What's left for a phone to do?

[Arran]

The design agenda and quality were set in place long ago by Jobs and others and that should continue for a long time yet.

I agree on that, but that's more of an ability to execute on delivering products. What Apple chooses to deliver is what gets people excited and gets people buying.

People get emotional over the arts (music and films) and photography (photos of our kids growing up). But credit cards? Yes, to a degree, but it doesn't give me a lump in my throat.

I think health has potential. If nothing else there's a lot of money there. I'm sure Tim'll figure out how to bag some.

 

[Menel]

Handoff is a by-product of an older tragedy - the birth of the iPad and iOS. At the time a group of Apple naysayers were taken aback by how unproductive the iPad was - you couldn't simply work on it as you could with your Mac. So sharing workloads was out of the question, and so instead, the iPad was adopted and praised as a media device.

That changed gradually as more and more productivity Apps were developed, with workarounds for iOS's lack of file handling capability. Things are picking up and people start wanting to share their workload between devices.

This is where we should have been on day 1. iOS is the elephant in the room. If Apple went with Mac OS-lite or an OS that could at least handle files better - we'd be here sooner.

We know why iPad blew for productivity - they wanted to share the OS with the iPhone's. And an iPhone was never going to handle even a lite version of Mac OS (and its iOS was already established).

It's like watching a kid make a mess, then thanking them for partially cleaning it up.



Continuity, what's that? Texting or calling on a computer or something? Isn't there a 1000 ways to communicate with video and chat apps on the desktop already? Not sure what's going on here, didn't take much interest in it.

iOS is Mac OS lite... both built from Darwin. Both share some core libraries like Foundation.

 

[Ayr]

iOS is Mac OS lite... both built from Darwin. Both share some core libraries like Foundation.

Nah. OS-anorexic more like.

Well done for picking up on the least important pedantic point though from that whole thing.

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I agree on that, but that's of more an ability to execute on delivering products. What Apple chooses to deliver is what gets people excited and gets people buying.

People get emotional over the arts (music and films) and photography (photos of our kids growing up). But credit cards? Yes, to a degree, but it doesn't give me a lump in my throat.

I think health has potential. If nothing else there's a lot of money there. I'm sure Tim'll figure out how to bag some.

Yep, they went for health. Gap in the market there. Again, they'll innovate there as it's wide open.

Sports - they didn't even try. Too many serious players there. Couldn't even be arsed sticking GPS in their watch.

 

[ET iPhone Home]

Wall Projection is what I want.

 

[Ayr]

Wall Projection is what I want.

Long way off, but I'd love that too. Project Sufferfests onto gym walls when you're not at home, stuff like that. Opens up a whole lot of interesting ideas.

 

[est1738]

2014 and Apple still aren't making waterproof phones, and tons of phones get water-damaged every year. Samsung are ahead of the game here.

Apple's file handling on iOS is tragic. I actually feel embarrassed for them at Cupertino when I think about it. All those heads, working all week for years, and we have mobile devices that are worse at handling files than computers were in the 80s.

Anyway, the big move now is making watches with phone-like capabilities. Again, Samsung way ahead - you can switch your SIM into their Gear S and handle texts and calls on it. No need to be tethered to another lump of metal.

Apple will go down this road too. Maybe 4 or 5 years from now you'll see a decent AppleWatch. Maybe never if it all blows and tech companies pull out.

Samsung might offer water resistant phones but it clearly states in their warranty if you water damage a samsung phone you void the warranty. There is no point to have a water "proof" phone if the warranty won't cover it.

 

[carjakester]

Be good enough to where it doesnt need to be replaced in a year

 

[Ayr]

Samsung might offer water resistant phones but it clearly states in their warranty if you water damage a samsung phone you void the warranty. There is no point to have a water "proof" phone if the warranty won't cover it.

Don't care about the warranty. Just want companies to put some effort into it so that in real world usage it can take a bit of water-torture

 

[apple.snapple]

Siri MUST expand and be "always listening". I want to have a near invisible microphone and speaker in my ear. I want siri to announce all of my notifications directly to my ear. I want to be able to answer emails/texts/whatever by using my voice alone. I know this isn't going to happen without some serious battery innovations, so I'm not expecting anything soon.

I think we are getting close with "hey siri", but you still have to have it plugged up and you still have to use your phone, so it's a wash at this point... but they are on the right track.

 

[anthonybkny]

at this rate, they should just stick a phone inside an ipad mini and call it a day

 

[Markiie]

- Battery that lasts a week
- Screen that doesn't crack easily (saphire)
- Water resistant
- Smaller area above and below the screen so the phone is smaller while maintaining the same screen size.
- Random feature out of nowhere that Apple will think of that will have some awesome marketing to make us buy the phone, play with that feature like crazy for 2 days, then never use it again. (siri)

Hahahahahaha soooooooooo true!!!