iTunes 8.2 Released
iTunes 8.2 was released with the major update offering support for the iPhone 3.0 operating system. I have been a registered iPhone developer for some time, so I have been playing with the new iTunes while in beta.
iTunes hasn’t changed too much, which I was a little disappointed. I would like to see some development with the management of the Applications. You can make Playlists for music – but you can’t sort Applications in iTunes other than it’s default alphabetic. I love the iPhone, but I want a mouse when I have 8-9 pages of Apps on my phone that I want to sort. Matt with usrlocal.com posted that after he restored his configuration from before the beta upgrade, the order of the applications on your iPhone are not saved to iTunes. So, if you spent a good amount of times getting all those apps in the right spot, currently those apps will go back to default order. I will be upgrading my phone with the release as soon as it comes out – so I will report if this is still true out of beta, but I have a sneaky feeling it will act the same.
With the iTunes update coming out this week – it is looking very good that the iPhone 3.0 will be annoced at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference next week. Rumor has it, that Steve Jobs will be there as well. I do hope he will show up for this important release (and also a release of a Apple Tablet? Hmm….)