[macreader]

When you're in your car for 30 minutes or more at a stretch, you're going to use your phone. I had a one hour commute, each way, for 3 years.
Looking at a keypad to dial while driving at speed is dumb. I've done it, and I know. Voice dial is a must. To say that people shouldn't use their phones, eat or drink a soda in a car is unrealistic. For a short drive, maybe; for longer drives, forget it.
Tell me what you think after you've spent 90 minutes on a freeway.

[moose_n_squirrel]

montgomery_burns said:

Does the GPS transmit your current location, allowing other people besides emergency services to know where you are? If so, this could raise privacy issues.

You should watch the demo. I think it was the segment about the Loopt service where you and all your friends are tracking each other as you all move about during the day so you can try to get together if you're close enough in town, and how the iPhone can show where you are driving in real time. The privacy concerns occurred to me too, it is not clear whether you can ever really turn off your location beacon at any time. The demo says it's supposed to ask you before transmitting location data, but I doubt it does it every time like a nag dialog. It probably asks you just once at the beginning with no arbitrary on/off control of location data after that, but I'd love to be proven wrong about that.

[AussieBoy]

How about Bluetooth? Does anyone knows?

[doglesby]

Jason Snell said:

@doglesby: That's called a compound adjective. :-)

Actually, it's called a mistake :) You meant the iPod adapter (you said the iPhone adapter looks like a tiny iPhone adapter). Sorry for being cute instead of spelling it out.

[seanmckenzie]

Two questions:

Where's Flash?

WHY IS THEIR STILL NO C&P?!!!!!

(these are issue that are completely unexcusable!!!) IMHO X-(

Is it really that hard to incorporate these things into this "New" iPhone.......Honestly! i think Apple had an opportunity to capitalize on previious shortcomings in this new release, and yet missed the boat once again. Besides 3G (which is def. worth it) what other good reason is their for me to drop another $300??

BTW...while listening to the keynote, is it just me, or does Scott Forstall just love to say "We have a great set of API's....." ?

[auramac]

I agree. Connecting on the phone while driving is the most distracting- even while struggling to concentrate- and it is distracting still once connceting and placing that pizza order. The fear of being caught further impairs my driving- I do try to make my calls in parking lots now- Albert Brooks got killed in that movie with Meryl Streep while changing CD's.

[danielchow]

ditto!

not only cute, it's smaller.

power adapters should be as compact and easy to pack away as the portable device it powers. actually, i think the current power adapters for the macbooks and macbook pros are still quite bulky. it sure would be nice to have a slim version to that it's easy to pack with the laptop in a relatively fitting case.

[doglesby]

macreader said:

When you're in your car for 30 minutes or more at a stretch, you're going to use your phone. I had a one hour commute, each way, for 3 years.

No I won't, you will.

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Looking at a keypad to dial while driving at speed is dumb. I've done it, and I know.

Score one for common sense.
>Voice dial is a must. To say that people shouldn't use their phones, eat or drink a soda in a car is unrealistic. For a short drive, maybe; for longer drives, forget it.
There's nothing unrealistic about saying you shouldn't do it. I know people will do those things, but being aware of the danger is better than thinking that what you are doing is safe.

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Tell me what you think after you've spent 90 minutes on a freeway.

You think I don't drive?

I was joking about disabling the iPhone, and I would love a voice dialing feature. However, using a phone while driving is dangerous and I will say so any time someone talks about it. People don't think it's dangerous, and only constant repetition of that message will help.

[randyg]

" I don’t know who at Apple is obsessed with tiny power adapters, but just when you think they won’t get any smaller, they do."
FYI: Tiny power adapters are a good thing! Obviously you prefer a larger power adapter, but those of us that travel appreciate a smaller form factor.

[leonardo]

Yes, it's the paper clip solution. A few weeks back I was in an Apple reseller here in Turkey and a friend of the salesman brought in his iPhone (they are not readily available and if so, expensive because the vendors can't get their act together) so his friend could "unlock" it. Wa La, out comes his tool of choice, the magic paper clip and presto! !L1000820.JPG|thumbnail=true!

[moose_n_squirrel]

montgomery_burns said:

Does the GPS transmit your current location, allowing other people besides emergency services to know where you are? If so, this could raise privacy issues.

You should watch the demo. I think it was the segment about the Loopt service where you and all your friends are tracking each other as you all move about during the day so you can try to get together if you're close enough in town, and how the iPhone can show where you are driving in real time. The privacy concerns occurred to me too, it is not clear whether you can ever really turn off your location beacon at any time. The demo says it's supposed to ask you before transmitting location data, but I doubt it does it every time like a nag dialog. It probably asks you just once at the beginning with no arbitrary on/off control of location data after that, but I'd love to be proven wrong about that.

[doglesby]

seanmckenzie said:

Two questions:


Where's Flash?

Probably at Justice League headquarters.

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WHY IS THEIR STILL NO C&P?!!!!!

Please, stop yelling.

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(these are issue that are completely unexcusable!!!) IMHO X-(

Your opinion will mean something when you can implement these features on a mobile platform with an entirely new interaction paradigm (and the implementation doesn't suck).

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Is it really that hard to incorporate these things into this "New" iPhone.......Honestly! i think Apple had an opportunity to capitalize on previious shortcomings in this new release, and yet missed the boat once again. Besides 3G (which is def. worth it) what other good reason is their for me to drop another $300??

Well, I'm sorry Apple didn't target your specific needs. Clearly they neglected to account for the fact that your $300 is somehow worth more than the thousands of phones the enterprise features will sell.

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BTW...while listening to the keynote, is it just me, or does Scott Forstall just love to say "We have a great set of API's....." ?

:) He did repeat API until it lost all meaning.

[doglesby]

I think that was the loopt app using CoreLocation to get your position and upload it to their servers. I don't know that the iPhone sends your location (except to 911 operators).

[it_geek_girl]

Question. I have a speck rubber case for my iPhone now, do you think it will fit with the new one?