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Originally Posted by Vincent Ferrari
I have it on good authority that two of the upcoming features are going to make millions of people happy and shut millions of critics up. I can't say what they are, but when they hit, you'll know. This update is going to be huge for the iPhone and it cracks me up that they're announcing it now. This is going to put a major hurt on Palm and their Pre, something I'm actually sad about. The last thing Palm needed was Apple trotting out another iPhone OS right before their "big day."
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The only two features that would make critics happy and shut me up would be shared storage (with the associated boon of copy/paste) and background processing / multitasking. So, I'm going to assume that your source means these. Otherwise, I'll go somewhere that lets me listen to Pandora and read email and receive twitter updates at the same time.
I actually don't think it'll do all that much bad to Pre sales. The iPhone marketplace, at least here in the US, is pretty saturated...short of dropping these down to free with a contract. For the majority of folks here in the states, it is mostly about which carrier works best for you. Folks who use Sprint and can't/won't use AT&T will choose the Pre. Folks who use Verizon the Blackberries. Etc. Sure, there are some (like those on these blogs) who jump to the coolest gadget and continued iPhone improvements will undoubtedly make the Pre less groundbreaking, but it'll still have a following and still has some features that I really doubt Apple will integrate. The free universal contacts/email concept is one that would draw me for sure...if Sprint didn't suck so badly here. This would bite into MobileMe revenues, and thus would probably be a non-starter.