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That’s what the iPhone Dev-Team are promising. Let’s see. [via Wired blogs]

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As evidenced by my recent post history, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the upcoming iPhone OS 3.0, Apple’s rumored “netbook” device, and generally evaluating Apple’s products from a product design perspective.

Although Apple’s revenues are driven largely by hardware sales, it’s the software running on that hardware that actually delivers the value. After all, Apple doesn’t have exclusive access to any hardware components that aren’t also available, in some form, to their competitors. Sure, there are some chips they create in-house, but these components certainly have direct competitors in the market. A variety of vendors produce comparable touch-screen technology, graphics chip sets, and the rest.

Apple has long touted software quality as their products’ key differentiator, and they’ve been aggressively developing their operating system (I’ll delve deeper into this particular term later on) as the centerpiece of their software ecosystem.

This common software code base is presently powering Macs, iPhones, iPod Touch, and even Apple TV.

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I’m going to call my prediction a bust.

While technically managed to I land a 50/50 hit rate on my specific feature predictions, I had predicted that — when all was said and done — today’s announcements will have revealed features that declaratively positioned the iPhone OS as a capable netbook OS product.

Specifically, I was really expecting the application switcher, so I was a bit bummed.

In retrospect, however, this doesn’t conform to known Apple announcement behavior. Neither to their secretive practices, nor to their marketing talent for focusing with razor-sharp clarity on a particular message.

Today was about the product they have on the market: the iPhone.

The announced features all basically add up specifically towards making the iPhone a better smart phone.

That said, many of the features announced today will certainly contribute towards a wonderful netbook product. I’ll discuss which ones in a later post — stay tuned.

18 Mar @ 01:26: After having personally watched the Spotlight demo portion of the video, I’m going to actually award myself a half-point on the arrival of a new application launcher; Spotlight’s search results lead with apps whose name contain the search text.

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So here’s the very first of what I’m sure will be many Apple announcement predictions I shall make on Uncarved.

Rather than get carried away nitpicking on specific features that will or will not be announced, however, I will instead offer a prediction about what I anticipate to wind up being the the common thread to them; their long term purpose.

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