Comments on: 2.2 And Eight Things That Are Still Wrong With The iPhone

By: rc boats

rc boats — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:11:12 +0000

You read my mind completely. Couldn't have said it better. Hope the people over at apple read this.

By: JZP

JZP — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:42:03 +0000

Ugh – lots of typos this morning. Sorry about that, rushed on the EVDO.

By: sfoskett

sfoskett — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:26:33 +0000

Nice to hear from you again, Joe!

You're right about these extras (and the Ad-Hoc problem, which bugs me on every WiFi device I have!)

I'm meaning to write a post about all the things that are wrong specifically with the iPod in the iPhone/Touch… Gotta add this!

By: JZP

JZP — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:06:27 +0000

Oh yeah, and on the 802.11 — why does the ipod touch/ihone *not* differentiate between ad-hoc (computer-to-computer) and infrsatructure (AP) networks? Very abusable vector for hijacking traffic.

By: JZP

JZP — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:04:45 +0000

Things you missed that have been bugging me:

OS v1.x of music.app allowed one to listen to the audio track of a video podcast (like when I'm walking on the part of my commute). Now you get 'helpfully redirected' to the video viewer. Not a big deal for iphone, but ipod touch users with smaller batteries get hosed. The versions keep changing how repeat works/defaults on the podcasts as well; one is forced to catch the end if you are not listening to the most recent first. Agreed on the scrubber bar – lousy to go forward/back since there is no since of scale; allowing us to scale the scrubber bar would be great. Streaming URLs please! Most of the third party apps have issues on this or that stream.

Calendar: great that you can finally select from multiple calendars when creating an event on the device, but te improvement is only half-hearted since you still cannot edit an event and change in what calendar you have. Weakness on making iphone/ipod touch a standalone device.

Spreaking of calendar usage – mail.app still doesn't process .ics attachements. How ridiculous is that? I would expect to have to complain that we're forced to calendar.app instead of gcal or anything of our choose. I didn't expect that the feature would be totally lacking!

And yeah, the default notes.app is weak; great I can mail the note stright from the application, but why can't i save a mail message as a new note?

By: sfoskett

sfoskett — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:38:47 +0000

This is a really, really, REALLY good idea. Seriously, Wayne, I wish I'd thought of it! It's especially useful for all the “Linksys”, “Default”, “Wireless”, etc SSIDs out there. And the thing CAN tell the difference between networks using the MAC address – that's what the Skyhook location stuff in (Google) Maps already does!

By: ccoc

ccoc — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:35:26 +0000

I'd like to see a model with an improved camera that includes auto focus

By: sfoskett

sfoskett — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:38:47 +0000

By: ccoc

ccoc — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:35:26 +0000

I'd like to see a model with an improved camera that includes auto focus

By: wayne schulz

wayne schulz — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:20:55 +0000

How about allowing me to selectively set a wi-fi connection to prompt before connecting. I know that I can do this globally however whenever I'm connected to a public access point with a SSID like “linksys” — I should be able to tag that connection to NOT automatically connect.

My home and work access points are uniquely named. I want them to allows connect.

If Apple isn't sure how to implement this – look at how BlackBerry does it.