I would love it if iphoto were more like Picasa, and would embrace keeping photos elsewhere (and updating the thumbnails in the background). I would really love it if Iphoto would allow perform background tasks like Itunes does (so I can get on with something else). I would love it if one could create albums in folders (rather than having to drag them in later), let you edit comments in textedit (or even attach files to albums), and SORT albums and folders.

It would be great if you have a choice of “external editors” (rather than going to preferences each time), and when dragging a photo from Iphoto to another app have the photo resized on the way in.

Finally, before I invest any more time than necessary in commenting my photos and albums, what about some robust and open storage of metadata. I simply don’t trust my life work to a fickle lump of data unreadable and unalterable by anything else (the AlbumData.xml does not contain all the metadata).

Only thing with the iPod event is people were pissed they didn’t say more about the iPhone 2.1 updated…go figure?

Unlike Dr Mac, I think there were a lot of updates in the previous version obviously iMovie ’08 but also iWeb had massive changes as did iWork with Numbers.

I love iMovie ’08 and don’t think they ruined it. I think it is way more powerful than ’06 but it’s a matter of getting used to the interface. I guess there’s a lot of old dogs out there not wanting to learn new tricks. Personally I use it as a rough and dirty editor to get it ready to use in Final Cut Express which I use for the more powerful edit.

I hope iWeb is going to get the ability to edit code and templates but that’s pure speculation of wanted features. Code editing would be a boon as it’s very very messy at the moment to use an external editor because editing the code breaks things. Making templates can be a pain in the jacksie.

Numbers will have a lot more functions added as there’s a lot of requirements for workarounds at the moment.

I’m not sure what you can do for the rest of the apps though but the newer products like iMovie, iWeb, and Numbers can do with a bit more work to make them great.

iLife and iWork are amazing products. I would love to see an upgrade. I’m not really sure what they need upgraded on though. Does anyone have any ideas on how to improve theses software suites?

(Unlike the Doc I am a big fan of MobileMe (MM) and of course any updates to iLife or iWork would obviously include more MM integration. For twenty-eight cents a day you get a lot, especially if you use iWeb to easily design websites. I hope their is an upgrade to iWeb.)