Leopard and this miracle iPhone update

[Noeld]

Back to the iPod comparison;

When iPods were first released, they only worked with Macs. Then they worried about Microsoft functionality. The reason is that developers need a nonmoving benchmark to hit. So in developing the iPhone, what do they pick as their nonmoving benchmark? Windows? No way - They have zero control over it and that would make no business sense. Tiger? Tiger was originally supposed to be replaced by Leopard before the release of the iPhone. So of course you develop the iPhone towards Leopard first and then try to push functionality out to contain Windows and Tiger.

I agree with others that you should not buy anything without being satisfied with it's functionality today. That is why I have been holding off getting an iPhone. It is pretty reasonable to expect major functionality increases soon though. They did not need put a 770Mb operating system on the iPhone so that it could look at the weather and youtube.

 

[r6girl]

who's to say that apple won't add more functionality to the iphone with leopard (namely notes and task syncing) and offer that same functionality (with outlook, of course) on the pc side at the same time? the point about the ipod having the same functionality on both platforms is a good one, and i can't see apple doing differently with the iphone. so, i'll keep my hopes up and wish that apple does something for the pc users at the same time!

and apple has a new software team just for the iphone (the vp for this group spoke at wwdc, iirc, and he was previously a vp within the OS X group), or at least one carved out of the total OS X team. i think they have enough resources to keep things moving for the iphone regardless of what the ipod group is doing...

 

[snook911]

i actually fell off my chair when i read that. thats like asking "Whats global warming?" (referring to the amount of attention it has in the media)

You have to understand I have never owned anything from apple before. Iphone is my first apple purchase but I have to say I checked out the imac when i was at the apple store and was impressed.

 

[Sobe]

i actually fell off my chair when i read that. thats like asking "Whats global warming?" (referring to the amount of attention it has in the media)

Honestly I haven't heard a word about Leopard in the media.

Granted I don't hunt down mac info, but in the "regular" media I've barely heard a peep on it.

 

[zap2]

I have no idea why everyone this 10.5 is going to update the iPhone....the iPhone is not running Mac OS X for computers, but for mobile devices...its different.


How much can Leopard add, since iPhone also syncs with XP

 

[propynyl]

I certainly hope the iPhone OS is not a stagnant platform!

Some of the applications on the iPhone feel "unfinished" however. For example, the Calendar application,(which was finished literally weeks before the iPhone shipped), would greatly benefit from multiple color-coded categories, like iCal.

Although I have grown somewhat pessimistic with each passing month, I would like to think that Apple plans on adding this feature down the line to "complete" a piece of software that they-themselves admitted was the last one finished, and certainly feels that way.

The calendar program should be the "brain" of any smartphone, and not an afterthought. I definitely hold out hope that Apple plans to update the calendar, hopefully around the time Leopard is released.