bug
I love the emotionally charged bullshit on both sides of this crapfest. A bug! Apple really wanted multitasking in the first release, but some stinking off-by-one errors forced them into pretending it was by design...
You just can't get this sort of entertainment with sane people.
When confronted with one problem, some think "I'll use recursion". Now they are confronted with one problem.
The phone today supports any Bluetooth headset. The 4.0 updates provides support for Bluetooth keyboards (which the iPad already has).
As for contact info, well I can always email someone a vCard... "beaming" doesn't really work well between anything. There are also a million apps to help capture or share contact details.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I certainly never heard anything like "who needs touch based interfaces" - "yeah, Android" or "GUIs suck" - "yeah, Kubuntu"
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
The iPhone did have multitasking - only it was a protected function up until now. Just like Symbian protects the All-File function. Just as restrictive but no one no one speaks about that.