Remote Buddy for the iPhone is very nice. IOSpirit certainly has a nice grasp on AJAX-based apps.

However, I'm guessing the native Apple version would be free as a way to grow the Apple product ecosystem. It would also be faster as a Cocoa app and and be able to use Coverflow on the iPhone to move through albums, something that IOSpirit can't do with a web app.

Though, IOSpirit will probably offer more powerful features than Apple. I hope they create a cocoa version for Mobiel OS X v2.0

"Signal" from Alloysoft also controls iTunes remotely via the phone using an interface that looks just like you are using iTunes directly on the phone (minus coverflow). Its a very handy app for me and well worth the 25 dollar pricetag.

But a web app working through your LAN is no substitution for a true iPhone app that works quickly and effectively without the weird idiosyncrasies a web page disguised to look like an local app. My guess is that both these developers are already working on native iPhone apps as well.

I'd buy this in a second but it would be really cool if it was a freebie to expand the iPhone/Apple ecosystem.

Control is a verb and a noun.
Phone is a verb and a noun.

So is book, though here the meaning changes.

Therefore iControl sounds perfectly reasonable.

Not that iCare in the slightest.

Well, I didn't say there weren't exceptions. I just don't think apple was thinking of Hawaii Five-0 when they named the iBook.

Voted you down for not looking in ANY dictionary before making your this assumption. Except for Mac every single one of the words you mention is a verb and a noun. THough being a proper noun it's not hard to "verb-ify" Mac if you really wanted to.

Though I do see your point, you need to also remember that even though the name iPhone was owned by Cisco Systems, and Apple still went ahead and used it.

Except that you forget one simple fact...
Currently, iTunes sharing operates via Bonjour which is a broadcast-segment protocol.

By that, I mean that it only operates in the same network segment (a Layer 2 environment).

One could always set up a VPN to enter that network segment (something that I seriously doubt that most end-users will do) or use the global bonjour support, however that requires connecting to a OS X Server.

The odds of a solution that will allow for cellular access to your music collection is very unlikely.

It is definitely a possibility that someone will add that kind of application via the SDK and an additional application that you would load onto your computer though. Apple is much too likely to rely on their existing frameworks rather than implementing an entirely new system for iControl.

But, this is all speculation based on what I have seen in the past and the information publicly available in this article. It is not based on any information that I have seen through access to any information that may have been gathered through access to the SDK.

~Adrian