What the iPhone should or shouldn't do

[unixronin]

There have for some time been rumors that Apple would sooner or later bring out a smart mobile phone of their own.  The arrival of said phone is now reportedly imminent.

This columnist has his own ideas of how Apple should make its phone stand out from the pack, principally by making your phone a portal to your Mac and giving your Mac the ability to stream music to your phone via iTunes.

Personally, I think he's out of his mind.  Not only would Apple's iPhone then be competing against its own iPod, but the cellular carriers would be laughing all the way to the bank.  Instead of selling service plans with a thousand minutes of airtime a month, they'd be looking at selling plans with a thousand minutes per day.  The lowest-airtime plans that you could buy would probably jump from 700 minutes a month to several thousand.  For those of us who rarely use a hundred minutes a month, that'd really suck.

Comments

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure, I think making it easier to access your computer from your phone is a perfectly reasonable idea. But the idea of streaming music from your computer to your phone is barmy.

[koyote.livejournal.com]

in FACT- google is leading the way. gmail and gtalk are both on my phone. I'm desperately seeking 2 bugfixes (autochecking mail, and automatic signon in gtalk)- but I'm now waiting ever so impatiently for google calendar.

[outtamyskull.livejournal.com]

heh. I want auto sign _out_ on my accounts. I REALLY dislike having to remember to sign out if i walk away from a computer, my crackberry or the something.

[koyote.livejournal.com]

ah, I have a lock on my crackberry

[outtamyskull.livejournal.com]

I have a lock on my BB to, but my desktop/laptop don't lock as quickly.