SDK Anticipation thread; top 3 apps you'd like to see?

[Alphy]

I really, really cannot wait for the end of February and the release of the SDK. The possibility of watching Sling in class on my iPod Touch over Wifi...Wow

Anyways, If I had to rank the top three applications I would like to see with the SDK, they would be:

1) Slingplayer
2) Flash of some sort
3) GPS unit + software

[Eidorian]

Skype

Old post is old.

[mavis]

Wirelessly posted (iTouch 1.1.3 (JB'd): Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A93 Safari/419.3)

I'd love to see an app like SMBPrefs, which allows people to use wallpaper on the home screen (what a novel concept! Why the hell didn't Apple allow this in the first place?!) as well as custom icons.

I would also like to see MobileScrobbler as well.

Of course both of those already exist and are freely available if you JailBreak - so there's no need to wait for the SDK. I guess the only other thing I'd like to see (that the SDK might help) are cool games.

[danuff]

1. Flash
2. GPS
3. Expanded Bluetooth features.

[Astro8973]

1. Flash
2. IM Client
3. Sports scores (not a web app)

[andi030]

1. Flash! (video Codexs like DivX, AVI ,etc...)
2. GPS (Universal Plug in GPS thing
3. Document viewer (PDF/DOC/powerpoint...)

[superspiffy]

How can GPS be incorporated if the Touch only works where there's unsecured Wifi?

[elmimmo]

- ToDo with added Sync-ability of Notes+ToDo with Leopard's.
- Some sort of copy/paste trickery.
- Notepad with Japanese Kanji hand-writing recognition, sort of like <http://www.chasen.org/~taku/software/ajax/hwr/index.html> (completely JavaScript and HTML based, but you need to have the ability to drag, which MobileSafari does not).

(Not interested the slightest in Flash, but quite the opposite that Web Developers realize of the necessity of embedding it with SWFObject each and every time they do, allowing then for accessible alternate content).

[georgeoommen]

Originally Posted by danuff

1. Flash
2. GPS
3. Expanded Bluetooth features.

i second that.. though i would push flash down to 3.

[georgeoommen]

Originally Posted by superspiffy

How can GPS be incorporated if the Touch only works where there's unsecured Wifi?

hook up the touch to a bluetooth gps receiver and then probably have dedicated gps maps. or have a portable version of google maps, so you can download sections of it and keep it for offline viewing.

[MadDoc]

I want more offline content. I live in Australia and free wifi access is just non-existent outside my own home.

My most wanted apps:

1. PDF reader
2. Todo software
3. Emulator software (NES, Spectrum, etc)

MadDoc,

[andybno1]

Originally Posted by georgeoommen

hook up the touch to a bluetooth gps receiver and then probably have dedicated gps maps. or have a portable version of google maps, so you can download sections of it and keep it for offline viewing.

but google maps on the touch doesn't store bits of the map for offline use I noticed once when I was playing about with it, I turned the touch off came back to it a couple hours later and where I had been was not there, it only seems to store the last bit of maps you viewed

anyway what I'd like to see is the ability to use all these installer apps without the need to jailbreak (which I hope the SDK will bring). I dont mind jailbreaking my touch when new updates are out but to be able to not fuss around with jailbreaking to use the apps would be nice

[ksolano]

flash
ebook reader
movie trailer downloads from itunes
world of warcraft (like the crack addict i am)
lightbox light
wireless syncing

[andybno1]

Originally Posted by ksolano

movie trailer downloads from itunes

that would be down to apple not an SDK thing lol

[netdog]

Skype
Adium with video
A video camera program

[jamesarm97]

eWallet
To-Do
eBook Reader

next three:

Flash
Wireless Syncing
Cut / Paste

next three:

PDF Reader w/ Storage
Contact Searches
Dial by Name (pressing 52637 would show the top match for JAMES). My old phone would start showing a list of names with the highest ranked on top and you could just click them to call.)

[domness]

1. IM Client.
2. GBA Emulator (Like the existing gpsPhone)
3. Profiles for Bluetooth. ie. An app that lets you send/recieve files through bluetooth.

[IscariotJ]

ToDo
iWork-Lite
IM Client

[Evangelion]

I consider lack of Flash a feature, not a drawback....

As to what I would like to see... Well, some of these might be considered upgrades to the OS itself, but still.

1. DAAP-client. That is the ability to stream music from the device to AppleTV/Airport Express

2. A basic office-suite. In other words: a lightweight spreadsheet and word-processor. Maybe even Bento-lite.

3. Ebook-reader.

[WolfgangK]

1. Games! I am hoping EA or someone else comes through with some cool stuff, I'd love to see a Myst-like adventure game, along with smaller, arcade, time-waster stuff. Very curious to see what developers will do with multi-touch. I have a secret hope that John Carmack is cooking something up for us as well.

2. iChat or full chat app

3. Flash (I understand that some loathe Flash...but the web is not just for dispensing and gathering information, it is a medium to be experienced like many other mediums, whether it be audio/video/animation/social networking, whatever. That is reality. Not to mention some very cool things and applications can be created with good/inspired use of Actionscript. The web is just as valid a medium for personal expression as any other. If you don't like the use of Flash, avoid sites and individuals using it to express themselves. /rant )

[asrmatt]

Originally Posted by MadDoc

I want more offline content. I live in Australia and free wifi access is just non-existent outside my own home.

My most wanted apps:

1. PDF reader
2. Todo software
3. Emulator software (NES, Spectrum, etc)

MadDoc,

Same problem here in Italy with wifi access, so definitly more off-line content.
The list is great for me too

[kendaluk]

now not sure if this possible but top of my list by a long way would be the ability to sync the I Pod Touch with my blue tooth headphones....

with out the need for the blue tooth dongle

[Paratel]

1. The ability to delete all my emails in trash with a touch of a button.
2. The ability to print on a wireless network printer from the iPod Touch.
3. ichat touch
4. some sort of SMS Text app.

[spaceballl]

1. slingplayer
2. slingplayer
3. mini office suite

[bodhammer]

1) Mount device as a storage device
2) PDF reader
3) Outlook sync with ToDo List and Notes
4) Encrypted Password vault application
5) Flash
6) Office doc editing - word, excel first

(I love the touch twice as much as other people so that is why I put six items down...)