A new study by Chitika Research claims that “despite its hype, iPhone OS 3.0 had very little to offer iPod Touch users. Push notifications? MMS? Tethering? Essentially useless on a device that relies on WiFi for a connection. iPod Touch users are essentially asked to pay for copy/paste, in-app purchases, and the ability to buy a segment of the latest apps from the app store.”
The ad network’s sample data shows that 94.4% of iPhone users upgraded to OS 3.0, and only 55.24% of iPod Touch users upgraded.
Windows Mobile 6.5 will include Internet Explorer to reportedly provide a “better web experience” than the iPhone. How’s that? Simple: they are including Flash support. Microsoft compromised on Flash adoption in Windows Mobile 6.5 recognizing Adobe’s dominant position in the Web’s multimedia market, accepting not to push for adoption of its own Silverlight technology that was presented as a replacement to Adobe Flash.
Firmware 3.0.1 is now available for the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS through iTunes. The update is around 300MB. Apparently, there is no new features or fixes other than the text message exploit patch.
During the WWDC keynote, Apple stated that more then 40 million iPhone OS devices are around, which obviously includes the iPhone and iPod touch. Of those 40+ million devices, according to Apple’s announcement dated June 22, six million had the new OS installed within the first week after its release. That is about a 15 percent iPhone OS 3.0 adoption rate in one week.
The first beta for iPhone OS 3.1 and a matching SDK were seeded to developers on Tuesday night, with around a dozen new extensions for the OpenGL ES graphics library that developers can use to improve graphics exclusively on the iPhone 3GS. Among the new features the ability to select video recording quality and a couple of new app interface classes. Xcode 3.1.3 has also been released.
Driven by the widespread adoption of iPhone OS 3.0 on the iPhone 3G and the successful launch of the iPhone 3GS that includes a digital compass along with the GPS system, all major players are now proposing their route planners to iPhone users.
It all started around 1 year ago, when the $10 NetShare app appeared on the App Store. It was a SOCKS proxy that linked an ad-hoc WiFi network to the iPhone’s 3G or EDGE connection. Users of the iPhone 3G have wanted to use the handset’s high-speed connection with a laptop or desktop for a while, and developer Nullriver created an application to fill that need. The application, NetShare, was pulled, returned, and then finally banished from the App Store, apparently because it violated AT&T’s terms of service…
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Today, Apple announced at the WWDC ‘09 that the new iPhone OS 3.0 Golden Master with over 100 new features will be made available for download today for all developers.
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