On August 1 2007, I published an article called "My Month with the iPhone" wherein I examined the iPhone's now well-known advantages and deficiencies and speculated extensively on where Apple was likely to take the phone, development-wise. Now that the new iPhone and the iPhone 2.0 software have been out for a few weeks, and there's been a whole new storm of praise and gripes raging, I thought it would be illuminating for me to re-visit my prognostications and take my lumps.
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I think a lot of these problems will be fixed once the new Notification API is released this September.
http://gizmodo.com/5031559/iphone-developers-get-push-notification-...
Frankly many of the features you are complaining about lacking will be helped greatly by the notification API and will likely be implemented sometime after it is released.
Also many of the features people want with the iPhone will probably come with v3.0. The v1 was just to get it out the door, v2 was to release an initial SDK for third party developers, and v3 will probably be an updated and expanded SDK plus many of the current missing features. I mean hell it took until Leopard for Apple to make major modifications to Finder in OS X. Once the notification API is released that will probably be it for v2 besides bug fixes especially for MobileMe per the rumored recent e-mail by Steve Jobs.
Improved bluetooth does seem like such a killer app for an Apple product doesn't it. Maybe they're waiting for Wireless USB?
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Edited 2008-08-05 23:55 UTC
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I am bothered by Apple's on-again/off-again bit with NetShare, the unexplained grumblings with BoxOffice, the ridiculous approval process, and their limitation of competing apps, such as an alternative browser or media player.
I think the lack of MMS is embarassing. Every US carrier supports it. To throw away something so many use seems silly. I'm surprised AT&T doesn't insist on it if only for the additional revenue.
The lack of wireless sync spits in the face of all Apple work over the last 5 years. I have ONE wire going to my mac for power. Keys, mouse, network, everything else - even a time machine volume - is wireless. That my CELL PHONE needs a data line to sync - a device whose sole purpose is to be wireless - should be seen as a direct insult to developers who made the Mac what it is.
Also, I'm surprised there's still no copy/paste and A2DP, if only to shut up the detractors!
That said, I LOVE my iPhone. When I got my 3G, I gave my 1st gen to my wife, who loves it. It's still the best phone on the market.