[gui-talk] Fwd: I-phone os 4 previewed

[Steve Pattison]

 From:    Frank Nowlan fnowlan at bigpond.net.au
 To:      members at bcacug.org

Below is a press release from Apple.

Cheers,
Frank Nowlan.

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Apple Previews iPhone OS 4
Includes Multitasking, Folders, iBooks, Unified Inbox & More
CUPERTINO, California-April 8, 2010-Apple® today previewed its iPhone® OS 4 
software and released a beta version of the software to iPhone Developer Program 
members. The iPhone OS 4 beta release includes an updated Software Development 
Kit (SDK) with over 1,500 new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and over 
100 new features that will be available to iPhone and iPod touch® users this 
summer. New features include Multitasking for third party apps; Folders to 
better organize and access apps; improved Mail with a unified inbox, fast inbox 
switching and threaded messages; enhanced Enterprise support with even better 
data protection, mobile device management, wireless app distribution and more; 
Apple's new iAd mobile advertising platform; and iBooks, the delightful new 
ebook reader and online bookstore recently debuted on the iPadT. 
"iPhone OS 4 is the fourth major release of the world's most advanced mobile 
operating system," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "We're delivering over 100 new 
features, including multitasking, folders, a unified inbox, deeper Enterprise 
support, and an iPhone version of our iBooks reader and online iBookstore." 
iPhone OS 4's new multitasking offers users a new way to quickly move between 
apps, and provides developers seven new multitasking services to easily add 
multitasking features to their apps. These services include background audio, so 
apps like Pandora can play music in the background, and VoIP, so VoIP apps can 
receive a VoIP call even when the iPhone is asleep or the user is running other 
apps. iPhone OS 4 provides multitasking to third party apps while preserving 
battery life and foreground app performance, which has until now proved elusive 
on mobile devices. 
Folders help users better organize and quickly access their apps. Simply drag 
one app icon onto another, and a new folder is automatically created. The folder 
is automatically given a name based on the App Store category of that app, such 
as "Games," which the user can easily rename. Using folders, users can now 
organize and access over 2,000 apps on their iPhone. Users can also create and 
manage iPhone folders on their Mac® or PC using iTunes® 9.2. 
iPhone OS 4 delivers the best mail experience on a mobile phone with its new 
Unified Inbox, allowing users to see messages from all their email accounts 
displayed together in a single inbox. With just a few taps, users can quickly 
switch between inboxes to see messages from any single account. In addition, 
users can now thread their messages by conversation, making it easier to stay on 
top of email discussions, as well as open email attachments with compatible apps 
from the App Store.   
iAd, Apple's new mobile advertising platform, combines the emotion of TV ads 
with the interactivity of web ads. Today, when users click on mobile ads they 
are almost always taken out of their app to a web browser, which loads the 
advertiser's webpage. Users must then navigate back to their app, and it is 
often difficult or impossible to return to exactly where they left. iAd solves 
this problem by displaying full-screen video and interactive ad content without 
ever leaving the app, and letting users return to their app anytime they choose. 
iPhone OS 4 lets developers easily embed iAd opportunities within their apps, 
and the ads are dynamically and wirelessly delivered to the device. Apple will 
sell and serve the ads, and developers will receive an industry-standard 60 
percent of iAd revenue. 
The iPhone OS 4 beta release includes a developer preview of Game Center, which 
contains a set of APIs that allows developers to create apps with the ability to 
invite friends to play a game, start a multiplayer game through matchmaking and 
track achievements and compare high scores on a leader board. Apps created with 
GameKit APIs will work with Game Center, Apple's new social gaming network 
available to iPhone and iPod touch users later this year. 
New enterprise features in iPhone OS 4 include improvements in security, 
scalability and compatibility. The new Mobile Device Management service can be 
integrated with third party servers to wirelessly configure, query and even wipe 
or lock managed iPhones, and iPhone OS 4 enables enterprises to securely host 
and wirelessly distribute their own in-house developed apps to employees. The 
new Data Protection feature uses a user's passcode as an encryption key to 
protect mail messages and attachments stored on the iPhone. iPhone OS 4 now 
provides the option to set a longer, more complex passcode, making iPhone and 
its data even more secure. iPhone OS 4 allows IT managers to set up multiple 
Exchange ActiveSync accounts, is compatible with Exchange Server 2010 and 
includes support for forthcoming SSL VPN applications from Juniper Networks and 
Cisco. 
Today, more than four billion apps have been downloaded from the revolutionary 
App Store and more than 185,000 apps are available to consumers in 90 countries. 
Over 85 million iPhone and iPod touch users around the world can choose from an 
incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, 
sports, health, reference and travel.  
Availability 
The iPhone OS 4 beta software and SDK are available immediately for iPhone 
Developer Program members at developer.apple.com. iPhone OS 4 will be available 
as a software update to iPhone and iPod touch users this summer.* A version of 
iPhone OS 4 will be coming to iPad this Fall. 
*Some features may not be available on all products. For example, Multitasking 
requires iPhone 3GS or third generation iPod touch (late 2009 models with 32GB

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