My iPhone wishlist

As with any device, even the iPhone has things that I wish were handled a little bit differently. Some of these ideas are (Last updated: 12/1/2008)

My iPhone Wishlist

  1. I can’t drag and drop to the music folder on my iPhone. Why?
    I have to create a playlist and sync it. Even when I sync it, it removes all of my music first and then transfers all the songs back over to my iPhone. This is kind of ridiculous.
  2. I want gestures. I think it would be awesome to have certain movements on the touch screen that allow you to perform regular tasks such as “call last person” you’d move your finger up and to the left, or text recent contact up to the right, etc. They already have this for Firefox. I think it would be interesting to see on the iPhone.
  3. Google Analytics iPhone App. I couldn’t find a free working Google Analytics App for the iPhone so I’m going to be forced to build one.
  4. Basecamp iPhone App. I couldn’t find a free basecamp app. Maybe it’s difficult to build, maybe not. I’m going to be building this app as well.
  5. RSS Reader iPhone App. I found a few but they sucked and didn’t have the kind of community involvement I liked. I want an RSS Reader that will recommend sites to read or multi-feeds from various sites and topics that are quality voted by the community so that I keep up with not only blogs I like, but the majority and the blogs “the cloud” follows as it were.
  6. QuickBooks iPhone App. I didn’t find an app for this either so once again I will be forced to build it.
  7. Import Contacts iPhone App. From Facebook, Myspace, Gmail, Msn, etc. I have already written a library that allows me to import contacts from these services –  I just couldn’t find one that would actually input them in my iPhone contacts. I don’t know if this is possible, but I’ll find out and make it if it is.
  8. Active Tabs iPhone App. Find any guitar tab you want with a built in tuner — and auto scrolling. OMFG.
  9. Grooveshark iPhone App. I can’t live without Grooveshark on my PC so why do I have to live without it on my iPhone? I don’t. However no apps exist yet, so I will create it.
  10. Beer Run/Money From iPhone App. You’ve been in this situation. You’re with a group of friends and you go to make a beer run, to get food, to buy shit and 5 people want stuff and they all give you money. Who wants to write all of that crap down? This app would ideally keep track of who gave you what amount of $, and what they wanted. It would compare those items against a database and tell you whether or not that person gave you enough money, etc.
  11. Instrument tuner iPhone App. I found a few guitar tuners in the app store but their reviews are horrible. A lot of people claim they don’t even work.
  12. Multi-app support. I want the ability to run multiple apps at one time and call that my preset app. Like “Work” or “Brainstorming” or “Entertainment” so I have games and stuff in entertainment, Work I have important notes and ideas, Brainstorm I have thoughts like these etc.

These are just a few of my ideas. I’m going to be installing Mac OS X Tiger on my laptop along with the iPhone Developer SDK. Stay tuned because I will be writing a lot of iPhone related development articles very soon. I’m getting a mac mini to develop apps on. I am officially a mac user now. Ugh. They sucked me in.

Peace
Bryan

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3 Responses to “My iPhone wishlist”

  1. ben  on December 1st, 2008

    hey bryan,

    thanks so much for including us on this list! we are insanely flattered–and it’s one of the things we too would love to have more than true love, a healthy diet, and world peace. ok, maybe not world peace.

    we’re working on some stuff to be able to get an iphone app out there, and i’d love to chat if you’re interested on helping make it happen. let me know!

    thanks again, and you rock.

    <3
    ben

  2. bryan  on December 1st, 2008

    Absolutely! I’m getting a Mac mini today to start developing apps on. I could have just installed OS X on my PC but a buddy of mine had a mac mini laying around and I figured it wiser to use an OS that’s already proven to develop apps on.

    Lets get together and figure out a way to stream to an app. I already have a few ideas. I’ll send you an email.

    Thanks for the comment Ben.

  3. wes  on December 1st, 2008

    looks good bro, can’t wait to help collaborate. This post ^^ from ben @ grooveshark. way cool


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