Full FeediPhone 3.0 event live blog
With apologies for being late (real life sometimes gets in the way), here we go, with details of Apple’s iPhone 3.0 announcement.
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And that’s all she wrote.
And that does it. All great press conferences end with the love for the little tykes.
Ah, the seven year olds and their two-year AT&T contracts.
Apple cares about the children!
How many children own iPhones?
Ah, there we go… “content that’s available to children.”
To become an iPhone developers costs a minimum of $99, bTW.
Until people stop asking the questions they’ve been asking for over a year now.
How long is this going to drag on?
No promises on clarifying the approval process for Apps. They want to maintain the customer’s idea of quality.
They’re blaming the first-gen iPhone’s lack of MMS on “a physical issue.”
Well, they’ve made mistakes with Push promises before.
No promises on Push uptime. Cheeky.
Thethering is being built into 3.0, but the carrier also needs to support it.
Nothing on netbooks… what, did you think they forgot?
Nothing on Netbooks today, and nothing about hardware today. Kind of obvious at this point, really.
Peer to Peer is *not* P2P.
You can’t share your iTunes music with other iPhones across Bluetooth, and that’s fine. Because everyone else’s taste in music sucks.
They’re working on tethering… they say.
Peer to peer works via Bluetooth and IP connection using Bonjour
These questions are all so obvious. They’ve had these answers rehearsed for months.
No announcement on flash.
Apparently cut/paste ran into security issues. Say what now?
Man, that is the sucks.
What?
Time for a short Q&A that I’m sure will involve Steve’s health.
Q&A time.
$9.95 update for iPod touch users.
teh iPhone developer website is down, if you were curious.
Looks like I’m upgrading…hopefully they roll out a new iPhone at the same time.
Nor will stereo bluetooth.
Not all features will be available on the 2G.
MMS won’t work on first gen iPhone.
Ship to consumers this summer. Free for 3G owners.
You can join the developer program and get the beta today.
Developer forums will be up, too.
What a tease!
Developer beta is available today.
Developer beta today.
Think we’ll have to pay for the 3.0 update?
Still no Flash, it seems.
Do we get One More Thing?
iTunes account creation. I wonder if that means better communication with your account when downloading apps/songs through the phone.
Feature overload!
Notes sync, and still no ToDo. Sigh.
WiFi auto login… don’t we have that already?
Stereo Bluetooth.
It’s okay, Bill. It’s true what we say about them, too.
They’re not saying, so I’m guessing, “no.”
My god, it’s true what the PC people say about us, isn’t it?
But will it work third-party apps?
Wow, search, MMS, and cut and paste! Way to be cutting edge, Apple!
Launch your apps directly from the Search.
Crazy. Like that secret room in Atari Adventure!
There you go, they’re calling it Spotlight.
and it is Spotlight. It’s located to the left of the home screen.
I was just about to say that. One search crosses pretty much everything.
Looks like spotlight for iPhone
It will also search the server if the mail you’re looking for isn’t stored locally.
Search is expanding to other apps like Mail.
CalDav, fine, but will it allow us to import our ToDos from iCal?
You can now get stock updates and headlines. Is that a feature?
And .ics format for calendar subscriptions.
Voice memos.
New types of calendar support. CalDav. is one
Can also send location via Google Maps in MMS.
3.0 still not availble, if you’re hitting the “check version” repeatedly.
No video, though.
OK guys, I’m out, have fun.
Send photos, audio, or vcards.
But what will AT&T charge us for it?
There it is, MMS
And there we are. MMS
“Messages” is now an application. I think you’re right, Jake, we’re getting MMS.
New Mac Minis, iMacs, Keyboard, Airport Extreme, Time Capsule, iPod Shuffle = no press event. Copy and Paste = press event. Apple has their priorities set just fine.
Landscape in all key applications. I wonder what Apple considers “key.”
Landscape mode in mail. About. Damn. Time.
Kind of sad, though, really, that we get a press event for copy/paste.
and all other apps
Landscape mail
I’ve said it before: Only Apple could make cut/paste into a “feature.”
Cut and paste works across multiple apps, by the way. Did we cover that?
