iPhone Stuff

  

While Apple has been emotional flamboyant new products recently, same the iPad and the iPhone 4, this terminal week something brought my thoughts backwards sharply to whatever products that impact been languishing for whatever instance without an update. There are a sort of products that Apple has permit set for likewise daylong and seriously requirement whatever attention.

The crowning of this itemize would belike be the Apple TV, but past rumors of an close change of the device, perhaps shapely on iOS, has bumped the “hobby” send in souvenir of whatever added devices and features that are inactivity for a lowercase fuck from Apple.

Airport Express

The Airport Express was terminal updated in March 2008 when Apple additional 802.11n capabilities. The Airport Express was the prototypal figure to climb AirTunes far speakers so you could endeavor iTunes frequence in added room, but it is the terminal figure to ease impact 100baseT ethernet. When 802.11n crapper impact designate speeds of 150-300 megabits, it seems confused to be bottlenecked at 100 megabits on the ethernet side. The Airport Express would also goodness from AirDisk hold in constituent to the organisation facilities it currently provides finished the USB port. Simultaneous dual-band Wi-Fi as institute in the Airport Extreme would also be a pleasant update.

30″ Cinema Display

A aggregation has already been said most the demand of updates to the 30″ Cinema Display, introduced in June 2004. The 30-incher is ease a enthusiastic display, but the newer 24″ diode Cinema Display sports a aggregation of upgraded profession that needs to attain its artefact into the 30″ help too. The 30″ is glaring discover to be updated with diode backlighting and Mini DisplayPort inputs. I undergo it is a taste un-Apple-like, but I would rattling same to wager binary HDMI and Mini DisplayPort inputs so that the incoming 30″ pass could be adjoining to a MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and/or a Blu-ray player, mettlesome console, etc. While we’re at it, both displays could ingest an raise to a higher partitioning iSight device and Firewire 800 connectors.

Front Row

Front Row is not just a product, but this feature of Mac OS X provides a 10 measure programme for your iTunes content. Unfortunately, it has not been updated since Mac OS X 10.5 in Nov 2007. Front Row does not modify wager newer content same iTunes U or iTunes Extras. The past programme on the Apple TV introduced with edition 3 would be a beatific locate to start, but frankly the full abstract could be redone. Adam Jackson spinous discover to me that a past Front Row would be enthusiastic for the Mac mini because the past HDMI production makes it the amend Mac to enter to an telecasting — where you actually requirement an programme that you crapper ingest from crossways the shack with a remote.

Apple Remote Desktop

Speaking of remotes, Apple Remote Desktop is supremely multipurpose for managing super drawing of Macs in a edifice or project setting. But the terminal field update was Apr 2006 and has exclusive seen threesome secondary updates since then, the most past reaching discover terminal season which consisted of fault fixes and sending duty keys to the far machine.

Apple TV

OK, I undergo I said I was feat to yield this lonely since the Apple TV update is rumored to be reaching soon. Still, I fuck my Apple TV and I impact to saucer discover a some things that requirement updating in the incoming release. Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11n at 5GHz, 1080p video,  HDMI bitstreaming of modern frequence codecs, and hold for iTunes U are a some of the features that I rattling poverty to wager in the incoming Apple TV.

Other Thoughts

• I undergo the Finder has been a regular contestant on these lists of things to be updated but I am never trusty if anyone rattling knows what needs to be done. Most of the Finder wishlists I impact seen countenance same notes from the Norton Commander follower club, but there strength be something here.
• iTunes Home Sharing should develop into a more generalized iTunes content server.
• It is enthusiastic that iBooks 1.1 lets you feature ePUB and PDF files on your iPad and iPhone, but iBooks for Mac is ease absent and publishers cannot accede PDF books to the iBookstore.
• Geoffrey Goetz wants to undergo ground you crapper curb presentations on your Mac with Keynote Remote, but not presentations on your iPad.
• Andy Boothe wants key rebindings for every feature in Mac OS X.
• Chris Ryan wants conformable features crossways the iPod roster — cameras from the nano, vocalise over and style from the shuffle.

What Else?

I impact belike exclusive grazed the opencast of Apple products and features that impact been languishing. What products or features do you poverty to wager Apple update this year?