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Just in case you missed today’s Apple “It’s Only Rock and Roll” special event, here’s what was announced:

-Steve Jobs back on the keynote scene, appears on stage
-iPhone 3.1 including Genius in App Store, released today for free
-Genius improvements
-iTunes 9, download today
-home sharing and improved syncing , share library with up to 5 home computers
-manage apps from iTunes
-redesigned iTunes Store
-share iTunes on Twitter and Facebook
-iTunes LP: new in-depth interactive album browsing with lyrics and photos
-iTunes Extra: like LP, but for movies, includes DVD-like features, chapter selection
-32 GB and 64 GB iPod Touch
-OpenGL ES 2.0 added to touch devices
-160 GB iPod Classic
-new colorful iPod Shuffle, $59 for 2 GB
-…one more thing. Brand new iPod Nan0 with video and mic built-in, 2.2 in. screen, one click YouTube upload, also FM Radio, VoiceOver and Voice Recorder, available in 8 GB and 16 GB, tons of beautiful colors, available today

iPhone OS 3.0 is old news. How do we know it’s old news? One, everyone’s already talking about iPhone 3.1. Two, it has been released for more than fifteen seconds.

So, with iPhone 3.0 out of the way, what are you looking forward to in the next major software upgrade?

Here are some potential future applications, based on Apple patents.

Apple is slugging along with their newest developer release of iPhone 3.1. Seems like Steve Jobs is running a much tighter ship than maestro Cook. Many of the major issues of 3.0 (which probably wouldn’t of been there in the first place if it were up to El Jobso) have been fixed. Here is a list of  improvements dredged up by developers.

Non-destructive video editing means trimming a clip no longer saves over the original video but gives you the option to “Save as copy…”

Options for MMS are back on AT&T, but not sending or receiving.

Voice Control now works over Bluetooth

iPhone vibrates when moving icons

Updated AT&T profile to 4.2

Updated modem firmware to 5.08.01

Improvements to OpenGL and Quartz.

APIs to allow third party apps to access videos and edit them.

More is sure to come soon. So stay tuned. On that note, what else do you think needs fixing?

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