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Yes yes Apple, but will Truphone be allowed to be one of your "legitimate" iPhone apps? If so I'll buy one of your iPhones.

Oh dear god I wish this company would build a timesheet/time reporting/accounting type software package. They're just the right company to pull off such a challenge.

Jobs said phone calls was the killer app, but it appears to be missing the killer app for me: VoIP phone calls (iChat, Skype, Gizmo). Why should I spend suitcases full of money on cell phone calls when I can call my parents overseas for free over a WiFi connection? Looks like I'll be getting one of those mobile Skype phones afterall. Extremely disapointing.

Same here the killer app which is missing is iChat/Skype VoIP support. I think they've crippled it to appease Cingular.

Yeah, I agree with you Dan. There's no way I'd buy one if it was restricted to iTunes. More likely it'll play whatever Front Row can play.

Probably one of those incompetent CIA front companies.

I need a new 9.5mm optical drive for my MacBook because Apple decided to use a lousy drive that won't let me circumvent the stupid region code restrictions.

No vertical panes instead of horizontal?

I wrote this email to Steve Jobs back in March, but never received a reply:

Hi Steve,

I'm writing to you because there's a product I've wanted Apple to produce for many years, which it never has. It's a product that, if priced right, could be Apple's best selling computer ever: an eco-friendly one. I don't know what your research shows but the anecdotal evidence I've garnered over the years suggests such a computer would be the most talked about machine on the planet.

I'm one of those people who's always searching for the ultimate something or rather, and often I won't find it because nobody is producing it. Often, a couple of years after I was searching for it, someone will start producing it however, as if they read my mind. Well I've been searching for an eco-friendly computer for 8 years now and they've been a few attempts but nobody's pulled it off (and they haven't run Mac OS!).

So, what would a eco-friendly computer consist of? I'm sure R&D would come up with a more refined list, but it might look a little like this:

1) It would employ parts that are the most eco-friendly available: lead and cadmium free circuit boards, mercury-free screens, hydrogen fuel-cell batteries?, etc. etc.

2) It would have some kind of "fair trade" certification, so buyers know that everyone involved in the process of producing the computer got paid properly.

3) It would be energy efficient (an easy one considering Apple's current direction)

4) It would be completely recyclable (or some parts might even be biodegradable), and Apple would have a partnership of some kind whereby they could be sent to somewhere from anywhere in the world to be recycled.

5) As many parts as economically possible would be upgradeable.

6) It would have a sophisticated design aesthetic (think German precision engineering, as opposed to hippies and flowers)

7) It would run Mac OS X! :)

All these things are something many electronics companies are slowly implementing across the board, but I think there's a great opportunity here for pushing the envelope, and I couldn't think of a better company to do it than Apple.

Hope you agree.