"...where they made Maps available incrementally "by region"
I can see where you're coming from but I don't know if isolating map availability by region would work. Hyper-local travel is used in the majority of cases, but there are cases of regional travel too. What happens if someone wants turn-by-turn navigation from California to, say, Oregon, to attend a conference, weekend getaway, job interview, or just simply meet at a coffee shop in the new region? I live in Seattle, and often drive to Vancouver BC or Portland for weekends, just as an example.
IMHO, the real mistake here was setting expectations so that it would be lower and not affixing the "Beta" label to it (as was done to Siri.) Apple should also have, side from collecting data logs, ensured there's a more prominent feedback loop. As to your suggestion, I think a broader approach would work better, and perhaps work in layers of information, drilling down more deeply with richer details in regional pockets, one broad layer at a time.
I've been watching this with keen interest since it was first announced here sometime ago. Unfortunately, at the pace Pixate is raising funds on Kickstarter, it doesn't look like they'll achieve their goal. Does this mean they're screwed, or will they still push this product out the door through their corporate sponsor Appcelerator?
I use AT&T for my iPhone but have the unlimited plan in which tethering isn't allowed. Would this FCC mandate force AT&T to remove the tethering plan as Verizon did?
Your background is primarily in Chrome and Android - are you sure your reply to my post isn't biased?
I use that term to include anyone who develops for the iOS platform and wants to develop an App for AppleTV. Feel free to take yourself out of that.
How do you know that Apple hasn't created new parterships for their upcoming efforts? Do you have AppleTV? Have you noticed a slow growth in subscribing to new content? You can even purchase it In-App if you'd like.
There's many different potential ways to challenge the incumbent Cable TV business model. Don't assume that top-tier content producers are not interested. By the looks of what I'm seeing on AppleTV today, they are slowly coming on board.
They aren't directly forcing the hand of cable tv companies, which is quite clever, imho.
We, the Developers will be tasked to do that with our content and that starts whenever they introduce APIs, likely to be this year's WWDC. Once we've built out Apps in the AppleTV app ecosystem, the consumer demand will follow.
The TV Channel/Show/Content is now an on-demand App. This will all coalesce slowly as people continue to unplug and switch over via internet as content is made available. I don't want to make any predictions about the AppleTV box vs iPanel but my guess is that both will coexist - with AppleTV box offering the best UX within its bubble while the iPanel will offer a more integrated comprehensive experience. Both utilize the same App ecosystem.
Apple has been laying the foundation for a while. Download the iOS remote control, play with any of the AirPlay functions, the regular tweaks to AppleTV's OS, etc... It's all right under our noses.
Not really a concern. Apple planned on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad cannibalizing their iPod line. This is how Apple has stayed ahead. It's better to disrupt your product than have a competitor do it to you.
This is why its important to fund R&D at companies. It enables exploration and innovation, to create the next disruption and/or continuous innovative use of products.
Page and Brin purchased Rubin & Co.'s Android to compete against Blackberry and Palm as well. The earliest Android models borrowed heavily from the BB and Palm interface as well as Windows.
It wasn't until iPhone came out that Google realized Apple created a game-changer and decided to pursue that direction.
Looks very similiar to the other Windows/BB/Palm phones at that time. To Rubin's credit, his former company Danger created a great interface with the HipTopOS (aka T-Mobile's Sidekick) that used the trackwheel pretty well.
He probably could have been a bit clearer but he did acknowledge that Nokia's procedures had been changed by putting "pre-iPhone" in front of Nokia's name.
"Would love to see ESPN/Disney/ABC partner with Apple to build a real interactive TV platform."
With Iger being on the Apple board of directors and recently purchasing a chunk of AAPL stock for himself, it's quite possible that he'll do whatever he can to help Apple get access to ESPN/Disney/ABC content.
Probably not going to happen but to entertain a wild speculative guess, he could finesse an AAPL buyout of Disney/ESPN/ABC too if the partnership is successful from their business viewpoints.
From Friedmud on MacRumors:
"It is true if you think about what they did here. All they did was make an App that talks over USB to your computer. Nothing wrong with that.
It just so happens though that the "talking" it is doing is transcribing bits to/from the internet connection of the phone.
The App itself is incapable of "tethering" without the piece installed on your computer that translates what the App is sending into a normal looking ethernet device.
Think of it this way... if I made an app that was called USBTwitter... and all it did was read bits over USB and posted them to your twitter account... then I made an executable that you ran on your Mac that sent text bits over USB... you would then be able to post to twitter _through_ your phone (ie tether).
This is the very same thing... but of course more general.
You honestly can't stop this without disallowing apps to use the USB port on the phone (or trying to explicitly ban it in the developer terms... but it would be hard because there would be plenty of "non-tethering" applications that would want to talk over USB and send bits over the phone's net connection simultaneously...)
It will be interesting to see what Apple does here..."
I just tried the iPhone app with my Macbook Pro and can verify it works. You have to keep the iPhone app front and center, not in the background in order for it to work. It still works when the iPhone is in sleep mode.
Now going to check if it will work with my iPad3G connected to my Macbook Pro.
Hope this info helps confirm/answer questions out there.
