1. Make it Less Crashy
The iPhone with 2.0 software feels a little… buggy. It’ll randomly crash or slow down to the point of unusability until you restart every few days with normal use. That’s not right; this is a mobile phone. It shouldn’t feel like an unstable computer.

2. Fix the Keyboard Lag
A good chunk of the time, typing on the iPhone keyboard is made even more difficult due to the lag involved. Typing quickly means the letters pop up four keystrokes after you hit them. Make the keyboard move as fast as the user can type.

3. Fix Safari Orientation Switch Lag
Sometimes, Safari takes its sweet, sweet time switching from portrait to landscape when you turn the phone. This should feel almost instantaneous, not something you have to wait for.

4. Make Backing Up Faster
For some, “backing up” whenever you plug in your iPhone can take upwards of 30 minutes. What is it doing, exactly? The iPhone sync should be near-instantaneous when you plug it in if you aren’t moving large files back and forth on purpose.

5. Make it More Efficient
The 3G mode is a battery hog. You can turn off 3G completely, but if there was an option to only use 3G for certain programs, such as Safari and Maps, it would go a long way towards making this a phone you aren’t afraid to unplug in the morning when you aren’t planning on getting home until very late that night.

6. Video Recording
This could easily be implemented, as we’ve seen from apps available for jailbroken phones. What’s the holdup?

7. Wi-Fi Syncing
We’d love to have our iPhone sync automatically when it hits our home Wi-Fi network, from app data to photos to music to contacts.

8. Leave App Icons in Place After an Update
When apps update, their icon gets picked up and moved to the very bottom of your last screen. Why? When you updated four apps at once it then makes you awkwardly move them all back to where they were. Just leave them in place.

9. Make Moving Icons from Page to Page Easier
Moving an icon from one page to another takes multiple tries and, unlike most things on the iPhone, feels awkward and user unfriendly. Make this less of a pain.

10. Copy & Paste
Duh.

- A reinvention of the TiVo box that doesn’t associate so strongly with cable and broadcast TV.
– BlackBerry to know we mean them no harm and to actually work with blogs.
– For writers around the world and at Giz to stop picking on Motorola and Microsoft without due cause. I mean, the RAZR is a decent phone, even though it’s not in style anymore. And Bill Gates is curing the malaria epidemic! I guess OLPC needs a reprieve, too. But not as much as Microsoft.
– Apple iPhone, three fricking words for you: Cut, Copy, Paste. And reception. And Video. (That’s 7, I guess.)
– True unlimited plans for international data roaming from mobile phone carriers. They could just trade credit instead of gouging each other and passing the price rape onto travellers.
– Cable to go a la carte or die. Glad all the really good TV is available on IP anyhow.
– The new 3G iPhone’s power management to be smart enough to turn off HSDPA during simple email DLs.
– I like the Apple TV’s ability to transfer purchases and rentals to my iPhone and laptop; wish it played DivX.
– Really, really, really kick-arse Android implementations that have major differences in software. And not just stores to sell apps/ringtones/games/wallpapers, you greedy carrier son of a bitches.
– Mac support for the really well-made Zune hardware/firmware/software.
– Waterproof/rugged/outdoor cameras with appropriately beefy straps.
– Firefly Season 2?
– Microsoft’s E&D culture and process spreading through the company!
– To be cast as an extra in some nerdy movie or show. I’ll be an ensign, or one of the Others! Or a guest appearance in a Pogue video. They’re so good!
– Wired blogs to get their own URLs.
– Palm to do a really cool consumer OS they can brag about.
– Windows Vista: XP Edition. (Made with not more code, but with a Machete)
– Engadget links to Giz.
– Psystar to magically get their shit together (technically and legally) and make a good run at the alternative Mac market.
– For the winter: A bountiful snow season come next winter and a 2009 bi-turbo Audi S4 with the 4 wheel vector Quattro system. Snow plow! And a lib tech Banana snowboard.
– Wii Fit to acknowledge that I am not overweight, I just have big legs.
– Apple Keynote secrets that stay secret until their proper unveiling.
– For peace between Giz and CEA. (Lots of entertaining questions about the prank coming from the Brazilian press on this trip.)
– Proper swimming lessons.

I think my list was a lot longer last year, but I think that after almost drowning today, I’m just glad to be breathing, glad to have great readers like you all, smart and entertaining writers and a job I like enough to engage in on my day off. And hey, I’m on a beach in Brazil, so it’s hard to think about tech. Life ain’t bad.

Wired has a piece on core animation, the developer animation suite that will make regular apps sparkle.

Also, Computerworld is predicting an alliance between Apple and Google to incorporate some of Google’s web apps into .Mac. That should make loyal users of the stagnant .Mac platform happy. Or at least content enough to keep shelling out for that @mac.com address.

Here’s our wishlist.• Tight integration with iPhone. There’s going to be iTunes and iPhoto integration for sure, but let’s get some stuff like proximity detection, auto-file system syncing, auto-syncing of Mail, Safari, and even remote control of your Mac from your phone over Wi-Fi. Heck, why not make it a super fancy remote when you’re watching AppleTV or FrontRow.

• A better Finder. Better known as FTFF. For something that integral to everyday usage, that thing sucks.

• Native Windows apps like Parallels. How about Apple just buys Parallels and integrates their development right into the OS? That’d be something.

Those are the big three. How about you? What would you like to see in Leopard? – Jason Chen