Dream app for the iPhone

[buymeaniphone]

If you had some say in what apps they developed for the iPhone what would you want them to make. I'm thinking either iTunes with internet radio (the first iPod with radio!) or an app that would allow you to watch TV, hmm do you think sling box will work with the iPhone?

[Cepe Indicum]

SatNav... preferably TomTom... please! :)

[MP4-22]

Mine would a GBA emulator.

[Coheebuzz]

Shufflepuck cafe! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Shufflepuck_Cafe.png) :D

[andysc]

quicksilver :)

[psychofreak]

Voip...

[Allotriophagy]

Shufflepuck cafe! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Shufflepuck_Cafe.png) :D

YES.

And also 'Uninvited (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninvited_%28game%29)' and 'Shadowgate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowgate)'!

I've still not completed either of these...

[macguysoft]

I think it would be nice to have the iPhone be able to have voice commands like that of Leopard. What would be even better if it listened to your voice and wrote down the words!

[uscmeche]

Slingplayer!

[Allotriophagy]

I think it would be nice to have the iPhone be able to have voice commands like that of Leopard. What would be even better if it listened to your voice and wrote down the words!

I dunno. Not sure if I want my phone to be calling up the Royal Bank of Scotland every time I shout "******** c*nts" about something.

[bloodycape]

simple: morphgear but with the ability to emulate with OS 7, 8, and 9.

[SRSound]

navigation and the office suite (or just a watered down version of Word)

[G5Unit]

Nintendo 64 emulator.
and skype...

[macguysoft]

I dunno.

Good thing that Apple is a lot better in voice-commands that other cell-phone companies. Seriously, it won't do that...

[Vinnie_vw]

a way to record notes (audio or written). An office-suite. And a blogging client like Ecto.

[Counterfit]

Sex toy emulation.

[Thanatoast]

An Apple slingbox-type solution. Unfortunately it would require 3G support :(

Other things I'd like to see are a second camera with Video iChat (also 3G required), GPS would be neat but I can live without it.

I'd like to see a checkbook program, Money or Quicken or an Apple solution, even a third-party solution.

[JeffTL]

I'd like to see an ssh client. Before my Palm Tungsten C went bad on me, I had TuSSH on it and liked being able to get a command line over the WiFi connection.

[confirmed]

i'm really hoping we'll see ebooks sold on iTunes, to be synced with the iPhone. has the perfect screen for it and touch controls are great for an ebook. iTunes could really be the store which breaks ebooks out of it's niche.

in addition, i'd like to see newspaper/magazine subscribtions purchasable on iTunes. pay $99/year or so for the New York Times. ($99 may seem like a lot, but much cheaper than subscribing to the actual paper, about $500/year) downloads into iTunes in the early AM, sync it to your iPod. includes the full paper, with the content customized to the iPhone screen, similar to Times Reader (http://firstlook.nytimes.com/?category_name=times%20reader), software currently only available for windows users which customizes the content for your screen. give me the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Economist and i will be a very happy man. sure, you can get all this through the web browser, but it's not as customized for the iPhone screen and not available without a data connection. downloading the full paper would be faster and readable in a subway. updates, of course, could be downloaded throughout the day.

please, apple.. give me my offline content for the iphone!

[whateverandever]

I laugh at the people who mention console emulators.

They would go along perfectly with the iPhone's lack of buttons.

[netdog]

Voip...

YES. Specifically Skype for me please.

[acearchie]

Sex toy emulation.

Ha Ha that made me laugh whilst everyone else is still deadly serious!

thanks

[clevin]

Too many ppl expect this iPhone to be a minimi mac, but still

dream app?

Heroes 2, like the one for pocket pc. if possible,

[ITASOR]

iChat

[penthang]

An office suite. Dataviz has for some time had Documents To Go and Smart Lists To Go. Apple with the next release of iWork could produce a version for iPhone. As for a simple editable relational database...seems to me apple could do a version of Filemaker that lets you actually play with database structure and entry on the go not like the lame palm version they have produced. If apple doesn't want top do this themselves I am sure Dataviz would port there apps to I phone with some help from Apple, or maybe just when there are some iPhones out there. These apps would convince me to buy an iPhone, without them I have no use for the coolest new toy on the block.

