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[enzos]

>No, I’ve never used one, either. But if you’re on a first date and you calculate the 20% tip on a slide rule, you’re guaranteed some second-base action later on (provided that you chose your date from good, hearty geek stock).<
I have. Used it at school and university (even though calculators were then available they were way expensive back in the stone age [late 70s]).
Slide rules are very cool - I have a deluxe German-made slide-rule (an Aristo) on my office desk in the hope of impressing like-minded female visitors... no luck so far!
Actually, I've used it to explain why random numbers begin with the digit one 30% of the time (since log1 = 0, log2 = 0.3, log10 = 1, get it?). People who learned the slide-rule understand logarithms, the rest of humanity is only faking it.
Enz

[soslack]

Will we see a VLC player app? Or anything that plays DIVX natively without the need for conversion to iPod mp4 format?

[DiMuzio]

Right on with the Outliner need. If it could sync to a desktop app like OmniOutliner, I am there!

[dshan]

Yes a Preview app is a must, but a real e-book reader app too would make me chuck my PDA in a second for my iPod touch. The iPhone/touch screen is fine for e-books, even better than the Palm T|X I read dozens of books on now (and it's good).
A reader app plus e-books sold via the iTunes store would be exactly what Apple need to corner (and grow) the market for e-books the way they have for music. Steve, if no one reads books any more how come you're selling so many audio books? Every audio book is sold to a reader, no one only listens to audio books.

[JEGATBAY]

Is anyone else having trouble with their iPhone going straight to voicemail and not ringing? I've gone through three phones now and have the same issue. My husband's iPhone is doing the same thing. I reset the phone constantly, but it doesn't last.

[chrisfleck]

We are wondering how many people want to be able to run business windows apps on the iPhone. XenApp in the new Apple App Store could open up the iPhone to thousands of windows apps.
Will this be a reason / rationalization to buy a 3G iPhone ?
http://TechInstigator.com

[hayesk]

JEGATBAY said:

Is anyone else having trouble with their iPhone going straight to voicemail and not ringing? I've gone through three phones now and have the same issue. My husband's iPhone is doing the same thing. I reset the phone constantly, but it doesn't last.

I don't think that's a phone problem. The phone does not decide to send your call to voice mail, your provider's network does. The only way it could be your phone is if it is not reachable at the time of the call. Check your reception.

[alansky]

Voice recorder!

[fassisrosa]

Just give us Flash support! That would be a huge improvement over the crippled browsing experience we currently have on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

[dominiquejames]

To-Do apps may be a dime-a-dozen in iPhone, but I'm hoping the OmniGroup will come up with a solution that syncs with their OmniFocus GTD app, which I happen to really love!
Also, Inhatko I think missed an app that turns the iPhone into a video camera. It will be cool to be able to capture snippets and upload to YouTube in an instant. If we can do it with pictures, why not with videos?

[dominiquejames]

I totally agree with this one! A voice recorder will be one of the essential apps for personal and professional use. It will be awesome! I hope they feature an upload function so we can push the contents out of our limited-space iPhone to the sky-is-the-limit space of the Internet servers.

[soslack]

Flash? No thanks, I like my surfing experience to be flash-ad free.

[flowney]

Since we're posting bounties, let me add one that would thrill me to no end and for which I'd pay $99. I need a way to talk about the iPhone or iPod touch the way I can talk about anything on my Mac. I can project everything that happens on my display to a big screen using a projector or record it for later consumption on-line as a podcast, screencast or whatever. On the Mac, ScreenFlow is just great for screencasting with the venerable Snapz Pro a distant second. We have the tools. We don't have a way to use them to talk about the iPhone and iPod touch.

This is very frustrating. If you've ever given a talk about something that only happens on a computer and had something go wrong at the last minute and you have to say something like," If this had worked, what you would have seen is ..." Talking about these devices with nothing but screen shots is a lot like that. Challenge: illustrate the 'pinch" maneuver with nothing but text and a screen shot and do it in less than 5 seconds.

So, how do I do this? Do I have to get one of those hardware mods that Steve Jobs uses in his keynote presentations or will Apple evolve the iPhone simulator (part of the iPhone SDK) to actually look and behave like (simulate) the real thing?

At the very least, this will relieve us from all of those wretched YouTube videos of the iPhone and iPod touch that are impossible to understand for the glare, shaking and overall fuzziness of these videos. These folks have interesting stories to tell such as "What I did to my iPhone on summer vacation" but their voice is muffled for the want of this access. So, to Apple, I say, "Gimmie have-it."