November!

Spectacular!!

Yay! New stuff for the iPad!

Of course November just in time for the holiday season\

It wasn't really clear if the 4.2 update will be available for other iOS devices in November as well. He said that you'd be able to stream from your iOS device at one point and didn't specify iPad only, so I assume it will. However, he seemed to be having an off day and misspoke a few things.

Why is Apple fragmenting iOS? I thought they avoided that sort of foolishness.

now my issue will there be a developer beta/build of 4.2 for iPad for the Registered Developers?

Because they have to.

iPhone/iPad are somewhat different and merging the two OSs takes some time. Even more so, since the iPad was super secret, and even most members of the iPhone team didn't have access to it during development.

Yes, they could have taken their time to do the merging of the two featuresets in advance, but then, they would have delayed the iPad launch.

Oh, and it's not really fragmented from an end user perspective: apps made for iPhone can run on both, and iPhone/iPad hybrid apps are also possible.

Still, 4.2 will probably be the converging release. Who said otherwise?

Making releases monolithic increases risk of a blown schedule. My guess is that they had originally hoped that iOS 4.1 would go to the iPad but a few months ago realized it wasn't going to happen and branched it so they wouldn't risk the iPod release.

It's pretty clear the new Nano runs iOS, and I'd bet dollars to donuts the AppleTV runs iOS, but neither of them even have an app store (yet?). So Apple's just trying to minimize risk to the release schedule and product integrity.

Don't mean to sound anal butt - on the slides it said AirPlay not Air Play. Makes more sense when you try to trademark it (if its at all possible).