Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Not all Windows-using iPhone 2G owners will be happy to do this, as many who have jailbroken their iPhones love using some apps, but given 2.1’s immediate speed-boost benefits, I’d rather 2.1 now, and jailbreaking just days later.
So... Apple has finally made good on the 2.0 promise, taking just over two months from 2.0’s original release to do so.
That’s pretty quick time if you ask me, and while it sure was a pain to have waited so “long” in our age of instant Internet gratification, the update has come at last.
Yes, we’re still waiting for those promised “push notifications” to come in a future firmware update.
And we’re still waiting to cut, copy and paste, something that the cool little MagicPad paid app from the official App Store shows can be quite easily done.
It was only a few dollars and is great fun to show to anyone who complains the iPhone lacks this feature. Sure, it only works in the MagicPad app, and not throughout the entire iPhone OS. But work it does, and it makes the inbuilt Notes app look even more basic than it already is.
It’s just a shame that MagicPad doesn’t allow synchronisation to your computer, a feature I keep harping on about with Notes, and something I’ll keep harping on about until Apple makes synchronisation standard.
Improving the calendar app to allow ongoing notifications of appointments is something that’s still missing, too, but we can live in hope that Apple will eventually address this when it deems calendaring and personal organisation important enough to actually do something about.
But with stability down pat, at least in this latest update, we can only hope that Apple is now focusing more on “features” than it is on “fixes”, of which there have been a lot of late, with iTunes 8 and MobileMe the two most glaring examples (besides iPhone OS 2.0.x) that immediately come to mind.
iPhone OS 2.1: Apple finally delivers the real iFix, therefore we can all happily iPhone once more. Thank God... er... Steve Jobs and his programmers... for that!
David Bass
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