In other words, "make iOS more like Android".
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Things I would love to see in iOS 5
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#22"Better Push Notifications: Apple should just straight out copy Android’s Cloud-to-Device API. That’s it."
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#24"Dynamic Icons, API to fetch URLs in the background, Better Push Notifications, Wireless Sync" « none of these will happen unless Apple gets their hands on a much longer-lasting yet thinner and cheaper battery. Because unlike Android phones which comes with a removable battery and thus battery drain != a useless brick as long as a replacement battery is at hand, iOS design/feature-set has to be very careful about battery conservation given Apple's hardware design choices.
Having said that I fully expect, Apple, who has been in the business of making software for close to 35 years, which is a full 5 years more than "90% guy" Microsoft, already have these features either on their ToDo list or in prototype form just waiting/working for the battery tech to reach that threshold where they are confident of it holding up when used by the mass market.
In short, I don't expect iOS5 to have most or even all of these features but maybe by the time iOS6 rolls around, battery tech will have reached the point when these features would have become practical. For iOS5, the flagship feature( Steve calls them 'Tent-poles' )will be NFC, and joining this tent-pole on stage will be the usual hardware improvements, Game Center/Ping updates etc, but nothing of the sort that has the potential to 'leech away' the battery.
Re: Things I would love to see in iOS 5
#25"Dynamic Icons, API to fetch URLs in the background, Better Push Notifications, Wireless Sync" « none of these will happen unless Apple gets their hands on a much longer-lasting yet thinner and cheaper battery. Because unlike Android phones which comes with a removable battery and thus battery drain != a useless brick as long as a replacement battery is at hand, iOS design/feature-set has to be very careful about bat…
NFC = Near Field Communication, it is a short-range high frequency wireless communication technology which enables the exchange of data between devices over about a 10 centimeter (around 4 inches) distance.
Re: Things I would love to see in iOS 5
#26A big feature conspicuously absent from iOS is a unified documents folder accessible by all apps, and some basic file management capabilities. It would preferably be mounted as a virtual mass storage device when you plug in the USB cable. Here's hoping this'll be one of the features of 5.0.
A unified documents folder just doesn't work as seen on OSX. Most filetypes are bound to a specific application anyway, so there's no point in a cluttered unified folder.
Many file types can be opened by several different applications, and using the Mail app to transfer them from one app to another as we do now is simply an awful, awful kludge. If I'm looking for a file on my iPhone, I'd much rather have a central document repository to look through than to have to dig through a bunch of emails to find the attachment in question, or use a bunch of unique app interfaces with their own document management implementation. This limitation is so obvious that I'm surprised anyone would actually think the status quo is acceptable, let alone advantageous.
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#27That the author suggests that, since the iPad has a landscape homescreen, this could just be enabled for iPhone shows a lack of appreciation of Apple's design sensibilities that pervades this article. Just because the iPad has it doesn't mean it doesn't need designing for the iPhone. Furthermore, the iPhone is primarily a portrait device. The iPad, not fitting easily in one hand, is as much a landscape device as it i…
I agree that I would prefer they don't add in landscape home page. As it is, most people have developed a certain flipping technique for rotating their phone in their hand, which is much harder to do with an iPad. And once you introduce a landscape home screen, then you can't use spatial memory to launch apps anymore. Personally, I would prefer that the iPad used a 4 x 4 set of icons for just this reason. Icons are a…
If the icons rotated in place, the icon positioning might not be too bad.
Re: Things I would love to see in iOS 5
#28"Better Push Notifications: Apple should just straight out copy Android’s Cloud-to-Device API. That’s it." Or, you could try my app, Jumping URL ( http://www.jumpingurl.com ), instead.
hey buddy, i like your thing but umm your app won't download in the app store. it says that it is no longer available.