Some thoughts on iPhone OS 3.0

Bah. Nothing I can't get with jailbreaking my 1st-gen iPhone. I have MMS working (technical limitation is a load of garbage, phones 5+ years old have working MMS here in the US over EDGE), already have cut/paste, some background app running, tethering, bluetooth. I still get video that's not included here, along with better camera apps and theming my springboard. If I want I can get landscape SMS for a small one-time license fee, that's about the only nice thing I'm seeing for 1G users. Though I see nothing about SMS forwarding still, can't believe after 2 years that's still not available - again phones 5+ years old on much older technology have that.

Rather disappointing once I found out that us early iPhone users get screwed by all these "3G only" updates that should have been integrated with the phone since day 1 back in 2007.

Yeah, I think Steve can kiss my butt on this one. At least let my first gen Touch be two years old before declaring it 'dead'. C'mon, i'm expected to pay 9.99 for Shake to Shuffle, copy n paste, and Spotlight? Oh, and that landscape typing mode, yeah, thats worth 10 bucks for sure!
'API support for serial IO through the Dock Connector'
Yeah, that will work perfectly for a d-pad joystick attachment! Good idea for once. However, I'll skip this update-nothing wrong with my touch 1G, and it has the best screen out of all four iPhone/iPod Touch devices.

All well and good, but is it going to be any easier to jailbreak/unlock the iPhone? My fear is that the 3.0 upgrade will make it even more difficult and the DevTeam may just decide not to take up the challenge given the length of time and effort put into unlocking the 3G phone for use on networks other than the Apple-approved ones.

Does anyone realise that the push notification will *not* be able to start up an application? All that happens is the user gets a message effectively saying "please start this app". And it's not guaranteed to receive that either.

You could do the same thing (almost) by sending them an SMS; and that's more guaranteed to work.
:-(

Will SMS forwarding be in this new OS?

haha. i had mac os x read me this article while preparing some food.. i must've missed to select the last few words of the article, because the voice ended with saying "All in all, I feel pretty"

"typical apple fanboy", i thought.

Then buy a cheap digital camera; it will be 500x better than some crap cell phone camera anyway. This is a ridiculous argument.

You and about 2 other people on the planet *NEED* that. About 3 others would even care. You're not talking about a mass market device that sells 13 million units with those features. Same for the A2DP: I work in IT, and I can't find 5 people in this Fortune 500 company who know what A2DP is or give a ****.

The same people that whinge and moan about this horrible lack of features are the same people that whine about the cost, or whine about the required data plan, and whine about, well, everything. Meanwhile the rest of us are busy getting work done, and maybe the iPhone makes it just a little easier to get my corporate email and my personal email. So I can't send an MMS. My other option is to carry 2 or 3 phones (corporate data-only Blackberry, corporate voice-only phone, personal smartphone), none of which do most of the things the iPhone does well. I've had BlackBerries, WinMo, Palm Treos, and a basket full of feature-laden dumb phones, but nothing has done as many things as well as the iPhone. The features it did not have (copy/paste, MMS, etc.), despite being the battle cry of the Internet anti-Apple crew, are really only truly missed by a tiny minority of the market segment. I almost have a feeling that Apple finally added these things just to say, "Here, you really think we can't do MMS? Have it. Now shut up and get out of your mom's basement once in a while."

Pretty pathetic to see TUAW try and pass on the ridiculous "technical limitations" excuse Apple is trying to get by with concerning MMS on 1st-gen iPhones. It's pretty clear the device is technically capable of it and its exclusion is merely a marketing ploy to force upgrades. To characterize it as anything other than that is merely giving lip service to Apple's BS marketing excuse for doing it.

How's the sound quality when listening to music with stereo Bluetooth headphones? I'd always heard that it was pretty lousy. Has the tech improved any?

I wonder if third party hardware that interacts with apps means Nike+ will finally come to iPhone through an iPod nano-like plug in receiver?