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WWDC 2010

AprecheApreche
edited June 2010 in Technology
I'm going to try making a really simple list of the items that actually matter for discussion purposes.
  • PDF in iBooks
  • Netflix for iPhone
  • Farmville for iPhone
  • iPhone 4
    • It's the one Gizmodo had
    • 4x resolution
    • A4 CPU
    • Qaud band radio.... OH SHIT....
    • Gyroscope
    • Better camera
    • HD Video (death of flip)
    • iMovie for iPhone
    • iBooks on iPhone (he didn't say it, but you can see it in the demo, ok he said it now)
    • Unified threaded mail
    • Video calling, for reals between iPhone 4s over wifi, open standard
    • AT&T - can get subsidy if you reup and your contract expires in 2010 (that's me)
    • June 24th
    • Official accessories (dock/case) $$$$
  • iPhone OS renamed to iOS (Cisco Trademark issues AGAIN?)
  • iAds - blech
  • Even Apple can't get wifi to work when there are a bunch of people using it.
  • No Safari 5, no nothing else but iPhone 4

Yeah, I'll probably just get it despite evil closedness. Android can't compete with this. They still don't even have a decent mp3 player and iPhone has fuckin' movie editing and uploading. It's the same reason I got the iPhone 3G in the first place, despite its closedness. If I got another phone, I'd have to buy an iPod nano, and I don't want to carry extra devices.

Comments

  • CremlianCremlian
    Farmville for iPhone
    That actually matters?
  • trogdor9trogdor9
    They're apparently having some issues with the network being overloaded.
    10:44AM Seeing the NYT load has never been so exciting. "Scott, you have any ideas?" Someone yelled Verzion! Ha!
  • AprecheApreche
    That actually matters?
    It will bring about the end of the world. Needs to be discussed.
  • RymRym
    Incremental improvements have basically made smartphones a completely disposable device among the moderately wealthy. I see a lot of people who, every two years, just get whatever the best phone in their preferred line (e.g., the next iPhone for an iPhone person) is. The upswing of this is that I no longer care what phone I get each round: I know I'll have a much better one every time I renew my contract. Maybe I'll get an iPhone this time.
  • George PatchesGeorge Patches
    It will bring about the end of the world. Needs to be discussed.
    You're giving that "game" far too much credit.
  • Luke BurrageLuke Burrage
    Gyroscope seems good for gaming, but I really see this as the next step in augmented reality.

    Also, iMovie on the iPhone, plus the video, would be something I'd use. Of course I'll be getting the iPhone 5, not the 4, due to my contract. Hopefully they'll have Final Cut for iPhone then.
  • ElJoe0ElJoe0
    Incremental improvements have basically made smartphones a completely disposable device among the moderately wealthy.
    You are aware we are all punk kids with last gen smart phones and PAYG contracts and this shit won't come to non-20-something professionals for about 5 years?
  • RymRym
    ou are aware we are all punk kids with last gen smart phones and PAYG contracts and this shit won't come to non-20-something professionals for about 5 years?
    I said the moderately wealthy.
  • ChurbaChurba
    Incremental improvements have basically made smartphones a completely disposable device among the moderately wealthy.
    You are aware we are all punk kids with last gen smart phones and PAYG contracts and this shit won't come to non-20-something professionals for about 5 years?
    Speak for yourself, son. I'm going to bully my phone company into upgrading me - Fuckers wanna play with me for last upgrade, and they broke fair trade - Trusting Scott's opinion, I held that over their head like the sword of Damocles, and now it's time to bring it down.
  • MattMatt
    edited June 2010
    Farmville disgusts me. This comes on a day when Majestic, the makers of an actual farming game, Harvest Moon, have had to massively restructure because nobody is buying their product. It came up in last nights podcast that the audience for farmville and iphones may not intersect, but I disagree. In the past year and a half, I have noticed a huge boom in the amount of mom types that have iPhones. My mother, all of my aunts, and all of her friends, have iPhones, so yes, they will be playing it. To use a horrible pun and analogy, I understand you can't expect people to buy the cow when someone is giving milk away for free on Facebook, but it does bother me a bit when the winning product (Farmville) seems to get its success through guilt, not enjoyment. I've spoken to people who play it and most of them are not having any FUN. It just makes me throw my hands up in the air, and I'm going to stop thinking about it now.

    Netflix is fantastic. I had big concerns with the new metered bandwidth that it would stifle innovation and bring us back into the dial-up era. Hopefully people will not be too paranoid about watching their megabytes and will use a great product like Netflix, so they and other companies have the incentive to continue producing quality high-bandwidth content

    I think the addition of the 720p recording is huge. The new screen resolution is out of this world as well. The new design is sexy, and hopefully the better antennae will result in better reception (although I only ever have problems in certain known reception hell-hole areas of NYC). Still, as a 3GS owner I am not going to jump at this one. I think every-other is a great method for iPhone owners. The software upgrade alone gives you enough new features to scratch your gadget itch, and then when the next one rolls around the feature list is just too large to resist, coming from a generation back.

    I have not read anything about the video chat but the thought of video chat on a mobile device irks me. If I'm walking around with a camera on me, wouldn't it cause a very nauseating visual for the person on the other line? Picture a face being static positioned with a swirling background behind it.
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  • AprecheApreche
    I understand you can't expect people to buy the cow when someone is giving milk away for free on Facebook, but it does bother me a bit when the winning product (Farmville) seems to get its success through guilt, not enjoyment. I've spoken to people who play it and most of them are not having any FUN. It just makes me throw my hands up in the air, and I'm going to stop thinking about it now.
    Program or be programmed.
  • RymRym
    Program or be programmed.
    That about sums it up. Or, to use another analogue:

    Come before.
  • TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark
    Come before.
    The ladies must love you.
  • AprecheApreche
    Come before.
    The ladies must love you.
    You beat me to it. I was going to say...

    Both literally and figuratively, except in bed.
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