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Apple releases iPhone Software Update 3.0 to the public

Jun. 17, 2009 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

Apple:

The free iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update includes some great new features, as well as all the features from previous updates. iPhone OS 3.0 also lets you run the next generation of iPhone apps, like peer-to-peer games and more. If you’ve never updated before, now is the perfect time.

Cut, Copy & Paste

Quickly and easily cut, copy, and paste text from application to application. Select entire blocks of web text with a tap. Copy and paste images from the web, too.

Landscape Keyboard

Want more room to type? Rotate iPhone to landscape to use a larger keyboard in Mail, Messages, Notes, and Safari.

MMS (not on AT&T)

Send MMS messages and include video, photos, audio, and contact info.2 Even tap to snap a picture or shoot a video right inside Messages.

Spotlight Search

Find what you’re looking for across your iPhone, all from one place. Spotlight searches all of your contacts, email, calendars, and notes, as well as everything in your iPod.

Voice Memos

Capture a memo, a meeting, or any audio recording on the go. Voice Memos works with the built-in iPhone microphone or with the mic on your headset.

Improved Calendar

Create meetings via Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and subscribe to calendars with new CalDAV support.

Buy Movies, TV Shows, and Audiobooks

Download movies, TV shows, music videos, and audiobooks from the iTunes Store on your iPhone.

And so on.

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tayme
on Jun 18, 2009
@mikegalos - Why are you even arguing this point? You maks your own personal attacks behind conspiracy theory data? Come on...we all know that you do not like or respect Apple. That is fine, that is your right...but really, you continually stoop to the same level as the worst iCabal member on this site. That fact can be self researched by simply reading your posts and using basic reading comprehension skills to understand your true meaning. Its like you shading your avatar green or wearing a ribbon of a certain color in faux support of something in order to make you feel good about yourself...when in reality it is meaningless. --tayme
tayme
on Jun 18, 2009
"(we'll save Smartphone for another day as that's actually plausable in some ways)" Avoiding the facts...as usual. --tayme
chuckb84
on Jun 18, 2009
Mike, Paul has leveled legitimate criticisms at Apple. The mockery of the "web apps" debacle is one such, and I agree with it. Paul becomes a frothing lunatic over Apple's advertising, and is jealous of every success the company has. And, this bit "Or, to put it into a measurable and factual basis:" is your classic misdirection argument, one of your favorites. I could quote data about the sunspot cycle and it would have as much relevance to what we were discussing. Tsk. You know that; you're not fooling anyone. But, since you bring it up, I'll ask the pertinent question again: "Current Macintosh users as a percentage of all Personal Computer users: less than 3.5%" Yes, correct. So, why so worried? Why all this ink and (virtual only, thankfully) blood spilled over a company that Microsoft "doesn't think about very much"? Apple is SIMULTANEOUSLY a lying, looming menace about to crush all the right thinking people in the computer world, AND a pipsqueak with 3.5% marketshare. Pick one argument and stick to it; logical arguments usually work better, and you can't use both of those at the same time.
Ocean
on Jun 18, 2009
>>Please justify that comment regarding OS development<< Your favorite MS writer had this to say: >>enough Jobs bashing. The guy's a visionary and truly important presence in the industry, and it will be a sad, sad day when he steps down from his post at Apple and fades into the sunset. -- Give Apple some credit for getting to market first--by a long shot--and doing a fantastic job of implementing features that Microsoft, frankly, may never get right.<< I would say that first or last, showing the market how to do things right = having huge influence on the market. In another review he said: >>Apple's products are of exceedingly high quality. The Mac is secure, easy to use, and in many ways superior to Windows. -- Apple has consistently innovated with the Mac platform, supplying Mac users with technologies that PC users only find out about years later. Do consider a Mac. Though a bit pricey compared to PCs, today's Mac computers--especially the stunning iMac and utilitarian Mac mini--offer unparalleled design and functionality, with an OS that is never hacked. If you care about security, safety, and design aesthetics, there's never been a better time to get a Mac.<< http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/apple_intel.asp
mikegalos@msn.com
on Jun 18, 2009
chuck No. You got it wrong. Apple is no threat both due to their inability to ever return even to a quarter of their "glory days" of 20% market share back when the Apple ][ was viable and their inability to produce a competitively modern operating system since System 7. Apple fanbois, however. waste a hugely disproportionate amount of space on their cult and have an also disproportionate tendency to flame anyone who dares to disagree with them while avoiding any factual discussion. (As you just did) This lowers what should be an interesting discussion on operating systems and the computer industry into a vitriolic attack-fest should anyone dare disagree with their fanstasy world no matter where it occurs. This comment section on a Windows oriented blog being an excellent case in point.
mikegalos@msn.com
on Jun 18, 2009
tayme "Avoiding the facts...as usual." Interesting and telling that rather than actually discuss the questions you decided to focus on the area not being discussed. I take it you couldn't find examples to actually answer the two questions you pulled that parenthetical quote from. As a reminder, they were: How is Apple influencing the entire industry in OS development? Please, feel free to point out where Mac OS X was the operating system that drove the others to play catch-up.

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