It’s a hard question to answer because you just don’t know where technology might go next. A couple decades ago, you might have asked how much better flip phones can get, and here we are today…

Personally, one of my dreams is a phone that I can stretch to become bigger if I need the screen size, and then I can just squish/fold/whatever it back down to fit in my pocket. Maybe through some magic, we’ll get full frame camera sensors in phones? Long-distance wireless charging? And of course there’s silicon improvements—it would be pretty cool to have the equivalent of a i9 14900k and a 4090 in your pocket.

i think the physical iphone is basically stagnated at this point. add slightly better cameras, a slightly faster chip, maybe increase battery life every year. that’s the new iphone. the more drastic changes will have to come in terms of ios.

i suspect this means artificial limitations in the future, to edge you towards getting the new model though, which is kind of annoying

Only your imagination could limit how good it could get. There are always advances in technology. Eventually come become a personal transporter device. 🖖🏼

Once solid state batteries replace lithium ions in standard electronics, I’m pretty sure we’ll see a skyrocketing battery life

Solid state batteries ( better longevity, better handle on extreme low or high temperatures, 2.5x the energy per square, so the battery can be smaller with larger autonomy then the current ones ).

Notch / Dynamic Island hardware also needs to go under the screen.

There’s a lot to improve :)

It needs a built in lighter and knife. And it needs a thermometer.

I want a perfectly seamless slab of glass with no ports.

I want a magic crystal

Two apps side by side. A back button. A close all apps button or option.

I just switched from a Samsung s9+ to the iPhone 15 pro max. It’s only been a week. Love the phone but those 3 features are really missed right now

Back swipe gesture from right side

A lot better, it needs a better battery life, and a better autocorrect(this won’t ever happen, I want to switch to Android because if I have to take a minute to fix the dumb autocorrect one more time I will rage.), the CPU and GPU are still too weak, and Apple is cheap with RAM still to this day. There are hundreds of other reasons like why can an ipad play Divinity Original Sin 2 and other iPad-only games while an iPhone cannot. I can’t move to Android because the GPS is trash. Google Maps is a travesty! Until Google actually grows a brain I am stuck with trash Apple.

• Better UI and unified UX for going back in different apps
• faster charging and wireless charging
• reverse wireless charging
• better UW and telephoto camera
• split screen multitasking
• better cooling to remove screen dimming and Performance drops
• better volume controls, option to change notification sound
• more control of default apps for opening links
• more versatile home screen, app drawer
• better voice assistant

A lot of room for improvement on Siri. I look at what ChatGPT can do, and have my complaints even with that, but I expect Apple compete in the AI space in the near future.

I think they should improve their hardware. Fingerprints stains are quite an issue.

Integrate notifications with dynamic island

I do the exact same things - often with the exact same apps - as I did 15 years ago.

Google, eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Pandora, Associated Press, Box, Shazam, Kindle, Chase Bank, Flickr, Twitter, IMDB, 1Password, are all apps that I downloaded in 2009. If you add in the apps from 2010, that would cover 90% of what I do today.

Changes have been pretty minor overall and I don’t expect that to change.