[Cult Follower]

iTunes with the ability to purchase song wirelessly from the iTs.

[DickArmAndHarT]

Nintendo 64 emulator.
and skype...

yes yes, and the ablity to multiplayer mario kart

[Mammoth]

MSN Messenger (With video conversations in the 2G iPhone with front video camera), Remote Desktop Access, and MobiTV with the ability to record. :cool:

[Epicurus]

Keynote

Give me a 30-pin iPod Connector to DVI/VGA cable so I can go from the iPhone to a projector in one step (and if I can sync up the phone and a projector over WiFi or Bluetooth, that would be even more amazing). Its not that I wouldn't probably have my laptop with me, its just that I'd like the option of going to a conference without a laptop bag.

As far as editing the presentations on the phone, all I'd really need is the option to hide and rearrange slides and possibly make small changes to the text (I can easily see myself catching a typo at the very last minute and needing to fix it quickly). If Apple really wanted to make life wonderful then maybe they'll let me play with the transitions.

And unless we do get WiFi projector syncing, I'll need a Bluetooth remote for clicking through those slides.


Really, I don't see myself typing a Pages/Word file on a phone, or playing with an :apple: /Excel spreadsheet. I do see myself using Keynote. I see myself using it time and time again.

[blueflame]

ichat AV,(this is the make or break for me, I see no reason why this was not implemeted.) with a side of tomtom.
Andreas

[weldon]

Flash player, for some simple games, youTube, etc.
GPS add-on (via dock connector)
PDF viewer
blogging client with full support for camera and stored images
voice recorder (recording meetings, or personal voice notes)


The keynote presentation player is a good idea too. And I nicked blogging client too, but added the explicit support for posting images from the camera (or stored) as well.

[CEAbiscuit]

Real time GPS Navigation.

[MacsomJRR]

I'd love to see ESPN and Apple team up and put together a really great all-inclusive sports package that makes it easy for us fans to track games, players, stats etc... OK OK maybe I can just use the web browser, nevermind:)

Good games from Apple seems far-fetched to me but I'd love to see them try.

How about something wirelessly hack into a PC computer from a distance and show a giant Apple logo on the screen with the words "Think Different" flashing slowly on the bottom.

[tehybrid]

I want newsfire which syncs with newsfire on my mac! I would also like WoW (good luck eh?) I wouldnt mind seeing some AppleTV tie in as well as a twitter widget. Man widgets thats starting a hole, like Dashflix, and the iCal todo widget, man I want an iPhone

[Dr.Gargoyle]

The iPhone seriously needs integrated GPS, i.e. built in GPS receiver with downloadable maps. Nokia N95 (http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/nokias-n95-smartphone-goes-legit/) has it and more will follow.
I can't understand why Apple didn't include that. Heck here in europe we have had GPS cellphones with external receiver for years. It is not like it is cutting edge technology.

[California]

The iPhone seriously needs integrated GPS, i.e. built in GPS receiver with downloadable maps.

Yeah

GPS plus MAPS

Video iPod

TV tuner

AM plus FM radio

OFFICE

If I'm paying that much for this thing, that's what I expect.

64mb VRAM and DVI out for an APPLE LCD SCREEN!!!!

[mattscott306]

I'm really hoping for GPS capabilities. I mean come on, you have google maps built in, so why not just put one more app in there that works with it. If I can't have my GPS, then I guess I'd settle for... an app that Runs full tilt poker.


---Poker, not in demand you say? Crap, I guess i'm SOL.

[Dr.Gargoyle]

Yeah

GPS plus MAPS

Video iPod

TV tuner

AM plus FM radio

OFFICE

If I'm paying that much for this thing, that's what I expect.

64mb VRAM and DVI out for an APPLE LCD SCREEN!!!!
Dont you think that is a bit overkill with Video and TV tuner?
Video in a 8Gb device doesnt make that much sense to me.
TV tuner would result in a much larger device, not to mention a seriously crippled batt time. Just think about how large the smallest Eye TV is. The iPhone would become a brick.
Regarding the other requirements you have my fullest support. Especially when it comes to GPS. It is an absolute must in a device like that.

