I’ll admit it’s a cool concept. I’m guessing they’re intending this to become your everything. I like the page scrolling, and the cutting and pasting, but I fear the user interface may be too complicated. I couldn’t tell what screen was what and how to get from one place to the next. It’s very fluid and I could see this being a hot seller, but it’s gotta have a couple of things; speed, storage, and all kinds of connectivity.

Would you buy this thing? If so, how much would you pay for it?

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1. Hewlett-Packard
2. Dell
3. Johnson & Johnson
4. Intel
5. IBM
6. State Street
7. Nike
8. Bristol-Myers Squibb
9. Applied Materials
10. Starbucks
11. Johnson Controls
12. Cisco Systems
13. Wells Fargo
14. Sun Microsystems
15. Sprint Nextel
16. Adobe Systems
17. Advanced Micro Devices
18. Kohl’s
19. Allergan
20. Staples

Here are some of the companies that will surprise you by their low placement:

31. Microsoft
58. Coca-Cola
69. Yahoo!
79. Google
82. General Electric
133. Apple (what?)

I honestly thought that Apple would have rated quite a bit higher. Let’s see where it stands in 2010. To see the complete list of the top 500 greenest companies, check out Newsweek.

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Will the iPhone begin to kill off other industries? Well let’s look at the current industries that the iPhone invades:

GPS
Video Cameras
Music Players
Mobile Gaming
Everything there’s an App for

If I were to guess, the next iPod Touch will probably have a built-in camera. YouTube has already seen a 400% rise in uploads thanks to the iPhone 3GS. Apply that type of growth to the other industries (except music players, Apple already rules it) and we’ve got Flip video cameras and other small cam corders becoming irrelevant, GPS devices going obsolete, etc.

The idea isn’t really that crazy. A device that has an App “for just about anything” can become your everything device; the device of the future that everyone dreams of. That’s really the genius of the App store. The truth is that when the iPhone was first released Apple had no idea what it had in its hands; a gold mine. They didn’t supply developers with an SDK for a long time, and at first claimed that web Apps were the way to go. Obviously inaccurate.

As Apple improves on the iPhone (rumor has it the next one will have multi-cores), it will become faster, better, amazing features will be added, and perhaps that long awaited tablet will be released. In my opinion, if they ever do, it will run the iPhone OS (probably version 4, 5, or something even closer to a full OS X) and be closer to a computer than anything else. ANYWAY, my point being that yes, as the iPhone grows, as its OS is improved, as more Apps get made, the iPhone has the potential to make many electronics industries obsolete.

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1. First of all, the way that the iPhone handles all of these Apps is a little ridiculous. 4.0 should introduce some form of App management, perhaps a stacks-like feature from the Dock.

2. Overhaul of some of its native Apps. Notes, Weather, Photos, and Calendar come to mind. They’re outdated and we don’t get enough options.

3. Online connectivity with most major social media networks. The option to share videos on YouTube is nice, but I wanna be able to send photos directly to Twitter, Facebook, et al.

4. Faces and Places. iPhoto does it decently enough, and by the time the iPhone OS 4.0 comes out, new iPhones with much more powerful processors will be ready to ship (most likely multi-core). With that power they could perhaps implement some form of a Faces feature, also allowing you to share and edit those photos, as well as Places.

5. Multi-Tasking is another big one. Apple is known to be very creative with the way they handle software. Put those great minds to work along with some powerful (and long lasting) iPhones and you’ve got background tasks.

Let’s face it, the iPhone is becoming more and more like a computer. The more things they add the less reasons some people have to buy a laptop. All of this stuff WILL be available on the iPhone, we just don’t know when.

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Voice controls are nothing new, in fact they have been around for a long time. However, the usual applications to voice control have been pretty basic; voice dialing and that’s about it. What Apple is doing with its iPhone OS 3.0 is embracing voice control in almost every aspect of the device. Not only that, the voice controls that one can use are totally natural and human (no “computer, dial number 555-5555″). You can say things like, “play more songs like this,” or, “call diane,” or even ask it questions like, “what artist is this?”

Cars have also had voice controlled mapping systems for a long time. You’re able to speak a saved location and it will map it for you, or perhaps ask it to find the nearest gas station. But what’s really important here is the fact that we’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg. You might ask, what else could I possibly want with voice control? After all I don’t want to have a conversation with my computer or my phone. Here are some possible future applications for the iPhone alone:

As long as Apple provides APIs for the voice control, developers should be able to apply this feature into literally anything.

But imagine the possibilities; get into your car and authenticate yourself, then tell the car to start, map where you’re going (find you an alternate route if need be), control your phone, music, air conditioning… everything. Apply it to the home, your television, anything.

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The Charging Pad: This idea has been around for a while. Wireless charging. The way this works is with inductive and conductive charging, which means you can place your laptop or cell phone on a charging pad and you’re set. Pretty neat.

Flexible Screens: This will be standard. We’ve been hearing about these little guys for a while, and we damn well know the possible applications. Especially with devices like the Kindle and the iPhone coming out, we’ve grown to love having computers in our pocket. Flexible and foldable screens will revolutionize portable and mobile computing.

Olfactory Advertising: This is one that I never thought of before. Billboards and ads will emit smells to try to entice customers. NTT Communications issued a press release a couple of years ago announcing their study.

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