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iPhone OS 4.0 Wrap-up: What it Means for You
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KezraPlanes
Just some dood
o.o how bad does iPhone OS suck? Symbian has had multitasking for years =\
TeamOverload
Active Member
They admit they aren't the first ones to do it, but simply do it the best. They wanted to do it without taking a major performance hit or battery life decrease. I know, it's probably just a bunch of excuses, but it looks like the end result turned out very nicely and is worth the wait.
Bah, iAd announced...advertisements are indeed coming
KezraPlanes
Just some dood
TeamOverload
Active Member
Yeah, but look at the quote I posted from Steve. It's more of a way to eliminate some of the shotty advertising practices that individual companies have been using as well.
TeamOverload
Active Member
Looks pretty neat I suppose. Not that I'm going to get excited about advertisements, but the level of interactivity, and how it becomes almost an app of it's own is great. Apple hosts and sells the ads themselves for 40% and the developer gets the other 60% too. Not bad at all.
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Pokemanz master
Lowering your IQ
Aren't these features already on a jailbroken ipod for download?
So pretty much apple stole ideas like sony(custom xmb etc)
So pretty much apple stole ideas like sony(custom xmb etc)
That's usually how it always works, we do it first, then Apple copies us
Think he's just implying that all these new features were originally accomplished on the jailbroken devices. Apple has copied the iBook's application from an existing application, backgrounds have existed since the first days of jailbreaking, bluetooth keyboard support has been explored by the community, etc.
TeamOverload
Active Member
These ideas aren't exactly anything new or revolutionary, however handy they may be. I don't think they really needed to steal anything. I don't think the people who added multitasking to jailbroken iPhone OS were the first people to ever come up with. Not to mention, people do use the product legitimately, and have been asking for these features. Apple is delivering, and with some impressive looking stuff, I don't think that's a reason to complain.
El Diablo
Member
I just don't understand what's so impressing about features a lot of other phones have had for a while, and that the users already came up with on their devices. Are they nice features? Yes. But for such an expensive device, I think these things should have been there from the start, not 3 years later, but that's just my opinion.
People aren't really "impressed" by it, they have all been asking for these features for a long time so they general consensus is: "Finally!", that's why people are excited about it.
I generally dont understand the whining. Yes, people made alternatives for the jailbroken world, but Im pretty sure apples official version will work alot smoother in every aspect. Thats just me. Its nothing special about this update, but there is NOTHING really to whine about either. I didnt see ANYTHING horrible with this update at all. Just some more sweet features, that is not revulotionary in any way, but a nice touch. I dont give a shit that the jailbrake scene where first with wallpapers etc. Yes, apple certainly waited with features to have enough stuff to show up and claim them to be new and amazing, but what is there to whine about? Nothing.
Moose
Meta Moose
I don't think they'll take it as far as that... they'd have to create a whole new section in the App store for themes and they would also have a massive amount of terribly poor made themes to go through, only to find the occasional decent theme in perhaps every hundred submitted?