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No mention (yet) of changes to iOS. Clearly they haven't changed the home screen or added widgets, only the hardware seems to have significant upgrades. If Hon

by cryptoz 16y ago

No mention (yet) of changes to iOS. Clearly they haven't changed the home screen or added widgets, only the hardware seems to have significant upgrades. If Honeycomb is going to excel this year, it will be because they can surpass Apple in the UI. We'll see... (posting this mid-presentation, it's possible iOS changes will come soon)

jonknee 16y ago
He's talking about 4.3 now. No apparent huge updates, but things like making the mute/rotation lock switch a preference will be appreciated. Improved AirPlay support (can work with websites now), shared hotspot on iPhone, etc etc. Probably the biggest news for this crowd is Safari's JS boost with the Nitro Javascript Engine.
- stcredzero 16y ago
  I really want to be able to do a timed mute on my iPhone. I keep on putting my phone on mute to see a movie, then my girlfriend is mad at me the next morning because I don't answer the phone.
  - jonknee 16y ago
    If Apple let you load the apps you choose on your phone this would be easy. It's a solved problem on Android (Locale).
    - iuytghyjuk 16y ago
      What, the problem of having a girlfriend and writing Linux apps?
  - WillyF 16y ago
    Call her before you go to bed... This would actually create an interesting problem. If you have a hardware switch and a software timer, then the switch is going to be wrong sometimes.
    - stcredzero 16y ago
      Simple: you only get to use the software timer/switch if the hardware switch is mapped to orientation lock, which is what I was getting at in the first place. (I have a problem, in that I assume everyone thinks things out two steps ahead, because that's how it works in my family. This is why bystanders sometimes wonder if we all share a gene for schizophrenia. Our conversations seem disconnected.)
    - rbarooah 16y ago
      Motorize the switch ;-)
- r00fus 16y ago
  Wonder if they'll keep the 4+ finger multitouch gestures. I've kind of gotten used to them on my 4.3 beta.
  - xorglorb 16y ago
    They already killed them. They removed them from the latest beta.
  - xuki 16y ago
    They made it clear that it would not be include in official 4.3.

by cryptoz 16y ago

jonknee 16y ago

He's talking about 4.3 now. No apparent huge updates, but things like making the mute/rotation lock switch a preference will be appreciated. Improved AirPlay support (can work with websites now), shared hotspot on iPhone, etc etc. Probably the biggest news for this crowd is Safari's JS boost with the Nitro Javascript Engine.

stcredzero 16y ago
I really want to be able to do a timed mute on my iPhone. I keep on putting my phone on mute to see a movie, then my girlfriend is mad at me the next morning because I don't answer the phone.
- jonknee 16y ago
  If Apple let you load the apps you choose on your phone this would be easy. It's a solved problem on Android (Locale).
  - iuytghyjuk 16y ago
    What, the problem of having a girlfriend and writing Linux apps?
- WillyF 16y ago
  Call her before you go to bed... This would actually create an interesting problem. If you have a hardware switch and a software timer, then the switch is going to be wrong sometimes.
  - stcredzero 16y ago
    Simple: you only get to use the software timer/switch if the hardware switch is mapped to orientation lock, which is what I was getting at in the first place. (I have a problem, in that I assume everyone thinks things out two steps ahead, because that's how it works in my family. This is why bystanders sometimes wonder if we all share a gene for schizophrenia. Our conversations seem disconnected.)
  - rbarooah 16y ago
    Motorize the switch ;-)
r00fus 16y ago
Wonder if they'll keep the 4+ finger multitouch gestures. I've kind of gotten used to them on my 4.3 beta.
- xorglorb 16y ago
  They already killed them. They removed them from the latest beta.
- xuki 16y ago
  They made it clear that it would not be include in official 4.3.