iPhone OS 4.0 beta 2 it's been available for about 4 days and those who have tested it so far have been less than happy with how Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), "solved" the problems of the version beta 1 which proved to be much better and more stable than the version beta 2.
At first, some struggled to update to the beta 2 version because the first attempt resulted in an error (I suffered the same when I installed beta 1); then Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), fixed the bugs so well that now the Camera application hardly works at all, most of the time when you try to take a picture the application closes automatically and does not restart until the next restart; the screenshot function no longer works, the animation appears on the screen when you take the picture, but the pictures are no longer saved in the phone; and a rather worrying thing: many users of iPhone 3G and a few of iPhone 3GS they reported that the system moves much harder than in beta 1.
The fact that iPhone OS 4.0 beta 2 it moves much harder than beta 1 could be the first step it took Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), to "force" users to switch to the new model iPhone. Last year iPhone 2G / 3G they were going quite hard with iPhone OS 3.0 since the release of the final version, and when Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), took out iPhone 3GS the difference in speed was obvious and I suspect that this year they will adopt exactly the same strategy, but considering that iPhone 2G will not see iPhone OS 4.0, iPhone 3G / 3GS will be those that will be intentionally limited by Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), to force the transition to iPhone OS 4.0.
Another disturbing thing at iPhone OS 4.0 it's multitasking, leaving aside the fact that it doesn't work perfectly at the moment, the way it does Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), thought to implement the task manager for displaying/closing open applications was thought totally wrong. In the iPhone OS 4.0 to close an application open in the background you have to press and hold on it in the list of applications in the task manager until they all start to "move" and a small button appears in the upper left to close them, and after you close an application you have to to repeat this process for each individual application. Believe me, you will get bored very quickly with the way Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), thought this whole thing, I know I have.
It's not long until WWDC and I hope that Apple solves all its problems, otherwise I don't see them very well.
