Honestly, most of the items in this article are frivolous and I’d almost prefer not to have them as part of the update. Seriously, is it really necessary to have a landscape home screen for the iphone or to be able to customize the appearance of the icons. while nice for those who prefer to customize every aspect of their device, this would, IMO, detract from the clean/consistent look of the device which is an important part of its mass appeal (which, like it or not, does benefit us power users).
what I’m hoping for (in order of preference) are:
1. Multitasking (in some form) – I even think that full multitasking the way it is implemented in typical phones is overkill and likely to be a battery drain. what would be useful is powerful suspend/resume for hte typical app, sound in the background, enhanced notification system, and ability for apps to communicate with one another somehow to exchange information (maybe even wake one another up). also, apps that run in the background should go through a special path in the app store and be approved by the user for background execution (for security purposes).
Particularly for the ipad, I’ld like to also have a way to access/call up iphone-sized apps from within other apps. not full windowing, but somehow call up, say a twitter or IM client (that need not and should not be full screen) over the top of the app I’m currently using (dashboard-style) to quickly read/view tweets/IMs. Growl notifications would be a nice addition as well.
2. Home Screen/Lock Screen Customization – I’ve toyed around with the Nexus one and one of the nicer things about this compared to the iphone is the ability to use widgets on the home screen. the enhance resolution of the Nexus one does make this a bit more usable but the ability to have, say, a half-size or quarter-size “widget” version of various apps on the home (or lock) screens would be a huge improvement to the limited usefulness of the current home screen.
Of course, for the ipad, having iphone sized “widgets” would be cool as well.
Some of the jail-break apps do this particularly well and could serve as an example for Apple to follow.
3. Better App Organization – I’m not sure that folders in the traditional (or Android) sense is the right way to go here but maybe ability to slice and dice based on existing categorization, hide apps (as another commenter suggested), or maybe have flippable slider controls to simulate folders. App “suites” or “bundles” would be nice as well – sellers could then sell 3 apps at a special price and also have them organized together on the device.
4. Better calendar/Exchange integration – the exchange integration (for those of who use an iphone for business) is barely passable and far behind the Blackberry devices in this area. particularly, better notifications with snooze, ability to show tentative appts as tentative, ability to forward invites, add attendees, and response to meeting requests with comments are all essential.
5. Flash support – yes, I know this is not going to happen but this is the one item that I think that would push many over the edge to purchase an ipad and make 99% of the web accessible from the iphone/ipad.
6. Mac wireless synching/streaming – I would love it if Apple would combine AppleTV/MacMini/Time Capsule into a single device that could be connected to my TV with a boxee/plex style interface (not Apple TV) and contain, say, a 1TB drive (or start small and make expandable via USB or e-SATA) that would contain all of my media content and, while in my house, wirelessly stream content to my iphone or ipad (including, say, DirectTV, if i pipe this into my Mac-Mini) and allow me to select items I want to take with me (iTunes already does a lot of this). Then, if I want to access any of my content through my TV or stereo, I could control this through the iphone/ipad as well and use it as a remote. Most of this already exists…it’s just a matter of putting it all together. as a plus, I would be able to view all of my content remotely over 3G or Wi-Fi – SlingBox style.
7. Remote File Sharing – Ability to use DropBox (ideally) or some other service to enable all files on my device to be accessible from a central location.
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