Apple is currently in a mad dash to get the next version of iOS, the software the powers the iPhone and iPad, ready for developers.
We've put together a wish-list of what we want to see Apple do with iOS. As good as iOS is, it can be much better.
The iPhone's software could be easier to use, and more informative.
iMessage needs to be much more stable.
Apple's iMessage is unreliable. It goes down periodically wreaking havoc with iPhone users' text messaging. So, first step is to stop it from ever going down.
It's also quite wonky. If you turn off iMessage, the iPhone can't really figure it out. So, friends send you iMessages, but you miss them.
Siri needs to be entirely rethought.
Siri just doesn't work. In the rare cases it is useful, it's slow to respond.
If Apple really wants to create a "personal assistant" it should look at what Google does with Google Now. Google Now offers up cards of information before you even ask. It has the scores of your favorite teams, the local weather, estimates of how long it will take you to get home from where you're at, and even information on packages you're expecting.
Google does all this by combing through your data, which is a bit creepy, and very un-Apple-like. The idea is solid though. Apple should think about how to make Siri a highly personalized application that you check first thing every day.
Search stinks.
Apple's search in Mail and in Maps is terrible. It needs to build a better search engine so people can sift through all of their emails that flow through the Mail app. It also needs to make Maps search 100 times better.
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