I’ve been hearing a lot about all of the different apps that are available for your iPhone. Apps to help you find your favourite cheese, apps to keep up to date on every sports score you could possibly imagine (and a few you can’t), apps to make you a better amateur ornithologist, there’s even an app to cause synesthesia (I’m not joking about that one, the description for an app called Bloom actually says, “See the music”). Now I can see how some people might find things like that useful, but I thought of a couple of other apps that a regular Joe like me could really use.
My room-mate moved out recently but she hasn’t removed all of her belongings yet. She left her t.v. and DVD player behind; unfortunately she took all the remotes with her. Therefore I want to be able to point my iPhone at the electronics and have it figure out how to change the channels and fully operate the DVD player. Just to be clear though, I don’t want to have to go through the hassle of looking at the t.v. to figure out what brand it is and then having to read a list of corresponding codes and then having to enter the proper code into my phone. I mean if I have to do all that I might as well just break down and buy a universal remote.
The other app I want; you know when you’re in the living room and then you go to the kitchen to do something, but when you get there you realize that you’ve completely forgotten what you went in there to do? I want my iPhone to tell me what I was going to do. But I don’t want to have to, like, talk to it and tell it to remind me of stuff. If I’m going to do that I could just as easily get a note pad and pen. Isn’t that the whole point of having an iPhone is to make my life less complicated.
While I’m at it, I should be able to just enter a few key words and then have an app that will flesh out an, approximately, 350-400 word blog post (in my own unique voice, of course). Now those are some useful apps. Incidentally, I’m trademarking/copyrighting these apps right here and now. So, if they ever become reality Steve Jobs is going to owe me some money.
Oh and one other thing, I want an app so that my iPhone can actually send and receive calls (even though that’s about the least useful thing I can imagine using a phone for).
Just for the record; I have taken note of the extra “?” in the post. I’ve got a new ‘puter and there seems to be some sort of translation problem when I copy and paste. I repeatedly attempted to fix it but WordPress won’t seem to to what I want it to. If only there was an app for that.
I’m already beginning to see a backlash against the iPhones and blackberries and droids…. more and more people are reverting to just a plain, basic telephone. Some are even getting rid of their cellphones. I think it’s wonderful. See, you didn’t need an app to help you keep your post under 500 words.
But if you had one, and it could forcibly remind you with an electric shock, well, that MIGHT be a reason to get an iPhone. No, not really.
Before I comment, you must know that it took me 12 times of refreshing the page to get the Anti-Spam word sweep the leg. I won’t go so far as to say that’s unacceptable, but what is, is gingah.
Alright, thank you for noting the extra ?s I wondered about that.
And to tie up the rambling in a bow before I get to the actual comment: Who’s who on the pictures up there? I think the dude with the clear glasses and baseball hat is Ernie and the guy with the sunglasses is Tim. Am I right?
If Tim is the the baseball wearing guy it will really jack up my head, because Tim leaves comments on my site and my vision of Tim is the sunglasses man. And don’t lie just to jack up my head, alright? But if Ernie is really Tim, I’ll learn to reassign the image in my head.
Now the comment.
This app is necessary for me: An app that can tell me instantly how many minutes/hours I will need to spend on the elliptical machine to work off the potential junk food I want to eat.
For example, I point it at the new Triple Whopper found at Burger King. The read out says: 1160 calories — one hour and 28 minutes on the elliptical machine.
.-= cardiogirl at Jacked Gingah´s last blog ..Things I think would suck, part 2 =-.
@ Ernie: I fixed your pesky question marks.
@ Cardiogirl: Well I had no idea you had me and Ernie mixed up. I’ll have to get us nametags or something
The remote app would be really convenient sometimes. I’m sure we’ll see it one day.
I personally want my iphone to read my mind, keep it stored, and tell things to people that i cannot dare to say. My iphone should grow a pair
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Damn, as much as those apps would be awesome that would mean I would have no choice but to get an Iphone which is still a bit too expensive for me per month! I have a friend with one and he keeps showing me all the cool apps/games he has on it…. so tempting…!
I agree with you, this app is “beautiful” at all!
These sure are pretty great application ideas. I don’t know if these will become reality, though. More and more people are actually making money on developing these applications. That idea about notes is the most likely candidate to become a reality — if it isn’t already.
My son has an itouch which the iphone without the phone part. It amazes me the crazy stuff he downloads which is completely not useful. He has about every gun app they have so that he make his itouch pretend to be a gun. I could go for the remote app. I have a TV right now that is missing a remote and I would love to just point it at the television and it work.