i would love to see text expander on the iphone/touch

RSS Reader that can be used both offline and online (as well as sync to Google Reader)

SSH, by the way, that doesn't travel through someone else's application server, giving them the opportunty to steal my username and password.

I'd love to see a tip calculator! lol j/k of course. ;)

I'm with w00master. I'd like to see a lot of apps that work offline and sync to something online. I don't have plans for an iPhone, but I do have eyes on an iPod Touch and that type of functionality is almost required on that device.

The biggest thing the iPhone needs is some business syncing support. Not being able to sync mail, calendars, and other things in the corporate world is a pretty big hole.

I also think it would be fun to do a complete live edit of a web site ala something like cyberduck and textmate from my new apple pocket computer. But that's just the nerd in me coming out.

I'd like to see an iPhone version of iGTD (that syncs perfectly…) and some tools for on-the-go server administration — SSH and more.

http://julianschrader.de/20071017-third-party-applications-on-the-iphone...

Both prolly closer to the metal than the SDK is gonna allow, but I can dream, right? … right?

IM and VOIP are the next biggies, so I’m interested to see what AT&T is gonna allow…

Voice memos would be nice too. And I wouln’t complain about a Flickr exporter.

But the only thing I would use on a daily basis would be an iPhone version of OmniFocus.

If Apple could allow iPhone apps to do some wireless syncing so my OmniFocus Desktop app and iPhone app stay in sync without me having to do anything I would be in heaven.

I’d like to see bluetooth or wifi sync, with the ‘right decision’ of what to sync based on which protocol (available bandwidth) is being used. Would also like to see some decent task list / todo / notes syncing, but this requires some improvement of Mail and iCal as well…

The ability to connect to a Bluetooth Keyboard and fire up a scaled down document writer like Bean or Text Edit would be ghetto-fab. Granted, it wouldn’t get used much, but it would be a great way to avoid having to carry my Psion Series 5 with me when I want to do real writing. Barring a doc writer, Google Docs Mobile could work when they are done with it.

Since I got my iPhone, I have been using my laptop less and less with the exception of work. I could see myself not even bothering with the laptop in the evenings if I could just dock my iPhone and type on a real keyboard.

…but I want an NFP observation tracker that would sync to a database on my computer without going online. It’s just not information I want traveling across the internet, and I can’t always take my computer with me on an overnight trip. Writing it down is just so last century.

But this also falls under the “software I wish existed for OSX” category.

I’m talking about the good kind. Microsoft actually has an outstanding one for Windows Mobile. There is no learning involved. You push a button and talk to it. You say things like “Call Steve Jobs on Mobile” and a lady repeats back to you and you confirm yes or no. You can also have it read email and appointments, or dial a number not in your address book.

It’s the ONLY feature I truly miss from my t-mobile MDA. Had the RDP client been useable, that would have been #2.

Something like HanDBase for the Palm, where I can build my own trackable database to follow my hospital inpatients (or any other data set I want) on the phone.

I’d like a tiny portable version of Panic’s Coda (FTP + text editor)

Address card and calendar event sharing or in zunespeak, “squirting.” Not really an app, more a desire to add features to existing stuffs.

Universal Locator - An application that helps you find where you left something (keys, USB cable, passport, a favorite shirt that really shows off your biceps, that sorta stuff)

I didn’t think of this until after my first post, but with a Palm emulator, we’d instantly have a zillion useless apps and about 250 good ones available to us! You better believe the Apple “Overseer” will not allow this one into the system, though.

I wrote about this a while back after David Chartier posted his longing for a shopping app. Here’s the short version.

1. Skitch
2. iScrobbler or similar
3. Jumsoft Money or similar
4. A shopping app that goes a bit further than David’s suggested implementation.
5. iChat Mobile of course.

Skitch and iScrobbler are in my iPhone wheelhouse.

I actually own an iPod touch and I would love to see a to-do list that is integrated with iCal.