[mattcube64]

I'd love to watch my DVR'd and Satellite feed on my iPhone.

That, and the N64 support with online Mario Kart sounds great, but my first opinion is a bit more realistic. :p

[Epicurus]

I don't see why the iPhone couldn't have TV out (considering the iPod can do it with its dock attachments), but asking for TV in/DVR is overkill. I'd rather the Mac mini / :apple: tv get that feature first.

I've seen a lot of GPS requests, and for all its possible benefits, I see it as just another thing to drain the battery. Software is one thing that Apple will surely be adding to the iPhone's Rev. A. GPS will either come as a Rev. B feature or an add-on device. GPS is not an app, per se. That said, it would be cool if the camera could geo-tag its photos with GPS data. Of course, Google Maps/traffic would benefit, as would the weather widget (somewhat).


Getting back to the Keynote app I've been dreaming of, why not let the iPhone act as a wireless remote for the presentation? You could get presenter's notes on screen or preview the next slide. Basically you could have the same Presenter Tools (http://www.apple.com/iwork/keynote/features/presentertools.html) the desktop version of Keynote has but all in the palm of your hand. I can imagine the Multi-Touch being used for moving a virtual laser pointer "red dot" around on the slide, that way you wouldn't have to juggle both a laser and the clicker/iPhone while giving your talk. Its a thought anyway. :D

[BayAreaMacFan]

What do you mean by GPS? If you mean like directions from point A to point B, don't they already have that, shown by that video of the hidden features of the keynote presentation? Also, didn't the iPhone Steve used at Macworld have to have video out with the phone showing up on the screen. And yes a Keynote presentation tool with the ability for it to be a wireless remote would be awesome and something more conceivable to add in the next 4 months.

[puckhead193]

ichat/AIM
MS office/PDF viewer

[weldon]

What do you mean by GPS? If you mean like directions from point A to point B, don't they already have that, shown by that video of the hidden features of the keynote presentation?
It's been said that there is no GPS receiver in the iPhone. That means that the location-based services, like directions, are network based. Using the network to determine location is less accurate than a SiRFstarIII, doesn't work as well outside urban areas. The biggest thing for me is that a standard GPS receiver (like the SiRFstarIII) would mean that the GPS receiver could be made available to other software running on the iPhone, or even to other devices via bluetooth.

For example, you could start a track log while you are taking pictures. When you synch your iPhone and download your pictures, you could use a simple tool (or maybe iPhoto 07?) to correlate the time you took the photos with the coordinates in the GPS track log with the same (or similar) timestamp. Boom! You have all your photos geotagged with location information.

With bluetooth in the iPhone, you could also access the GPS receiver from your MacBook and use more sophisticated mapping software.

There are lots of applications where GPS info would be useful. It would be even more useful if it was a standard GPS receiver that was also accessible to applications and over bluetooth or an iPod cable. The SiRFstarIII is being used in ASUS, Samsung, and Nokia phones already. I'd love to see it in a future iPhone.

[BayAreaMacFan]

Thanks Weldon, that helps a lot. And yes, that would be incredibly cool.

[bored911]

adium, maclive

[wmmk]

aperture priority (or even full manual) on the camera, a small, fast zeiss or leica lens like on those high end sony ericssons, the ability to do actual editing (iPhoto adjust panel type stuff) right on the phone.

[Thanatoast]

What kind of games could realistically go on the iPhone? I'd love to see Simcity (I've got it on my Palm) or maybe 2000 or 3000. I don't think anything more than the first is realistic, though. :(

[craigverse]

i'm really hoping we'll see ebooks sold on iTunes, to be synced with the iPhone. has the perfect screen for it and touch controls are great for an ebook. iTunes could really be the store which breaks ebooks out of it's niche.

in addition, i'd like to see newspaper/magazine subscribtions purchasable on iTunes. pay $99/year or so for the New York Times. ($99 may seem like a lot, but much cheaper than subscribing to the actual paper, about $500/year) downloads into iTunes in the early AM, sync it to your iPod. includes the full paper, with the content customized to the iPhone screen, similar to Times Reader (http://firstlook.nytimes.com/?category_name=times%20reader), software currently only available for windows users which customizes the content for your screen. give me the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Economist and i will be a very happy man. sure, you can get all this through the web browser, but it's not as customized for the iPhone screen and not available without a data connection. downloading the full paper would be faster and readable in a subway. updates, of course, could be downloaded throughout the day.

please, apple.. give me my offline content for the iphone!



