Many apps are for services. I have seen several in the medical industry that link into servers for the tasks they do, it is those services that some want.

What they need to embrace is the backyard programmer who does codes for fun, or his own functionality. Why spend the time only to pay $99 to publish it for free.

That is the reason people jailbreak there phone. More open programing.

Though I must admit Apple has always had the best backdoor programmers as far back at the late 80’s. I remember having Mac OS 6 where programmers gave me the ability to customize every aspect of the finder, and through most of the 90’s had triple the shareware apps of DOS/Windows.

If they could charge less up front, but continue generating revenue over time from each user (to support the service) this would open the floodgates for more complex and useful apps, while keeping them affordable.

Advertising in the app is not a solution – the paltry, uncertain returns don’t justify the resources needed to create the app. It would be much better if there was a mechanism so that users could continue to pay for functionality they find useful.

Comments, anyone?

MMS (will be funny to listen to those praise this after saying they didn’t need it.)

Tethering (mainstream users may not have a clue what this is. Expect at&t to insanely charge for it)

Turn by turn software (just a hunch)

Video recording (should be simple enough to do)

Stereo BT (obviously for more sales even though i don’t think it adds much for most users)

Minor tweaks here and there to look different.

That’s about it. Hard to speculate on any hardware coming but should be beefed up in processor & memory if apple wants to include multitasking NEXT year. I think they need more time as they have to tread carefully there. Lots of things could go wrong and they need to keep the UI simple as possible.

And i think 4.0 OS with multitasking will not be possible on original iphone or iphone 3g. But will on this year’s iphone and next year’s iphone forcing the upgrade.

Never heard of SongBird then? It’s pretty impressive for how long its been around and it can sync iPods and other PMPs (not iPhone yet). There are some things it doesn’t do yet (but that list gets smaller every month) and a lot of things it does that iTunes does not. In a few months it will be that mythical product that you speak of.

The fanboi **** does no one any good, competition makes all the companies work harder for our attention/money and THAT is good for all of us.

TheO.Z. doesn’t design anything we’ve ever heard of which is why he’s too embarrassed to disclose it. If he doesn’t like iTunes then he probably doesnt work for Apple, and if he doesn’t work for Apple… haha… well, then he simply sucks and so does his loser software that no one’s heard of.