You can get invites from friends to play games, get automatically matched to other players, and the other standard multiplayer features you’d expect.

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Another thing is Game Center. It’s both an API to allow developers to put multiplayer into their games, as well as an app by itself. Think Xbox Live for Xbox 360.

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“For some photos it’s pretty great. It’s built into iOS 4.1.”

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He’s showing some examples of how HDR works. Here is our archive of HDR photography, if you want to see shots taken on higher-end cameras.

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When you switch on HDR, it takes three separate photos: One regular exposure, one under exposed shot, and one over exposed shot. They keep both the normal photo and the HDR photo, which is combined from all 3 exposures.

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So what’s up with High Dynamic Range photos? Jobs is going to explain.

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Also, TV show rentals and Game Center.

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They’re also adding HDR photos (High Dynamic Range photos), standard in 4.1. The ability to upload HD video over Wi-Fi.

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Today they’re announcing iOS 4.1. “A lot of bugs have been fixed. Proximity sensor bugs, Bluetooth bugs, iPhone 3G performance bugs. All the bugs we get mails on.”

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To go back to the activations for a second, Jobs says that Google might be counting upgrades, and Apple is not counting upgrades for their activation figure.

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6.5 billion apps have been downloaded in the app store. 200 apps every second.

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“People are throwing around a lot of numbers about how many devices they activate a day,” says Jobs, of Google. Apple is activating 230,000 new activations.

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