# What do you wish would become an iPhone application? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 14, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442 "2009-05-14T19:01:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/21 "2009-05-30T01:06:14Z")
If stumbleupon ever becomes an app, I’ll never get anything done… ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/22 "2009-05-31T04:48:13Z")
One word: Hulu ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/23 "2009-05-31T07:19:49Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > People were talking about an app where you take a picture of a building, it works out where you were and what direction you were facing, queries a database, and tells you what the building is. I could see that getting a little creepy though depending on the depth of the database queried: who own the building, who owns the land, what liens are on it, what easements are there, who manages it, who’s living there, do they rent or own… What time the CEO has lunch, when s/he has the least amount of other people around, his/her greatest fears, embarrassing photos of him/her (if any), a complete floorplan… what? ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/24 "2009-05-31T07:20:12Z")
Supposedly it was a hoax , but it was a really good idea for the desktop. Have a simulated Iphone and be able to move icons around on the computer and then sync to the device, instead of being forced to drag apps all over here and yon. Declan ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/25 "2009-06-04T20:17:41Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > What time the CEO has lunch, when s/he has the least amount of other people around, his/her greatest fears, embarrassing photos of him/her (if any), a complete floorplan… > what? Looks like someone is looking forward to the new season of Leverage ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/26 "2009-06-04T20:33:56Z")
> [@Tamex](#): > > One word: Hulu This. I’d also like to know why I can’t send and receive faxes, and send a file to print, on my iPhone. I’d also LOVE to be able to wirelessly sync. As soon as my phone recognizes my home network, it should sync. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/27 "2009-06-05T00:04:56Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > This. > > I’d also like to know why I can’t send and receive faxes, and send a file to print, on my iPhone. > > I’d also LOVE to be able to wirelessly sync. As soon as my phone recognizes my home network, it should sync. The first complaint has been true of all pda’s since they mated a phone with the units, I personally think its been a legacy issue with the phone companies that wanted people to do this sort of thing with email, thus incur data charges. Simply put with the iPhone however its a matter of user permissions, until either apple gives the customer root access to the phone , no one can code an app for it, and I dont think the developers want to bother with older technology that might be a fringe market at best. I think , on the second point , the iPhone will be able to do this when 3.0 comes out, at least with bluetooth. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/28 "2009-06-05T02:03:05Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > I could easily go to my ATT wireless account from Safari too, but it’s way better to have an app just for that site. When I want information quickly, it’s cumbersome to have to launch Safari, wait until the browser figures out where it was last, type in the address, and wait again. It would be best if I could just click on an IMDB app and be there already. The eBay app is another example. It’s great. Way better than the eBay mobile site, it’s slow and a drag. Can’t you put a bookmark to IMDB on the iPhone’s main screen? That’s what I do for some places on my iPod Touch. That way I just touch the icon and it goes straight to the website. I do agree an app would work faster, but that would work if there was nothing else. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/29 "2009-06-05T02:11:31Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > This. > > I’d also like to know why I can’t send and receive faxes, and send a file to print, on my iPhone. > > I’d also LOVE to be able to wirelessly sync. As soon as my phone recognizes my home network, it should sync. Mobile Me will keep you synced wirelessly between your iPhone, your MobileMe account, and any computer with your mobile me credentials entered. It won’t sync pictures or music but numbers and e-mail and appointments and notes, etc. Pretty instantaneous. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/30 "2009-06-05T17:59:37Z")
A friend of a friend is writing an iPhone app whose purpose is to use the motion sensors to detect when the iPhone is in free fall, then measure how long it is in free fall, and then it submits that data to a central location, so you basically have a worldwide “how high in the air can I throw my iPhone and catch it without it breaking” competition. ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/31 "2009-06-05T18:05:46Z")
**Password Safe** , it sucks not being able to log in to anything on my wife’s iPod touch because I don’t even know my passwords. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/32 "2009-06-05T18:38:13Z")
I just realized what a pain in the ass feature thats not available, but should be. I can tap the top of safari and it will bring me to the very top of a webpage. But if I wanted to go down, say to the bottom of a long ass dope thread, sorry we got nothing. How hard could that be Declan ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/33 "2009-06-05T19:55:54Z")
And the Refresh control, the one that’s in the address bar, ought to be in the toolbar at the bottom of the Safari screen, where the other controls are. ---
**Author:** ![hroark2112](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6a8cbe/32.png) [@hroark2112](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hroark2112)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/34 "2009-06-05T20:39:52Z")
I wish there was an app for several of the BB’s I frequent. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/35 "2009-06-05T21:04:49Z")
> [@hroark2112](#): > > I wish there was an app for several of the BB’s I frequent. Ask them , their pages will still safari , but there is a mobile redirect add on to many software packages so that you can view the pages better. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/36 "2009-06-05T21:15:36Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > Ask them , their pages will still safari , but there is a mobile redirect add on to many software packages so that you can view the pages better. You know what I hate? Website that have an iPhone-friendly version that doesn’t have all the features of the original site… and which won’t let you switch back to the regular site to access those missing features. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/37 "2009-06-05T21:29:00Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > Ask them , their pages will still safari , but there is a mobile redirect add on to many software packages so that you can view the pages better. > > Declan I wonder if the SDMB would do this. It would help a lot. I suppose the answer would be no, though. ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/38 "2009-06-06T15:13:22Z")
I want my iPhone to sync with my PVR. Someone at the office will say “Hey, something cool on TV this week” and by the time I get home, I’ve forgotten all about, and I don’t set it to record. Sure, I could live with the pain, I could use a Post-It note, but what is the point of all I spend on technology just to wind up with a sticky note in the end. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2009, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/39 "2009-06-07T03:48:15Z")
A laser rangefinder/GPS target designator. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442/40 "2009-06-09T00:31:25Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > A laser rangefinder/GPS target designator. \ Did I have 1 minute of battery left, or none…so ask yourself something punk, do you feel lucky? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wish-would-become-an-iphone-application/496442.md?page=3)