End game ?
I had a second thought today about the thinking on Apple+iPhone+Google+Widgets and try to relay the quote.
'' Everybody's might be missing the point.
If Apple succeeds in making the 'widget' the standard app delviery service for cell phone usage, then they can succeed in delivering the first mass-market entirely web-based computing platform.
That is huge.
iPhone widget development will become the big game.
Now Google apps also have some hardware to live on where they (hopefully) get adopted as another new standard for document exchange.
If it works, then Microsoft is no longer anywhere in the picture of the future of personal computing devices and of the most interesting channels of software delivery.
This is going to be very interesting... ''
Above is a quote by someone unknown in the internet abyss.
Google Gears will work even inside Safari.
Now, everything is fine, but I have only still some issues with iPhone:
1. Battery lifecycle could be too short
2. EDGE not 3G ( what's the value of iTunes integration on a slow connection ? )
3. What kind of unlimited plan by AT & T ?
4. Personalisation of the device ( different models - hardware ''faces'')
5. Europe's and Asia plans in the future ? ( 3G ready ? )
6. Will this Apple's ''philosophy'' sell to others ( carriers, handset makers etc ) and start similar ecosystem ( Nokia, Widsets, Orange )?
7. Selling 10 million phones is not a game changer of itself !?
1 comment:
I think you are abolutely right about this.
It could be huge.
I noticed Job's demonstrated a feature in the upcoming Mac OS Leopard where you very easily can create widgets by cutting out web content from Safari and then using it as a widget in Dashboard. I expect you can do the same thing for creating your own widgets for the iPhone..
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