iPhone OS 4
Today Apple unveiled details of iPhone OS 4 at a special event on their home turf. They certainly didn't disappoint.
If Apple had not added some form of multi-tasking into version 4 of the iPhone OS, they would currently be facing one hell of a backlash from many groups of iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users. Although several areas of the iPhone OS could be said to have started to show their age when compared to recent versions of Google's Android OS, the lack of any form of multi-tasking has been the vocal critic's primary weapon of choice against the iPhone and it's operating system for at least the last year.
Today though, Apple announced over 100 new features to be included in it's upcoming iPhone OS, and while some of these were expected, many were a welcome surprise. For a complete rundown, Gizmodo has a great article detailing all the new stuff. Here, I want to point out I think are the most interesting features, as well as briefly explore the possibilities that a few of them have opened up for developers:
Photoframe Plus
As I mentioned before, Photoframe Plus is Chilli X's first iPad app. I worked with them all the way from initial concept to tweaking the icon's final pixel, and I must say that it has been an exciting experience. I have previously worked on a number of Chilli X's apps, such as the original Photoframe (one of the very first picture frame apps in the app store), and simple yet powerful to-do app Done, but developing for the iPad was a fresh experience.