It would be really cool if you could grab the "locate me" technology from Google Maps to find the nearest take aways, and if, say more than one exists in the local area, a dialogue box would appear just as in Google Maps.

We really would like to get into making an app or two for the iPhone when the SDK comes out, but we still don't have enough info on what it's gonna be like! eg: what language will apps be written in, will they be distributed through iTunes, how much freedom will there be on what apps we can actually make etc.

We seem to have a sudden need for Cocoa developers lately - if anyone knows Cocoa give us a shout!!

Cheers.

Everyone knows how polished, lustrous, and cartoonish (for lack of a better word) the Youtube icon looks on the iPhone home screen. It's like Toy Story compared to the old school Disney of the Palm's icons. It makes you feel good to look at it. You get the point.

What about a square icon that looked like a pizza baking dish. I'd like to keep it square because it blends in more nicely with the other square icon looks on the home screen. Now, half of the metal pizza baking dish would be filled with a pizza with myriad toppings, maybe just Pepperoni. The other half would have a few crumbs, i.e., the empty half of the baking dish.

Tapping it would automatically dial the local pizza place you call to normally get delivery from. It might call the local Pizza Hut, Domino's, or Campisi's. This would be programmed ahead of time in so it would automatically call in. There would be no confirmation dialog box after you tapped it. Efficiency. More than efficiency. The user would connect the pizza icon with the pizza phone call in a 1 to 1 connect. Instead, they would connect the pizza icon with the confirmation, and its not psychologically courteous.

This idea gets even juicier when the iPhone's 9 home screens are considered. One whole page could be devoted to food delivery and take-out icons. You would have your homepage and then swipe over with one finger swipe to see 12 or so food delivery icons. Hmm ... I'll have pizza, Chinese, Italian, etc.

The Chinese food icon could be a square fried rice box. Having icons for the restaurant itself is too specific. You can always have different pizza looks for different pizza joints, and it just preserves the food-like look of the delivery "screen". The iPhone suddenly becomes more powerful. It's become a menu. The key part that's fun is in making the pizza dish and pizza inside as beautiful as the Youtube icon. Half of the fun in looking at the iPhone are the icons.

Yeah the iPhone rocks!

Now to get an iPhone!