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Double-U Tee Eff, it’s cnettv flash video streaming to my non-jailbroken iPhone, in Firefox? Yup. This is all thanks to the Cloud Browse app.

The app details don’t give any information about how this is actually working. As far as I can tell the app makes a VNC-type connection to a virtual machine on Amazon EC2. Works like a charm.

Get it while it lasts though, seems like the sort of app Apple might pull from the App Store.

Apple have borrowed one or two ideas from the jailbreaking community in the past – the app icon rearranging functionality comes to mind, I’m sure there are others. I think many of the new features we’ll see in iPhone OS 4.0 will be based on functionality added by the community.

Don’t have time to fully explore these ideas in a blog post this morning, but here’s a breakdown of my ideas/wishlist. In order of probability.

• Background processes
  • Not much of a hit to battery or CPU performance with simple apps like twitter or IM clients. Apple could tweak the OS to handle background processes even better.
  • All new smartphones have this ability. iPhone needs it to stay competitive.
• Themes
  • New source of revenue
  • Could be what the paint splotches on the invite are alluding to
  • Only reason not to do it would be inconsistent UI. But, with themes officially supported Apple could apply their stringent review process.
• Lockscreen
  • The lockscreen functionality is really cool.
  • Current jailbroken functionality doesn’t seem fully baked. I think Apple could make major improvements.
  • A dashboard widget type interface would seem to make sense.

// end stream of consciousness.

Apple will not release a tablet. They will instead release something unexpected. My money is on AppleTV², a new AppleTV that is actually a TV.

Take heed, apparently blogging about apple store service is an an excellent way to generate backlinks. According to Google webmaster tools my post late last month about my poor Apple Store service experience generated 625 links. The next highest, How To Watch Comedy Central Videos From Canada only garnered 27 – and that post has been up on reddit a few times.