1) API and development environment. Since it runs OSX, I presume they’ll have a rich ecosystem for third party developers. To what degree are they allowing access to phone internals, most specifically, location awareness?
2) Ringtones: can you set one of your songs as a ringtone? I presume you SHOULD be, but will they capitulate to cash-cow?
3) Sync/integration OTA: will this utilize .Mac or is this going to be also working with the iCal Server and collaboration suite in Leopard? If so, this will open a third-party ecosystem for hosted iPhone/Mac sync/group calendaring. That is good thing.
4) Unlockability? I give it a week before its unlocked.
5) OSX API capabilities: will it have the full suite? How scaled back is the kernel?
6) Device/Device communiction: will iPhones talk a special language to other iPhones? Will they be able to beam other devices on Wi-Fi photos, etc? Music? These things can operate in ad-hoc mode I presume.
7) Is Apple going to only do side-loading of content from iTunes Music Store or OTA?
Will the iPhone retain hardware parity w/ OSX in terms of things like bluetooth GPS receivers, headsets, etc? Will Google Maps work with a bluetooth GPS receiver to make this geek extremely happy?
9) Will the camera interface retain iPhoto editing capabilities, and will it support video? If so, with third party support, we could have Shozu to the tenth power.
10) Command line? Anyone? If its running OSX, this means, like the Zaurus, in theory you could have any Unix application running, which in theory means you could have Apache running, which in theory means all geeks should bow down to the web server phone.
More as I think of them. Oh, and Zune? Nice knowing you.
UPDATE:
11) Native iChat w/ agnostic TCP/IP (meaning Edge or Wi-Fi as available)?
Battery life? Particularly with wifi, bluetooth and a huge screen - will my phone die b/c I listened to too much music?
iChat: what networks will it support (Yahoo Mail and Google partnership == Yahoo! IM, Google Talk, Jabber, already supports AIM / .Mac)
From the keynote… sounded like OTA email sync is going to be via Yahoo! Mail. Since it supports IMAP…. I wonder if that will also include calender , tasks, and contacts sync via imap.
And Zune, what’s that? 
keep in mind they only ANNOUNCED OTA w/ Yahoo. Its OSX people.
Here’s my biggest question - how funky does a touch screen (that’s pressed up against your face) get after a few weeks? Any phone I have had quickly gets a mucky coating over a few week period. Imagine adding poking my fingers at it as an additional discussion piece…
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The XMPP feed was really cool. Why Twitter won't allow relaying is beyond me. If twitter decentralized and did a node/hub based architecture with a good toolkit, things would be much different.
[From No XMPP: What Is Twitter Protecting?]- #
So why couldn't a loosely coupled, queue based system using XMPP work as a twitter clone? Hash table lookups for @replies, a good OSPF type routing table for interserver communication and asynchronous messaging propagation. Lets get cracking!
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The dutch certainly like their Twitters! That's better twitter coverage than we got at most of the US shows.
[From July 2nd, Amsterdam, Netherlands | R.E.M. Tour, 2008]- #
For the past ten years "tapped for web series" has usually been synonymous for "lots of money on stuff no one will want to watch." Can Google + MacFarlane reverse this? Probably not, because they don't understand the concept of Windowing. Content is successful when not built up with expectations.
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so this reminds me that Indigo Home Automation software + native iPhone App is going to absolutely MURDER as a home automation device. IndigoIndigo has an IP protocol and Zeroconf support. Our iPod Touch in our house is already doing this using a web based interface for us. Also consider the possibilities of using the iPod to control a wider array of devices, like your home stereo (using IRTransIRTrans), your air conditioner, etc. The iPod Touch suddenly kills the Phillips Prestigo, Logitech Harmony, etc. The Touch costs less than the Harmony, but IRTrans is not that cheap.
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Crystal was a great asset to the team and it will be sad to lose her, but our loss is many other people's gains and I wish her well in Seattle!
[From Clever, Clever Girl » Big Changes and a Bigger Move]- #
This is severely retarded. Honestly. In Orange County, a city with a plentiful population of people needing jobs and wanting to work and invested in their communities, a paper instead opts to crowdsource through Indian outsourcing than maybe offering to give something back to the community by crowd sourcing through, maybe parts of the city with high unemployment? Fuck. The stupidity abounds.
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So this is another in the line of REM experiments. With this one, fans can help create the animations for the tour backdrop in the European leg, through October. The animations will get assembled and shipped off to Blue Leach, who is doing the background video.
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Bill Gates = a personal hero. I love this e-mail. Microsoft is also a case of spreading things too thin.
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