Today ‘s big Apple event was not at all focused on iPhones, so as expected there was not a whole lot of iPhone-related news.
There was some though, including some very noteworthy items. Like many of you, I ‘m busy restoring my jailbroken iPhone 3GS and updating it to OS 3.1 right now, but while I ‘m awaiting the final update process, I thought I ‘d share a few quick thoughts on the iPhone news we did hear today
Here ya go “ some very quick thoughts on what we heard at today ‘s event:
No More Waiting on 3.1: I ‘m glad there was no waiting around for iTunes 9 and OS 3.1 “ nice to see them available minutes after the event. Being jailbroken, there ‘s usually a bit of dancing around to be done when a new OS update comes out, and sometimes choose temporarily between jailbreak and new firmware / features. I ‘m so keen to see app organizing that I ‘ve chosen new firmware today. I really hope the Dev Team will soon bring us a re-jailbreak method for use with 3.1 (I have my iBEC and iBSS files saved).
FIFTY MILLION iPhone OS Devices Sold: Wowza “ 30 million iPhone sold to date, and 20 million iPod Touches. That ‘s amazing “ go iPhone OS platform go.
Other Gigantic Numbers: There are 75,000 apps in the App Store now, and users have downloaded over 1.8 billion apps.
Genius for Apps: ‘App recommendations based on the apps you own ‘. Sounds good to me. Keen to see how well this works.
Ringtones & Assorted Other Bits: I feel ‘meh ‘ about ringtones at $1.29. Pricy, but maybe worth a dabble once in a while. 8GB Touches for $199 “ still feels a little high to me. Lots of the changes in iTunes look / sound very nice. Overall, the Touch / iPod / Nano changes don ‘t excite me, but they generally don ‘t.
App Organizing: Hurrah, hurrah, and hoo-effin-rah. Can ‘t wait to play with this and see how (hopefully) good it is.
That ‘s it for me “ and my 31 update is done, now need to go sync and play.
How about you all? What did you like / not like at today ‘s event?
Continue reading:
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