• 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
• Gameloft have sold 2m paid downloads through App Store
• 96% of apps submitted are approved by Apple
• 98% of apps are approved in 7 days or less
• 800 million downloads from the App Store, in 8 months
• 25,000 apps now available
• 1000 new APIs for developers in 3.0
• 70% of revenue goes to developer
• 30% to Apple- Apple pay all fees (e.g. credit card fees)
• subscriptions to be available on App Store- e.g. magazine/newspaper content, eBooks, or game levels. This will be called "In App Purchase"
• no In Apps Purchases inside free apps
• Peer to Peer in 3.0- you can play games against people in your area- over Bluetooth- no pairing required
• Bonjour technology underpins this- automatic discovery
• accessory manufacturers can now build an app to control their hardware
• medical devices manufacturers can build apps to record readings, blood pressure, glucose etc
• Google Maps will be available to new apps, and can be embedded in the app
• Apple don't allow apps to run in background as they drain battery by 80%
• push notifications are to be allowed in apps in 3.0
• notifications can be badges, noises or text alerts
• all apps must use Apple notification service- not use their own system
• emails can be sent from inside an app
• data detectors come to 3.0
• iPod music library available inside other apps
• contacts can be sent to other people using vcf attachments
• you can send more than one photo at a time in 3.0
• copy and paste in 3.0- shake the iPhone to undo/redo
• landscape in now available in all key apps: Mail, Notes, SMS
• MMS available on iPHone 3G with 3.0
• contacts in vcf, photos, audio files, Locations can all be sent as MMS
• Apple have added Voice memos app to 3.0- accepts external microphone if required
• memos can be trimmed, then emailed or sent over MMS
• CalDav added to iPhone calendar app plus subscription calendars
• news headlines and detail added to Stocks app
• search added to all key apps: Mail allows search on your server as well as on phone
• iPod, calendar, notes also allow search
• search is called Spotlight- like in OS X, and is to left of home screen on iPhone
• shake to shuffle on iPhone- similar to shuffle
• auto login to WiFi networks
• stereo Bluetooth available
• autofill and anti-phishing now in Safari on iPhone
• parental controls included
• more languages included
• you can login to a YouTube account
• AppStore in 62 countries, and this is to increase to 77 countries
• 3.0 free to all iPhone 3G and iPhone customers- some features such as MMS will not work on original iPhone
• 3.0 will be $9.95 for iPhone touch customers

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