“iPhone OS 4.0 is imminent. At least, that’s the only conclusion I can draw from an e-mail I just received from a prominent app developer,” Rick Broida reports for CNET.
Broida reports, “The message includes the following snippet: ‘Just wanted to give you a heads up that we’ve submitted an updated app for the new iPhone OS 4.0 software.'”
“For those seeking further evidence, Boy Genius Report ‘discovered’ OS 4.0 last month in some server logs,” Broida reports. “But could this point to something more? A new iPhone model, perhaps?”
Full article here.
[Update: 3:20pm ET: iLounge’s Charles Starrett has “learned that the reference was a mistake: the app is now “version 4.0” released for iPhone OS 3.1, the developer has offered ‘sincere apologies.'”]
No new iPhone model until this summer. But the tablet needs an OS, and I’d guess that there will be significant cross-pollination between the iPhone and tablet OSes, both in interface and applications. And it would surprise me not at all that they turn out to be identical. The tablet will probably not be much more of a computer than the iPhone already is, given the limitations of its processor and battery.
Can’t wait. We’ll finally be able to listen to Pandora, Slacker etc. while browsing Safari, checking e-mail, reading ebooks. These things will start to feel more like mini computers.
A 4.0 release would mean some major changes. Bug fixes would be a 3.2. Tweaks and minor things, 3.2
But a 4.0? Multitasking? Radical new home screen? What?
Includes support for Broadcom’s new “flux capacitor on a chip”.
With a tablet imminent, only makes sense the OS will be updated to handle the new hardware / interface techniques for it.
*IF* multi-tasking is indeed involved, I sure hope they include some very strict user controls on it. The last thing I want is for my iPhone to turn into a morass of security vulnerabilities like Android.
Android vulnerabilities stem from the fact that it’s open. One can install third party software on it without the Android market place.
The iPhone will remain a very closed device with Steve Jobs’ approval looming over every piece of available software so you can continue to feel nice and safe from the mean old world.
imminent?
or imminent again?
or soon to be imminent?
It’s certainly less unimminent.
One of my apps updates recently with the note “works better on higher resolution devices”.
Just saying.
Or more imminenter?
Not before an event. Apple needs to talk benefits.
BTW, that ugly ass photo of Gore on this website’s page really should go. That suit will go down in history as the biggest ‘Boy who Cried Wolf’ asshat ever.
What kind of news is this?
Ever since iP came out, new iP OS was announced around this time.
You know what would be a news? iP OS 4.0 delayed until 2011, that would be a news.
LOLZ
Another case of “journalism” on the interwebs…useless.
LOL! So the application that was being updated was moving to version 4.0 – nothing at all to do with iPhone OS 4.0!
And all the internet news sources pulled a Sajid Farooq on the story – lovely.
If you think about it carefully, when Scott Forstall introduced the iPhone Dev Kit, Apple have basically created a whole new platform with easy, free tools for developers. This platform is scalable and not limited to the current conduit – the iPhone.
Something big is definitely on the way… There’s way too much potential to limit it to a phone.
BTW, that ugly ass photo of Gore on this website’s page really should go. That suit will go down in history as the biggest ‘Boy who Cried Wolf’ asshat ever.
x, I’m sure the melting glaciers all around the world agree with you, as well as the people living in the Maldives. oh wait…you’re an idiot.
Never mind neomonkey, X is one of the retards that can’t that can’t see the forest because of the trees, although I would have added Frigtard after idiot.
LOL!!!!! Good job guys
So a developer suspects Apple’s about to release a new OS, then realizes, Oh, no, OUR OWN APP is about to be updated. Slight discrepancy.
125,000 apps along with huge number of updates each week. A mistake like this is bound to happen.
Pretty funny though!
Multitasking would be awsome so would a built-in radio from apple so u can listen with wifi or any Internet connection at all chase that I would like cause one of my news sites I go to for mac says they might and they might be working on their own radio app built stright into the New OS .
Make it possible when playing games i dont need to exit when someone text me. Make it possible listening to radio while playing games. Make it possible that i can send/receive bluetooth from other non-iphones eg photos,music,contacts
@mdnfan: Don’t need a built-in radio; WunderRadio app probably best “radio” out there.