Questions for Apple

  1. How are you going to reboot the AppStore? It needs an overhaul and refactoring to be a scalable architecture for innovation. It’s obvious now that the AppStore has grown out of control as a managable architecture. It needs a fundamental rethinking on how approvals and the ecosystem itself works. Would you crowd source approvals out? Leverage your own community to self-police?
  2. What are you going to call the next OS and what is the “hook” going to be? OSX 10.6 is as close to perfect in the 10.X chain (Big Cats) as you can get I think. The 10.X chain was about the reinvention of the Mac platform as a fast, reliable, media-centric and user-centric enabler for personal expression. Will OS 11 usher in an era of a different approach? Perhaps operating as our bridge to location-agnostic storage and utility? Realtime data streams?
  3. What are they going to do about the ten foot screen (the television)? The competition is certainly doing something with it, even Windows 7 is pretty slick with its NetFlix on Demand (nevermind the actual experience of use sucks). Apple needs to revamp AppleTV into something worthwhile.
  4. Speaking of, iTunes needs to get better at managing libraries, devices and synchronization.
  5. When are they releasing a stand-alone, Bluetooth or USB desktop version of the multitouch pad from the Mac Book Pro’s? Wacom’s is terrible, and while the Magic Mouse is awesome, I want a non-movable surface to use in the same way it works on my laptop.
  6. When will Apple just buy DropBox?
  7. When will Apple get serious about .Mac?
  8. Where is Marble?

Any others?

2009
11/21
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  1. 1) They need to tighten up the API, especially Address Book, before that can happen. I would like to see a more YouTube like model. Post and then pull the App down if it infringes one of the terms. Let me pay $1000+ per year to get premium support. Also, have “verified” Apps.

    2) I think the transition to OS 11 happens when MobileMe is ready for primetime and is fully integrated everywhere.

    3) I think AppleTV goes away and the iMac for the living room appears. I’m especially convinced since the launch of the new 27″ iMac.

    4) iTunes needs a rewrite. It’s moving away from it’s Carbon roots and using WebKit. We’ll probably see a iTunes X (similar to Quicktime Player X) when it integrates seamlessly with MobileMe.

    5) I don’t know enough about tablets.

    6) Yes, please. iDisk is severely lagging compared to DropBox.

    7) MobileMe is getting better. Very slowly. iWork.com needs a few more iterations. They are using and contributing to SproutCore. And surprisingly, with Webkit, they are arguably more innovative that Mozilla or Opera with respect to CSS/Javascript/HTML5.

    8) I don’t know enough about Marble.

  2. The idea that’s made me think that I’d be interested in whatever the Apple tablet becomes is that it should also be able to be used as a multitouch pad for desktop use, as well as a stand-alone device.

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