This is an awesome idea. I want that.

[nextdimension]

my primary need would be Text-to-Speech (text files, pdfs, ebooks, html, email etc). This should be easy since this is already in OSX. This would be the selling point for me personally (I really need it).

[killr_b]

I don't see why they didn't include iChat A/V with a cam on the front of the phone. Seems like a penner move to me.

I figure you should be able to record a video with that little cam in 320x240, edit it with mini-imovie, add titles and transitions and email it to someone or upload it to youtube or myspace.
Should also have mini-iphoto for photo retouching, mini-garageband for making and mixing ringtones, mini-keynote for presentations w/o a clicker and a macbook, and Microsoft Office.

Yeeeaah. :cool:

[aijara]

I'm good as long as it has Tetris!

[SLiM620]

FIFA or any soccer game with overhead view.....think about it..:apple:

[heaven]

Cant stop dreaming of Adium on the iPhone! :rolleyes:

[fusionstudios]

A simple version of Sibelius would be incredible.

[serious damage]

VoIP, for the love of Dog, VoIP!!! Preferably Skype! :eek:

[Svennig]

One word: Skype.

That will be the killer app for the iphone. Skype wireless while at home, normal phone while someplace else.

[AutumnSkyline]

I would have to say a drawing application would be cool : ).

[ricksbrain]

I'm all over the Keynote idea. Teaching would mean I could come into the room with myself and probably a small power cord and adapter. Heaven.

[nickane]

My dream ipod accessory has always been a G-trip, basically a wireless card that lets you send music to an airport express without connecting the ipod to a computer, so you don't have to bother with headphone-to-phono cables whenever a guest wants to play you something. Then, the ipod becomes it's own remote for the music it's playing, and if the battery wears out, you can plug it in anywhere rather than having to have it connected to the computer or stereo (neither of which are necessarily in the room you're pumping your sound into).

Anyways, the iphone already has wi-fi, so other than battery issues and the minor issue that if you choose the wrong router you could end up sending music to your neighbour's stereo cos the idiot hasn't put wep on his airport express, i don't see why itunes on the iphone couldn't have this functionality.

Most importantly, I think we need a specially adapted iCal app just for Jobsy, which links his prototype iphone directly to the macrumors buyer's guide and suggests reasonable dates for refreshing the existing product lines left over from the company's former guise as Apple COMPUTER, lest his constant toying with his shiny new piece of vapourware diverts his attention from the fact that HE HASN'T BROUGHT OUT A NEW MAC IN OVER 4 CALENDAR MONTHS!

[Rocketman]

Mac Draw 1.9 :)

I agree with the internet radio and sling box suggestions, with store-forward and synchronization of course.

As for the dock, DVI, Ethernet, FW400, USB 2/1, and yes Composite, RCA, maybe even European video. How much of that can be a dongle on a dock connector or a pass-through dock connector, or a special secondary dock connector?

Can you have an expansion box on a dock itself on the bottom? :)

As an iPod the iPhone already does ebooks and a wide variety of video content only limited by the display resolution. Podcasts were set to crippled resolutions to deal with early-Gen iPod limits. Those days will soon disappear.

Rocketman

[netdog]

Final Cut Pro 6

[chatster18]

Final Cut Pro 6

I would break my current contract for that! ;)

[IEatApples]

YES. Specifically Skype for me please.
YES!!! SKYPE ALL THE WAY!!! :D

[TheManOfSilver]

I'm probably going to be alone on this one, but personally my dream app would be one that allows the iPhone to run existing medical references that usually run on either Palm or Windows Mobile based phones/PDAs. I need those references and medical calculators in day-to-day work, and they alone keep me pinned to the outdated PDA.

If I could access the references I need on iPhone's gorgeous display (while getting everything else of course) I'd be buying one of those 8GB models as soon as it arrived in Canada.

