Dream app for the iPhone

[dangleheart]

In the WSJ interview on the 28th, Steve Jobs was not too enthusiastic about VoIP. The AT&T counterpart even asked, 'Why do you need VoIP since all plans include a lot of free minutes and so your next call is free anyway'..

I think there is a lot of misinformation or lack of understanding of how people use Skype like programs...

a) First of all, if you are on skype, your buddies from around the world can talk to you over Skype and for free if they are calling from a computer

b) The minutes are not unlimited as the interview suggested.

c) Even with free minutes, international calling from U.S. is expensive

d) While traveling overseas, since you can not use the local country SIM, roaming charges apply which are expensive, so Skype would be a very useful utility.

I am sure there are other good reasons to have VoIP.

AT&T talks the good talk that they are not Anti wi-fi, they say wi-fi is complementary to cell service but when it comes time to allow for potential replacement of their network minutes, they drag their feet. I am a bit upset with SJ that he went along with it. Not that I am saying it should come preloaded with Skype.. it should have had a voip client of some sort integrated properly.

 

[dangleheart]

Does iPhone come with a VPN client? If not, that will be good to have to connect to corporate networks.

 

[altaprod]

iGTD

iGTD:
I can imagine teaming up with the developer of the app and really creating an amazing set-up for GTD'ers.

Imagine, speaking into your iPhone "don't forget milk on your way home, @car, today, 6pm." The iPhone translates it into text and inserts the task into iGTD which then automatically adds it to your "@car" tasks at 6pm that day.

On your way home you recieve a reminder from iGTD that you need to pick up milk.

That would be AWESOME.

 

[dangleheart]

altaprod: I think one can do all that with server side speech recognition integraed with a calendar. I guess you want all that on the iPhone itself as a standard feature. Memory footprint for such speech reco is usually quite high and so it will be challenge to do it on the phone, but not impossible for a reduced vocabulary.

 

[ShiggyMiyamoto]

I agree with everyone that would like to see Skype. That would be awesome. I'd also like to see a Ventrilo client for the iPhone. I admin on a server and it would be handy to be able to chat with and discipline users from an iPhone. ^_^

Also, iTunes with radio would rock as well. I thought of that the moment I learned about the iPhone's capabilties. I'd be happy even if it's not a full-blown iTunes, but simply a widget that would allow the user to change the station that it plays either by pasting/entering in the URL to the playlist (*.pls) file, or by having it search a directory of streaming radio stations on the web. Is such a complex task possible to accomplish via Web 2.0 programming? Since is only allowing those sort of apps to run I'd think this would be a great app to be created. If this were to happen I'd be in HEAVEN.

 

[drastik]

iGTD:
I can imagine teaming up with the developer of the app and really creating an amazing set-up for GTD'ers.

Imagine, speaking into your iPhone "don't forget milk on your way home, @car, today, 6pm." The iPhone translates it into text and inserts the task into iGTD which then automatically adds it to your "@car" tasks at 6pm that day.

On your way home you recieve a reminder from iGTD that you need to pick up milk.

That would be AWESOME.

Here's a partial solution for that, no adding or delteing tasks due to write permissions with dot Mac, but a nice display of contexts and tasks anyway.
http://iphoneigtd.com

 

[BEEFc58]

An apple remote app. Is there anything out there that just replicates the apple remote? I have seen the Touchpad app and the Airremote app... but you have to scroll around to get into Front Row. I use my Mac Mini as a Media Center.. and it would be nice just to use a iphone/ipod touch as a remote control, and also be able to use it as a apple remote, so that you can press menu and have the computer jump to front row.....

 

[smattmul]

i wish for an eyeTV remote, or anything to work with my eyeTV. please let me know if this already exists.