Randile

Remote desktop management (like gotomypc on the Windows Mobile platform) for my Mac and iPhone.

A resident Bible study program with multiple translations and helps (like My Bible 4 from laridian.com) so I could use it on an airplane or with greater speed when my network connection is slow...

stokar

tdjohan

yamez4u

tonypsx

Hell, I wouldn't even mind if someone would write a better application than Quicken, with iPhone support. Quicken kind of smells.

steveluscher

1. Google Chat or AIM app. Always-on option, similar to TXTing module.

2. Skype Phone. Lets save those minutes. Switch to Skype-Out/In when I have wireless in range.

3. More syncing possibilities. I want to check out my Google calendar and sync to it. Or sync to other address books. Or use a SaaS to save data on my iphone.

4. Last FM. I want to be be able to scrobble tunes from my iphone on my account.

5. A slick RSS reader.

pashmina

I really can't believe some things ppl think up here. Firefox on it? No tx - I don't want bloatware on my cellphone, and it already has a browser, that should be sufficient. Openoffice? Why the hell do you need that on a cellphone? Ppl who need that have laptops to do office stuff. Very basic/limited viewing capabilities and spreadsheet editing - absolutely, but a complete office suite? Useless.

I had a Sony Ericsson P910i for many of the things ppl talk about here, and I did not use it for a lot of the things ppl think of. Why? Not because it wasn't easy to do, but simply because you don't need to. Sure I tried games, office suits, ... which did what they had to do, and weren't bad at all, but I simply did not use any of them.

Basicly the iPhone is such a phone 'done right'. Things I used my p910 for in order of importance:
- Make phone calls/send text messages
- GPS
- Calendar functionality/Todo list
- Reading mail (rarely sent one with it)
- Tracking of expenses
- Some limited surfing (though a bit slowish using gprs)
- Taking pictures (would have been higher on the list if the camera was as good as the one in my K750i)

I personally think that (except for GPS stuff) - the iPhone already is a killer app if it does as it promises, which is: hassle-free syncing of calendar/mail/contacts with PC and mac. Ever tried the nokia or sony-ericsson suites? Or even syncing a windows-mobile PDA with a windows? This is way too complicated at this moment. From what I've seen on the mac, I have every reason to believe that they'll do it right.

One thing that I like about the new Sony-Ericsson P990 is the ability to take a picture from a business-card, apply OCR/image recognition and add it to your contacts. I would love to see these kind of things extended. Like e.g. taking a picture of a restaurant bill straight into a spreadsheet or my expenses application. They may sound like nice-to-haves but if you make it accessible and almost automatic, these are the kind of things that would make my life easier.

KoFFiE

A lot of people make a big deal about Exchange synchronization - but plenty of us out there using Blackberries don't have the luxury of a BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) account. That includes a lot of us in large enterprises who don't rank high enough on the totem pole to get BES accounts.

The Blackberry Internet Service provides access to Outlook Webmail and pushes your email to your BB device, and syncing with your desktop/laptop with a USB cable provides Outlook contacts/calendar/notes/task syncing. In most situations, that is plenty good enough.

Sure, Exchange Server supports POP3/IMAP, but when was the last time IT security for a large enterprise made a firewall exception so your latest gadget could get through and get email?

I really hope I'm missing the blatantly obvious, and that the iPhone will support Outlook webmail. But, I suppose there's always the standard AT&T 30-day return policy :-)

Geraldo

But the real potential for Starcraft 2 is in South Korea with a 3G iPhone. The game is huge over there; South Korea accounted for over 40% of total unit sales of Starcraft 2, and the country has a large number of 3G cell users, making the game on the iPhone a killer app for Korea, and greatly increasing the appeal of the phone as a mobile gaming device.

One other possibility - perhaps there's no SDK necessary because the iPhone SDK is actually the OS X SDK and you'll be able to code for the iPhone with just a few new UI APIs? The only other difference would be performance considerations, which don't require an API so much as they require advice and best practices from Apple.

gfair

BajaBob

Also some financial application like Quicken or Money for iPhone will be great.

vadimzendejas

PSSST
microsoft...that's something you need on your phone...you know...then one that's soon to come?

