Me too. The tethering would be nice. But I'll be happy with the cut/paste and automatic logins at Starbucks.

Flash is very unlikely to happen unless Adobe removes their head from their ass. I'm not holding my breath.

Me having a Ipod Touch, I see not much difference x.x

I would like them to drop code signing on the non-cellular iPod Touch. I understand such things are the reality of today's wireless carriers, but that they lock down the iPod Touch as well kinda makes me not really want one.

I'd love to play with it, program for it, maybe (but the no-frameworks rule kinda puts me off, I like cross-platform coding), but code signing on a device without connections to a cell phone carrier is bullshit.

Yes, jailbreak, I know, but that anything I do, in order to not be 100% useless, will require someone to "hack" their phone/handheld is pointless. There's so much else out there for me to do and play with that doesn't require that.

Ah, yes.. the hoi polloi have 3.0 now. =:)

Obviously, there's a pile of new stuff in there, but I admit, I don't find myself using all that many of the new features - landscape keyboard works fine, but I find the distance between the keys a bit too much for fast typing; better might be an option to add a numeric pad to the side, and a few punctuation marks, spaced as per the portrait layout. Tethering seems to work nicely (though I only tried sharing my WiFi over Bluetooth), but with the iPhone, I don't actually carry Hyzenthlay around casually any more.

The age restrictions could be a good thing, in that we'll see the maximum age ratings of apps creep upwards - S&O Issue 1 is rated 17 for various aspects, though I suppose we're not yet at the point of getting adult works. (Though there's obviously nothing to stop such comics being sold as PDFs, completely outside the purview of the App Store and its T&Cs)

Spotlight's pretty neat - very easy to find an app or track that way, and even have more apps than 11 pages of icons will accommodate, though I do wish they'd introduced some better method of managing icons, even if not a hierarchical system. As is, if you like having sets of pages reflect different app themes (music, puzzle games, racers, language guides, etc), it's that tedious process of having to drag icons one by one to their preferred locations.

Proper access to Bluetooth and USB should make for some fun in the coming months. Not sure if anything's changed on the video API front - I recall a couple game devs showing off their title running off an external monitor quite happily, but using an unsupported API. Would be nice to see that become a normal option.

Can't say I've actually used cut & paste much, but they certainly did a lovely job implementing it.

No <video> tag in Mobile Safari, which would've been fun. =:) Not sure about the SVG stuff - might be a bit heavyweight for the device's memory constraints.

Pity the voice recognition stuff is only on the 3GS - that's quite a nice feature. There've been a few times I've come across a new song in a playlist, and being able to just ask the phone what I'm listening to would've been more convenient than pulling out the phone.

Overall, a pretty solid update. Nothing to set the world on fire, but I dare say there'll be one or more of the above that'll really please more than a few people, especially tethering.

I don't care if there's reports of the update making the phone erupt in flames, the second I get home this bad boy is getting 3.0 put on!

PS Rogers/Fido are allowing free tethering for current customers with a monthly data plan over 1GB. We finally have something better than the US! Bluetooth tethering to my phone + EeePC = sexytime anywhere I have digital service. It's like a personal cloud of connectivity in my pocket! :D

Cut & paste is nice, search mailbox is nice, safari keychain is nice... but the big news to me is push notification. Once the apps start rolling in with push capability, it's really going to make the platform shine.

What

Cut and Paste?

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