iPhone Apps Wishlist

[guzhogi]

i'd like to see software + hardware (a double ipod ended cable) that would let you plug your ipod into your iphone and you could play music and especially video from your ipod on your iphone (and its beautiful screen).

I remember when Apple first released the USB camera adaptor thing for the iPod and thought w/ the right hack, you can connect another ipod to it w/ its cable and do that. http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=20538A8A&nplm=M9861G/B

 

[bellicelli]

eReader

eBook Reader -- Well, you have that NOW if you want it. Just email yourself the book in your choice of txt, doc or pdf, and you can read it just fine. Would be nice to have a better interface for it, but it's not a big deal.

While this works, it doesn't work very well. If you've ever used eReader on the Palm or MobiPocket (which, themselves, are lacking in features) you'd know what I mean. Ability to highlight, dictionary lookup, addition of notes, direct access to chapter markers, font size modification are all necessary if the iPhone is going to be a useful ebook reader.

I was really hoping that the phone would be able to replace this function so I could get rid of my Palm. Actually, I did get rid of my Palm and now I don't read as much, unfortunately.

I'd love for Apple to standardize the eBook market as they've done with music. There are far too many proprietary DRM systems out there - Palm, Adobe, MobiPocket, Rocket, Sony - all with their own formats, DRM nonsense, missing features. I'd love to be able to buy books through iTunes and load them onto my phone or read them on my MBP.

 

[CMTobin]

Uh, what?

Using EDGE doesn't affect your ability to receive calls or texts. When using your PHONE, EDGE data services are not available.

The absence of iChat is dumbfounding. Chat has been a standard feature of most smartphones for years now. Instead they wrote an iChat-like interface to SMS (which is admittedly cool, but not the same thing at all as iChat). I don't get it.

...I'm sorry to inform you, but you're wrong. There is much on this very forum about this issue...

-Sorry.

 

[NMR Guy]

iMAME

 

[technocoy]

the edge thing is something that apple has to correct. it's not a problem with edge itself which is what I and some other are trying to say. Seems if they are using standard 2.5G radio parts it shouldn't take more than a firmware update.

As many shots as apple has called on this whole thing I can't imagine them not being able to persuade AT&T on letting them add IM at some point.

Nearly every smartphone they sell has an IM client. This would be a stupid request on AT&Ts part.

 

[kcroy]

Most wanted apps:

Here are my five:

1) voice-recording on the iPhone (memos, great ideas, ect. that when synced go straight to iTunes.)

2) video capture

3) voice dialing (not really an app, but that would be nice.)

4) Photobooth (let's do some silly things with our camera...we do in anyway.)

5) set iTune song as ringtone (not an app either, but that would be great)

 

[jt2ga65]

I'd love for Apple to standardize the eBook market as they've done with music. There are far too many proprietary DRM systems out there - Palm, Adobe, MobiPocket, Rocket, Sony - all with their own formats, DRM nonsense, missing features. I'd love to be able to buy books through iTunes and load them onto my phone or read them on my MBP.

Apple standardized the music market? That's news to me. MP3 was out a LONG time before Apple even dreamed of entering the market with the iPod, and it's a far superior (and open) format than AAC, or whatever format that Apple insists on for DRM.

The only additional application I want for the iPhone is iChat, with capibilities to work with AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Google, etc. I don't remember what iChat for the MAc supports, as I choose to use Gaim.

Other than that application (which my RAZR had day 1), I would like them to add features to their existing application, like the ability to sort and search your email, and the ability to manage multiple identities (NOT email accounts, but addresses). Ring tones? Does ANYONE not think that it's completely stupid for a device based on a iPod to NOT have the option for a custom ringtone?

-jt2

 

[voncheech]

Here are my five:

1) voice-recording on the iPhone (memos, great ideas, ect. that when synced go straight to iTunes.)

2) video capture

3) voice dialing (not really an app, but that would be nice.)

4) Photobooth (let's do some silly things with our camera...we do in anyway.)

5) set iTune song as ringtone (not an app either, but that would be great)

best requests yet ! why no video capture? could a software update make it possible?

 

[phillryu]

best requests yet ! why no video capture? could a software update make it possible?

A software update to enable video capture should be possible. There were some 3rd party native apps being developed at the recent C4 conference, and the top iPhone hack was rudimentary video conferencing.

 

[angelwatt]

Just skimmed the pics, but looks like some nice ideas. If I ever get an iPhone I'll like them even more.

 

[SuperChuck]

How about a feature that every other freaking phone on the planet has - MMS. I love my iPhone, but I know scores of people who simply won't consider one because they rely too heavily on MMS.

 

[gillilandboy]

They missed iChat.....

 

[megfilmworks]

Filemaker Pro or the new Numbers
Syncing notes and to dos
iTunes

 

[smada]

Let's say you did have a very simple iMovie-like application on your iPhone. According to this article, you'd be editing movies at the speed of about a PowerMac G5 @ 160Mhz, with 128MB of RAM. You'd have it done faster if you just waited until you got home and edited it on your desktop.

