{"id":4442,"date":"2016-09-10T01:23:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T07:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=4442"},"modified":"2016-09-10T01:23:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T07:23:28","slug":"what-the-iphone-7-could-have-done-to-be-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=4442","title":{"rendered":"What the iPhone 7 could have done to be different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone 7 is a definite &#8220;meh&#8221;. Same look, same system, same Apple repackaging of last year&#8217;s tech.<\/p>\n<p>Apple keeps missing opportunities to innovate, and if they keep this trend going, more and more Apple fanatics are going to jump ship.<\/p>\n<p>Off the top of my head, here some things I would like Apple to do with their iPhone line&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Move the top camera <em>behind<\/em> the front screen so selfies and Facetime chats are &#8220;centered&#8221; and not focused on someone&#8217;s chin or forehead. The camera would &#8220;read&#8221; the colors in front of it (whatever pixels are on the display) and correct (ie: remove) them in the output. The camera would be invisible to the user and there would be no &#8220;black dots&#8221; on the screen. Video chats would finally look like they do in the movies where people look at the screen and not at the camera four inches over it.<\/li>\n<li>Open a mid-level API so advanced developers could make &#8220;high end&#8221; apps for the iPhone. Nothing that would tweak the core iOS, but things like <em>real <\/em>system theme changes, control over zooming and scaling, changing the mail fetch interval, reading tower signal strength, etc. All the new apps that use the mid-level API would be in an &#8220;advanced&#8221; section of the app store. If any of the apps caused problems, mid-level apps could be disabled in SETTINGS.<\/li>\n<li>Offer a battery enhanced model of all iPhones. They would be thicker than the &#8220;normal&#8221; versions, but with 300% more battery life. Bonus points if the battery could be hot-swapped for a &#8220;new&#8221; battery and a smaller internal battery would keep the iPhone working during the switch.<\/li>\n<li>On a related note, wireless charging for &#8220;standard&#8221; iPhones would be a long-overdue addition, but also add charging <em>transfer<\/em> for the battery enhanced iPhones <em>to<\/em> &#8220;standard&#8221; iPhones. Imagine being able to transfer power from one fully charged iPhone to another iPhone if they were touching back to back.<\/li>\n<li>Keep the existing microphone on the bottom of the iPhone, but add one microphone on the top to allow for &#8220;stereo&#8221; recordings. Put a built-in app that shows &#8220;left channel\/right channel&#8221; sound editing for extra credit.<\/li>\n<li>Add a micro SD card port for storage and photo\/file transfers already.<\/li>\n<li>Boost iCloud&#8217;s storage to half the iPhone&#8217;s current capacity. By default, 128s would get 64 gigs of cloud storage, 64s would get 32 gigs of storage and 16s would get 8 gigs of storage.<\/li>\n<li>Color changing LEDs have been around for awhile, so why not have the LED on the back of the phone that&#8217;s just a &#8220;white flash&#8221; change color too? Blue, yellow, soft white, etc. Add intensity control and the ability to specify color changes <em>in<\/em> the camera as the photo is being taken and Instagrammers will go bananas.<\/li>\n<li>Open AirDrop to all phone manufacturers so it becomes <em>the<\/em> standard for phone-to-phone wireless exchanges.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, a minor tweak to the iTunes store &#8211; allow for apps, movies and music purchased online to be completely transferred to another account once every five years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like I said, just off the top of my head, there&#8217;s a lot of things Apple can do to keep their iPhones popular and far ahead of their competitors. Releasing the same design with trivial changes isn&#8217;t going to be a sustainable business model no matter how much liquid cash they have in reserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone 7 is a definite &#8220;meh&#8221;. Same look, same system, same Apple repackaging of last year&#8217;s tech. 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