The iPhone is already a reasonably mature product. Despite persistent reports of dead zones on screens and lots of requests for the landscape keyboard outside of Safari, the real interest is with what Apple can do in software next.
That’s the genius of the iPhone model. Apple created an endlessly flexible interface that can be updated and modified strictly in software. They’ve also made a mostly menu-free system that keeps iPhone apps relatively flat. It’s quite a paradigm shift from the hierarchies we’re now used to in our PCs.
PhillRyu has done a great job synthesizing his thoughts on where Apple should be headed next with iPhone software. My favorite is above, iMovie for iPhone. I don’t know if I can possibly think of a more perfect concept. Fingers crossed, eh?
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Pete Mortensen is a design strategist for consulting firm Jump Associates and the co-author of Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, a book and blog that are significantly more interesting than you might initially think. Pete’s particular Apple avocations are both around design–interface and industrial. Follow him on Twitter!
