Happy iPhone OS 3.0 day, everybody!

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June 17, 2009, 10:08 PM — There was your Inside The Cult blogger, innocently sitting in front of his computer surfing the Internet as was his wont, when suddenly the headlines in the "Apple" folder of my RSS reader started lighting up. iPhone OS 3.0 was ... available! Quickly I downloaded the update into iTunes, plugged in my phone, and, about 25 minutes and a few server-is-busy error messages later, I was IN! IPHONE OS 3.0! WOOO!
Yeah. Well, it the end, it wasn't that exciting. Safari was, despite rumors, not noticeably faster. Spotlight is nice enough, though the mechanics of actually getting to it baffled me for a few minutes -- it sort of acts like another application screen to the left of your initial apps screen, and you can also toggle between the initial apps screen and Spotlight by hitting the home button. And cut and paste? Well, it's great and all, but it seems to have eliminated the ability to move the cursor into the middle of a word if you're typing -- you used to be able to do so by tapping where you wanted the cursor to be, but now that highlights whatever the word you typed is.
If you want more concrete walkthroughs of everything shiny and new, the the iPhone blog has a good one. And in other iPhone news, it appears that AT&T has responded to incessant whining by expanding the list of who's eligible for iPhone upgrades, and John Kerry is going to get to the bottom of this whole "exclusive handset deal" business.
Oh, and just so you don't think that I was totally unimpressed by iPhone OS 3.0's cut-and-paste functionality, I just want to let you know that I've published this blog post ... from my iPhone! No, I didn't type it all in on the virtual keyboard (that way lies madness), but I did email it to myself and then (you guessed it) cut and paste it into ITworld.com's Web publishing interface. (As an added bonus, Safari now remembers my password, if for some bizarre reason I want to pull this stunt again.)

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Josh Fruhlinger is a writer and editor who lives in Baltimore.

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