*cough* zunephone *cough*

RedBeard

5. ARD/VNC with zoom in/out & BT keyboard/mouse support
4. Salling Clicker or other ultra-remote app.
3. A2DP BT profile
2. Flash 8 support in browser
1. VLC or other streaming audio/video client

At the moment I use Pocket Tunes on a Treo 680/T-Mobile EDGE for 64k aac+ streams on the go (works well in my area and the quality is great)...having a true iPod+phone+internet radio+remote assistance in one device would be my ultimate mobile thingamajig and cut down the cluster of devices in my backpack to 1!

xylr869

mbritt

There is my list

vettefreak89

estephanovich

It is, without a doubt, my most required application on any smartphone. It extends my ability to communicate with IRC and every instant messenger.

It gives me a text-based browser for those situations where a mobile-browser is all too talented at breaking a site.

Suppose an RSS feed links to a download you'd like to get, but you're away from home. With SSH you could start the download remotely.

All this connectivity and more, without sacrificing my battery life, because I can disconnect from my shell session at any time and reconnect on a whim.

onu

Galley

yogibimbi

mechanisma22

Lestat

What?

strider_mt2k

It's simple but it would save me a lot of hassle.
(I hope Steve is reading all these great ideas!)

NCMO

Aaron

And, yes I do realize with the built in wireless abilities I can easily access the web but please please please give me a port of flickr uploadr.

codykniffen

jmdecombe

Doing banking on the phone would be awesome and that is already possible since Safari is included. However, it would be great if Apple promoted widget design with banking institutions like Citibank et al, as well as favorite sites like eBay, Amazon, etc., so as to support the equivalent of mobile versions of their essential Web site functions. That way, the user experience would be optimized and you would not have to scroll and zoom around much.

Also, more miniversions of Apple desktop apps like Keynote and Pages (the former probably a given since Steve uses it).

And a universal remote control function, also for FrontRow.

Oh, and MAME support with a Bluetooth joystick or trackball.

jmdecombe

...And for all the people that want Outlook/Excel/Word/PowerPoint: go get a WM6 iPhone clone from the myriad that will flood in from HTC and Samsung. The functionality will be there. If you have to have an iPhone in spite of plentiful alternatives, you are and forever will be Steve Jobs' tool! At that point, it's a fashion statement-not a phone, take what you get.

Spiny Norman

R2B2

jmdecombe

DiddlyDee

homer_s

Sambot

media_lush

How about memo app or notebook from Circus Ponies or OmniOutliner or LifeBalance or ...?

For fun, I second PopCap games and Bejeweled and Tetris and Monopoly and and and...

macimp

nutbastard

Definitely Remote Desktop.

Maybe a stripped down video and/or photo editor, but let's not start talking about FinalCut or Photoshop. Those barely run on what I've got now.

A GPS app would be nice, but not if something has to dangle off the bottom of my
$1936 toy, er, mobile lifestyle device.

Autonomous2323

raj

image18301

macimp

1. A wireless remote transport control for Logic or Garageband. My mac and the iPhone have wifi, so let me hit record, play, etc from across the room where I'm playing guitar. Plus, it plays into the iLife thing, which would make marketing happy.

2. An RPN scientific calculator. Everybody knows real gangstas use HP 48 series calculators, but even modern HP calcs use the same slow ass processors they did in 1992. Add full color, backlit graphs ala grapher, and every Physics nerd will be dying to get their hands on one.

hmccabe

Given the price, I'd expect that a large number of the initial iPhone buyers will be GTD zealots, for which a "basic" to-do app barely suffices. Consequently I'm sincerely hoping that The Omni Group finds a way to offer their forthcoming uber-GTD workhorse, OmniFocus, for the iPhone.

GTD contexts are, by their nature, inherently mobile, and thus exactly the sort of thing you want 24/7 access to in a small, mobile device. Add to that OmniFocus' support for multiple contexts as well as sequential and parallel tasks, and you've got an abundantly flexible - yet elegant - task management environment. Wrap it up nicely in an iPhone UI, and you've got my idea of GTD Nirvana. And my number one most wanted iPhone app.

Well, after Skype of course.

sfslim

sierran

- iChat Mobile (not so much 3rd-party)
- SallingClicker (or an Apple TV / Front Row remote app by Apple)
- Skype (you think AT&T would mind?)
- PDF/Office viewer; editing is unnecessary
- Cha-Ching to track expenses on-the-go
- Games like Solitaire and Sudoku
- More widgets!

mikemcauley

Mobile GMaps and Jimm

Frost

Cheers

mangochutney

The iPhone simply needs:

- iChat
- PDF/Word/Excel VIEWER
- voice recorder
- YouTube uploader widget for movies taken with iPhone camera
- tons of games, obviously

Thataboy

the OS X port is awful and an iphone version would be worse.

