Like everyone else, I'm pretty exited about the iphone. But I won't be head over heels excited until I find out if 3rd parties can develop apps for it, because a slick phone would be neat, but a real version of OS X with 3rd party apps would be like cherries every day. This list of "I want" apps came to mind almost immediately. What's on your list?
1. I want to be able to find photographs on the net geotagged to my current location with a scroller that goes back chronologically. Imagine standing at a particular spot, and instantly be able to see what happened there last week, last month, last year. (idea originally from Jakob Lodwick)
2. I want fingerpainting. (allowing you to choose between watercolors, gouache, oils, etc... and with paint running down the screen based on the phone's orientation)
3. I want an intruder alert. In other words you lock your phone with a special code, and if someone picks up your phone it starts taking pictures, recording sound and sending you an email with photos and the recording. Also it should have a siren.
4. I want an alarm clock set to one of my itunes playlists.
5. I want Netnewswire.
6. I want a portable antfarm with virtual ants.
Comments:
I-want a phone that is just a phone, not a laptop, not an mp3 player, not a camera, but just a phone. 10 digits, call and hang-up buttons. That's it.
I-enjoy your blog, cheers,
jeremy
Hey, Jeremy- Knock yourself out. simple phones are everywhere and cheap. Personally I too have never desired a smart phone...until now. To me the iPhone is equivalent to taking my Mac in my pocket...and that's a very attractive new paradigm.
out of curiosity what phone do you use now?
I actually want a smaller form factor iphone... one about the size of the nano... I don't need video, just a ipod, a phone, and and address book. don't care about email.
I was a phone freak for years an then went cold turkey. So right now I don't have a phone. The iphone is forcing me to make the plunge again... Even without 3rd party apps (my guess is the first version of the phone will be closed) it's the kind of phone I've been waiting for...
i think it would be great to have an iphone with lots of apps but I want to have any app available for the iphone, not just what steve at apple lets us.