Mobile Orchard have posted a system for developers to provide feedback to Apple on the iPhone SDK. I like this idea. I’m positive Apple reads Mobile Orchard as they’re a well respected iPhone programming blog, so they must be aware of this feedback system and what company interested in improving their systems wouldn’t at least check out what the developers want. Everyone’s seen how excited Steve Ballmer gets about developers. I’m sure Apple feels the same way.
Now I have to decide what to spend my feedback credits on. For me a big one would be improving developer access to camera data. We NEED raw access to the camera. Think of all the amazing enhanced reality apps we could make if we could have raw access to the video feed in the 3G S. We could do cool things like meta information in museums or restaurant reviews just by pointing your camera and panning along a street to find the best restaurant on the block.
What’s really cool about how they implemented it is you get 25 votes, and you can change your mind at any time and redistribute your votes to where you’re really concerned. That’s a great way to do it.
