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Thanks for the comment. I'm just saying that its not just about accessing Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, NetFlix etc. Those are just marketing tactics that remind me of telecom tactics back in the early days of the iPhone. Clearly the iPhone/Android has shown that its all about the apps, not the phone. I think that "war" will start to move on to TVs where someone like GoogleTV and maybe AppleTV (at some point) will have apps for your TV, while others like Samsung will boast about Twitter, Facebook, and NetFlix.
I'd put my money on the guys behind your own personalized apps for your tv.
yeah the app store wasn't, and I don't know how successful the iPhone would have been if it weren't but it would have still been revolutionary though.
>>That it takes developers to build these things is obvious, >>just as obvious as it takes engineers to build cars. But >>it's not engineers engineers engineers.
Lol. Okay thats not a fair analogy. You build a parking garage, and you'll scream for "cars, cars, cars, cars". You build an airport and you'll scream for "planes, planes, planes, planes". Now when you build a platform like the app store, or the android market place, you'll scream for...
Right now it doesn't, but first gen iphone didn't have an app store either. Maybe the apps can be streamed from the iPad or iPhone? who knows how they're planning it, but one thing for sure you'll be able to see apps on your TV. Regardless of how they do it, I just think it won't be about the bells and whistles TV manufacturers can bundle in their TV in a few years.
The iPhone worked because of the app store, not because of the touch screen or the phone, or any "consumer friendliness" The app store worked because of the thousands of developers that built apps for the iphone. That is what I'm saying. Don't take "developers" to mean just "coder". I look at it as anybody who is actually involved in building the application, ex. designer, tester, coder, etc. etc.
Look around you, Facebook, iPad, iPhone, Twitter, Google Maps, etc. etc. all these are platforms, and they're successful because people found use cases that the original designers haven't thought of. The ecosystem surrounding these platforms is built by developers, developers, developers.
I think that is coming. It doesn't make sense if the AppleTV isn't an iOS device nor if it can't get apps from the app store. You know, it'll be a Jobs moment next year when he says "oh btw, app store for ATV is now available. I don't think they missed any trick, they're playing it by the book with any new device, first version doesn't do everything you hope for, but just enough to get you to buy.
Ex. iPad, no camera? really? next generation for sure then!
you're missing the point I think, and so did the Author of this post. Its not about the bells and whistles, or features that came built in. Its about the apps that YOU may want to install on it, and not what the manufacturer gets to say you'll get. Who cares if the Sony Bravia has Netflix, YouTube, Pandora and even Hulu bundled in if the Apple TV or Google TV will allow you to install the apps you want. Just like what happened with phones in the past couple of years, its no longer about features, its about how many developers you can bring to your platform to build all the creative applications. If Balmer got one thing right, it would have been this: Developers, Developers, Developers.
yeah, I bloggged about it last year, but thought of sharing on this community since I only joined recently. Even last year it seemed like it existed for a while. Did you find other interesting use cases of exploring their location data? I'd like to see some way of doing some sort of location analytics based on all the places they already have on there.
Exactly. This style suits the UI very well because of te nature of it. At the end, the UI responds to events whether they are user driven or system driven ex. Notifications. One of my favorites is the ability for the UI to degrade gracefully even if a component has been removed because nothing calls it directly, just publishes to it.
thanks for the comment. I agree. New startups should look at Facebook and Google as platforms and not competitors. It doesn't just apply to startups though, I think all businesses that make money online have more to gain by being fast instead of first.