Abhi Yerra

Apple is set to announce about its upcoming OS 3.0 for the iPhone. There are a few things I really want which I thought I’d write since I am procrastinating studying for my midterm.

• Background apps – I really want to listen to Pandora while at the same time sending and receiving SMSes without the radio going off. Is that so hard to ask?
• MMS – I think it’d make the whole communicating thing a lot fluid as I’ll probably be much more likely to take pictures and send them to people since I tend to be a visual person anyways. The whole email thing is sort of out of the way.
• Copy and Paste – Seriously? It’s so annoying, for example, to find a song on Shazam wanting to send the name to a friend only to realize that you have to write down the name on a paper then send it by retyping it, good luck remembering a complicated foreign song title when you don’t have a pen at hand. Seriously what century are we in? Come on Apple!
• Tethering – Not a biggie, but would be nice especially since I’m giving AT&T $30 bucks for a shitty 3G connection that barely works if at all. Then again tethering would probably cripple the already bad network or force them to upgrade, but I’m betting on the former.

If they have those I’d be a happy poor-college-student-paying-for-an-overpriced-service-on-a-shitty-network-on-an-awesome-phone. I just feel that Apple has made a great phone which is great at individual tasks, but hasn’t worked on getting apps to talk together.

Update: A big sigh of relief as MMS and Copy and Paste have been implemented. Thank god! Also a pseudo background task ability. Still no way to listen to Pandora without getting cut off by replying to a message…