My Sony Ericsson Z520a has movie editing software and it is hardly cutting edge hardware. I can add transitions and titles as well as combine, arrange, and cut video clips. While I wouldn't use it to replace iMovie its a great little app. If my year or two old free phone can do it, why not an iPhone?

 

[jazzkids]

Not necessarily only apps, but I'd like to see

1. Legal, non hack, DUNS
2. Word processing that syncs to Pages / iWork
3. Ability to connect bluetooth GPS
4. Ability to connect bluetooth keyboard
5. Video out. OMG, video out with Keynote!

 

[Deslock]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1C25 Safari/419.3)

All I want:

1 copy/paste
2 search pim (especially contacts)
3 spreadsheet
4 flash in safari
5 dictionary
6 pdf reader
7 ssh/sftp
8 chess
9 iChat
10 remote desktop

 

[hatcher002]

apps

netstumbler terminal as defult app we have utillies on osx why not on the iphone landscape keybord in every app spotlight and more that i cant think of at this moment

 

[mainstreetmark]

Apple standardized the music market? That's news to me. MP3 was out a LONG time before Apple even dreamed of entering the market with the iPod, and it's a far superior (and open) format than AAC, or whatever format that Apple insists on for DRM.
-jt2

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that MP3 was "far superior" to it's direct successor, AAC, which has many clear advantages and is also quite open. The PS3 uses it, for example.

Apple has augmented AAC with their industry-required DRM, which was the only way the record dinosaurs would agree to the iTMS, so while the audio format is open, the DRM wrapped around it is obviously closed, and fundamentally opposed by Jobs, and therefore Apple.

Have a read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding#AAC.E2.80.99s_improvements_over_MP3

 

[mcorange]

Porn.

Guys....Guys!!!! The only thing iPhone is obviously lacking is a native port of Porngetter OS X. Yeah, okay...I know that even Porngetter OS X doesn't exiost anymore, but how brilliant would it be? All the day, sitting at your office and when you get home you plug your phone and voilá! 8 Gigs of Hard-core porn for the evening.

Boys, this is aaaaaaaaall we want.

Over and out,

 

[bellicelli]

Apple standardized the music market? That's news to me. MP3 was out a LONG time before Apple even dreamed of entering the market with the iPod, and it's a far superior (and open) format than AAC, or whatever format that Apple insists on for DRM.

That's my point. As Apple became the 3rd largest music seller in June behind Walmart and Best Buy, they have standardized a market filled with mixed formats and sales methods. Note that electronic iTunes sales are mixed with bricks-and-mortar sales - and they're still 3rd.

This is what I'd like to see out of Apple (and iPhone) for book sales. With half a dozen formats and sales methods out there (see my original post), I'd like to see Apple pick a format or create a new one, but make it easy to browse, sample, buy and read - exactly what iTunes has done for music.

 

[BritinNC]

My list

- To do list
- Ability to securely store and access information, e.g. passwords, etc (like SplashId for the palm)
- Ability to access and display files (Ofiice, iWork, pdf) that are on my mac, or even my iDisk (Back to my Mac for the iPhone). I don't really care about changing them right now I just want to be able to read them.
- Ability to wirelessly connect to an accessory that connects to a projector or display so I can send and control presentations, etc. Don't want it tethered.
- I'd take the ability to iChat with someone through SMS (they use iChat, I use the iPhone, they don't realize that that is how I'm connected) if the talk about iChat degrading the phone is true. I already miss enough calls with AT&T's crappy service, I don't need to miss more for the sake of iChat and I'd pay for more SMS messages to have this capability.

 

[SalsaShark]

As for your last point, you can already do that. If they send an IM to your cell phone number with a plus in front of it, you'll get it as an SMS and can reply to their IM.

 

[BritinNC]

As for your last point, you can already do that. If they send an IM to your cell phone number with a plus in front of it, you'll get it as an SMS and can reply to their IM.

Didn't know that.

Thanks!

Does it go through the Internet? I got dinged for extra $$ when I sent International SMS messages, but I suspect through this method I'll just be using my packaged SMS messages, right?

 

[SalsaShark]

Yeah. It works with AIM anyway. I suspect they just have some AIM-SMS bridge on their end that handles it. Should be treated like a regular SMS on the phone. Another option is to set up a mobile account on AIM which will always be shown as online to other AIM users, but will forward messages directly to your phone.

 

[bmarker]

A software update to enable video capture should be possible. There were some 3rd party native apps being developed at the recent C4 conference, and the top iPhone hack was rudimentary video conferencing.

I was excited about the video capture part of the video call app more than the call part. Sadly, reading the details, it didn't do video. It just snapped frequent photos. It was more like talking heads than real video (just from the description as I haven't seen it). There's nothing to prove that the camera in the iPhone could do video with just a software update (though that does not prove it is impossible either).