We Want: "WhisperSync" for iPhone and iTunes
With Apple's September 9, "It's only rock and roll, but we like it" event fast approaching, and its promises of new iTunes 9 social media and app management features, here's something else, just like @sethclifford, we'd love to see added to the list: "WhisperSync". More specifically, for MobileMe to do a little over-the-air syncing of our location in a podcast, audiobook, or lengthy video so we can switch between the iPhone, iPod touch, or iTunes and always be at the same location in our media, regardless of where we continue listening or watching.
We can do this now, of course, but it requires a tethered USB sync between our iPhone and/or iPod touch and our computer. Amazon's Kindle, however, does this transparently and automagically over the air using WhisperSync, and yes, we want Apple to iClone it. (Well, we don't care about the likely-trademarked name, we just want the tech!)
So, next time we finish our run and hit pause on our iPhone's player, we can wash off, grab a tasty beverage, flop down into the couch, and keep listening right from our Apple TV.
How about it, Apple?
Editor-in-Chief of iMore, Executive Producer at Mobile Nations, co-host of Iterate and ZEN and TECH, cook, grappler, photon wrangler.
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I'll settle for MobileMe being able to sync with a system that's already on an exchange server (i.e. Outlook on my work computer). Even then though, until they add task syncing I don't know that I could be convinced to re-up on MobileMe. It's been a total waste of money so far.
I really would like them to first improve the calendaring on MobileMe for users who use it online. I really want to be able to sent invitations from the Web and from my iPhone calendar before any other improvements.
I'd love that. I'm already a MobileMe user. And it syncs Bookmarks, Calendar, Address book and more back to my computers Mac/Win/iPhone (and Documents between my Mac computers and accessible from my iPhone).
Syncing the place I'm at in an audiobook or podcast seems pretty trivial. Just over the WiFi at home would be good for that, doesn't even need to be a MobileMe feature.
I'm still not convinced I'd spend the money for MobileMe. Sure it does a few amazing things, but many of then are already available through other free media.
I think it concerns me having all my eggs in one basket with mobileme running so much.
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