[BWhaler]

Shufflepuck cafe! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Shufflepuck_Cafe.png) :D

That's a riot. Very funny and enjoyable post Coheebuzz...

Slingbox is a great idea, although Apple won't let it happen.

For me, in order of importance:

1. Skype/VoIP

2. iWork, specifically the ability to display keynote presentations and drive them with the Apple remote.

3. PDF Viewer

4. GPS mapping/directions

5. Games

[serious damage]

ichat AV,(this is the make or break for me, I see no reason why this was not implemeted.) with a side of tomtom.
Andreas

Cingular has a perfect reason to say HELL NO to iChat and that is loss of profit. A lot of people would be using free chat (basically VoIP) and that's not their interest.

But I agree, VoIP would be THE killer app. Well, maybe later it will come...

[iKwick7]

I would have to say a drawing application would be cool : ).

Agreed. Even just something simple.

[scmacdaddy]

tunatic...to always know what song is playing in a commercial or at the mall or even in an elevator :)

[princealfie]

Apart from that fabled Word Processor (Pages Mini) I would love to see Final Cut Mini on it seriously. Edit those movie clips taken with the iPhone :D

[MacSync]

I would like access to my World of Warcraft account. Not full playability, but the ability to open my bank, bags, auction house, and mailbox. If I could use the auction house remotely, that would be insane. Add in the capability for some add ons that 'help' with your auctions and addicts like myself will buy multiple phones to stay connected with each of our accounts!! :eek:

[princealfie]

I would like access to my World of Warcraft account. Not full playability, but the ability to open my bank, bags, auction house, and mailbox. If I could use the auction house remotely, that would be insane. Add in the capability for some add ons that 'help' with your auctions and addicts like myself will buy multiple phones to stay connected with each of our accounts!! :eek:

That's a joke if you want WOW on your iPhone. That's like rewriting the Bible seriously.

I think that WoW isn't very useful for an iPhone. Leave it to the PC people to play it.

[MacSync]

That's a joke if you want WOW on your iPhone. That's like rewriting the Bible seriously.

I think that WoW isn't very useful for an iPhone. Leave it to the PC people to play it.

Actually since a large part of the game is based on XML I really don't think that this would be too much of a stretch. I'm not talking about running around or fighting or anything like that. Simply a login screen, then a choose your character screen (possibly by name only), then icons for bank, bag, mail and AH. The ah is a very simple search engine. It should even leave off the dressing room. Click buy now, click on mailbox icon, put it in your bag. Back to the AH and repeat. Most of the current graphics could be used. Or is my imagination running wild.....:D

[chatster18]

Apart from that fabled Word Processor (Pages Mini) I would love to see Final Cut Mini on it seriously. Edit those movie clips taken with the iPhone :D

I don't even have enough space to edit on my 15" MBP, I can only imagine trying to cut a movie on that! ;)

[Sensfan67]

Slingplayer!

YES! lol.

[mugwump]

IF IT DOESN'T PLAY THAT BASKETBALL SHOOTING WIDGET GAME THINGIE, HEADS WILL ROLL!

I can't stop playing it...

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/games/basketball.html

[chatster18]

IF IT DOESN'T PLAY THAT BASKETBALL SHOOTING WIDGET GAME THINGIE, HEADS WILL ROLL!

I can't stop playing it...

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/games/basketball.html

My little bro plays that all the time, he is always hogging the mac mini playing that and not doing his homework!! :)

[natemonster]

sudoku. it would be awesome with a touch screen and voice recognition. :D and skype of couse.

[BayAreaMacFan]

Obviously, the whoopee cushion widget. The best fart machine of all time.

[jeffreyfort]

all these responses and not one mention of voice dialing. I need to have a way to call my contacts while driving.

[notsofatjames]

Final Cut Pro 6

LMAO!

[Llewellyn]

A different type of GPS (already required for 911 support) uses cell phone transmitter towers instead of satellites to locate your position. This would be a great way to add GPS to the iPhone.

[psychofreak]

FIFA or any soccer game with overhead view.....think about it..:apple:

Sensible soccer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensible_Soccer) is what you want...