David Hildreth

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Not only for campus use, but its huge for the corporate world. It's often a necessary step to get to an Exchange account..even if it only then allows Outlook Web Access.

Sabermetric

Lorticon

Personally if I just get decent text-messages (for server alerts) and a unified Voice/Email/Message Inbox it's enough of a sell, but the extra three things? That's make it replace my MacBook for 90% of my remote needs.

Genady

ANoel

#1 SKYPE- gimme an iPhone, an unlimited data plan, and SKYPE and I could as well be in heaven!

#2 iWork/MS Office, whichever one they decide: Apple Pages/MS Word, Apple Keynote/MS PowerPoint, Apple Tables/MS Excel. I'd rather get the Apple versions but compatibility? i dunno

#3 Adobe Acrobat PDF reader/writer?

#4 Adobe Micromedia FLASH player for online video watching.

#5 a Voice recording program so I can record lectures of my professors at the college.

whatIF

- Adobe Flash Player
- More Widgets
- iPod Games

doinka

Wireless music stream to Bluetooth capable devices.

bluetail

STARCRAFT (1) oh yeah it would be so awsome... but I guess I would miss my bus even more often...

3on

* Final Cut Studio Mobile
* Adobe Photoshop Mobile
* Mathematica Mobile
* AutoCAD Mobile
* Parallels Mobile with Windows Vista support
* Windows Mobile Emulator so I can run StyleTap Palm OS Emulator
* WAP Browser (hehe)

but seriously...

* LogMeIn / CoRD / Apple Remote Desktop / VNC (with pinch-zoom support)
* Multiplayer Texas Hold'em Poker
* Skype
* some sort of YouTube uploader
* Karaoke (MP3+CDG) Player
* PayPal Widget (send and receive money in a flash)
* PayPal Virtual Debit Card
* Barcode scanner and supported apps (think Delicious Library)
* Adium
* BLACKBERRY CONNECT FOR IPHONE
* Voice Dial

Hardware add-ons:
* slim memory card attachment at the 30-pin port
* Griffin iKaraoke (hope it works, saw this in the Apple store and looks fun)
* GPS attachment or Bluetooth GPS support to turn iPhone into a navigation device (think CoPilot for Pocket PC)
* slim battery extender (why Steve couldn't sacrifice 1 extra mm for more battery power is beyond me)

...that's all I can think off the top of my head...

Doyouwannadance

Terminal.

Or XTerm if I'm greedy.

The thought of running Vectorworks on an iPhone made me laugh.

wezelboy

Jesus Diaz

That multi-touch surface is begging for that, no? Are there any apps like this you think should be adapted for iPhone?

Jesus Diaz

gundark

gutterisatool

1. Sync software for Outlook contacts, calendar, tasks, emails. Can't live without this, no discussion - just do it, and not just for the Mac.
2. Skype. Doesn't work well on my current PocketPC, wish it will on the iphone - free calls baby, the way it was meant to be.
3. Tomtom or equivalent. Google maps is nice, for desktops, not actual driving. I have Tomtom on my pocketpc and been using it for years.
4. A push email client (if it isn't already included with the iphone)
5. Java so I can run all those java games.

6. VLC - view ANY movie
7. MSN (or trillian or whatever MSN compatible client)
8. An Avantgo type alternative - reading offline website feeds is real nice when no connection is available.
9. Ooh and a PDF/eBook reader for those long commutes.
10. Not really software, but I'd love to hook it up to USB mass storage devices and card readers (would rather not lug that laptop on vacation for those huge digital pictures.)

michel_huyghebaert

kittyflipping

I personally use eWallet from Iliumsoft
http://www.iliumsoft.com/

Also ListPro from the same company.

And of course, I would love to have Pocket Quicken
http://www.landware.com/pocketquicken/index.html

I could think of many others, but these are at the top of list for me to consider an iPhone.

chillywilly

Then Vectorworks.

graydon

I agree with some posters that I don't think they're going to open this up very much. Not after all the Jobsinese about "hardware is just the packaging for great software..." He feels like OSX and Safari are the bees knees so why bother with Linux/MSFT and Firefox.

