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10 Expectations for iPhone OS 4 (Update: 5 more!)

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Apr 7 2010

Tomorrow’s sneak peak at the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad v4.0 (Can we just call these devices, as a group, iPX?  Novell won’t mind!) has a lot of expectations hanging on it.  No doubt Apple will surprise us with some technology we hadn’t even considered, but there are a few expectations out there.  Here’s a list of things I can think of:

1. Multi-tasking.  Of course the iPhone already multi-tasks with some of its own apps (music, email, phone, etc.) but developers are looking for Apple to allow some of their third party apps.  The most obvious are music apps like Pandora and Spotify as well as instant messaging/VoIP apps like AIM and Skype.

2. Printing.  Seems Apple has future plans, now would be as good a time as any.

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Artist draws cover of New Yorker on the iPhone

Avatar for 9to5 Staff May 25 2009

You illustrators might not want to throw away that $5000 Mac Pro/Adobe CS4 rig just yet, but this story makes it seem like one day that might be an option.  Jorge Colombo drew this week’s New Yorker magazine cover using Brushes ($5 iTunes store link), an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square.  Passers-by just assumed he was checking his email.

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“I got a phone in the beginning of February, and I immediately got the program so I could entertain myself,” says Colombo, who first published his drawings in The New Yorker in 1994. Colombo has been drawing since he was seven, but he discovered an advantage of digital drawing on a nighttime drive to Vermont. “Before, unless I had a flashlight or a miner’s hat, I could not draw in the dark.” (When the sun is up, it’s a bit harder, “because of the glare on the phone,” he says.) It also allows him to draw without being noticed; most pedestrians assume he’s checking his e-mail.