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King “app”

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Needed to shoot fast “burst” photo shots lately at a rate of about 30 per second. First inclination was to take my expensive Panasonic SLR camera that I bought for $1,500 not that long ago.  Bummer !  The damn thing can’t shoot more than 3 shots per second. Turned to the iPone apps without much of a hope knowing that iPhone is a modest device photography wise. I was wrong. A dozen of apps popped up and out of them 2-3 looked decent based on reviews. Picked the best looking one for $0.99 investment and guess what not only it worked but the developer was  quick to respond to my questions and even modified the app to meet my requirement for  milliseconds in the time stamp. I wish Panasonic had opened their device to apps. With so much better lenses and sensors it will thrive in an open for apps world.

Welcome to the new world ruled by apps. A light bulb company announced recently that they are making a new “apps enabled” light bulb. There are rumors that Tesla Motors will release an API for people to write apps for their car. It’s a new world indeed. We the people will take over the design of our surroundings the way we like it instead of handful of engineers and designers. Small flexible developer’s shops will customize things the way we want them. Imagine asking Toyota to restrict the speed and acceleration of your Lexus when your teenager son is driving it. Impossible today. Quite possible in the apps driven world. I’m excited! How about you?

On Phone companies

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I have heard it many times from the phone companies during my years as a technology CEO. “No sir we don’t want to sell you just fiber. We don’t want to be in the business of selling “dumb pipes”. We want to be in the intelligent (read more profitable) applications.”
Well I have a message for you too, after spending several hours trying unsuccessfully to purchase iPhone from Verizon. “You better stay in the “dumb pipes” business simply because you are “dumb””.
Ordering product from Amazon is a breeze. Using Facebook is easy. Many “smart” businesses embraced the Internet to make our lives better. Phone companies are not among them. Trying to hold clients hostages and push lousy and overpriced applications trough their throat may look smart but it is not.

iPad

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Everyone comments on iPad nowadays, so why not me.

iPad is a giant iPhone. Many are disappointed, they expected more. Apple stock is down. Gloomy predictions abound. Excuse me. What did you expect? You don’t know, do you.

Yes, iPad is a giant iPhone and this is exactly what I  want. I am using Fujitsu tablet since the 90-ies and I am not impressed at all. It gets really hot , the battery lasts couple of hours at best and the screen is hard to see in daylight. Now bear in mind that Fujitsu is one of the best out there. I tried the Kindle and I didn’t like it mostly for the restriction to be a book reader only. On the other hand my iPhone delivers on all my expectations and it is the device of choice for most of my activities that do not need large screen and convenient keyboard. It seems that iPad fills those voids.

iPad provides (allegedly) versatility, lightweight, long battery life and most important – all the applications one may ever need. Equipped with G3, WiFi, GPS, BlueTooth, accelerator sensor and a touch screen, it creates the perfect platform for millions developers worldwide to create the application you need. Believe me they will create that application you need so badly.

I am very bullish on iPad and I predict a great success. It will set the standard for the tablet and portable computing and many will follow in iPad’s steps. The “pure” e-readers like Kindle will be pushed out by the versatility of the new standard set by iPad.

While there is nothing revolutionary in the iPad as far as technology goes, the revolution already happened and it is called third party applications. Apple is far ahead of everyone else in this regard, which is most important.

My comments are based on information in the media about iPad. I have never touched one. I am very interested to see the screen and the virtual keyboard and than I will comment more.

Meanwhile mark my predictions and the date. Let’s revisit it one year from now.

Disclaimer. I do not  own Apple stock at the time of this publication nor do I have any other vested interest direct or indirect in Apple.