[Macworld]

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[natmusak]

"No mention was made of ways for apps to access common data or share their data with other apps."

Hmm, what about the Maps and iPod music access? Do those not count?

"background apps"
Just saying, there have always been background apps, Apple simply hasn't extended this functionality to third party developers.

Seems more like a hardware issue, so hopefully the next iPhone will address that. I'd say the same thing about video recording - who would want to record video with the iPhone's 2MP camera and current battery life?

Otherwise, this wish list turned out to be quite a good list of guesses (as almost all of them turned up in the press conference).

[tewha]

When Apple says "No announcements" on a particular topic, you should probably just read that as "No." If any of them change to "Yes," we'll all hear about it.

[Jason Snell]

Maps and iPod access are system APIs for apps to call on, not apps sharing data with one another.
When we say "background apps," we do indeed mean support for third-party apps to run in the background. Internet radio being a good example.

[doglesby]

I think you can add a "Not Likely" verdict on some of these. Like you say, some of these features (like the Mail stuff) could easily be lumped under the 100 new features. But video recording and voice dialing? I don't think so. But hey, there's 4 months to turn an un-demoable feature into a release feature.
I also fear that the Spotlight demo is an indication that better app management will not be coming.
Finally, people have been very focused on what the iPhone lacks that other phones have. Like background processes. I think push notifications is a nice feature that other phones lack. No it doesn't do everything, but it's a much better solution to the problem it does solve. I'd hate to see apps running in the background that don't need to. Maybe background apps will come with version 4.0--after developers figure out the push system, and the culture develops that will ultimately reward judicious use of two approaches (I can already see iPhone Central reviews that skewer apps that run in the background when push notifications would suffice). This isn't just a kludge to get around background apps.
That MMS won't be available on my phone makes me very sad. Not because I want to send them; but because my father won't stop sending them to me, and AT&T has the most user-hostile solution I can imagine. Why separate URL, message ID, and password when you send them all in the same damned message? What benefit does that provide?

[xmitman]

It is interesting that the major U.S. carrier at&t was not at the event. When will the iphone be opening up to other cellular companies?

[himbo]

doglesby said:

I think you can add a "Not Likely" verdict on some of these. Like you say, some of these features (like the Mail stuff) could easily be lumped under the 100 new features. But video recording and voice dialing? I don't think so.

I generally agree with what you're saying here, and I definitely think that video recording would be something they'd consider being worth at least mentioning, so it's probably not going to happen. Voice dialing, however, is a basic enough feature (kind of embarrassingly so, IMO) that I could see it getting lumped in with the rest of the new features that didn't get mentioned.

[smokerken]

Will we be seeing a new I phone in the future for all these additions

[palane]

I'm translating "too early to tell" to be "not fulfilled". Still, it was nice having read the wish list and comparing it to the actual announcement.
BB

[scotty321]

And also, let's not forget the one other major missing Mail feature that we need to keep harping on Apple to implement:
MULTIPLE SIGNATURES IN MAIL!
One unified signature for all our different email accounts is just unacceptable.

[Schneb]

Still no Quicktime media support, like QTVR.

[rem_koolhaas]

Schneb said:

Still no Quicktime media support, like QTVR.

i'll second that strongly! it is only natural for the iPhone to support native Mac formats!

[Podesta]

I've satisfied with the new improvements for OS 3. It isn't clear to me why every discussion here must be a carp fest.

[michaelant]

I'm sure they've figured it out, but I'm curious as to how copy & paste is going to differentiate from me double tapping text on a web page to zoom to fit. I do this all the time on nytimes.com for example. how are they going to know that I don't want to copy a word when I'm actually just double tapping somewhere in the paragraph in order to resize to screen..?