Kevin Rose jumped on Facebook video (login to Facebook required) to basically confirm what he said previously about copy and paste, saying it would be across apps, with cut available as well in those apps that support it (?).
He also confirmed hearing MMS would be enabled from multiple sources, something he said he didn’t know previously.
A third, unidentified rumor was mentioned but not elaborated on as Rose said he had conflicting sources.
That was it from Rose, though hopefully not from Apple. Just over 12 hours from now we’ll find out for sure!
UPDATED 2: As commenters have pointed out, Rose doesn’t say “no MMS”, he says he doesn’t know about MMS. He does say Apple is not providing Video Recording due to technical limitations: writing too frequently to the NAND Flash memory would burn it out. (While it’s true writing to NAND is destructive and thus, there are limited write cycles, Dieter tells us devices like the HTC Touch Diamond and Sumsung Omnia allow writing to internal storage, so who knows?). Basically, the gist of Rose’s rumor is that iPhone 3.0 will have Cut/Copy and Paste, and “Palm Pre”-like features…
UPDATE: MacRumors has posted slightly clearer details on Rose’s description of how cut/copy and paste works, along with a link to the video (NSFW-L):
Double-tap to bring up a magnifying glass with two quotes, you drag quotes around text string to select, and then you can cut/copy and paste.
ORIGINAL: Kevin’s back. Back again. Digging iPhone rumors. Tell ya friends! Not iChat Mobile this time, unfortunately, but Gizmodo is reporting that during his SXSW live Diggnation, Kevin Rose – who’s flubbed almost all iPhonerumors, but nailed iTunes and iPod nano scoops — put it on the line again for iPhone 3.0 pre-Preview Event:
Cut and paste (as previously rumored) using double-tap to zoom and activate, pinch boundaries, then options pop up.
“Palm Pre” features. (Could that be integrated social network contacts, unified messaging, better notifications, multi-tasking?)
Yup, Kevin Rose is back, back again, this time with a sneak peak at Qik for the iPhone, the online video broadcasting App that everyone and their Twitter-feed was “going live” with on the Nokia N95 last year.
Not a jailbreak, but a real honest-to-Steveness App Store application, Kevin says it will be available soon. We say… will Apple approve it? And if they do, what will it say having internet broadcast video capability on a device that still lacks support for local video recording?
Who knows? As Dieter points out, Apple’s cagey approval/rejection process is still incomprehensible.
Qik looks to be One Sweet App, however, and we can’t wait for it to “go live.” Can you?
Yeah, I know, I hear ya. But Kevin Rose did totally nail iTunes 8, so why not listen to what the founder of Digg, Revision 3, and Pownce has to say about the iTunes 9 Social? And hey, if it doesn’t pan out, we can all go back to hating on his predictions, b’okay?
Tops on his “idea of the month” list for iTunes 9?
Get everyone’s music info into existing Social Networks, then import it into iTunes
Smart Friends. Example: “Any new artist listened to more than 10x by friend [name]“
Jukebox Live! All your friends can contribute to and share a common “radio station” on the local network.
You know what? Those aren’t half bad! Listen to the full explanations in the video, and let Kevin (and us!) know what you think!
Kevin Rose, bound by vengeance to clear his name of false rumors past, has been laying the veritable smack down on Apple’s “Let’s Rock” Event. It’s like he’s got Phil Schiller on the Bat-iPhone or something.
The latest? The above mock up of what iTunes 8.0’s interface will look like, along with a roundup of rumors thus far. Maybe he’ll digg his way out of this yet! (Har!)
Meanwhile, Apple Insider is reporting that some users might have sneaked a copy of an early, pre-release iTunes 8.0 download. Nothing much there to substantiate it yet, but we all remember people getting iPhone 2.0 early last time, so who knows?
Kevin Rose rumored a newer, trip’ier, more galactic iTunes visualizer, and now according to MacRumors, he’s confirmed where it comes from:
Magnetosphere had been available as a free download from the developer’s site until a few months ago. The author has since responded to an inquiry by Allan White that the plug-in had been “sold to a third party”.
