Category: 📁 Tech Thinks

I think Microsoft should make the S versions of their Xbox consoles and controller silver instead of white.

• I no longer receive much joy in buying many Apple products because with the latest iPod Touch 7 and Apple TV 6 you are getting 3 year old processor technology and 7 year old design technology.
• The result is that you are still getting the negative of having to wait to buy Apple products on their slow and well thought out schedule, but now without the positive of receiving close to the newest or fastest technology.

I wonder if Tesla should sell their self driving car software to any companies that want it under a name like "Tesla OS", and still make their own vehicles to sell of course.

I wonder if the spirit of Steve Jobs is upset because cameras, including big ugly bumps that aren't flush to the back and notched cutouts that intrude on the display, are ruining the beautiful design and simple form of the once magical and elegant smart phone gadgets of the past.

Android phone makers should make budget phones with 5.0" 1440x720 displays for one-handed use.

I wonder if Apple should have released an affordable, mass market $99 home speaker assistant first instead of the expensive HomePod, similar to what they did with Apple TV.

For an equal and consistent UX, iOS should make a long press on older devices work absolutely everywhere a 3D Touch hard press works.

I still think that the app switcher in iOS should show icons instead of screenshots, and either have a scrolling horizontal list of icons or a scrolling vertical list with icons to the left of the full app names, instead of displaying one screenshot at a time.

I wish there was a setting to automatically sync between 2 iOS devices which apps I have installed and their location on the home screens.

From a user perspective I think that any audio, music, or radio apps or websites like Play Music or Spotify should not have any video ads, only audio ads.

I wonder if Apple should now make an iPhone thicker for huge battery and flush camera. Slim down in future as battery and camera tech improves.

Christina Bonnington on Apple’s iPhone X Strategy - Daring Fireball

I wonder if Microsoft should rename Windows 10 S in the future to just Windows 10, and Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Plus. Have Windows 10, Windows 10 Plus, and Windows 10 Pro.

For consistency, I think the iPad app folders should only have 4 apps across in landscape mode too.

At iOS 10 I still think that switching from folders with 16 apps and 4 columns to folders with 9 apps and 3 columns in iOS 7 was one of the worst UX and design decisions ever on iOS.

I like that Twitter now allows Direct Messages, but I wonder if a shorter limit would be better. I suggest limiting them to either 1000 or 1500 characters.

Apple should allow you to sync all iOS settings between two iOS devices, including the apps and their order on home screens.

It seems like TechMeme used to have many more stories on products, services, and software instead of so many stories on businesses, people, and money.

iPod 2G was designed for form, it feels like it’s made for your hand. iPod 5G was designed for function, it feels like a brick of metal.

I wish that Siri and Spotlight search were integrated so that holding the home button was just "Search".

• It would bring up a search text box at the top and Siri at the bottom so you could search by text or voice depending on what you wanted to use.
• It would search both your device and the web when you are connected to the internet, but only search your device and use better voice control options when you aren't.