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I've been thinking a bit about the iPhone and its potential, and the more I think of it, the more I'm kind of annoyed at it's limitations. So, I was thinking of how the iPhone experience could be improved and merged with the Mac experience.
First of all, they would need to open up its bluetooth capability to allow wireless syncing. That's misstep is about as annoying and ridiculous as Microsoft putting wifi on the Zune, but not making it capable of connecting to the internet. With that opened up, I would want to see my iPhone as more of an extension of my Mac.
Basically, what I want to happen is have my iPhone and Mac talk to each other and keep up to date on what I'm doing. I don't know how many times I've been looking at a web page or listening to music on the go and want to continue when I get home, but I need to type in the website and navigate to where I was, or hunt down the song I was listening to and start it over. If the Mac and iPhone could communicate my application activity, it would enable me to pick up on my Iphone right where I left off on my Mac, and vice versa. Wouldn't that be great? Of course, this would also include other functions like video playback and even other apps as they become available like viewing documents. What would be even cooler is if I could tell my iPhone in advance to start these activities on my Mac at home so they're up and running when I walk in the door.
Anyway, I'm sure many people have thought of this before. Even I can't take credit. A short, goofy fella by the name of Bill Gates did a presentation on this very idea a few years ago, but now there's finally a device capable of what he was talking about. Maybe there's already a means of doing this, and if anyone knows, please tell me. So, that's my dream of iPhone/MAc integration. If anyone else has interesting ideas to expand the iPhone's capabilities, I'd like to hear it.
First of all, they would need to open up its bluetooth capability to allow wireless syncing. That's misstep is about as annoying and ridiculous as Microsoft putting wifi on the Zune, but not making it capable of connecting to the internet. With that opened up, I would want to see my iPhone as more of an extension of my Mac.
Basically, what I want to happen is have my iPhone and Mac talk to each other and keep up to date on what I'm doing. I don't know how many times I've been looking at a web page or listening to music on the go and want to continue when I get home, but I need to type in the website and navigate to where I was, or hunt down the song I was listening to and start it over. If the Mac and iPhone could communicate my application activity, it would enable me to pick up on my Iphone right where I left off on my Mac, and vice versa. Wouldn't that be great? Of course, this would also include other functions like video playback and even other apps as they become available like viewing documents. What would be even cooler is if I could tell my iPhone in advance to start these activities on my Mac at home so they're up and running when I walk in the door.
Anyway, I'm sure many people have thought of this before. Even I can't take credit. A short, goofy fella by the name of Bill Gates did a presentation on this very idea a few years ago, but now there's finally a device capable of what he was talking about. Maybe there's already a means of doing this, and if anyone knows, please tell me. So, that's my dream of iPhone/MAc integration. If anyone else has interesting ideas to expand the iPhone's capabilities, I'd like to hear it.