Please Fix the iPhone!

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Please Fix the iPhone!

by Jay Hathaway Nov 6th 2008

Do you have a gripe about your iPhone? If you're one of the many people who wishes the much-hyped gadget had basic things like copy/paste or the ability to shoot video, now there's a place to take your gripes. Please Fix the iPhone is a very attractive site about people's problems with Apple's mostly-very-attractive phone.

The format of the site is pretty simple: a list of people's wishes for improvements to the iPhone, with the ability to vote for any you agree with. The front page shows the top 10 of the thousands of wishes people have submitted. I knew people had problems with the iPhone, but I didn't know they had thousands of problems with it. Take that number with a grain of salt, though: wishes range from the serious (no physical keyboard) to the not so serious (no self-destruct button).

Tags: Apple, complaints, Fix the iPhone, FixTheIphone, iphone, problems

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

darley said 4:45PM on 11-06-2008

Use EMAIL.

flo said 5:13PM on 11-06-2008

@darley: yeah, i think so too. MMS imho was the most useless invention ever, only useful for putting money into network's pockets. Plus personally I don't know anyone sending mms, so yeah, either just send email, or send normal ecards with your iphone. MMS = FAIL

SimbaDogg said 12:38PM on 11-07-2008

wow...you're an idiot
so what do i do when i want to send a picture message to someone who has a simple non-smartphone (dumbphone if you will). Hey, check out this really cool pic msg...but wait till you get home to check it.

h0mi said 5:26PM on 11-06-2008

Email is as much an answer to MMS as using AOLIM or twitter is an answer to SMS support.

Butters said 10:09PM on 11-06-2008

The thing is that all these features are available on the iPhone, if it is jailbroken. MMS (Swirly MMS), Video Recorder (Cycorder) and thousands of other non-apple approved applications and themes are available free with just a few presses of winpwn (PC) or the PwnageTool (Mac). You can use Google to find any of these pieces of software, along with how to use them.

Of course people are going to argue that these features should be already included in the standard iPhone package but we all know that Apple is the king of marketing and if they can release another version of the iPhone that includes these features then they can up sell to people that already have an iPhone and make twice the money.

And finally, by now everybody knows the "limitations" of the iPhone. So if you buy an iPhone and then complain that it doesn't come with a video recorder as standard then you should be required to give your phone to someone more deserving and be pointed and laughed at for your stupidity.

Victor Agreda Jr said 11:35PM on 11-06-2008

That's the thing, however. Some folks are OK living within the constraints. I'm OK without MMS and a video recorder. Everyone's a cricket, I guess.

Almo said 3:46AM on 11-07-2008

How about the ability to delete certain SMS messages, or forward certain ones? Or send to multiple contacts?

Gustavo said 4:37AM on 11-07-2008

Why would I want a technology that's fated to die in like 2 years? If I want something simple, I'll send SMS, if not, then email is the answer.

Ethan said 7:14AM on 11-07-2008

Yeah, I think MMS is deeply flawed, I wouldn't use it, but honestly why not? For me notes syncing is the most valuable addition.

The most important thing is sending feedback to apple.

Epiphanize said 10:01AM on 11-07-2008

I love my iPhone, but there are a lot of good ideas on this site.

inteller said 10:20AM on 11-07-2008

MMS is just designed to line carrier's pockets. I GUARANTEE if they make MMS available ATT will tack on another $5-10 to the ALREADY RIDICULOUS text charges.

ken said 5:51PM on 11-08-2008

Considering I am a PC only user, I have been absolutely thrilled with my Phone except for maybe one or two little things. Copy and Paster would be extremely great, but Safari seems to crash a lot, am I the only one?

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