10 features eWeek wants to see in iPhone OS 4.0:
• Multitasking: The most obvious choice for an addition to iPhone OS 4.0. It has been one of the most coveted features since Apple released the iPhone. Plus, it’s a feature that’s available in several competing devices. Apple needs to get to work on multitasking sooner rather than later.
MacDailyNews Take: iPhone has multitasked since inception. eWeek must mean multitasking for third-party apps.
• Gaming Integration: With Sony’s PlayStation Network?
MacDailyNews Take: We understand that this article is really just a thinly-designed vehicle designed to point out iPhone’s deficiencies vs. so-called competitors’ offerings, but that one is a stretch too far.
• Adobe’s Flash: Millions of Websites just don’t work on the iPhone.
MacDailyNews Take: And they still wouldn’t even if Flash was allowed on iPhone OS devices. Flash’s need for a hovering mouse doesn’t exist on iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. Please read: Why Adobe’s Flash doesn’t work on Apple’s iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.
• More Control: Apple should allow users to remove the iPhone’s stocks, weather or even Mail apps.
MacDailyNews Take: Obviously, eWeek is already having trouble filling out their list of 10 anti-iPhone bullet points.
• Improved File Management: Apple has attempted to market the iPhone as a mobile computer replacement… Until true file management comes around, the iPhone is still leaving users wanting more.
MacDailyNews Take: Just typing something doesn’t make it true. Apple has not “attempted to market the iPhone as a mobile computer replacement” and iPhone doesn’t need a Finder.
• Improved Mail: Including fixing its design and working on developing a single mailbox where people with multiple accounts can see all their messages in one spot.
MacDailyNews Take: Agreed. Finally.
• Built-In Social Networking: This is where we take a Microsoft talking point and use it to slam Apple while promoting Windows Phone 7 Series under the guise of “10 features we want to see in iPhone OS 4.0.”
MacDailyNews Take: Oh, alright, we wrote that description. We think it’s closer to the truth than eWeek’s.
• Power Scheduling: One of the neat features available to BlackBerry owners is the option to decide when the phone’s antenna can run… With better power scheduling, users might be able to increase battery life.
MacDailyNews Take: Okay, better power management is fine. Anyone left doubting that this piece is a thinly-designed vehicle designed to point out iPhone’s deficiencies vs. those of so-called competitors? That eWeek needs to take several platforms’ talking points to get to a list of 10 is telling.
• iBooks: Apple [should[ bring [iPad’s] iBooks to the iPhone. The device might not be the best product to read ebooks on, but iPhone owners will be expecting it in the new OS version.
MacDailyNews Take: This is where eWeek gets to denigrate iPhone’s e-book ability despite the fact that iPhone is the world’s leading e-Book reader by far.
• An Improved App Store: Apple needs to make it easier to find applications. It also should do a better job of organizing the apps to get the best and most relevant programs to the user.
MacDailyNews Take: Agreed. However we’d never trade such issues for having 1/10th or fewer apps.
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@TheConfuzed1
iCal (on your Mac), Preferences, “Show Birthdays calendar”
Who’s “we”? That jackass writes how we want control to delete the mail app but shortly after he claims that we want to do more with mail app. WTF?!
And I don’t give a rats ass about networking with Sony game systems or nintendo or boom or baff or weeeeeee
I’m fine with 3rd party apps not running in multitask mode, so far my iPhone works…as.. Desiged!
I’m just amazed this so called writter didn’t bitch about lack of stylus. When will anyone write something original.
@ Rot’n
Does anyone really consider a netbook a “computer replacement”?
@ simple
I’ve looked at FMTouch since it first came out, nothing but a PITA to set up and synchronise, if you read the reviews. Has been the same since the beginning, and seems too complicated for the FMTouch developers. In my opinion it needs Filemaker’s resources to do it properly. Well worth reading the reviews to see what I mean.
If you are starting a database from scratch it looks as if it may be easier to set up, but even then, one user said even the simplest of databases took him a whole morning to get up and running. This exposes the weakness in what could be a killer business app.
There are quite a few useful business apps available now, and with Documents To Go and a decent Filemaker mobile, the iPhone could be best of breed, so to speak. Just my 2c.
@EWeek
Shit in one hand and wish in the other and see which one gets filled faster.
eWank
“Apple should allow users to remove the iPhone’s stocks, weather or even Mail apps.”
You can already do this. Here’s how.
Use iTunes to reorganize your Apps. You can move any apps you don’t want to the 12th screen (which you can’t see on the phone). Your wish is granted.
And if you ever DO want them, you can access them using the Search screen.
You guys try to “defend” iPhone probably stronger than any Apple developer would do. Instead of trying to destroy every possible negative comment, let’s try to get something from it.
Do not be confusing.
Native apps DO NOT MULTITASK, except, probably, the music player. My web browser (yes, I do have an iPhone, and I am quite happy with it) stops updating a webpage when I close it. It may be interesting for many (maybe most) of the users, but I would like to have the possibility of having it running in the background. Have you tried to combine the information of two e-mails in a single forward e-mail? Do you know how many times you have to close, open Notes, close again, and so on? Why not several instances of the Mail program with a possible copy-paste throughout all the windows?
Why I cannot have a week view in my Calendar?
The author of the article is absolutely correct. The iPhone is an excellent device – phone, music player, camera & photo library,and pocket computer. When it comes to surfing the net and accessing web-sites however, the absence of Flash means that the majority of webpages cannot be correctly rendered on an iPhone. Hovering mouse or not – the fact that the vast majority of web developers design their sites to display animation and films via Flash, Apple is in fact controlling access to the web. Apple’s massive restriction of the flow of digital information is as far from “think different” as one can imagine.
I would love a file browser!!!
Well I’d want no multitasking basically only because it might suck….. I go with Apple with the no multitasking. Palm has already taken the best multitasker out there available….. I don’t want to see Apple come up with one since they can’t copy Palm’s and anything other than Palm’s isn’t really that good…. Android’s way isn’t that good either.
I just want things like increased app number and um easier navigation to App Store