I’m getting so used to my iPhone that sometimes I try to apply typical iPhone techniques to Mac OS X. Have you ever double clicked the spacebar and expect a dot and space and capitalized next word? I have. Ever wished that your typos would be fixed automatically while typing, just like on the iPhone? Here is my list of 10 things I wish Apple would port from the iPhone to Mac OS X:
1: I want to be able to press the spacebar twice to get a capital-dot-space
2: I want to swipe the screen to scroll through windows
3: I want to see my screen rotate when I rotate my laptop 90°
4: I want my inbox to show a few lines of text from the body of my email messages
5: If I type “ahve” I want my Mac to change that to “have” just like it does on the iPhone.
6: I want to switch between Browser windows just like on the iPhone
7: I want a camera on the back of my laptop screen so I can take photos just like I do with my iPhone
8: Mac OS X would look so much better if it would switch to 144 DPI too. Beautiful fonts!
9: I want to use “Find my Mac” via MobileMe on my laptop too. If it works for the iPhone, why not for my Laptop?
10: App store? Why not? Why must I buy Adobe Photoshop via the Adobe website? Can’t I just order it via the Mac OS X software App?
What featured would you like to see ported?
Agree with all but 2 and 6.
For 2 – who needs touch screen when we have space and four-finger touch?
For 6, how would that work? Isn’t that why we have tabs?
I’ve never needed to rotate my laptop 90 degrees.
Agree with 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10 (brilliant idea)
I was about to say the same.
“1: I want to be able to press the spacebar twice to get a capital-dot-space”
I think what you meant was “dot-space-capital”.
I want to double-click the title bar to scroll to the top in Safari. Seriously, I REALLY want that.
I do agree with your list exept for 3 and 7.
3. In what case would that be usefulll?
7. Why should you want to amce pics with your notebook when everyone has a phone which can take pics?
I do also totaly agree with Robbert’s point 11.
Anyone forgetting push? I want push on my .mac emails!
I had 5 iMacs stolen at the start of the year. If number 9 existed I could probably have had them retrieved. I thought of that as soon as they announced “find my iphone”
The Springboard! I was even considering developing one myself.
Some of these would be nice, but none of them necessary. Instead they should keep focusing on making the iphone os more like os x. I want my iPhone to run background apps and let me swipe through them like i swipe through browser windows. Come on apple, is it really that hard???
@Michael Of course it isn’t hard, but if Apple allows this I think the same thing will happen as on my old Windows phone. Things get slow. Apps you never use still run somewhere. You would need a “force quit” function to speed things up.
Although I suspect that this list isn’t serious, run typenator and it will correct your misspells as you type just like the iPhone
I want to see you using your laptop rotated 90°
That must be fun.
Thought I read that #5 will ship in Snow Leopard, but if you want it right now, there are a few tools out there that will do it for you, although, not as well as the iPhone.
I use TextExpander with the TidBITS AutoCorrect library, which also changes things like macos to Mac OS (it was hard to even type the first one).
Good luck with #10, if I were Adobe I wouldn’t want to give Apple 30% of my revenue.
Cheers,
Randy