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How I would change the iPhone.
Author: Vidyut Luther28 Sep
So, it’s been a few months since iPhone 3G came out, and a little over a year that the original jesus revealed itself.
After using the phone from the day of launch, here are my thoughts on where Apple can focus on, to make my life easier.
- Wireless Syncing: Seriously, AppleTV has it, why not the iPhone? I’d like to be able to keep the phone next to my
bed as an alarm, charging via the supplied wall charger, and still have the phone update my music, my new TV shows, and
podcasts automatically. I don’t want to go back to the office to connect to my laptop. What’s the point of the wall charger otherwise? - Dashboard Sync: Here’s another thing which would help me and others considerably. I already have my dashboard configured with my weather applets, my clocks, and my stocks. Why do I have to renter them into the phone? Granted, it’s a one time thing usually, but if I make a change to the cities I want to check the weather for, I have to do it in two places, same for the hot new stock my friend just told me about.
- Legitimate Tethering: I love my phone, I am happy with AT&T’s 3G service, I want to use it with me whenever I need to, why do I need to have two separate plans? This is the most customer unfriendly thing Apple has ever done in my opinion. Apart from greed, I have not come across any other reason for not allowing this. AT&T and Apple have shown complete and utter disregard, and contempt for their users here. I bought the iPhone because I thought it would be a converging device, so I wouldn’t have to have a cell phone and an mp3 player when I travel. Now, I have a cell phone/mp3 player + 3G data card, with software that sucks for it. AT&T offers users of their 3G unlimited plan, basic access to their wifi hotspots, but they have no way of getting this access via a mac. Plus, the option GT ultra card software, is horrible, it crashes randomly. It makes no sense that these two companies can’t work with each other and make sure the products they peddle work with each other out of the box.
That’s my list, how would you change things? Not that Apple is listening over here, but it’s always nice to dream eh? I purposely left out the copy/paste thing, as it’s a given, it would be nice to have, I personally have never needed it on ANY phone, maybe I’m not a power user after all?
2 Responses for "How I would change the iPhone."
Personally, the copy+paste is a big deal for me. I used it a lot on my treo. Not being able to send/receive MMS messages is absurd too. When my sister sends me a photo, the text I get points me to a login where I can see it. Which would be only midly annoying, if I had copy+paste - but I don’t. Even the shittiest phones out there support MMS.
Additionally, not being able to backspace (non-delete) is a pain too. Even just beng able to touch the screen to tell the cursor where to go would be a good start. I see some apps seems to support this, but that vast majority don’t, and really, there should be a back arrow key to make it independent of the app. If I don’t realize I’ve misspelled something in the first sentence until I’m on the fifth, that leaves me few options.
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