{"id":208139,"date":"2010-01-21T11:12:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T16:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theappleblog.com\/?p=39416"},"modified":"2010-01-21T11:12:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T16:12:36","slug":"rumor-has-it-iphone-os-4-0-details-leaked-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/208139","title":{"rendered":"Rumor Has It: iPhone OS 4.0 Details Leaked Early"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019m pretty sure that late January is traditionally that time of the year when the Apple rumor mill starts heating-up in anticipation of the impending iPhone OS update. A young<\/em> tradition, to be sure, but a tradition nonetheless.<\/p>\n

This year, however, the media frenzy around the mythical-but-completely-certainly-probably-real Tablet seems to be getting all the attention — rather like a new born baby stealing the limelight from its three year old sibling.<\/p>\n

At least BoyGeniusReport — in the past a reasonably accurate source of information on upcoming iPhone OS updates — hasn\u2019t forgotten the tradition and, even though no one is paying the least bit of attention, they resolutely committed to web-page<\/a> what they think they now know about iPhone 4.0. <\/span><\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the latest? From BGR:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere will be multi-touch gestures OS-wide. (Would make sense [\u2026] as the rumored OS for the iTablet is close if not the same as the iPhone)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m not sure I understand what this means if I\u2019m honest with you. I mean, the few multi-touch gestures we get now<\/em> in apps like Photos and Safari are sensible enough, (double-tap and pinch zooming are useful in those apps) but do we need<\/em> multi-touch everywhere<\/em>? How will the addition of OS-wide gestures make the OS more elegant, more intuitive and easier to use? Now, I\u2019m not suggesting any sort of major calamity; I\u2019m just experiencing something of an imagination-failure here.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA few new ways\u201d to run applications in the background \u2014 multitasking.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So, the elusive Multitasking is coming to iPhone? I\u2019m not convinced. Speaking from my many years of experience using Windows Mobile, it seems to me that Apple\u2019s approach to memory management on the iPhone is pretty much perfect. Sure, it doesn\u2019t multitask — but in almost three years of iPhone ownership, that has never presented an insurmountable problem for me. And the (ahem- late<\/em>) introduction of Push Notification Services was a very welcome compromise.<\/p>\n

I have since discovered, however, that I don\u2019t need<\/em> Facebook to notify me about every poke or thrown sheep, and I especially<\/em> don’t want to be notified of every tweet from my Twitter stream. No thank you<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the \u201cfew new ways\u201d refers to a sandboxed memory \u201cspace\u201d that runs in the background, sort of like an app for keeping-alive portions of other<\/em> apps, even when they\u2019re not currently front-and-center. Maybe. Whatever it is, you can be sure there won’t be a task manager.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMany graphical and UI changes to make navigating through the OS easier and more efficient. We haven\u2019t had this broken down, but we can only hope for improved notifications, a refreshed homescreen, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What do you think? A new, refreshed UI style, perhaps? Or an iPhone version of Expos\u00e9? The latter sounds horrid, but still, Soptlight can\u2019t be the only<\/em> solution to quickly navigating through 10 pages of apps.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe update will supposedly be available for only the iPhone 3G and 3GS, but will \u201cput them ahead in the smartphone market because it will make them more like full-fledged computers\u201d more than any other phone to date. Everyone is \u201creally excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Makes sense. The 3G and 3GS have more memory than the venerable first generation iPhone. Consider how sluggish the latest build of the iPhone OS (3.1.2) can be on first generation iPhones. Apple is so concerned with guaranteeing a consistent, elegant user experience they kept cut & paste out of the OS for years before they felt the solution was good-enough to publish. So they\u2019re hardly<\/em> going to support their latest and greatest OS on the ageing first-generation iPhone because the experience will be terrible.<\/p>\n

I would wager, too, that core location services have been greatly expanded and even more tightly integrated with the entire OS, making the original location-ignorant iPhone a bit of a silly platform for 4.0. (Don\u2019t forget that patent for a location-aware<\/a> home screen\u2026)<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe last piece of information is the most vague, but apparently there will be some brand new syncing ability for the contacts and calendar applications.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Since I\u2019m one of the five or six people in this world who pays for a MobileMe subscription I never really think about contacts\/calendar syncing. It just happens for me, quietly, no fuss. I\u2019ve never synced any other way, so I have no experience of the perils and pitfalls of syncing via different methods. I\u2019ll leave you to tell me what you think this means and why I should care.<\/p>\n

And Then There’s That Tablet (Again)<\/h3>\n

Don\u2019t forget that the established wisdom of the Rumor Mill has it that iPhone OS 4.0 and the Tablet\u2019s operating system are pretty much built upon the same core code — hence the reason for Apple\u2019s delay in seeding the 4.0 build to developers. (Since the code is so similar it\u2019s pretty likely that tablet functionality will be easily discovered by a few minutes spent digging through iPhone OS 4.0’s bundled APIs. Apple has held-back on seeding the next major iPhone OS build for this very reason — they don\u2019t want to give away clues as to what\u2019s in store with the Tablet — that sort of information will leak fast<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

So while the world\u2019s press salivates over the upcoming tablet and forgets completely<\/em> about Apple\u2019s other major products, spare a thought for iPhone OS 4.0. It\u2019s likely to be the most important — and impressive — update in the iPhone\u2019s history. And, unless you have your money ready to splash on the Tablet, iPhone OS 4.0 is the most likely next \u201cnew thing\u201d you\u2019re going to get from Cupertino.<\/p>\n

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