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ChronicProductions
03-08-2008, 07:53 PM
Sorry if the formatting is a little weird, but this was just ripped from Notepad when I wrote it.

-NO, it is not really 2.0, it is 1.2

-Bundle name is not "LittleBear", it is "Aspen"

-SDK made apps are a little different than the stock apps. Apart from being in a different directory, they are somewhat like webclips. You hold your finger down on the icon, tap the little 'x', and an "Uninstall Application" dialog appears asking if you would like to uninstall the application

-The frameworks are A LOT different than previous versions. If it gets jailbroken, most apps will definitely have to be rewritten

NEW FEATURE FOUND: There are now parental controls in Settings.

They allow you to control the following:
-Explicit songs on the iPod
-Safari use
-YouTube use
-iTunes Store use
-App Store use

More to come...
phloat
03-08-2008, 08:01 PM
hmm..

maybe the formating of the firmware is like :

(1. iphone model). ((1-2).firmware revision). ((1-4) firmware sub revision)

so that for example:

2.1.0 may refer to a new model iphone with its first revision of firmware

so that all current iphones (ie model 1) would have 1.x.x where 1.2.0 is the 2.0 we are expecting in the summer
ChronicProductions
03-08-2008, 08:03 PM
hmm..

maybe the formating of the firmware is like :

(1. iphone model). ((1-2).firmware revision). ((1-4) firmware sub revision)

so that for example:

2.1.0 may refer to a new model iphone with its first revision of firmware

so that all current iphones (ie model 1) would have 1.x.x where 1.2.0 is the 2.0 we are expecting in the summer

That very well could be.
bezman
03-08-2008, 08:03 PM
Sorry if the formatting is a little weird, but this was just ripped from Notepad when I wrote it.

-NO, it is not really 2.0, it is 1.2

-Bundle name is not "LittleBear", it is "Aspen"

-SDK made apps are a little different than the stock apps. Apart from being in a different directory, they are somewhat like webclips. You hold your finger down on the icon, tap the little 'x', and an "Uninstall Application" dialog appears asking if you would like to uninstall the application

-The frameworks are A LOT different than previous versions. If it gets jailbroken, most apps will definitely have to be rewritten

More to come...

cool info :) and i would like the ability to remove the app on the fly directly from the spring board. i briefly played with the SDK yesterday and do remember seeing references to Aspen, I created a simple RSS widget for my blog, didn't get as afar as testing it in the iphone simulator (that is sweet), but i ran it on my mac and it worked perfect, so if i can do that in a couple minutes, the developers are going to be doing great stuff.
ChronicProductions
03-08-2008, 09:54 PM
NEW FEATURE FOUND: There are now parental controls in Settings.

They allow you to control the following:
-Explicit songs on the iPod
-Safari use
-YouTube use
-iTunes Store use
-App Store use
ChronicProductions
03-08-2008, 10:14 PM
Just making note of this, I haven't looked into it really at all, but it looks like something will be able to be imported from iWork
SoLoR
03-08-2008, 10:55 PM
big question is! where you got it :) and can you share ? :P
The_Real_BigBuckz
03-09-2008, 12:14 AM
Did apple send you the beta 2.0 FW? or are these all assumptions?
SnakeDiver
03-09-2008, 12:22 AM
Did apple send you the beta 2.0 FW? or are these all assumptions?

Actually, these "assumptions" appear to have come from:


The Keynote on March 6th
The SDK Documentation
The Aspen Simulator within the SDK


As far as I know, Apple hasn't started releasing the 2.0FW beta to any applicants yet, but I could be wrong about that...

Cheers,
ChronicProductions
03-09-2008, 01:12 AM
Did apple send you the beta 2.0 FW? or are these all assumptions?

No offense, but how would I have found out about the Parental Controls feature purely from assuming? :)
The_Real_BigBuckz
03-09-2008, 01:15 AM
No offense, but how would I have found out about the Parental Controls feature purely from assuming? :)

True, now I feel like an idiot, lol

EDIT: got a copy which I can have a play with? They will not send me the beta just because I'm in the UK
ChronicProductions
03-09-2008, 01:36 AM
True, now I feel like an idiot, lol

EDIT: got a copy which I can have a play with? They will not send me the beta just because I'm in the UK

I don't have the beta per se, but the filesystem is included in the SDK. I would like to add that I also feel like an idiot, because I got an email with a zip of the filesystem from a hacker friend of mine, and I thought it was all top secret and that he somehow got the beta, then I found out in IRC that it was known.

EDIT:
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4066811/iPhone_SDK
^That's how I got it, if you have uTorrent or something like that. The site was being raped to death the other night so that was only way to get it.
ChronicProductions
03-09-2008, 03:18 AM
Just to update you all, I may have just found a way to get AppStore working. Will update you all as I progress...
cchance
03-09-2008, 05:39 AM
cool but what would be better is getting the 2.0 framework working on the 1.1 firmware so that we can run sdk apps on our current phones... perhaps a 2.0SDK via Installer.app :)

That would be sexy
cmufan
03-09-2008, 08:51 AM
Just to update you all, I may have just found a way to get AppStore working. Will update you all as I progress...

Man I can't even get it to show up, using the modmyifone download. How did they even get this? The AppStore that I found on mine was all gutted and stuff.
slimnickyy
03-09-2008, 01:10 PM
All of these findings are from the SDK within the Aspen simulator (iPhone simulator).

Developer > Platforms > AspenSimulator.platfrom > Developer > SDKs > AspenSimulator1.2.sdk > Applications and then right click on Preferences.app and view contents.

Open General.plist

You'll see two new links within it:

1) Parental control
2) Managed profiles

Within Parental Controls.plist you'll note all the settings mentioned above by the other poster. This simulator is exactly just that, however one would assume it's a mirror of what will be in 2.0.

In fact, here's what the parental controls look like enabled:
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/4751/parentalcontolsyc2.png
CycloneFr
03-09-2008, 01:46 PM
can u run a jailbroken app on 1.2?
saurabh
03-09-2008, 01:52 PM
yeah... thats the big question. Will it run Installer apps?
stich86
03-09-2008, 02:34 PM
yeah... thats the big question. Will it run Installer apps?

nope.. applications are compiled in intel version..
CycloneFr
03-09-2008, 03:51 PM
so it doesnt run .APP file right? but then what about iphone running firmware 1.2/.........
ChronicProductions
03-09-2008, 04:34 PM
The one I put up on MMi should at least show up on your SpringBoard, but not boot. I posted that one, because it's as far as I've gotten.

Slimnicky, have you managed to get Profiles to show up? I want to see what's within it, but I don't know how.

If anyone wants a bigger Preferences.app, just go to the place that slimnicky mentioned above, and the in Preferences.app, rename General-iPhone.plist to General-Simulator.plist, and then the same with Settings-iPhone.plist
slimnickyy
03-09-2008, 04:36 PM
No, profiles won't show for me either.