I think that I will need to stay very quiet on this one, I expect plenty of "Apple Love" from Robert and others with maybe a little disappointment. I won't "troll" the moment as much as it will kill me to stay quiet. ;-)
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Apple's Keynotes are so boring nowadays. There is no Steve Jobs to seduce the crowd and highlight every feature with, 'Isn't that awesome'
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
A VZW Note 2 would do simultaneous call and data on LTE
- Da
What?Maryam's friends don't know the Gillmor gang?!!? Im outraged. Going to have to change that.
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Sadly, I will likely buy a Touch (and iPad 7) for development too, though I hate supporting Apple.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Apple's walled garden stops developers from doing many things, like creating keyboards, accessing hardware, etc... Many of my mobile developer friends are careful to develop for apple first because they know the will get blacklisted in the app store if they launch android first.
- Murray Macdonald
Moe, Tim should just press an "Isn't that awesome" button on his slide changer
- Charlie Isaacs
and gMaps is still available in Chrome for what it does better
- Jerome Hughes
Seems to me the point of the Kimmel bit is unless things are side-by-side, Normal People don't care about the specs. They might recognized the difference between a Palm Pre or Motorola StarTac and an iPhone and obviously want an iPhone... but 4 vs 4s vs 5? It's going to be a price thing.
- Ken Sheppardson
Serious mobile developers that develop for both platforms often prefer Android because it is easier to develop for, as it has fewer restrictions. It's annoying when apple reject your app because they don't like the APIs you are using or object to your paradigm.
- Murray Macdonald
Too bad that you cannot upload a video with the new Youtube app.
- Nir Ben Yona
Have they made the little spinning "Loading" dial any faster? Seems to me that's a big area for potential improvement...
- Ken Sheppardson
The normal people ARE the ones on Kimmel. They know enough about these devices that is marketed to them and are sold without knowing much more. Nor should everyone know everything about every phone BTW.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
What would happen if Google made Youtube accessible to Android only? Like apple with Flash. How would the market respond?
- Murray Macdonald
Would be nice to hear Bret's take on the whole HTML5 conversation.
- Ken Sheppardson
Anyone know if Facebook built their own markup language/renderer as a replacement for HTML5 on the phone?
- Kurtiss Hare
Good JS applications use web-workers and load in the background.
- Murray Macdonald
Not all HTML5 apps are as lame as the old facebook app. That app had serious design problems. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
- Murray Macdonald
Android doesn't "automatically" update all the time (in fact most of the time) even if the app is set to.
- Brian Sullivan
Yeah, I've never figured out what "Automatic" really means (BTW, haven't touched my AT&T iPhone 4 since I replaced my Sprint Palm Pre with an Epic 4g Touch.)
- Ken Sheppardson
Apple's closed approach is their biggest problem.
- Murray Macdonald
Platform contours coding. Google's messaging is open-ended and, as such, has a minimum inconsistency that will always leave room for complaints from Apple users :)
- Kurtiss Hare
You can do whatever you want in the background on Apple IF THEY APPROVE IT.
- Murray Macdonald
cathedral needs its first billing, Mr. Taschek
- Jerome Hughes
"Native HTML5" is only valid if it's a first-class citizen, not playing second-fiddle to native tech and being hated on by users for lacking standard look-and-feel
- Michael Mahemoff
HP will not get into this market in any significant way. too late
- Tina Chase Gillmor
HP used to be one of the leaders in WinCE, now it's dead in the mobile water
- Michael Mahemoff
My next PC will still most likely gonna be a Windows, my next phone will still most likely be an Android. They work great together.
- Da
HTML5 is a valid option if you know how to design. Native development is often too slow and expensive. Technologies like PhoneGap allow HTML5 apps to deploy cross-platform. Native only comes first if the developer has unlimited money, or wants to service a limited audience.
- Murray Macdonald
+Murray: what I'm hearing from developers HTML5 is NOT appropriate for best of breed consumer apps. For the other 90%? Yes.
- Robert Scoble
Murray, best pure-HTML5 native app? It's okay for basic forms and content apps, to get them up and running quickly, but you miss a ton of things.
- Michael Mahemoff
ya but books on kindle can be viewed anywhere - ibooks are stuck on my iphone
- mal
Robert: That's kinda right... It depends on what your best-of-breed consumer app does.
- Murray Macdonald
Kindle in books, Netflix in video, iTunes is a virus
- Da
HTML5/PhoneGap get you something cross-platform quick. It does buy you quite a bit of time until you can write native apps for each platform.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Amazon is also available on some Blu-ray players.
- Alex de Soto
Robert: PhoneGap plugins allow HTML5 apps to access native code. Most developers don't know how to do this or how to effectively develop cross platform.
- Murray Macdonald
Been listening ony phone. Ordered online at 12;07 from Apple store.
