This requirement is possible now, with a bit of fiddling:
“Ability to use as a remote for iTunes on a computer in another room via Wifi”

http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/13/how-to-control-itunes-from-any-web-browser/

There’s other things like that out there for OSX. I’m sure customizing it so it works well with the iPhone wouldn’t be a problem .

I don’t mind the huge amount of attention the phone brings – after all, it was expected – but I do feel bad for my friends who get to stand idly by and watch as a bunch of people rush me to see the device.

See, this is why I like reading your weblog. You post great stuff, but you don’t take things quite as seriously as many other people in the weblogging upper echelon. To read many other reviews, you’d think some people (especially those whose phones didn’t activate quickly) were actually contemplating the cliff.

I also appreciate that you kept a perspective that most people have already forgotten: that jaw-dropping amazement that first came when the iPhone debuted at MWSF. I don’t have an iPhone, but I played with one at the Apple Store, and I was thrilled to see that it is every bit as exciting as I expected. Too many people have already moved into griping about the shortcomings. I guess some people are never completely happy.

I only have two complaints about the iPhone: the idiotic headphone jack thing, and the lack of to-do syncing (although I suspect this is one of the Leopard features that got omitted). Two complaints ain’t bad.

Yes, I have items on my wishlist (GPS, Instant Messaging, 3G, etc.), but I wouldn’t dare complain about these things because I’ve known they were missing for six months.

But the headphone jack thing is just plain stupid, and the to-do thing was a surprise to me. So, two complaints. Otherwise, it’s heavenly.

The headphone jack thing is also an annoyance for me. It’s annoying to have to purchase an “add-on” to use my headphones that use a standard headphone jack. It was probably the single dumbest thing they did from a basic hardware perspective with this device.

I don’t have an iPhone (yet?) but where I live, it won’t be available for another 6 months at least… so now wonder…

I still use a phone which uses just the GSM network for calls (900/1800 MHz) and to send SMS messages under 160 plain text symbols…

…and I am still happy with it. I guess, I’m simply weird, but this is how things are for me… I don’t lack any other features, for now. And for making photos, I have my digital camera, and for work, I have my Intel Pentium 4 HT computer…

:-D

Marcus: Apple announced that they’re accounting for iPhone revenue on a subscription basis — basically they’re saying that an iPhone purchase includes not just the finished goods of the hardware and initial OS package, but also any and all software updates (including feature additions) for a period of time after purchase (two years, I think). It’s the same thing they’re doing with Apple TV, precisely to avoid stuff like the 802.11n updater debacle.

This is understandable, but to pass it off as careless seems silly in such glowing reviews of the thoughtfulness that went into the device.

Here is why it was carefully considered and designed:

Take your iPod an plug any headphone in the jack. Now put a wee bit of lateral force on the sheath of the plug – not too much! So many ipods are ruined because people want to leave the headphones plugged in and throw them in a bag or they have it in their back pocket when they sit. There goes another contact bent out of useable position and an unhappy (though neglectful) iPod owner.

Enter iPhone. A new device that – in order to use every single function with headphones plugged in – those headphones must have a microphone. Remember we bought it because it is a phone, right? Hence what good are standard headphones going to be except when you are on a plane and can’t use the phone function.

Imagine I have my Bose Triport headphones on and a call comes in. I would need to take the phone out of my pocket unplug the jack, take off my headphones and put the phone to my ear. Just to take a call? No thanks.

What I see here is that Apple made a couple important considerations. One – full functionality requires new headphones that include a mic. With this situation they can improve upon the design and hence the integrity of the connection as any integrated headset will be a new design.

Two – Knowing full well that users will demand high quality headphones with integrated mics, this will be an opportunity for those companies to finally address the designs of the sheaths on the plugs.

Seriously, how can Apple, for all these years, make tiny, narrow plugs while companies like Bose, Shure, and Sony (some Sony headphones have smaller plug sheaths) have to make these wonky, thick, sometimes angled sheaths on the plugs?

Thanks to Apple for protecting my purchase. While traveling, I will gladly carry my other headphones with an adapter of some kind when I will not be able to use the phone.

– Bone

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– Tyler