AppleInsider StaffiPhone Software 2.2 beta 2
iPhone Software 2.2 beta 2 is reported to have made its way to developers early friday afternoon alongside a new version of the iPhone SDK with support for hardware accessories that provide audio input to the iPhone and iPod touch.
The new version of iPhone Software itself is said to add Google Street Views to the handset's built-in Maps application, as was reported earlier in the month.
Other features expected as part of the upcoming release, and outlined earlier, include a preference to turn off the iPhone's text auto-correction, and support for Japanese emoji icons.
Snow Leopard
Separately, developers are reporting on the web that they've been provided with the first test releases of Snow Leopard since June's Worldwide Developers Conference.
The downloadable software is said to weigh is at nearly 7GB in size and carry build number is 10A190.
The release is expected to incorporate enhancements noted earlier this month, such as a Finder completely re-written in Cocoa, the beginnings of Microsoft Exchange integration, and a new ImageBoot function.
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This is good if you are one of the blessed developers for iPhone. However there are 100's of thousands of us out in the wild not blessed with the latest SDK. Apple really needs to start firming up 2.2 and get betas out to the larger development community.
There are a couple of reasons for this. One is for timely release of software supporting the latest features. A second is that we would love to see a bit more stability in the SDK and XCode environment.
It is not good when your IDE crashes. As to the SDK it is obvious that it has weak spots. It would be much better if we had something a bit solider to build against. Especially things like Safari and some of the web features which seem very buggy.
I'm sure Apples closed development cycle have their reasons but there comes a point when you need to roll in support for the greater community. At this time many of us have to wonder if going forward with certain projects makes sense or should we wait for hopefully more stable frameworks/libraries.Dave
This is good if you are one of the blessed developers for iPhone. However there are 100's of thousands of us out in the wild not blessed with the latest SDK. Apple really needs to start firming up 2.2 and get betas out to the larger development community.
If you're not willing to spend a couple hundred dollars to become a registered developer, it's not worth Apple's time to get you the software this early.
If you're not willing to spend a couple hundred dollars to become a registered developer, it's not worth Apple's time to get you the software this early.
I applied to be a registered iPhone developer almost 3 months ago, still have money waiting to pay them, and they still haven't gotten to my application.
Still think it's a good system?
I applied to be a registered iPhone developer almost 3 months ago, still have money waiting to pay them, and they still haven't gotten to my application.
Still think it's a good system?
There are 100's of thousands potential developers out there like you wanting to be a registered developer thinking they have a god sent, world saving app to write for the iphone.
You think it's Apple's job to satisfy your ego?
This is good if you are one of the blessed developers for iPhone. However there are 100's of thousands of us out in the wild not blessed with the latest SDK. Apple really needs to start firming up 2.2 and get betas out to the larger development community.
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Dave
Sorry, don't agree with you here. Apple needs to know the person testing the software knows what they are doing. The odds are better if they are a real ADC member. On top of that, it would be absolutely insanity trying to keep up with support for all the issues that would arise. It's a lot easier for apple to tell the developers to simply use this patch to fix their phone that they pay monthly for, versus trying to get a hold of grandma that little timmy put beta x8383 on her phone and now her phone is toasted.