Quick Requests For iPhone 3.0

When Apple first released some details of the 3.0 update I was slightly disappointed. Why? Because I felt that Apple had missed a key element of the iPhone experience out of the updates. The iPod. As slick as the iPhone’s media interface is, along with the overall user experience; I feel that there are certain elements that can be improved and features added to streamline the way people listen to their music and watch their videos.

I make a lot of playlists and I would probably make a lot more if Apple could shoe-horn some decent playlist creation and editing into the iPhone. I’m not talking about those rubbish “On The Go Playlists” here. I want to be able to make smart playlists and give them proper names. Also, who’s idea was it, when creating a smart playlist not to allow one to scroll by alphabet? Do you really expect me to navigate through five gigabytes worth of music?

One interesting concept I had the other day was ‘Wireless Podcast Progress’ or WPP to be fancy. In which every time you listened to some portion of a podcast, the progress (i.e the exact time) that you made would be sent up into the cloud, and then directly synced with your iPhone and vis-versa.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve started listening to a podcast on my Mac. Then had to pop out and wasted two minutes trying to navigate to the point that I am up to while I’m away. In fact, this would work with audiobooks very well also.

Both of these ideas head towards making the iPhone as independent and capable when you simply don’t have your computer on you. After all, that is why I bought an iPhone.