- Francine Hardaway
from iPhone
Kindle products would be a great option for schools strapped for cash and in need of textbooks and textbook revisions. ROI in less than one year. If they paired up with Scholastic, great potential for bonding / revenue.
- Chien-Yu Lin
You're absolutely right Murray but that point it is no longer pure HTML5. Hybrid design works very well for most if they know how to utilize it.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Wanted it because of the ecosystem and iTunes, which has better TV than Google store .
- Francine Hardaway
from iPhone
Actually some people want a stand a lone system for their living room
- Jared Naude
Google's eco-system is great. My devices are all connected.
- Murray Macdonald
My Roku, Boxee Box, Logitech ReVue google TV, Panasonic BluRay DVD player with apps... all sitting in a corner now: everything is coming through the Xbox (Netflix + Vudu)
- Ken Sheppardson
no one i know has heard of airplay, but everyone has an xbox
- Da
It's the cost of connecting the nodes of the ecosystem together, not the ability
- Kurtiss Hare
iPhone needs NFC, Wifi Direct, and a replaceable battery.
- Murray Macdonald
Read somewhere that you need to use Kevlar or plastic for the phone surface to pass NFC signal. iPhone's glass and metal would block it. Is that true?
- Alex de Soto
NFC is needed. For example when you want to privately transact with a photo kiosk, NFC allows you to bump to connect to your kiosk, not the one next to it.
- Murray Macdonald
When my iphone is "on" my couch, it turns into a remote automatically
- Kurtiss Hare
I hear what you're saying Robert... Perhaps where you don't have the local compute power or connectivity to do something Siri-like or off photos? A really dumb example is timing at the end of a marathon. NFC is recording times as runners cross the start/finish.... *shrug*
- Ken Sheppardson
Chien: that's not a killer feature, though. No pain.
- Robert Scoble
Steve is right. Apple never shipped a machine with blu-ray.
- Alex de Soto
I want localized GPS. Walk into a store and get some direction when I need to find something. Where is that?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
How does iPhone 5 prepare the way any more than the 4?
- Kurtiss Hare
NFC is extremely short range which is sometime desirable. Wifi direct is better for P2P apps.
- Murray Macdonald
Apple is waiting for mobile payments to be big enough and get enough players on it. That will be the game changer, not NFC or WiFI. Implementation is secondary.
- Abhishek Tiwari
You can do mobile payments today in Apple store with your iPhone/iTunes today without NFC for lower priced products
- Abhishek Tiwari
One benefit of NFC is that if you DON'T want to be tracked, it's up to you to mask/turn off the device. Easier than wearing a hood/mask.
- Ken Sheppardson
Apple doesn't want it because they can't control it. Same goes for wifi direct.
- Murray Macdonald
The wireless chargers of today are garbage. WiTricity's promise of true wireless power needs to arrive.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
@Scoble: Its not a common usage, but that's half the headache of a trade show. I've walked away with bags of samples and literature when we've tried to identify vendors and capabilities. Half the time, we forget what each company makes / does - and the names and faces with the companies.
- Chien-Yu Lin
Hi, just rejoined. NFC should be used to cheaply identify objects and once your smartphone discovers it, you get a custom menu for the object. It takes "Internet of Things" to a new level.. If everything is tagged, your smartphone can get you instant help buying things that are tagged, fixing things that are tagged, serving up FAQs, etc. Or "connect me to my social network friends that know about this object." As storage improves, NFC will eventually dynamically populate menus and actual apps in a smartphone.
- Charlie Isaacs
How about mobile apps that send you a coupon when you are nearing a competitors location. Is that creepy enough?
- Murray Macdonald
Contextual stuff could use humor for sure! Some GPS software have tried but they're not very funny.
- Alex de Soto
one can hope that his leading example will be mimicked by others
- Jerome Hughes
Kurtiss, sorry just got on another call... :-o yes, I agree, it is the entire customer lifecycle. ANd yes, Jerome, there will be filters for everything. You will "check into" the NFC'd (or other tagging methods) objects and express interest in the object.
- Charlie Isaacs
haha I hear you Kevin, the technology is not there yet
- Charlie Isaacs
Scoble speaking of contextual...did you also see Chronos? It was at Disrupt and just was released. It's an app that takes Placeme to the next level in some ways. You can get it here: http://www.getchronos.com/
- Mark Krynsky
There's no reason a well-architected HTML5/hybrid app should perform as poorly as the previous FB app did.
- Gordon Van Huizen
Robert: Across the plethora of old HTML5 devices in the market at the time, they were probably right. On modern phones, that isn't as true.
- Murray Macdonald
thanks to everyone... nice show folks. Thanks for showing up
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Sorry I missed part of that, but what I heard was great! will catch the recording later
- Charlie Isaacs
Hi, Steve. I usted to follow Gillmor Gang on iTunes podcast, but now it seems to be missing since "Remote wipe". Is that so or am I just not looking for it properly? Thanks.
- José Moreno