Apple,
Your 95% there, just finish the job. The iPhone / iPad are great devices, but there are some key missing bits that annoy me daily. And these I believe are simple things, so they shouldn't pose any real challenge. Also in non conversation mode, it knows if your message is a reply, but there is no way to click anything to see the original.
1. Mail
Please give me the option to see all unread mail. I need to do this every day, many times a day, and scrolling through a list of 1000+ mail items is just bad user experience and slow.
2. Exchange Sync
The exchange sync is pretty good, however it's still not BlackBerry good. Couple things, notes dont sync over wireless, u need to sync through iTunes. And events dont properly sync. If I accept a meeting on my PC (yes I dont use a mac) it still shows on my phone with an accept option, it doesn't know I've accepted the meeting elsewhere.
3. Facebook Chat
The facebook app is ok, but the Facebook website is much better. And on the iPad specifically works great, but the chat isn't enabled. Enable this and my wife doesn't need a laptop she can survive with just an iPad.
4. Application Ripoff
I didn't realize until recently that many apps come in two versions iPhone and iPod versions. I think this is a con / ripoff. Its like buying Photoshop and then you upgrade your Airbook to a 27" iMac and you need to buy it again. They are getting away with this because its a HD version, better graphics etc. But Apple need to stop this, it should work on all iOS devices. The pricing is also very unfair. Take Angry Birds for example $1. But $5 for iPad, is it 5x better, was it 5x as much work to develop? No its priced like this, oh you can afford an iPad you can pay more.
5. Restrictions
If you have kids, they love to play with these devices, so disabling in app purchases and deletion of apps is a must. But you cant disable rearranging icons. Every time my 2yo daughter gets my iPhone she moves every icon into groups etc and I cant stop it.
6. Messages
When viewing Text (SMS) messages, if there are a group of messages the device considers related it shows the time for the first one only, I need to see the time of each message thanks, put a timestamp on every message.
7. Dashboard
I'd like a dashboard / home screen that shows you upcoming meetings new mail etc, customizable of course. Every other device has something like this.
8. Notifications
I had to turn off all reminders, why? Because the iPhone decides that the best time to notify you of recurring events that don't have a time, such as birthdays is midnight. So rather than being woken at midnight I'd like it to allow me to pick a time for notification of untimed events or disable notifications of untimed events.
9. App Purchases
If you purchase an app that you have already purchased it tells you and says you already purchased this and so you can download it again free, great. But it doesn't tell you that until after. So I recently knew I had purchased an $8 app, went to get it again. Waited for the you have already downloaded it, but I never got it. And got charged again for the app. So wouldn't it make more sense to just tell me before hand or have a way to determine this.
10. Flash Player
This is only 10 because I dont think its coming. However my wife does Facebook, Facebook Chat, Facebook Games. 1 works fine on an iPad, 2 & 3 don't thus im not going to buy her one. Add flash for things like games etc and you will sell more devices plain and simple. For those performance / battery issues, allow people to disable it if they choose. If you think you will sell less apps because of it, well thats no longer relevant now that Flash can be compiled to iPhone legally and I'd rather have an installed app than run an online app any time. But Apple a high of all sports websites that show live scores use flash and there are many more examples like this.
I know I wont get all of these in iOS 5, but I think they are all reasonable requests needed for a reason not for a passion of desire.
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