![]() When you exit the app, you no longer know if you're receiving more messages. What does this do? Let's say you're running a 3rd party IM (instant message) client on iPhone 2.0. ![]() (Note, the following are screen captures from the iPhone 3.0 Sneak Peek event, not screen shots from live beta apps).Īlthough not strictly an App Store update, Apple also announced (again) their Push Notification Service. Subscriptions, for their part, seem to work just like In-App Purchases, with the pop-up advising you are purchasing X issues of Y content for Z dollars. If you want to charge more later, you have to charge at least something up front. Why $0.99? To avoid user confusion, Apple won't let developers sell additional content to apps they gave away for free. It's not a demo, it's not shareware, but it does let developers do low cost of entry content for users to try before the buy. Buy the low-price of entry into version, and if you like it, buy more. Yes, Apple just invented the $0.99 scaleware model. This can also work to buy additional levels or extra content in games, and theoretically map packs for navigation apps, etc. If you choose to buy another E-Book, the same type of iTunes confirmation and password requester will pop up as when you buy a stand-alone app, and the same iTunes-side billing and processing happen. ![]() With 3.0, a developer can now sell you an E-Book Reader app, and inside that app, they can sell you the individual E-Books. This led to dozens upon dozens of apps that were just more books, or otherwise variations on the same functionality with different content. By way of example, if you previously wanted commercial E-Books, a developer had to wrap a reader app around each E-Book, and then sell each E-Book as a separate app on the App Store. The other changes to the App Store, as they pertain to users, aren't currently visible in the beta as they depend on two new functions rolled out to developers: In-App Purchase and Subscription Purchase. If you use it, the picture is then shown, thumbnail-sized, inside a typical bubble. If you take a photo, a Preview screen will appear asking if you want to Retake the photo or Use it. Take Photo brings up the Camera app while Use Existing launches the Photo picker. When the camera icon is there, tapping on it will bring up a requester asking you to select between Take Photo, Use Existing, or Cancel. Whether this will eventually become uniform or not on release, or whether it will still vary from carrier to carrier depending on which choose to support it, we have no idea (though we obviously hope for the former). For example, some installs show a camera icon to the left of the text entry field for selecting a picture, while on others it's completely absent. Not all 3.0 iPhones on all carriers seem to surface MMS functionality yet either. Not all carriers seem to have MMS enabled on their end yet, some do, and some error out. The details of MMS vary carrier to carrier. It allows, in the case of the new iPhone OS 3.0 software, for pictures, vCards (contacts), audio, and location to be sent using the Messages interface to any other smartphone or feature-phone that supports MMS and those file types. Messages replaces SMS as the top left-most app on the Home Screen, and is renamed to signify the addition of MMS (multi-media messaging service). Since Spotlight is integrated into SpringBoard, the Dock is revealed along with the results so you can quickly launch any of your four docked apps (Phone, Mail, Safari, and iPod still being the defaults) as well. Hitting the Search button on the keyboard will slide it away and give you full screen results. At any point, you can tap on a Spotlight search result to launch the app and/or take you to the resulting content within an app. As you type, results begin to popular, narrowing as you refine your search term. ![]() Spotlight starts with a blacked-out screen with a search box on top and the portrait keyboard on the bottom (no landscape mode for Spotlight thus far). (Yes, clicking Home will toggle you back and forth between those two screens). When on the Spotlight Screen, you can return the main/primary Home Screen by swiping back from right to left, or clicking the Home Button again. You can access Spotlight from the main/primary Home Screen by swiping from left to right, or by clicking the Home Button. Apple re-purposes the name and icon here for a new, system-wide iPhone search feature that serves up Contact names, App names, iPod media file names, Email headers (from, to, and subject), and Calendar event names. On the Mac, Spotlight is the system-wide indexing and search feature that allows you to find files by scouring through metadata and text strings. However, there's now an equally tiny magnifying glass icon to the left of them. There are still tiny dots that signify your additional app screen.
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