iPhone Wish List January 23, 2009
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- Allow unsigned apps – Apple doesn’t necessarily have to let anything and everything into the App Store, they just need to let people build applications, distribute them themselves and have the user import them using iTunes.
- Allow Sync over WiFi - iTunes already has the functionality needed for network syncing – because the AppleTV uses it. Most people don’t shift that much content when syncing, so speed would not be an issue.
- Turn by Turn Directions - Either Apple should do it themselves or else stop restricting it being done.
- Complete Bluetooth Stack - The Nokia 6680 that my iPhone replaced could transfer files to and from the desktop, why can’t my iPhone? Perhaps allow syncing through bluetooth as well?
- Tethering - I paid for my data plan, now can I use my full allocation please?
- Podcast download over 3G/EDGE - see comment on #5, this can be infuriating if you’re stuck on a bus and want to download the next episode in a series. File size shouldn’t matter – perhaps pop a warning to tell people it’ll take a while.
- Video Recording - no reason this shouldn’t be in the base product. My old phone did it too.
- iTunes syncing conduits - this is an interesting one. Some desktop apps, like OmniFocus for example, have an iPhone companion app. Often, these will in fact sync with the desktop app using WiFi and Bonjour, because Apple does not support syncing third party data through iTunes syncing… Kind of ironic considering #2.
- Call recording - this can be legally a touchy subject. However it could be useful when trying to deal with delinquent cable cos.
- Flash - take the head out of the sand there Apple.
