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Zaprudering the iPhone: Updated Internet Videos at Apple
Over at Apple, several of the iPhone example videos have undergone an upgrade. During the past week or two, many of the videos went from a 2-D (straight on) look to a 3-D (iPhone tilted away) look. Today, the Internet videos went a bit further. Here are some of the changes between the old and the new videos:
YouTube Widget. The standard set of widgets now includes a YouTube widget on the second row. Apple offers a new YouTube video QuickTour as well.
YouTube Interaction. You seem to be able to select from "Featured", "Music Videos", "Bookmarks", "Search" and more as the main YouTube playlists. YouTube playback takes place automatically in landscape orientation. (Thanks Trey)
Updated data. It's no longer 26 degrees in Aspen in December. The videos now show that it's late May and a balmy 63 degrees in San Francisco. The stock prices have also changed and reflect May 2007 rather than December 2006.
New Yahoo! logos. The stocks and weather reports sport a distinctive Y! logo missing from earlier videos.
Safari has a new "page" browse view. The end of the Safari quick tour shows a new way to browse through pages
New Maps intro. You can now see the default Maps page before a location is entered.
Email indicates "sent from my iPhone". The new tag appears to be added automatically to the text of your message as a default.
Thanks Zack Kitzmiller
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bob said 11:36PM on 6-20-2007
"Come to Butthead..."
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DG said 12:15AM on 6-21-2007
The mail video shows some suggestions for words while typing. I'm not sure, has this has been shown before?
Meeti (while typing Meeting) shows a little Meets underneath it, and Se had a suggestion of We, etc.
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digitalintrigue said 12:15AM on 6-21-2007
Please, enough with the Kennedy assassination verbiage, or we'll get the Warren Commission to produce that magic bullet.
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Jimmy said 12:58AM on 6-21-2007
Did anyone notice an iWork generated graph in the email segment of the demo? I did.
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iJavaJoe said 1:05AM on 6-21-2007
Also notice it's now ATT instead of Cingular. I wrote Apple about that a few weeks ago; They even responded saying it was now in the works and thanked me for the feedback!
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derek said 1:27AM on 6-21-2007
Dashboard uses http://www.accuweather.com/us/tx/friendswood/77546/city-weather-forecast.asp?partner=apple&
for weather
and http://new.quote.com/stocks/overview.action?CPID=ILC-9V53Y2584954&s=AAPL
for stocks
i wonder if they are changing this in leopard, too?
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El in AZ said 10:59AM on 6-21-2007
If Yahoo! gets snapped up - even in part - by News Corp., I'd better have a choice not to use it anymore.
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Josh Kritner said 2:25AM on 6-21-2007
More from the pedantic peanut gallery:
Minor error near the end of the Safari Demo, the iTunes page that they bring up is the old tabbed Apple website version instead of the newone launched during WWDC.
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sam said 4:36AM on 6-21-2007
Goodie. Youtube over EDGE. I can't wait. /Sarcasm
I hope this is a hint that they're going to announce 3G at the last minute.
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Kevin said 5:07AM on 6-21-2007
I tend to agree, can we lose the "zaprudering" moniker?
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alex said 6:00AM on 6-21-2007
Microsoft's stock price is also new. as MSFT. and it's a lot lower than apple's.
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christian said 5:53AM on 6-21-2007
Have you all noted the presence of the sim card tray on top of the phone!? On the picture showing the vertical iPod (with Beck) picture, you can see the try prominently in the middle of the iPhones top edge.
I bet it isn't even SIM locked!?
Get one plug SIM in and have it work anywhere - that's Apple!
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John said 8:29AM on 6-21-2007
Don't know if this is just a random difference, but the date on the Safari quicktour is the 29th on the calendar. On all the others, it's the 21st.
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Mike said 8:38AM on 6-21-2007
Anyone else think it's hilarious that the phone demo in the maps video is a hang up on a starbucks barista?
also, get a look at the new dock over on the gallery page. hadn't seen it before today. i was expecting inductive charging so the dock could support both portrait and landscape modes, but this will do for now.
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Ben said 9:09AM on 6-21-2007
I'm amused that the stock graph for AAPL is replaced with "retrieving data" on the newer screen. Why couldn't the photog wait a few more seconds (minutes?) to capture the actual graph? Sure, AAPL has been up and down for the last few days, but the YTD is still very impressive... so, why the change?
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Keith said 10:08AM on 6-21-2007
Also noticed when they demo typing for email and sms it now uses TWO fingers instead of one. It only does one when using Google Maps. I remember when it was announced that Apple was suggesting using one finger to type and that two thumbs would be problematic.
Interesting. Maybe they updated the keyboard to be more responsive also.
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buckers said 12:11PM on 6-21-2007
"Safari has a new "page" browse view"
That was shown in the macworld keynote....
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