After playing with my iPod touch and my bothers iPhone it got me thinking about some of the huge flaws in the current OS that I think apple really needs to address in the OS to make it better for more business orientated and well work on that side better. Hell some of the things it lacks are down right embarassing and even not with over 2.5 years after the iphone was released it still has items that should of been there on day one of the release.
1. A Spellchecker-- I do not get why apple did not include a spell checker in the OS. One that simplely puts a red line or a line under misspelled words. Well have make typos and some times we just do not know the correct spelling of a word but can get pretty close. The spell checker either corrects it for us or confirms that we have it spelled correctly. I know for a fact blackberries have it and I know of a few dumb phones that have a built in spell checker for SMS. Apple still lacks this very BASIC feature. If you are writing a professional email of any type it should not contain misspelled words and many people have replayed to an email on their phones. They normally are not long emails but may be a few lines but they should not contain a misspelled word.
2. Notifications system -- Apple currenty way of informing you notifications on the phone is a joke and you can not get any information off the lock screen. THis needs to be greatly improved. Having SMS, Voicemail, and email count alone would be nice. Also allow other apps to put something there so at a quick glance with out unlocking the phone we can get that infomation. Also it would be nice to do it off any screen that you have access to your icons along the top row. Very basic and it would be easy to include something in the setting that would allow the OS to override each app because some apps we would want to allow this and others that would be block. RIM did a good job on the control side look to them. On the OS level setting each app can be overriden and block from putting up notifications. Now apple could make this a lot easier to do that on RIM but the controls would need to be there to prevent app makers from going hog wild and not putting the option in the apps.
3. Profiles-- Apple really needs to have profile setting. Like allow the person to have an office setting which would have the ringtone volume turned down or even allow the user to have a different ring tone for the office because some of our favorite ring tones are very embarrassing to go off in an office. Having "My Humps" start playing in an office is just not a good idea. Now a basic ringer can work.
Now I know others might have something to ad to this list but I am trying to stay away from hardware things that could be done and those are much more debatable. The iPhone is a great consumer Smart Phone but I think it falls short on the business side and some minor additions would really add a lot to the business users and take way nothing to it wouuld add a lot of the consumer side.
Apple did a lot of speed up some changes to the smart phone industry I think there is just some areas the iPhone is really lacking and could use some bigger changes. One thing I know about the blackberry is when you really dig into it is is geared very well for the business user in mind with it puts a lot of information available at a glance and then the controls to limited what is put there to avoid overload and customizing to what the user wants. This includes all the way down to the little LED flashing to tell the user when a message has arrival
1. A Spellchecker-- I do not get why apple did not include a spell checker in the OS. One that simplely puts a red line or a line under misspelled words. Well have make typos and some times we just do not know the correct spelling of a word but can get pretty close. The spell checker either corrects it for us or confirms that we have it spelled correctly. I know for a fact blackberries have it and I know of a few dumb phones that have a built in spell checker for SMS. Apple still lacks this very BASIC feature. If you are writing a professional email of any type it should not contain misspelled words and many people have replayed to an email on their phones. They normally are not long emails but may be a few lines but they should not contain a misspelled word.
2. Notifications system -- Apple currenty way of informing you notifications on the phone is a joke and you can not get any information off the lock screen. THis needs to be greatly improved. Having SMS, Voicemail, and email count alone would be nice. Also allow other apps to put something there so at a quick glance with out unlocking the phone we can get that infomation. Also it would be nice to do it off any screen that you have access to your icons along the top row. Very basic and it would be easy to include something in the setting that would allow the OS to override each app because some apps we would want to allow this and others that would be block. RIM did a good job on the control side look to them. On the OS level setting each app can be overriden and block from putting up notifications. Now apple could make this a lot easier to do that on RIM but the controls would need to be there to prevent app makers from going hog wild and not putting the option in the apps.
3. Profiles-- Apple really needs to have profile setting. Like allow the person to have an office setting which would have the ringtone volume turned down or even allow the user to have a different ring tone for the office because some of our favorite ring tones are very embarrassing to go off in an office. Having "My Humps" start playing in an office is just not a good idea. Now a basic ringer can work.
Now I know others might have something to ad to this list but I am trying to stay away from hardware things that could be done and those are much more debatable. The iPhone is a great consumer Smart Phone but I think it falls short on the business side and some minor additions would really add a lot to the business users and take way nothing to it wouuld add a lot of the consumer side.
Apple did a lot of speed up some changes to the smart phone industry I think there is just some areas the iPhone is really lacking and could use some bigger changes. One thing I know about the blackberry is when you really dig into it is is geared very well for the business user in mind with it puts a lot of information available at a glance and then the controls to limited what is put there to avoid overload and customizing to what the user wants. This includes all the way down to the little LED flashing to tell the user when a message has arrival
