8 Misses in Apple iPhone 4

Apple iPhone 4 is here! The latest upgrade to Apple iPhone claims to have added several new features. But does the fourth-generation iPhone fulfills the long over due wishlist of iPhone users?

While iPhone 4, grants the long-time demand of multitasking in iPhone, it still leaves some users disappointed on other fronts.

Here are eight things missing in Apple iPhone 4.

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HTML 5 Demos – Shame on Apple

Being interested in HTML 5, I navigated to Apple’s shiny new HTML 5 showcase – and here is what I see.
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Fanboi’s Delight – The Top Ten Free iPad Apps

Either you just bought an iPad and you wallet is now depleted, you’re thinking of buying one and you’d like to know how you can stuff it with apps for zero dollars, or you’re simply curious about how free iPad apps compare with free iPhone apps.

Or you’re merely intrigued by the whole media-fed iPad hysteria. In any case, The Reg is here to help.

We installed and tested dozens of the most attractive – and free – iPad apps available on the iTunes App Store, and chose the ten that best show off the iPad’s advantages over its smaller-screened sibling. Some – most, actually – are apps that already exist in iPhone form, but which have done a fine job of exploiting the iPad’s expanded acreage.

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Content Providers Bringing HTML5 for iPhone OS Users

As Apple prepares their stores for the iPad launch at the end of this week, more and more content providers are taking action to adjust for the ever increasing amount of iPhone OS users that won’t have Flash to view their content.

Brightcove announced today that they will be bringing HTML5 video through H.264 for their partners to seamlessly deliver video content to the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad. Their largest partners, The New York Times and Time Magazine, are reported to already be on board to deliver video content to the aforementioned devices.

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[Am curious - Does content include games? Can games be written with HTML5?]

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German Publisher in Row with Apple Over Pin-ups in iPhone App

The International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP) is considering making a complaint to Apple over the computer firm’s request that German publisher Springer censor the naked girls on one of its iPhone apps.

Springer-owned tabloid Bild’s “Shake the Bild Girl” app allows iPhone users to undress a model. Each time the user shakes the phone, the girl strips an item of her clothing. While Bild features naked women daily in its pages, Apple ruled that the girls in its iPhone app should wear bikinis.

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[While I do not condone porn, I think it is none of Apple's business as to what the users do with their phones. Apple has no right to play moral police. Once the user buys the phone, it is the user's freedom to do whatever they want and view whatever they want with their phone.]

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