Dear Apple, did you listen?

Calling all TUAW readers! Tomorrow you're going to find out if Apple listened to the letters you wrote to them. Now in all fairness to Apple, your second letter dealt with the hardware. We don't expect Apple to preview the new iPhone hardware tomorrow, and even if they did, that hardware was probably set in stone eighteen months before release. So we'll have to wait for the 5G iPhone to see if they've heeded your wants there. Now as for the software...
I've listed your top twelve general-OS wants from your first letter above. Dare we hope that Apple has hit all of them? Sadly that's unlikely, as 80% of you wanted Flash, but here's hoping for the rest! For the Apple app-specific requests, the list is too long to post here, so I'll let you refer to your third letter to see how Apple did.
All your letters can be seen here:
Dear Apple: What we want to see in iPhone 4.0, part 1
Dear Apple: What we want to see in iPhone 4.0, part 2
Dear Apple: What we want to see in iPhone 4.0, part 3
And yes, due to popular request, we will be writing more Dear Apple letters on your behalf for Mac OS X 10.7, iWork, iLife, and iPad.
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This list sucks. Who in the hell wants "Disk Mode" for their iPhone?
How about UNIVERSAL INBOX? Why isn't that on the list?
FLASH? Have you been living in a cave? Steve Jobs did away with Flash forever. All the major players on the internet are conforming to his mandate that HTML5 will be teh hotness from now on.
Ability to remove Apple-branded apps? Are they bothering you that much that simply moving them to the last page isn't good enough?
How about adding THEMES? You know, something that winterboard and others in the jailbreak community have done since jailbreaking began?
Multi-tasking...yes. I'm with you on that one, but its more along the lines of "remember where we were". Maybe something as simple as hitting the home key to get out of an app, and it asks you a simple "continue running in background YES/NO)" question and you're done.
I'm less interested in a new home screen and more interested in being able to customize the one we have, with app management (e.g. Categories, again with the jailbreak community)
Apple needs to remember...They were first to bring this stuff out, but the competition is right behind them. Droid is gaining traction BIG TIME. Apple needs to take another huge leap forward. It had better be something good. I was so disappointed with the iPad.
You guys don't get it do you? Apple tells YOU what is best and what you should want, not the other way around.
April 07 2010 at 7:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI saw on local news that iphone may be hitting Verizon? Can anyone confirm?
April 07 2010 at 6:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI would say get rid of the stupid search page and make it an app. i hate swiping left and winding up at a search. If i am looking for something in my email, i'll search my email. the iphone doesn't really support document storage, and i don't use it for many songs or movies. so what would i be searching for? an app? it just doesn't seem nearly as important as having its own dedicated page like that.
April 07 2010 at 5:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyApps can definitely remember "where they were". Check out Digits Calculator which keeps the history tape even after you quit and restart Digits:
http://www.shift-apps.com
I'll settle for a unified mailbox as well as a new lock screen that I can configure with mail, weather and text messages. I know jailbreaking will give me all that now, but I'm not about to void the warranty or risk bricking it.
April 07 2010 at 5:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIt's funny, when I had my iPhone, I hated that I had to swipe through pages of apps, and longed for the day when I could file away all my apps in an "app drawer" and just keep ones I wanted to use on the home screen. Then I switched to Android, which has an "app drawer", and I find myself never using any of the apps except the ones on my home screen. Now I'm sort of missing being able to swipe through a few pages and see if any of my apps strike my fancy. Just sayin'.
April 07 2010 at 5:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI believe apps can already remember their last state, it's just that not every app is doing it. The ability to lock the screen into one orientation as well as the global documents folder are already present on the iPad so I think they are very likely.
April 07 2010 at 4:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyreally? That's the list? You guys don't really know Apple, do you.
Most of that stuff is Jailbreak fodder. If you want it, just Jailbreak. Very few of those things goes according to the Apple philosophy. Most of you will be very disappointed.
I'll settle for a unified mail inbox.
You know, at first I thought these lists of feature requests were a stupid idea. There was pretty much no chance that Apple would give a crap what the users think.
I still doubt that Apple will give them much respect, but it is kind of cool to see people's ideas for what would make a better experience.
I admit it, I was wrong.
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