Ok, I’m writing again but I noticed that the news has pointed out Apple’s limitations on forms of payment for the iPhone.  They limit two phones per customer.  Ok, that is acceptable but they will NOT accept cash.  Correct me if I am wrong but isn’t it legal tender in the United States?  Perhaps if one would have to show ID when making a purchase with cash would be appropriate but the lack of acceptance?

What would happen if sixteen year old Timmy saved his money from his summer job and wanted to spend it on an iPhone?  Young Timmy doubtfully has a credit card or a checking account these days.  Apple: “No, Timmy, you can’t buy and iPhone with your hard earned cash.”   Timmy’s dad is stuck too because he bought one for Timmy’s mom and himself.  Timmy’s mom is unable to because she is at the limits of her credit card.  Poor Timmy.

I guess I can never buy another iPhone since I bought one for my wife and me.  When I brought it up to my wife, she just laughed and said: “I can still buy two of them - haha!”

–Tom 

I haven’t been able to post much lately due to generally working too much and getting ready for Leopard.  Well, Leopard is installed and it’s Saturday so I’m not working.  I would like to point out some of the good issues posted on iPhoneBugList since I last looked. 

No ability to remove networks from “known” list

This is an interesting problem.  I understand his/her issue with not being able to configure known networks and agree that it should be fixed.  There is, however, a workaround.  If you go in to Settings -> Wi-Fi, you can turn on “Ask to Join Networks” and it will not join random networks.

No option to disable unlock slider

I really think this is something to be corrected.  If the passcode is enabled, the slider is just another useless step in the interface.  I really dislike useless extra steps.

Ability to delete song on the fly

I hear you.  I often find that I have put a song that I don’t want on the iPhone, later to forget to remove it from iTunes.  I could save space on my phone by deleting things from the phone.  I thought of this some time ago but did not list it as I thought that I would be the only person that thought this was a problem.  To be honest, I can’t stand the “I have to do EVERYTHING from iTunes” method of access right now anyway.

Calendar alerts block alarm clock

Wow, I didn’t even know this!  That stinks.  When you have an all day event configured and the STUPID phone reminds you at midnight when you are asleep, I will just miss my morning alarm clock.  That is bogus.

Now, just looking at the 5 Most Popular on the main page reminds me how much every iPhone user thinks alike.  The missing Flash Player and the inability to send text to multiple recipients along with the lack of to-do lists are the top three.  That, I would expect, should be the top things worked on by Apple.  Hop to it, guys!

–Tom

This is my first blog entry on my new MacBook Pro 15″. It is really sweet and I would have to say that this is the best computer that I have ever used. If you look up the definition of “computer” in the dictionary that comes bundled in the operating system, it defines the word “computer” as this:

computer |kəmˈpyoōtər| noun

an electronic device for storing and processing data, typically in binary form, according to instructions given to it in a variable program.

That is a reasonable definition of a computer if you ask me. When I was learning about computers, it was defined as above but with other things added. A computer was described as a device consisting of a CPU, memory, storage, an input device and an output device able to run programs. This also seems to be reasonable.

Taking the above definitions of a computer, I would also define an iPhone as a computer. In that case, why are we not allowed to make the computer do the things that we want. Would it have been acceptable to tell me that I could not install Adium or VMWare on my brand new MacBook Pro? I would go crazy if I could not customize my laptop with all of the applications that I rely on daily.

I can use the same definition for my old-school Treo. Sure, the Treo had a more mature operating system but it ran without the fear of viruses and other people hacking the device. That wonderful piece of electronics was so great that people wrote software to do everything. Bluetooth devices were ALL accessible. I even had an IR emitter that I could plug in to the SD slot and control all of my electronics because the device was OPEN. I wrote programs for my phone and loved every minute of it. I had to get over the learning curve but it was all there. No one to stop me. My computer (Treo) was mine to do with what I want.

I have taken a small gander at all of the fine applications that other people were making on their hacked iPhones. I am truly amazed at the quality applications they were able to produce in such short time. They really did a super job at making the phone more useful.

I can understand Apple’s stance on the phone being linked to AT&T. I bought the phone knowing this. As a matter of fact, I switched from Sprint and was not unhappy with their service. I would not have considered this phone if I knew that it was going to be such a limited device.

Again, this is a computer. Apple should allow people to install their applications as a user with limited access (since it is Unix). They could be limited to the access that they are granted and the world would be happy. Unix is a wonderful operating system with little limitations. There is no reason to disallow people to run the applications that they desire.

Let us be free…

–Tom

I wrote Apple an idea that the keyboard should have vibrate feedback after the announcement of the iPhone.  I knew that the keyboard would be a bad feature as I already use one on my TomTom GPS.  They ignored it.  I entered it as a feature request on this site some time later.  Well, it seems that Samsung at least monitors good input.  They have come out with a Giorgio Armani phone and it has vibrating feedback!  I heard it on a G4 podcast this morning (The Daily Feed Video Podcast).

–Tom

I’m working on making this site more appealing. I was looking to see if I could automatically submit the bugs/enhancement requests directly to Apple by clicking a button. While looking through their source on the feedback site, I noticed something really odd.

The value of “product” is “iPhone Extreme”. What in the world is an iPhone Extreme? Is this a hint to their upcoming naming convention? Will there be a “lite” version? Hmmmm…

UPDATE:   I read that AppleInsider has found that this is simply a cut-and-paste error from the AirPort Extreme.

–Tom

I have the new update and have been using it for a few days. Its pretty unimpressive. As much time spent from many iPhoneBuglist users, there are an INCREASING amount of bugs. If one Apple developer sat for a day and went through the bugs on this site, I feel that half of the issues could be resolved. I would be happy with one resolved at this point.

This weekend my clock was ahead an hour.  I had to turn off the automatic time setting feature and turn it back on to correct it.  How does the time goof up?  I did not have time to look in to it but it appears that another user found that when you sync, it goofs up. That is poop! My expensive and useless device can’t even keep time. Thanks Apple.

–Tom