And I still think it should have a QWERTY, despite what the wide world of Cupertino says.

btw a&o = Alpha and Omega

trampas

and definitely SketchPad. i use that almost daily with my Wacom tablet. to be able to sketch some basic idea on the Metro in D.C. then sync that up with my work/home machines and expand them: nirvana. i have so many good ideas that i lose before i can get off the train. heh.

if there is a Sling client for the iPhone, i'll defintiely buy a Slingbox for home. easily.

TonyRockyHorror

Give me:

Battle for Wesnoth
KrossWordz
Solitaire till Dawn
XWords
Oxyd
etc etc

And then:

Adium (Or any IM client, this is must-have)
SlingPlayer
random stupid widgets
quicktime plugins
...

cbandes

ndrake

Lorticon

dle5

With full OSX, virtually ubiquitous internet connection, and external expansion ports (i.e. dock) what couldn't be put onto an iPhone?

##begin rant##
I'll tell you what... How about the kind that saves lives and makes a real difference in the world? How about the kind that that makes the latest technologies accessible to our first-responders?

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6766
http://www.darpa.mil/body/archives/sensit/PI_Briefs/Rosenb...
http://www.llnl.gov/str/JanFeb02/Langlois.html

Other platforms have managed to solve the 3rd party app problem quite easily (Blackberry, Symbian, Palm, WinCE, Linux, etc).

Quit making stupid excuses Steve about why you want to make the platform a closed development environment you greedy jerkwad... Why should our lives depend on substandard technologies like Palm and WinCE?

SCREW YOU STEVE JOBS, STANLEY SIGMAN and the rest of you closed-platform money grubbing whores!
##end rant##

(Now that I have that incoherent rant out of my system, I feel better)

Cellullose

SuperMacGuy

vinchbr

IrritatedJones

That's all.

Burgundy Corningstone

1. WiFi Hotspot Finder and Autoswitcher- Purportedly, the iPhone comes with such a feature. But in case it doesn't, or in case it doesn't work as expected, I'd like to see a hotspot finder with autoswitching that seamlessly selects open hotspots, especially given the lack of 3G on the phone.

2. Orb or Orb like interoperability with OS X- Streaming of media content over the internet and home networks is gaining a lot of attention and is a feature that I'd like to see in the iPhone. If AppleTV can stream content off your laptop why not the iPhone? I believe Sony is opening up the PSP with these features, and current Smartphones have several solutions including Orb and the Slingbox.

3. Pedometer- I'm curious if the built in motion sensors and accelerometers on the iPhone can be adapted to be used like a built in Nike +?

4. GPS Mating via Bluetooth- Since the iPhone lacks built-in GPS it would be nice to be able to mate the iPhone with 3rd party GPS units either via Bluetooth or a connector.

5. Video-conferencing/IM/VoIP- They're probably not quite there yet, and given the absence of a forward facing camera (unless one is hidden under the home button) it may still be a while, but it doesn't hurt to ask. Video iChat would be great. And a Skype client that works over WiFi would be appreciated as well.

Logan5

I want to be on a phone call using my cell carrier, walk into WiFi range, conference call in my Skype account, and then hang up the wireless and continue the call on Skype -- for essentially $0.

While I'm dreaming, I'd also like a pony.

MisterSpoot

nutbastard

apeguero

beatoven

InfoMofo

da1an

InfoMofo

micksweet

bruceb17

GraphicConverter.

cirby

jaykay

It's not even necessary to port Outlook to the iPhone. Just provide a means for importing the Outlook planner to iTunes/iPhone every morning. There are already methods for importing/exporting calendar formats, why not just connect that to iCal and iTunes? The cherry-on-top would be to include alerts on the iPhone when an event has a reminder. Standardization makes it all simple!

richard8a

weatherman

sgMikeG

LittleJon

domerdel

pmx

pmx

pmx

http://www.dataviz.com/products/passwordsplus/

This is, without a doubt, my most used app on my Treo. I use it many times a day. I have hundres of entries, including the multitude of servers here at work that all have very strong and cryptic passwords. This app is a *life saver*.

gecko85

Seriously though: VNC and/or another Remote Desktop application would make the jPhone (Jesus Phone) a support person's dream machine. Not to mention it would totally justify the initial cost + the data rate plan that lets me reboot my server remotely from the bar.

fmccb

satan gave me a taco

mewyn dyner

mikekraz

All heads down for the big app gangbang.

Sockpuppet

ProtoType77

drewheyman

Inigo Montoya

LillieDesigns