“ONCE YOU OWN AN IPHONE, STEVE OWNS YOU”

My Razr had it, my crappy old Nokia had it and so many others do. Why Not have a Video option?

Other than that I agree with the 1st 5 options.

To receive: You are sent a URL (on your iPhone) where you can type in a password and retrieve the message (on your home computer)

To send: Use your computer to send to any cell phone (including the iPhone)

There is NO IMPORTANT message that would be sent to me via MMS.

1. You can now (latest update) double press the bottom key to bring up your Call Shortlist.

2. Search should be wildly enhanced once Leopard is launched.

3. MMS is expensive, not always readable, and almost irrelevant once you have mobile email.

4. Copy/Paste: Yes, it would be nice, I suppose. However, it leads you to the Dark Side of expecting this to be a mobile desktop. That isn’t what it’s for. I expect it will come, eventually.

How would YOU select text? what would that gesture be? Where would you put the permanent UI elements (cut/copy/paste) on a device whose general philosophy is the full use of screen real estate for any given application (i.e., there are no permanent screen elements).

how would you select an image? a portion of it? what would the context be for pasting an image into a text-only place? would you expect “note” to allow images?

Would you expose the underlying file system so that people had to start thinking about accessing sound files instead of songs? JPG files instead of images? VCARDs instead of people?

copy/paste isn’t a feature you can bolt-on after the fact. it’s intrinsic/core to an entire platform, not a bullet-item on a marketing must-have list.

The iPhone is a growing and developing platform.
The Treo or other smartphone is not a developing platform.

What we have with the iPhone is only the start. Things will get better over time – which can’t be said about the other smartphones.

If you don’t like your iPhone, then return it and chose another phone. You don’t have to keep it and keep complaining.

If you do keep it, then it must be better in some way than other phones – to make you want to keep it.

Again, if you don’t like the iPhone, quit complaining and just return it or sell it on eBay.

I’m keeping mine. It works fantastically – better than any other smartphone – Nokia, Sony, Palm, Windows, whatever.

And, again, it will keep getting better.

Remember how the iPod started out – only 5 gigs and a black and white screen. Now we have the iPod touch and the iPod classic – with a much larger amount of storage and a better interface.

Progress, each update adds something better.

Heh sorry, I should have been more clear, I meant my own podcast in the iTunes Store. I already have a bunch synced with iTunes, I love it.

I have 2000 contacts. Sometimes you know a first name, sometimes a last name, sometimes only a company name.

But how do I found these? No search? Shameful for a $399 device from a company which tromped Spotlight as the must have item for Tiger.

Apple is spending more time developing methods to keep 3rd party developers from developing free apps than they are developing new apps because they are going to make a killing off 3rd party software sales. It’s sad when companies inhibit the growth of their products to make an extra buck.

The one thing that is most obvious to me is the fact that with this virtual panel, Apple didn’t think to allow you to place your most used contacts right on the home screen. I mean, the device is first and foremost communications device. Having your contacts (at least 1-4 of them) right on the home screen seems like a no brainer to me. If I pick up a phone I want INSTANT access to my most most used contacts. I don’t want to dig through a number of menu screens. On my RAZR I use voice activation, so I don’t go through ANY menu screens. I simply say the persons name and it calls them. The iPhone doesn’t offer this feature, so having your contacts on the home page would be the next best thing. Being able to customize the home screen is a major feature that Apple seems NOT to want to give you. If that’s the case, why even bother with a virtual screen of buttons?

Offtopic though, suppose i wanted to get my podcast into iTunes, what would one do?

Shoundn’t ?