11 Early Christmas Presents from Apple

It would be very nice to see these in my stocking come the 25th of December, but I don’t hold out much hope.

  1. Virtualized Snow Leopard — developers would love the ability to run multiple copies of Snow Leopard on there 8-core Mac Pro. And all it would take is a change to the licence agreement.
  2. FireFox on the iPhone — I can honestly see this happening, but with one caveat, it’ll cost you. A change in SDK terms might allow paid-for-apps to replace existing functionality.
  3. Family Pack of iTablets — 3 devices for $999.99, runs the iPhone OS but with keyboard and mouse support. A Kindle/Netbook killer!
  4. iPhone discounts for developers — we sold 2 billion f**king Apps! How about some love, 2 per year at 80% off?
  5. UK App Store Promo Codes — all I can say to this is AHHHHHHHHHHH! How can I get Jemima Kiss to review my amazing App if she has to buy it!
  6. Apple TV that works — it’s easy; Blue Ray player, Hulu, iPlayer and 4OD support. Job done. Drop the price by £50 / $100 and you have instant living room domination.
  7. WWDC Europe — I love San Francisco but a London or Paris event would make a lot of people happy
  8. Playing nice with Google Voice — Apple and Google do some much better against Microsoft when they’re not fighting
  9. Buy Adobe — you’ve got the cash, you could kill Flash (or make it better), 64 bit Photoshop, …, etc, etc
  10. End the exclusivity, sell more iPhone — iPhones account for more than 40% of smartphone sales in countries with out exclusivity (i.e. France). How many more of my amazing Apps would I sell if iPhone got a 2-5x market increase? Enough to stop plugging it every 5 minutes.
  11. Buy Dell and install Snow Leopard on every computer, just for fun

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