“Apple unveiled a slew of new features — more than 100 in all — in the third major revision of the iPhone’s basic operating system,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune. “Among the enhancements demonstrated at a special media event at its Cupertino headquarters on Tuesday were many of the functions users had been clamoring for… At the end of the 90 minute presentation, senior vice president Scott Forstall (who stood in for the ailing Steve Jobs) was rattling off features faster than reporters could type: Notes Sync, audio/video tags, live streaming, shake to shuffle, Wi-Fi auto login, Stereo Bluetooth, LDAP, iTunes account creation, YouTube ratings, Anti-Philshing, Call Log, Parental Controls, Media Scrubber, OTA profiles, VPN on demand, Languages, YouTube subscriptions, YouTube accounts and Encrypted profiles, auto-fills…”
“Apple also announced a raft of improvements — including more than 1,000 new APIs (application programming interfaces) — in the so-called SDK (software development kit) that programmers use to create applications for the iPhone and the iPod touch,” Elmer-DeWitt reports.
“One user request that wasn’t addressed was support for Adobe Flash, the widely used standard for online video and other multimedia files. Asked in a Q&A after the presentation what Apple planned to do about Flash, Forstall ducked the question. ‘We have no announcements on that topic today,’ he said, suggesting that there were other ways to send video to mobile devices,” Elmer-DeWitt reports.
MacDailyNews Take: Yes, other better ways.
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