MacRumors is reporting a few new features hidden underneath the veil of the 2.2 firmware update that is currently in the hands of developers. Amongst the changes reported are the ability to disable the Auto Correct feature and the inclusion of Street View in Google Maps. If this turns out to be true, we have two welcome additions to the iPhone in the making. Street View is handy when looking for a business or home you are unfamiliar with as you drive down the street, and many non-English speakers despise Auto Correct.
Still no news on the copy/paste front, but a guy can dream….
We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.
We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others.
However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software. Developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering released software within a week or so. Please note that unreleased software and features will remain under NDA until they are released.
Thanks to everyone who provided us constructive feedback on this matter.
edit — whoops, just wanted to add that 2.2 is NOT released yet. These are just some leaked screenies from devs and whatnot.
This isn’t a ground-breaking change, but apparently Apple thought that the magnifying glass button in Safari wasn’t getting enough use. So now they’ve changed it and put a mini search bar just to the right of the address bar and moved the refresh button right inside of the URL bar. Things certainly look a bit more cramped, but I’ll wait until I give it a shot meself to start my complaining.
So, you’re an independent iPhone developer and you have the next great app. But, you know if that app hits the app store and doesn’t work worth a poop … that app will be DOA. It’ll be ripped to shreds in seconds by the millions of users in the store and the millions of bloggers and you’re chances of making any money will end up down the tubes in a heartbeat. So what do you do? Well, you beta test that’s what. Now - where do you find beta testers? Until now - that’s been a tough question to answer.
Not so anymore. Welcome onto the scene - iBetaTest.com!
Now, iBetaTest.com is not a fully live site yet, but you can get on there, get registered as either a developer or a tester and they’ll let you know when things start taking off. So, click on for the press release and then click on through to iBetaTest.com to get signed up!
Engadget Editor-at-Large has just done what Engadget does best and taken a well worded, on-topic, heartfelt shot and put it straight across the bow of Apple. It’s a great post - GO READ IT.
So it seems to me, you have two possible courses of action to clean up this mess, Apple: one, the bare minimum of courtesy and respect for its developers, and the other, full-on-righteous. If absolutely nothing else, you need to post some very clear, very easily interpreted guidelines as to what will and will not fly in the App Store. No more mystery, no more concern as to whether the investment associated with developing a program will be for naught if some faceless App Store approval technician semi-arbitrarily decides to hit reject. Just lay it out for all to bear and follow. Sure, there will be a lot of hating going on when Apple says in explicit terms that Mozilla has zero hope of ever getting Firefox on the iPhone, but at least the crippling uncertainty is removed from the equation. You shouldn’t have to be one of the hallowed few approved by the iFund to be certain before you start work on your app that it will be approved.
Just in case the news you’ve read on every website wasn’t enough … here’s the link to today’s jobs-note. Enjoy the fugly new nano and the 30 seconds of iPhone. Oh, not to mention the game demos of games you can’t buy from the iTunes store right now! (Can you say iPod Touch / iTunes update overload?
I’ve gotta say I’m pretty psyched to see these games, and I hope that they can add more depth to than their mobile Spore version, which looks like a very casual version of the Spore experience. I want deeper gameplay experiences on the iPhone like the stuff PSN and Xbox Live seem to be getting with their downloadable games that retail for $10-15.
So there I am relaxing on my couch, looking for a new Cydia update, and then you bust out this dot upgrade and add all sorts of incredible new features.
Right on the top of my list here is the new Quickview (shown above), which allows you to actually read e-mail and text right on the unlock screen. You can even ‘mark as unread’ or delete.
There are also disgustingly cool new swipe features that lets you hide and reveal Intelliscreen with one swipe. Clean wallpaper one second, swipe right on the clock, Intelliscreen reveals itself – ambushing you with all the information you want.
These are just my highlights, though. The release notes page for the other upgrades and all the bug fixes. I strongly suggest you update ASAP. This update rocks! I’m really digging the new Quickview feature. I get all these stupid SMS for Voicemail and I used to have to take 10 seconds to delve into SMS just to clear it. Now I swipe right on the SMS and it’s marked as read. Perfect!
As with any app, and perhaps especially with a voice command program, your mileage may vary a whole lot - but I honestly felt the last few days like I wanted to turn into the Verizon TV ads guy, and just ask Voice Dial ‘Can You NOT Hear Me Now???“ — Patrick’s Voice Dial review
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