Vincent Nguyen, writing for My iPhone, explains “a few more things about the iPhone. There are four key items discussed in the video, calendar application, how to view traffic on Google Maps, another method of scrolling through long lists and finally how the ringtones play a role in iTunes and the iPhone.”
“Steve Jobs did not demo the Calendar application because it was not completed in time for Macworld. The speculation around adding new events on the fly seemed to be ‘no, calendar doesn’t allow creating new events on the fly.’ In light of new information, there’s a ‘plus’ button on the upper right hand corner of the application. We can assume pressing this button triggers the action of adding a new event,” Nguyen writes.
More buttons located and discussed, with screenshots and video, here.
Selling ringtones would trim my image of Apple down a bit, seeing as me kid can make and select his own for his Sony-Ericsson.
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I think it’s possible that tracks bought from the iTS can be used as ringtones. Would be a little dumb on Apple’s part to not tap into this market of gullible kids who are willing to pay $3 bucks for a ringtone (at least that’s what they pay in Germany, the idiots!) Apple would immediately own the ringtone market if they allowed that.
I make my own ringtones in Garageband.
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My mom says so.
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First off, we don’t have any idea what sort of processor this new iPhone has, but it can run widgets and Safari, so it must be powerful enough not to require a whole lot of cooling.
Stop, I say, stop the presses! Must plaster this news in bold, 42 point type across the front page: Calendar app now has a plus button!
Hoohah! That’ll beat the competition. Whooooooo!
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Blithering idiots…
I disagree with the video on one point:
I don’t think Apple is going to start selling ringtones – I think the Ringtones tab will be where you configure rigntones, which can be any audio clip from your iTunes library. You’ll probably be able to do all the standard stuff like associate certain clips to certain people or groups, have generic rings, etc.
…Would be a little dumb on Apple’s part to not tap into this market…
Apple ain’t Microsoft. I’m relying on a modicum of taste here, because ringtones are trivial. The only business model that has legs is a piss-the-user-off subscription model for n ringtones a week, where the user is too lazy to stop the continuing charges or too stupid to read the fine print. Yeah, yeah, it amounts to big business and all that, but it is a tasteless business. Better sell ’em an iTunes track or let them use their own creations/sound-clips. What next…a DRM layer in bluetooth for ringtones?
…like associate certain clips to certain people or groups…
Now that’s more like it!
gzero…
It’s not just gullible kids who are willing to toss a few bucks in order to irritate any and all sentient beings within hearing distance of their phones…
Gee, and I was so ready to think that a $500 smartphone with a full keyboard wouldn’t let you type in new ifo.
This just in: plus button in calendar.
Way to state the obvious. Otherwise, it would be the dumbest smart phone evar. Even the iPod syncs both ways.
This just in, get directions button in googlemaps. Wow, now that’s what I call personalization. They really worked closely, them two, to get an additional feature not already found on the existing googlemaps phones.
This just in — a ringtone tab in iTunes. Whether the user can create them, or apple is selling, is only guessed, but yup, there are ringtones! Just like every phone made.
Well, that was some close keynote watching. Lemmie tell ya.
did anyone else notice that when steve clicked on the album art it flipped over to show track listings? this isn’t a feature in itune 7.0.2.
IMHO, the proliferation of ring tones is one the real low points in the high-tech revolution.
Some of them are <b>really, really</i> obnoxious!
It absolutely amazes me that people give a rats ass about ring tones! It is as though everyone has the emotional maturity of a pre-teenage girl.
Does the phrase “get a life” have any meaning to you?
Haven’t you guys and girls ever experienced the problem that other people ring tones sound like yours?
Or you just bought a new phone and all the tones sound really annoying?
There’s are very good reasons why ring tones is a huge market, and always will be. It’s got nothing at all to with teenagers and their image problems.
IMHO
P.S. I am decades past my teens
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“There’s are very good reasons why ring tones is a huge market, and always will be. It’s got nothing at all to with teenagers and their image problems.”
That is hogwash and you know it. Ringtones are popular for one reason… they are to impress others with how cool your taste in music is i.e. “aren’t I clever… aren’t I cute.”
i’m listening to orwell’s 1984 on my ipod. 60 years later, he’s still on point.
we’re on the verge of war with iran and simpletons are focused on ring tones.
“we’re on the verge of war with iran and simpletons are focused on ring tones.”
First of all, who the hell are you to tell the rest of us that we have to go around worrying about foreign affairs to the exclusion of living our lives?
ShadowMac is right, there are very good reasons why people are interested in personalizing ringtones on their phones, and it really does have nothing to do with trivial psychological issues, nor is it an indication of how trivial we as a people think of foreign affairs.
Take your war worries over to a forum where you can vent about that in a place where people will be willing to talk to you about those worries, and keep them out of the conversation here. We’re talking about Mac and Apple related issues here.