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What Features Should Be Included With iPhone 3.0?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the not-that-apple-listens-to-consumers dept.

With the announcement coming tomorrow, Macworld has posted their top list of 15 features they would like to see in an iPhone 3.0 update. The list includes some things that people have been asking for since launch (like cut and paste) and things that were once there but have since been silently removed (like push notifications/background apps). With almost 2 years of time to grow and learn, what other things are woefully inadequate on Apple's popular handheld?

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  1. A free by Chrisq · · Score: 4, Funny

    unlimited porn subscription

    1. Re:A free by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 1, Funny

      That's for their specialty product, the iWack.

  2. Less Smugness? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about the next version include less smugness?

    Sent from my iPhone

    1. Re:Less Smugness? by Uberbah · · Score: 3, Funny

      In that case I'd like the next version to be named iRony, just for you.

  3. what I want by pha7boy · · Score: 3, Funny

    would be a way for the apple software to prevent people from posting "First" comments on any website via the iPhone.

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    -- All this knowledge is giving me a raging brainer.
  4. Re:Pretty easy list by interkin3tic · · Score: 5, Funny

    -Tethering

    Well shoot, you can just put your own tether onto it, be it lanyard you made at summer camp, a dog leash, one of them there chains that keep people from stealing your wallet, or something else. Or you could just hold onto it better.

    -Multitasking

    Here again, no need for updates from apple. I mean, I talk on my phone all the time while doing other things. Not driving though, they just outlawed that. And if you buy TWO iphones, you can use two apps at the same time. Imagine being able to use the lightsaber app while using the zippo app!

    -Video recording

    Tape a video camera to the iphone.

    -USB mass storage support

    While you're taping a video camera to the phone, go ahead and throw a USB thumb drive in there.

  5. Re:Usable Navigation by interkin3tic · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know it says it's not meant for that but that strikes me as trying to cover up being inadequate with some after the fact documentation and legalese.

    What does it say it's "meant" for? Entertainment purposes only? Google maps by miss cleo?

  6. a fan? (old joke) by peter303 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Steve hates fans and keeps them out of this toasters, oops, computers.
    Maybe one of the 25K apps simulates the sound of a fan.

  7. Re:walled garden by RazzleDazzle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Putz! I can't believe you just let Apple win on this point via Godwin's Law.

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    ZERO ZERO ONE ZERO ONE ZERO ONE ONE! Just brushing up for my next big invention: Ethernet over Voice (EoV)
  8. Weapons by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the dark, dank economic times ahead, we need weapons in the iPhone because its cheery and inviting glow will attract the unemployed proletariat riff-raff out on the streets.

    I suggest a titanium telescoping katana that rotates into a Calabi Yau hyperspace manifold when not in use, or an iPhone app that opens a wormhole to a universe full of angry bees.

  9. Magical Pony! by Repvblic · · Score: 2, Funny

    I always found the weakest part of the iPhones interface to be the lack of the Magical Pony to ride around while you laugh at the poor fools stuck with lesser phones.