iPhone 3.0

A lot of stuff is starting to circulate about Apple’s event tomorrow afternoon that’ll showcase the iPhone 3.0 software.  Information has come out that makes copy and paste almost a certainty in the new software, which is amazing.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to copy something from the web and paste it into a text message or something.  Finally, we’ll be able to do that.  Props to Apple for doing it, though they should probably get slapped on the hand for waiting 2 years to do it.

What was interesting though was something I read on The Apple Blog.  There’s a lot of rumors about MMS and background services as well.  In the last few hours though, people are starting to say that they’re hearing less about it and it may not be in the 3.0 software.  Same thing about video recording.  Some bloggers have even gone so far as to say that they’ll have to consider other phones if iPhone 3.0 doesn’t have MMS, background services and video recording.  First of all, to those fools, you’re not going to find a better phone.  Period.  Second, just because it isn’t in the SDK doesn’t mean it isn’t in the next generation iPhone.

Let’s stop and think about this for a second.  The SDK is the public API that developers use to create their own applications.  What if Apple decides that they don’t want every app being able to record video?  Does that mean they can’t develop their own application?  Take MMS.  Do you really think Apple is going to let anyone jump in and create MMS apps?  Absolutely not, because AT&T is going to charge for MMS.  Just because it isn’t in the SDK does that mean it isn’t in the phone?  Absolutely not.  Let’s remember folks, tomorrow is a software preview, not some preview of the new iPhone.  You have to separate the two because they aren’t interchangable any more.