Since CoverFlow was acquired by Apple and integrated into iTunes (before progressing into Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard’s Finder file browser — and the iPhone!), this certainly has precedence.
Update: Kevin Rose has a new blog post up, with some additional info:
iTunes 8 includes Genius, which makes playlists from songs in your library that go great together. Genius also includes Genius sidebar, which recommends music from the iTunes Store that you don’t already have.
With iTunes 8, browse your artists and albums visually with the new Grid view; download your favorite TV shows in HD quality from the iTunes Store; sync your media with iPod nano (4th generation), iPod classic (2nd generation), and iPod touch (2nd generation); and enjoy a stunning new music visualizer.
Welcome to the first in a new series from TiPb, where we take the often outlandish, sometime surreal predictions of iPhone analysts and pundits, blogeratti and the ‘net elite, and compare them to the potentially equally precise prognostications of a… magic 8-ball (running on an iPhone, of course!)
This edition kicks off with Gene Munster, who boldly states Apple will sell 13 million iPhone 3Gs this year, and 45 million next.
Magic 8-ball? “Most likely”
Next up we have Diggster Kevin Rose, with a multitude of maybes:
Apple Event on September 9th? “Very doubtful”
Firmware 2.1 debuting on sleeker iPod Touch? “Most likely”
iTunes 8 with music recommendations? “Cannot predict now”
New, candy-bar Nano with rounded widescreen? “It is certain”
Massive iPod price drops across the line? “Don’t count on it”
Following up his big blog rumor-fest with an appearance on This Week in Tech (TWiT), Kevin Rose filled in a few details, including that the supposed new Nano, face-lifted iPod Touch, and 2.1 firmware (presumably) would drop on September 9 at a Special Apple Event (or perhaps that the invitation for the special event would be issued on the 9th, it wasn’t crystal clear).
In addition, when bullied by Laporte and Dvorak, Rose — who said he feared criticism if he were wrong — revealed that one of the major new features in iTunes 8 could be song recommendations, perhaps similar to how Pandora or Last.fm work. He also said he’d heard the iTunes Unlimited subscription rumor was false.
Is Rose dead wrong? Startlingly right? We’ll know for sure in a few weeks!
Internet superstar Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, Pownce, and Revision3 has a… er… spottyrecord at best when it comes to iPhone speculation. Still, we give him full marks for getting back on that rumor horse once again. This time, Kevin’s saying he knows that sometime before the end of September we’ll see:
Firmware 2.1, debuting on the iPod Touch (which will get a minor facelift).
iTunes 8.0 with “new features and functionality” he can’t get into.
Price drops along the iPod line to keep them competitive with iPhone’s $199
Rounded wide-screen nano, back in candy-bar form factor
Mac OS X 10.5.6 to feature Blu-Ray support.
Rose, who’s locked in a battle with Barak Obama and Leo Laporte for the crown of top Twitter’er, asks that we follow him there, or on his own platform, Pownce, for more updates.
Our take? Last year’s big pre-holiday Apple event introduced the iPod Touch, which debuted the new 1.1 firmware, including the WiFi Music Store, so that’s quite possible. iTunes 8.0 is more opaque, however. If App Store integration wasn’t a big enough marketing excuse to make the full point jump to iTunes 8.0, what would it take? (7.0, for example, added CoverFlow and iPod Games).
iPod price drops before the biggest selling season of the year make sense, as Apple dropped the iPhone $200 at last years event. Likewise a new Nano.
Blu-Ray support — if it’s to include BD movie playback — is a bigger nut to crack, however, because the short sighted industry killers in Hollywood demands HDCP DRM compliance (i.e. hardware enforced, digital rights managed copy protection) over the full path, from player, through cables and graphic cards, into the monitor — and in the OS. This caused a bit of an internet brouhaha when Microsoft “caved” for Vista. Laptops and the iMac would be far easier to implement, but is there business advantage enough for Steve Jobs to feel like doing it?
