[griffman]

Everyone:

The focus of the article was on third party applications we hoped to see. We intentionally left out the things that we felt were OS issues that Apple needs to take care of -- things like cut and paste, Bluetooth support for keyboards and stereo headsets, contacts on the main screen, wireless sync, Flash plug-in, a search tool, email mass delete and mass mark read, video capture, printing to Bonjour printers, syncable notes, customizing alerts and sounds, a voice dialing solution, and some way to categorize our apps and icons on the iPhone's screen.

The article was solely meant to talk about applications beyond the realm of the missing system-level features. That's why many of the things you're bringing up weren't covered.

-rob.

[phadams]

My wish list:

#4: flickr uploader
#3: to do app
#2: universal search
#1: copy/paste

I'm not holding my breath for #1 and #2 since, as John Gruber pointed out, Apple's SDK is probably not likely to allow third party developers access to system level events, such as these would require. Any solution along these lines would probably have to come from Apple itself. Of course, here's hoping that something like that will be part of Thursday's announcement!

[Oldbird]

What about having Voice Recognition phone calling ?
It is a real problem to be driving down the Interstate trying to tap, tap through a half dozens screens to make a phone call.

[holytechie]

What about A2DP so that I can finally use my bluetooth stereo headphones to listen to music and talk on my iPhone?

Add that, voice recognition and the above suggestions and this phone will start to approach functional parity with my 3+ year old windows mobile 5 PDA cellphone.

[csimmons]

I'd like to see a mobile version of iMovie '08 on a video capture-enabled iPhone. Record video to the iPhone, edit it with your fingertips, send it to YouTube. Would take video podcasting to a whole 'nother level. ;-)

[peterpica]

I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned a GPS system built into the iPhone.
That alone would sell the iPhone to me.

[goswim]

VOIP would be KING. I live on an island and was looking at buying a new house further down. When looking at the house, my reception dropped to nearly nothing. I only use my iPhone, so this would cripple me. I'd have to install a landline unless I could get some sort of signal repeater, booster, or... use my wireless internet. This one will be interesting to watch if it happens. I fear Verizon like control coming from AT&T on this one... and, I guess it would be hard to blame them. Who knows.

[mike3k]

#19 - There's an excellent iPhone admin plugin for WordPress that makes writing posts on the iPhone as pleasant as it can be with the lack of a keyboard.
#13 - m.twitter.com is still a lot better than anything else I've tried
#11 - sending photos to Flickr via email works beautifully.

[beerland]

10. PDF/Comic Book Viewer:
The makers of Skim should jump all over this opportunity!
http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/

[solyoung]

Most of these apps already exist on the iPhone if you're using a jailbroken phone. Instead of a wishlist, this should be what the person is looking forward to.
With the speed of the dev community in the jailbroken arena, we'll see apps with the SDK within a week or two (depending on whether Apple has a screening process).

[phadams]

{quote}#11 - sending photos to Flickr via email works beautifully.{quote}

Well, it does work, but it could use improvement. E-mailing the photo resizes your photo to 640 x 480 and you lose the metadata information. Still, it's great for quick uploads on the go.

[vinnie_A]

NicholasCox said:

Wow. I almost didn't look at this because I figured the article and the first 5 posts would scream OMNIFOCUS!

But it's what we need! I have been saving for an iPhone for a while, and I know that when I get it, I'm going to need to be able to do some GTD stuff when I'm away from my Mac.

Omni Group, can you hear us?!

Ummm, expected reply from OmniGroup: Omnifocus already syncs with iCal, and if you have an urgent need to send a new event to it, you can do so via email from the iPhone.

I wouldn't hold my breath....

v

[griffman]

As I noted above, we were looking at apps for the iPhone, not system changes to the iPhone that Apple is responsible for.

-rob.

[nomadmac]

1. FileMaker. Had it on my Palm and I think my Newton. FileMaker would open a whole range of opportunities.
I have a blue tooth bar code scanner. It would be great for doing inventory!
2. Quicken
3. Mileage log that's not web based.