[psychofreak]

IF IT DOESN'T PLAY THAT BASKETBALL SHOOTING WIDGET GAME THINGIE, HEADS WILL ROLL!

I can't stop playing it...

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/games/basketball.html

My life...and the reason my GCSE's aren't gonna be great...

[SRSound]

I would LOVE to have

1. GPS
2. Office (something that works with Word)
3. More games

Hey - is there anyone with a desktop and laptop who's selling the laptop when this comes out?

[slffl]

SlingPlayer!

[oreali]

Gps App (without external device).
For car, walking, biking...

[johnee]

a program that uses a voice synthesizer to insert random comments during a conversation. You could set the level of vulgarity, sex/age/tone of voice, etc.

and it could record snippets of your conversation and use them to inject into your current conversation.

Another offshoot of that would be to enhance your voice so you sound like yoda.

I would LOVE that. :D

I think i'm going to patent that.

[shiunn]

i'd like to have gps too, but at the same time, using your phone as a navigator can be quite a handful. imagine driving in a unfamiliar area, depending totally on your navigator, and suddenly, someone calls you. you might be ejected from the navigator to be able to pick up the call.
and you'd be lost...
at least, that's what happens to me with my orbit.

[koobcamuk]

all these responses and not one mention of voice dialing. I need to have a way to call my contacts while driving.

It was kind of mentioned on the first page... with someone referring to RBS...

anyway, iChat for me. Also Skype.

[Lakukaracha]

YES. Specifically Skype for me please.

AGREED!

[papadopolis1024]

Joost!!!!

[psychofreak]

Joost!!!!

Meh...I have it on my mac...nothing cool on it, for now at least...

[papadopolis1024]

They need the discovery channel so I can watch Mythbusters. They do have comedy central so I could watch the daily show and the colbert report! ON MY PHONE! (I think that it would take G3 thought)

[zelman]

#1: OpenOffice
#2: photo (of a business card) -> address book entry

[TraceyS/FL]

• Something along the lines of Handyshopper
• Medical Tracking type app (2 kids with medical issues - i need to track a bunch of stuff and none of the current Palm apps are perfect either :( )

[cisco1138]

If the iPhone had an Infra-Red emmiter...:rolleyes:
...This thing would make an awsome Universal Remote Control!:D

[cardude280]

I'd like to see an ssh client. Before my Palm Tungsten C went bad on me, I had TuSSH on it and liked being able to get a command line over the WiFi connection.

i agree ssh would be awesome since it already has wi-fi

[Tacos!]

An AIM app like ADUIM/ichat only, it uses the internet, and you can't get charged text messages for every IM. Besides that I'd like to see
* An application, so all you have to do is plug your usb cord into a dvr and transfer your favorite tv shows/movies
* Itunes on the iphone
* Widgets
* Simple older games with a small keyboard on the bottom... for instance sim city or Tomb raider...
* And a photobooth option
* Oh and finally, a TI 89 Graphing calculater emulator so i can do all my algebra, calc, and graphing on it!

Note: I don't have an iphone yet....

[rajs]

The killer app -- that would bring in other people who are holding off on buying it would be --- Blackberry Client and/or GoodLink client on it.

This would allow droves of people who work for corporations to have direct access to their corporate email using the restrictions that are in place. They do not have access to POP / IMAP / ACTIVESync -- as the firewalls are not opened for it ... and nor will they be opened -- no matter what.

Of course Apple would want to control the quality of the Goodlink / Blackberry Client software to ensure it is not a dog / or crashes the iPhone OS -- but this would be THE KILLER APP functionality on the the iPhone.

What would be nice too to make the Safari Browser KILLER is instead of EDGE we get 3G. To do 3G though ... Apple would need to increase battery life.

For example my Blackjack today -- if in 3G mode -- will barely get me through an 8 hour work day (with me only receiving emails from work on it via GoodLink). If I switch to the EDGE network mode instead only -- I can get the phone to go over 2.5 to 3 days instead with me getting all my corporate email. Thus I keep my Blackjack on EDGE mode only unfortunately.

Would have been nice for Apple to have 3G built in with option for user to select which network mode they want to use and thus the power drain they will experience.

