Also Mashups can be made Easy like going into the realm of Applets. So more developers can jump on board. A criticism may be that there aren't enough handsets to make it innovative.
An example to counter this is that a person would find it useful to be alerted to coming close to their favorite restaurant. They would even purchase such an app quite possibly with a few added things. What would make it truly innovative is if you add social, such as those who have the same interests could be met at the restaurant. However, it doesn't have to happen! But it's that the POSSIBILITY of it happening is exciting. And that's what one could get with tens of millions but not 100's of millions of handsets sold. ADC II should be about creating Mashups of different kinds. - Juan T. On Jan 23, 8:59 am, jtaylor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 23, 3:21 am, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Simple question; > > > Developers are developing, apps are getting out there, so what would > > they get for the $5m? > > > At the moment I can't see the money buying anything useful, so I can't > > see it happening. > > > Al. > > I believe there are two parts to the answer. One is that OHA is > getting Innovation. $5m can make Innovation pop up really quickly. > > Along with that however, is that you have to have the potential for > Innovaton. ADCI gave us a couple good innovative Apps. Quite frankly > that innovation has run out of steam. Right now there are no more > innovative apps that one can create with Android. There are only so > many things to do with the Barcode. So there won't be Innovative Apps > coming from ADC II at this time. > > Why no more Innovative Apps? Because there's no Identity and Device-to- > Device communication. With those two things combined with Location > Android would most definitively take off so that they could run that > Cool commercial. :) The reason is because those things enable > Mashups! > > You CANNOT really do Innovation with Location without Virtual > Contacts. And you need Virtual Identity (outside of regular contacts) > for that. And you need Device-to-Device even just for a basic level of > communication. Once we have these coupled with the full knowledge that > soon they will be in the hands of millions and then billions, then the > skies the limit for Innovative Apps. Then you can have an app called > "Genie-ology" which will identify strangers who are related to you > because each one of you has put in his geneology graph into the phone. > Frighteningly Cool! ..All enabled by the concept of Virtual Contacts. > > And the App I'm building for ADC II Alone can make Android Take off. > > - Juan T. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
