All you need to know from the iPhone event...

19/03/09 12:59

Here is a run-down of the announcements from the iPhone 3.0 event this week:

iPhone now on sale in 80 countries, with China being probably the biggest gap right now.
13.7m iPhones sold in 2008
17m iPhones sold to end of 2008
iPhone and iPod touch run iPhone OS- so 30m devices now run this OS
800,000 downloads of iPhone SDK
50,000 iPhone developers now signed up to Apple Developer program
60% did not develop for Apple before this

iPhone update plugs many gaps

19/03/09 12:42

The new iPhone operating system, based on Mac OS X, was previewed this week at a special Apple event held in Cupertino. Version 3.0 promises many new features, 100 according to Apple. Some of these are very welcome and fill gaps which we had hoped would be filled soon.

iPhone OS 3.0