Gizmodo: Here's What's New in iTunes 9.2 (coming)

[kjk]

http://gizmodo.com/5557804/heres-whats-new-in-itunes-92

iTunes 9.2 comes with several new features and improvements, including:
• Sync with iPhone 4 to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on-the-go
• Sync and read books with iPhone or iPod touch with iPhone OS 4 and iBooks 1.1
• Organize and sync PDF documents as books. Read PDFs with iBooks 1.1 on iPad and any iPhone or iPod touch with iPhone OS 4
• Organize your apps on your iPhone OS 4 home screens into folders using iTunes
• Faster back-ups while syncing an iPhone or iPod touch with iPhone OS 4
• Performance improvements make scrolling much faster

I wonder if the iPad gets iOS 4.0 in addition to iBooks 1.1 and iTunes 9.2. It was my understanding the next iPad OS upgrade was later this fall.


And damn, where is the iBooks browser in iTunes? I'd love to check the formatting on a book before sending it to the iPad.

[scottjl]

sounds like they'll release an update to ibooks on the ipad when the new itunes hits, which is probably when the new iphone itself is released.

[Fotoman]

As to iOS 4.0 for the iPad, the last official word I heard on that was that it would not come to the iPad until sometime this fall... why the delay I don't know.

[scottjl]

the team that developed the ipad is different than the team that developed the iphone. they made many changes to 3.1 into 3.2 which the ipad ships with, these changes were not backwards compatible. so apple basically forked iOS between the devices.

i would guess they are taking the extra time to bring those changes back to iOS and prevent having two different development lines in the future. since it is just a software update they could release it as soon as it's ready, or drag it out until christmas.

[Fotoman]

Originally Posted by scottjl

the team that developed the ipad is different than the team that developed the iphone...

That is so Microsoftian of them "Hey Zune, meet Vista...crash"

That makes sense though.

[scottjl]

i don't know why.. i only know what i read in developer blogs. i'm guessing at some point apple had to fork off 3.1 for the engineers to ready an OS for the iPad's different hardware, meanwhile they created 3.1.1.. 3.1.2.. 3.1.3.. for the iphone. they certainly couldn't put iphone development on hold for a year or so while they tweaked the ipad os and in the meantime were working on 4.0.

[tyche]

The iPad will get iOS 4 but that was supposed to be later. So.... is iBooks 1.1 available for iPad users with OS 3.2 or do we have to wait until iOS 4 is ready? It didn't seem that clear but I get the feeling iBooks 1.1 is tied to iOS 4.

[kjk]

Originally Posted by tyche

The iPad will get iOS 4 but that was supposed to be later. So.... is iBooks 1.1 available for iPad users with OS 3.2 or do we have to wait until iOS 4 is ready? It didn't seem that clear but I get the feeling iBooks 1.1 is tied to iOS 4.

Yeah, it is confusing. But I just watched the keynote, and Jobs said its coming this month.

[scottjl]

did jobs say it was coming to the ipad this month? i must have missed that part. he can be tricky, if he didn't specifically say the ipad it might not be available to us this month. would be a disaster.

[kjk]

Originally Posted by scottjl

did jobs say it was coming to the ipad this month? i must have missed that part. he can be tricky, if he didn't specifically say the ipad it might not be available to us this month. would be a disaster.

Yes! Well, it was in the iPad iBooks demo part, not the iPhone iBooks demo part.

I thought the idea of packaging iBooks as an app was to be able to separate it from iOS updates, and give them more flexibility with releases. But, maybe it was more of a way to give the semblance of fairness with other eBook apps-giving them more of an equal footing......nah..


edit: here is the quote, via Engadget: "10:11AM "So PDF viewing built right in. That enhancement will be out later this month. So that is my update for the iPad."