The day after tomorrow, June 17 (Wednesday) the world will be able to download the latest update to the iPod Touch and iPhone… here are the top 6 reasons why I am going to get it:

  1. Spotlight Searching (system wide)–with this feature you will be able to swipe to the screen left of the hope screen and you are given a search screen which searches your apps, your apps data, your songs, notes, and podcasts. So cool
  2. Landscape keyboard system wide!–enough said…
  3. Shake to shuffle–because it makes a good demo
  4. This may be the most important… APIs – The latest apps will use the new APIs which Apple will use in 3.0… meaning that if you don’t upgrade you will not be able to use the latest apps… call me blasphemous, but this does seem a lot like an issue you would see from Microsoft, not Apple.
  5. Faster Safari, hopefully using some of the Safari 4 (for desktop) javascript technology
  6. And lastly and most requested, copy and paste (with cool gestures). This will be a cool demo feature, especially because I wasn’t alive to see Steve Jobs demo the original clipboard on the macintosh in 1984, so this is just as monumental. Now I can demo this to all of my friends who may have already used a clipboard on their Blackberrys or desktops, but this is on an iPod; so it’s cool.

**A note on the many new APIs Apple has included in the SDK, of which I don’t possess as I am not a registered developer, there are thousands. It is important to talk about the APIs for notifications, which have not yet been given highlight from the media, even though it may prove to be the most influential of them all.

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