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iPhone developer agreement hints at new version of iPhone OS

An unintended update to the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement went live Tuesday with a placeholder referencing a Jan. 27 launch, suggesting an updated iPhone OS could be presented at Apple's product unveiling Wednesday.

The placeholder can be found on the signup for for Apple's iPhone Developer Program and reads: "Need to update this for the 27th launch."

With Apple's Jan. 27th event drawing ever closer, this placeholder suggests that an updated iPhone OS may be presented along side the "confirmed" tablet.

According to McGraw-Hill CEO Terry McGraw, Apple's tablet device will run a variant of the iPhone mobile operating system, which lends credence to the idea of an updated iPhone OS announcement Wednesday.

On Monday, analytics firm Flurry released statistics that possible tablet prototypes were being used on Apple's campus running iPhone OS 3.2, an unreleased version of Apple mobile operating system. This means that rumors of the tablet running iPhone OS 4.0 could be off base.



16 Comments

amac4me 19 Years · 282 comments

So it's not only partners and complementors that let tid bits slip about new product releases. This one's on Apple

aduzik 18 Years · 94 comments

That iOS video is a fake. In the Apple world, light sources always come from directly above, so that drop shadow at an angle is totally wrong.

robin huber 22 Years · 4026 comments

Graphics conventions aside, this name change is very consistent with how Apple has worked in the past when a name no longer quite applies to new realities. Apple Computer became Apple Inc. There is another great example, but I just can't retrieve it from my aging memory banks at present. A little help from others?

jaketherock 18 Years · 275 comments

Quote:
Originally Posted by aduzik

That iOS video is a fake. In the Apple world, light sources always come from directly above, so that drop shadow at an angle is totally wrong.

I would bet that it is in fact not fake. How many people called fake on those Mac Mini pictures, and that video leaked last year? It looks very much like something Apple would do.

EDIT: And the video seems to be gone as of this moment, but maybe that's on my end.....