iPhone 4.0 Opinions

Hello Internet.

Its late at night, I cannot sleep. But that’s nothing new.

We know about the iPad, you may know that I dislike it, but things are calming down.
Thank god.

Today was the announcement of iPhone 4.0, with 1,500 new APIs for Devs, 100 new user features, and the important “7 Tentpole Features”

They are:

Multitasking:
AMAZING. Most smart-phones have it already but they just drain the battery life and clog processor speed. Apple seems to find away around this. And it looks great with the beauty of the O.S. it self. This is exactly what iPhone needed to keep itself cutting edge. The streaming audio and VOIP look and sound great. Background location doesn’t make much sense because they were talking about triangulating your location with cell towers, but cell towers are not accurate. Push/local updates haven’t changed much. Apps swich rather fast so this looks great.

Folders:
Organizing apps is important. If you saw my app screens you would realize that I never clean them. This automatically names the folder and keeps the screen nice and neat.

Mail:
Not much changed here. Unified inbox is nice. Fast inbox switching is nice, but most of the things he said doesn’t change much.

iBooks:
Interesting. But I don’t think I want to be reading a book on a really small screen.

Enterprise:
Data protection is ok, MDM is nice, Wireless App Distribution is good, nothing real special.

Game Center:
Basically a big Xbox Live, or if your me Steam. Just making the gaming social.

iAd:
Oh great. If apps needed advertising they could make it themselves. I don’t want my small iPhone screen taken up by HTML apps, poping up when I don’t want them too. This really bugs me, it might not to you, but this could really get out of hand. The big free apps will just say “Why not?” and put them on the apps. This will cause problems.


Overall:
Meh…
There is one good point and one bad point. I don’t know where this will go. But we will find out in June.


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