The Palm Pre Apple Announcement, that’s what they meant to call it…
Send multiple photos via Mail.
Send multiple photos in iPhone 3.0 via email
Again, Palm built an entire phone around all of the features the iPhone doesn’t have. And lookee here.
MMS!
It copies HTML as well, but how about images, etc.?
Yep, copy and paste web content.
shake to undo
Fancy new magnifying glass. It’s wider and less circular. Huge improvement over the old magnifying glass, much more functional.
Looks like it works in Safari.
I’m guessing it’ll depend upon the software.
Kevin Rose was right, it works like manipulating the cursor and getting the magnifying glass.
Does this only work in editable text boxes? What happens on a web page? Does it zoom to fit, or just start crying?
This is going to take some practice.
Double tap to bring up a cut/copy dialogue
Double tap, double tap, done.
100 other new features, too.
It’s here! Everyone can quit whining about it now.
Cut, Copy and Paste!
Copy and Paste!
If I could throw my bra onstage, I would.
Applause. Hurrah for Smule.
Hey, I’m not mocking, I dig the Smule stuff
How long until an iPhone instrument only song hits the Top 40, I wonder?
Do not mock the Smule.
You slide the trombone on the right…
Behave, Jake.
Another instrument where you blow into the app.
I’m so glad that Dr. Wang didn’t introduce any sort of flute…
Mutiplayer music. God I love these guys.
Isn’t that from Zelda, too?
Leaf Trombone is their new app.
Excuse me, Dr. Wang is an assistant professor at Standford, and apparently Wang is very intense.
Funny and talented. Women love him! Men want to be him!
Love this guy.
Wang is here!
Dr. Wang?
Ocarina Wars carry over to iPhone 3.0!
SMULE!
LiveFire comes complete with smooth (for a cell phone) graphics… super
Mm. so the battle no longer goes to the skilled, but to the rich.
Smule!
They’d make more money if they sold health kits. In fact, so would the U.S. Army.
In MY day, weapons were just *there,* hovering above the ground.
I saw that first picture for the FPS game and thought one thing… Portal
Again, buy new weapons for real money.
Control by touching the left side of the screen.
Livefire is a global FPS… muliplayer
Are 7-year-olds using iPhones? If not, who’s playing this Touch Pet game?
You can buy your virtual dog a virtual shirt with real money. Welcome to the end of Western Civilization.
So you can use push notifications to invite others to play a multiplayer game online, I like it
I’m guessing LiveFire is just a precursor of things to come.
LiveFire… Sounds ok
Presumably to a virtual dog park.
Looks like people are already putting that API to use.
You can take your dog for a date with someone else.
Multiplayer first person shooter on the iPhone?
Two demos: a virtual pet and an FPS for iPhone
Yes, not sure how you pronounce :) though
Is the :) actually part of the company name?
Games demos from ngmoco
More like something they’d save for WWDC.
Well, it is an SDK announcement, after all.
This event seems REALLY developer-focused.
And presumably Twitter, as well.
The app can also send emails to parents, etc with the glucose reports.
All of this integration with specialized hardware through the dock connector and bluetooth is going to result in a lot of extra apps on your iPhone… app organization solution(s) please?
Users can track what they’re eating and the app will make insulin recommendations.
I’m seeing a lot of bluetooth related stuff, will this finally support stereo BT, keyboards and the like?
Do not take iPhone internally.
Use your electronic blood tester to communicate via bluetooth/dock with your iphone
And has an Apple announcement ever before featured blood?
Diabetes testing with your iPhone… does it send the data to your doctor?
Does the Pre “simplify diabetes management?”
LifeScan, a medical company is up next.
So do text alerts work for all apps? Will I finally be able to see my new emails without unlocking my iPhone!?
Video no longer “one size fits all” since 3.0 can detect your bandwidth
Text alerts for your sports-related emergencies and streaming video that scales to bandwidth.
Text alerts? I’d rather just get a better web experience from ESPN.
Yeah, probably streaming video, but the only kind of streaming video I care about it the Qik kind
Sports, sports, sports.
Hey guys
iPhone was #1 for customer satisfaction amongst business smartphone owners.
