“Apple may not have targeted the enterprise directly yet with the iPhone and iPad, but for some time, enterprise users have nonetheless chosen Apple products to use at wo,” Zack Whittaker writes for ZDNet.
“It’s therefore in the Cupertino, California-based technology giant’s best interests to start catering for the needs of those in business, particularly if it can ultimately add to the company’s bottom line,” Whittaker writes. “With the expected release of Apple’s next iteration of its mobile platform, iOS 7, later this year, what can we hope to expect to appease the burgeoning number of enterprise users?”
Whittaker writes, “Here are 15 suggestions that would bolster Apple’s relationship with its enterprise customers.”
• A physical divide between ‘personal’ and ‘work’
• Better email management
• Quick access to core system features, like wi-fi and VPN
• Automatic app updates
• Custom domain search in Spotlight
• Unread item count on lock screen
• Location-aware sound profiles
• Location-aware wi-fi networking
• ‘Guest mode’ for BYOD users
• AirDrop for simple file-sharing functionality
• Longer PIN code for enhanced security
• Set default apps
• iPad multitasking
• Uninstall native, unnecessary apps
• Offline maps
Each of the fifteen bullet points above discussed in the full article here.
I would not mind a revamped multitasking system. I mean, at least add a clear button. I find it tedious to have to close 50 apps one at a time.
My list:
Multitasking: I’d like to see two apps at once. Main idea is to type in one app while viewing another. It could be that during a townhall meeting I want to look up something in Safari or get someone’s contact information. Or I want to watch a video while writing comments. Split screen or Picture in Picture would be nice.
Update Pages on the iPad to include Layout mode.
Bring Keynote on iOS to parity with Keynote on OS X.
Incorporate handwriting to text.
Provide a common pool for file sharing much as many apps can access images in the camera roll.
Export to PDF as a system wide feature available to all apps.
I would to have private folders that don’t show what apps are inside and also that folder be password protected .
Adding a 3 possible function to the slider for sound vs vibrate. Add the function that allows user to go from sound mode to do no disturb mode instead of silent.
I like the location aware sound profiles idea and the quick access to core feature using notification center or something like that.
Most of this idea are just garbage.
I mean most of HIS ideas are garbage.
Well, since Apple bought Authentec and then promptly shut it down, at least have the decency to add fingerprint scanning to new iOS devices and Mac keyboards.
Authentec had a fire sale clearing out the fingerprint scanners and I picked up a few which are held as a reserve. They are getting quite expensive as the supply exhausts.
Also, a lot of the stuff on that guy’s list is already on Android natively or through apps.
Fingerprint scanning is only useful as an overall system of multi-factor authentication. Used on its own, in some ways it is even less secure than using a decent password. There’s a reason that fingerprint authentication has never been more than a quaint sideshow. I have no idea why Apple bothered to buy Authentec. But Apple tend to be far more creative than I am. 😉
Two things that have been on my wish list since my very first iphone (or an iphone with a led flash).
1. Easy & quick access to change brightness, like I can with the volume.
2. Ability to quickly get the LED flash to turn on so I can use it as a flashlight without having to search for my flashlight ap.
That’s it, those are my only “I can’t believe we’re still (&^$^#% making it a pain to access brightness or the flash.”
You can get all that in the new BlackBerry phone……
While I highly doubt someone reads page 2+ …
How about the free apple calculator that iPhone users enjoy already… on the iPad? I do not see any logical reason for it to NOT be on the iPad. But noooo, I have to actually purchase one (unless I were to jailbreak my iPad, which I won’t, ever). Figured out the clock (albeit miserable UI), no pretty please with Calculator.
Make social app hooks disappear if unused. I don’t care to Twitter or to Facebook my private life, thank you. And if I don’t have a login, don’t include options to use what I don’t have.
Safari DOWNLOADS folder!
And while we are at it, if I save a movie, song, whatever… open it in the appropriate app!
And I get that Apple, yes you, have this thing about pushing sales of videos, songs, books, storage, etc. That is clear from the obnoxious store-related buttons, that make it so easy to buy content at pharmacy prices. AT LEAST give me the option to add content from Safari. It is doable with ebooks, it is possible with video.
And yes, there are unix tools to identify a movie file being an actual movie file, and further, to see if a video component is what it claims to be.
User Experience! Update! Please! Now that Retina Display is on most devices, pair it with beauty. Ive is hopefully scrapping the leather look of Calendar, etc.
And please, PLEASE stop developing only for this months iPad only! iPad devices are not cheap (and very good… my version of the Companion Cube). I get that Clippy, erm, Siri, needs the processing power. But the only real big feature benefit for my iPad2 was the Clock! AND confusion about Podcasts not being in Music (while Audiobooks are).
Oh there is more, but this should suffice.
Passcode to turn off phone (if it gets stolen)