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Dream app for the iPhone

One word: Skype.

That will be the killer app for the iphone. Skype wireless while at home, normal phone while someplace else.
 
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.
 
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!
 
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
 
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.
 
Coheebuzz said:
Shufflepuck cafe! :D
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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
 
blueflame said:
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
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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...
 
Warcraft

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:
 
MacSync said:
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:
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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.
 
Re: WoW not a Joke

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