I’m guessing this will be about streaming video.
ESPN now. Just tell us if we get cut/paste.
Well, good.
Oracle can help you incetivize your core competencies while leveraging your monetization.
Would you trust your database to a guy named “Hody?”
No, wait, it’s some guy named “Hody.”
I think Larry’s going to demo how you can sue Microsoft with the iPhone
Oracle? Ellison in da house!
Oh lord, your Sims can buy things, and you pay real money for it.
The game can access your iTunes library, so the sims can listen to the music on their radio from your iPod.
Everyone’s oohing over teh graphics
Spoke too soon.
it better not be more Sims junk.
Ea is going to demo The Sims
EA!
EA games is up next
They waited for Push, which they felt was necessary.
You can also get alerts from social networking sites when your friends do something relevant to your interests.
Meembo consolidates different IM networks
Demoing meebo, an IM app.
Demoing apps created “in two weeks” using 3.0
For in game voice chat? That could be really, really cool.
Streaming audio/video APIs
Text selection. Hmmmm.
That’s… pretty impressive.
In-game voice API coming.
Badges? We don’t need no…never mind.
Three kinds of push alerts: audio, text, and badges.
Push in an “open” application uses less power, they say.
Background processing isn’t all that necessary anyway.
No background processing, because it runs down the power.
They’re blaming it on the App Store’s popularity, and how no one understands how hard it is to be beautiful.
Hopefully, the Push Notification sounds better than turn by turn.
Push notifications are ready to go.
PUSH!
You have to make your own maps but can use Apple’s map software. Uh…
You can’t use Google Maps. Wait, what?
Take that, Pre!
> You are outside a white house. N, N, N.
also included, Turn by Turn directions
Ah, Maps now has an API so they can be embedded in another app.
Next up: Maps. Street view for iPod touch?
I’d love to be able to set my blood pressure via my iPod touch.
Now, Maps.
Can be used over bluetooth and via dock connection
Controlling equalizers, FM tuners… and blood pressure?
For example, use an iPhone EQ to adjust the EQ of your speakers.
Third party hardware will communicate directly with the iPhone.
New APIs to let the iPod control the accessories
Sounds like the Nintendo DS without the friend code. Why won’t Apple think of the children?
Expect a lot of app updates to work with this.
Uses Bonjour
Looks like we’ll finally get better support for multiplayer gaming.
Uses Bluetooth (without pairing) rather than WiFi.
I assume they mean like, in games, and not like, in Bittorrent.
Next up, Peer to Peer connectivity.
70% of revenue goes to the developer.
Buy a city guide one city at a time.
Wonder how Amazon’s Kindle will react to that. Do people do much reading on the iPhone?
Apparently they do, or they can now.
eBooks, add on levels, and “subscriptions” for magazines. They sell magazines?
New selling models in the App store
Only things that Apple doesn’t give them are some restricted phone bits.
1,000 new APIs in 3.0
App store enhancements.
We kind of guessed, seeing that there’s an event and all.
But before we get to the major advance that IS cut/paste, let’s give it up for the developers!
3.0 is a… guest what? Major upgrade.
800 million downloads.
98% approved within 7 days or less, so I’m guessing those 2% are the only ones who blog about it.
“Too much arty, not enough farty.”
25,000 apps in the app store. ONly about 4% are rejected
Hi all. Just got in. 25,000 apps in the app store, but we knew that.
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I am new to this blog. Would you please let me know what is this release about?
Is it a new iphone release or just the version 3.0 which we can upgrade from 2.2.1 ?
If so, what are the MAJOR attractions on this?
when is it expected to get released?
on March 19, 2009 at 09:23 AM - LINKThis event was to announce the iPhone 3.0 software beta for developers. It’s estimated for a June release right now, and will a free upgrade for iPhone owners. $9.95 for iPod touch owners. Not a new phone, in other words, just new software.
Major attractions are detailed here:
http://www.appletell.com/apple/comment/iphone-os-3.0-everything-you-need-to-know/
on March 19, 2009 at 09:30 AM - LINKThank you so much for the info Kirk Hiner
on March 20, 2009 at 04:08 AM - LINK