Do you have a software wish list?

Asked by tom_g (16638

) March 13th, 2013

Is there an application that you “need” that has yet to be written? Is there a piece of software or a service you use that is just missing functionality that you would like to see?

In other words, does the average user of technology have a back log of features they are just waiting for someone to build, or does it work the other way around – does the invention of new functionality or software itself generate an inspiration to use it?

Note: I’m a software engineer in a 100-person company, and I’m not in the business of evaluating business requirements. Much of our back log is generated via client requests. But a percentage of our development is innovation that is anticipating “need” or use, and attempting to out-pace competitors.

But with the average consumer, I occasionally hear from friends that they wish a product did x, y, and z. But more times than not, existing functionality or software for x, y, and z already exists.

Is there something that you wish someone would get off their ass and build?

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I need a banking mobile app for my Android phone that syncs with my iBank app on my Mac. iBank doesn’t make an Andoid or PC mobile app. I’ve tried Quicken don’t like it,

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There are a few emulators/translators I would like. A decent Android VM that doesn’t require installing the entire SDK would be nice.

I think the only program that doesn’t really exist at all already is a way to make Apple devices play nice with non-Apple devices though. (I won’t count the bug-ridden Windows version of iTunes.) There are certain single-use-case kludges, but for the most part, the OS X ecosystem is basically a black hole (nothing gets in or out), and trying to sync an iDevice on a Linux system is, at best, non-trivial.

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