The great thing about the mobile gadget market is that it is still all up for grabs. If 2007 was (eventually) the year of the iPhone, Apple’s finest has given the industry a vigorous-enough shaking that the only certainty for 2008 is that Nokia, Motorola & co will be falling over themselves trying to compete with it.
Here is my 2008 wish list.
1. A better iPhone.
Yes, well. It’s ok ,isn’t it? Impressive to look at, innovative, blah blah, etc. But we know that Apple can do better. iPhone 2.0 needs a better camera, some kind of text-entry system that doesn’t require the use of bizarre finger-condoms for high-speed texting and, above all, for Apple to unclench their buttocks and open the phone up to 3rd-party developers.
There is a wealth of programming talent out there that is already producing some amazing apps for hacked iPhones - it would be great if users could try them out without having to void their warranty and risk turning their phone into a plastic brick the next time Apple releases a firmware update.
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