VOTE NOW! Reader's Choice: Biggest iPhone FAIL

[Rene Ritchie]

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[jamesus]

Went with copy and paste. Although, Clippy is working out nicely for me and I might have to try hClipboard now...

[sting7k]

Wow this one is tough to decide, so many let-downs in iPhone land this year.

This may come as a shock to some but I really do not care about copy/paste on the iPhone, I never used it one time on any other smart phone I owned.

Do not have any interest in stereo bluetooth profiles, but data transfers would be nice. Backups were not as bad for me as I heard others experience backups hours long. Do not care about MMS, only addition to SMS I would like is landscape mode, please!

So, after having the push notifications promised for Sept. and then never happening is pretty big fail.

But, having no form of background processes for 3rd parties kind of ties into that same thing. There have to be some apps that can do this, maybe Apple could build in some kind of task manager or something to allow you to choose which apps you want to let run in the background and which you don't to keep things smooth.

[JFSikora]

Lack of push for all 3rd party apps. Apple teased us with it and did not come thru.

[ScottUrman]

No turn by turn for me. Still waiting on the rumored tom tom effort.

[hotrod]

While Copy and paste seems so "part of every other computing platform".....I can probably count with just two hands the times I've really wanted/need copy/paste functionality.

For me, turn by turn would awesome, but it wouldn't work great until background processes were allowed to run. Even when I use RunKeeper to monitor my jogging distance and time, it still has to be open and running in the foreground to keep track of me. Booooo.

Push notification is a big dissappointment since it was promised back in September....and we haven't heard crap about it since last summer. But again if we could have background processes then push notifications would not be needed as much.

And I've said it before, I miss Sprite Backup that I used on my PPC...I wish there was someway to 'image' and iPhone and quickly restore that image for when I hose things up too far. I used to use it as a safety net. Before starting some weird registry editing project or testing out some new beta software I would back it up with Sprite Backup...then if things went bad, I could just restore the image and I would be right back where I was 15 min ago running smooth and enjoying life. I wish there was some sort of Sprite Backup for the iPhone.

[jambo175]

To use the phone as a serious business tool, cut and paste has to be added. I have dozens of times a day when information is sent via email that should be copied directly in to my calendar, meeting information, webex details and so on. Come on Apple, get it together already.

[jasonact]

Why isn't the lack of video recording on this list? That is the biggest problem that I have with the phone. And the one App I DESPERATELY want more than any other.

[jamesus]

Originally Posted by jasonact

Why isn't the lack of video recording on this list? That is the biggest problem that I have with the phone. And the one App I DESPERATELY want more than any other.

There's an app called Cycorder that does this.

[ihateallex]

I have to choose just one??