The additional benefit of this would be exposing another huge market group to the Apple OS experience. Imagine ... if these people used the iPhone MAC OS every day ... wouldn't you start seeing more Apple Desktop / Laptops being looked into at corporations -- initially as test machines to see if they work alright .. and then get rolled out actually ... I think you'd have a better chance of deeper market penetration then -- especially to a group of people that won't look at it otherwise (the Mac OS) ... because they are like lemmings who follow what is in place ... unless they see something and experience it first hand.

[i0Nic]

To-Do List
To-Do List
To-Do List

[dangleheart]

In the WSJ interview on the 28th, Steve Jobs was not too enthusiastic about VoIP. The AT&T counterpart even asked, 'Why do you need VoIP since all plans include a lot of free minutes and so your next call is free anyway'..

I think there is a lot of misinformation or lack of understanding of how people use Skype like programs...

a) First of all, if you are on skype, your buddies from around the world can talk to you over Skype and for free if they are calling from a computer

b) The minutes are not unlimited as the interview suggested.

c) Even with free minutes, international calling from U.S. is expensive

d) While traveling overseas, since you can not use the local country SIM, roaming charges apply which are expensive, so Skype would be a very useful utility.

I am sure there are other good reasons to have VoIP.

AT&T talks the good talk that they are not Anti wi-fi, they say wi-fi is complementary to cell service but when it comes time to allow for potential replacement of their network minutes, they drag their feet. I am a bit upset with SJ that he went along with it. Not that I am saying it should come preloaded with Skype.. it should have had a voip client of some sort integrated properly.

[dangleheart]

Does iPhone come with a VPN client? If not, that will be good to have to connect to corporate networks.

[altaprod]

iGTD:
I can imagine :apple: teaming up with the developer of the app and really creating an amazing set-up for GTD'ers.

Imagine, speaking into your iPhone "don't forget milk on your way home, @car, today, 6pm." The iPhone translates it into text and inserts the task into iGTD which then automatically adds it to your "@car" tasks at 6pm that day.

On your way home you recieve a reminder from iGTD that you need to pick up milk.

That would be AWESOME.:D

[dangleheart]

altaprod: I think one can do all that with server side speech recognition integraed with a calendar. I guess you want all that on the iPhone itself as a standard feature. Memory footprint for such speech reco is usually quite high and so it will be challenge to do it on the phone, but not impossible for a reduced vocabulary.

[ShiggyMiyamoto]

I agree with everyone that would like to see Skype. That would be awesome. I'd also like to see a Ventrilo client for the iPhone. I admin on a server and it would be handy to be able to chat with and discipline users from an iPhone. ^_^

Also, iTunes with radio would rock as well. I thought of that the moment I learned about the iPhone's capabilties. I'd be happy even if it's not a full-blown iTunes, but simply a widget that would allow the user to change the station that it plays either by pasting/entering in the URL to the playlist (*.pls) file, or by having it search a directory of streaming radio stations on the web. Is such a complex task possible to accomplish via Web 2.0 programming? Since :apple: is only allowing those sort of apps to run I'd think this would be a great app to be created. If this were to happen I'd be in HEAVEN.

[drastik]

iGTD:
I can imagine :apple: teaming up with the developer of the app and really creating an amazing set-up for GTD'ers.

Imagine, speaking into your iPhone "don't forget milk on your way home, @car, today, 6pm." The iPhone translates it into text and inserts the task into iGTD which then automatically adds it to your "@car" tasks at 6pm that day.

On your way home you recieve a reminder from iGTD that you need to pick up milk.

That would be AWESOME.:D

Here's a partial solution for that, no adding or delteing tasks due to write permissions with dot Mac, but a nice display of contexts and tasks anyway.
http://iphoneigtd.com

[BEEFc58]

An apple remote app. Is there anything out there that just replicates the apple remote? I have seen the Touchpad app and the Airremote app... but you have to scroll around to get into Front Row. I use my Mac Mini as a Media Center.. and it would be nice just to use a iphone/ipod touch as a remote control, and also be able to use it as a apple remote, so that you can press menu and have the computer jump to front row.....

[smattmul]

i wish for an eyeTV remote, or anything to work with my eyeTV. please let me know if this already exists.