3 iPhone thoughts
They tell me that in order to be a successful blogger like Noah I’m supposed to have short blog posts and have numbers and lists in the title. Hrm. Okay. Let’s try it for a day. Without further ado, I give you:
Three interesting iphone comments
First: I find it really weird no one has done any dissecting of the iPhone’s spelling, correction and word suggestion dictionaries, how people add to them, and where they’re all stored. I mean, they must be sitting there, right? Files on the drive, probaby plists or something? I’m surprised we haven’t heard all sorts of interesting insghts like “the iPhone doesn’t come with the word ‘fuck’ in it’s dictionary” or a detailed analysis of how it remembers your custom words. I’m really fascinated in it, but obvs. this is beyond my level of hacking. I guess everyone who CAN hack at that level is either making iPhone apps now, or trying to Jailbreak the thing. This makes me nostalgic for the era of phonephreaking and hacking for the pure sake of knowledge. Oh and BTW War Games is out on DVD for it’s 25th anniversary. Sweet right?
Second: The iPhone absolutely needs an energy saver control panel, just like the Mac. I should be able to have the “high performance” preference and the “conserve battery” preference, and they should be as easily switchable as airplane mode. So can preset the thing to have 3G, Location Services and Wi Fi on and the brightness up when I’m in heavy use mode, and rapidly switch it to no 3G, Location Services, or Wi Fi and very low brightness for when I want to quickly go back to non-internet mode. It’s a pain to switch them all right now – I have to go to system preferences, set the brightness there, then go into the phone setting and turn off 3G and Wi Fi and Location Services, and if I accidentally click on the location button in Google Maps, it turns location services back on, and leaves it on, which is kinda annoying. Too many settings. Maybe even we could map it to the double-button-press. That would rule!
Third: Taking technology in the other direction, I predict a day when you can set your Mac to accept iPhone-style text input. Specifically, I would like to be able to turn on auto-capitalization, auto-correct and the double-space-as-a-period-and-space setting on my Mac. That would rule. I find myself hitting double-space all the time now. Someone could make a sweet app for this, I’ll bet, but I predict that in the future, the iPhone will actually change our text-input conventions permanently, much like the QWERTY keyboard did.
Was that too wordy?
