Thinking of several:
- Local services... a way to get an overview of the services around
you. Companies/governments could register areas in which a certain
service would be "visible" in an easy way. Comparable e.g. to going to
google and asking for a all restaurants in the neighbourhood. E.g.
you're in the neighbourhood of a train station and you can get at the
current train-schedule for that station by one or 2 "clicks". A city
could propose a guide tour as local service e.g.
- Schedules for train, bus, airplane. Suppose some kind of standard
webservice is developed that when you expose your schedule data via
the service 1 phone application can show you the schedules world-wide.
Features:
- Current schedule by default... other hours, days with some
clicks
- Maybe even active delays when supported.
Suppose such a schedule service is implemented world wide... you take
your phone on a trip to another country and you could get the
schedules of most common transports in an easy way. (maybe even in the
language you want).
- Emergency services... think of a global roll-out of a system where
you first have to select a local event: fire, car-crash, medical help
needed. 3 big buttons... you press the one you want to report (maybe
with 1 extra acknowledgement or so)... the phone calls local emergency
services. The people of the call-center would know what you want to
report (they can ask for further details), they know where you are
(via the GPS in the phone, a lot of times people calling such a center
don't know exactly where they are). The phone could send language
preferences and your call could be routed to native speakers if
possible (in a country with multiple languages e.g).
Additional features: 1) complete feed back showing where the services
coming for you are if implemented. 2) when multiple people are
reporting the same build in extra questions (person at your position x
already reported "x" at time, ... is your report on the same? ...)
Think something like this worldwide. It could probably even sometimes
save lives because of faster response times.
- Car breakdowns... something like GM OnStar but then via the phone...
you break down, you press what you need (flat tire, car just when
dead, ...) and get in contact with the local call-center. They know
where you are, and which some smart programming probably in which
direction e.g. on the highway.
- "Cab come get me": you need a cab... press a few buttons and you get
a selection and prices of the cabs in your neighbourhood. The cabs
know where you are (e.g. if they have a GPS which gets fed your
position, ...). Feedback where they are, how long it will take to get
there....
By themselves I think the above are all very feasible.... but if done
as open source and worldwide (e.g. with google pushing it a bit) they
could have a huge impact on the phone industry/integration. Not so
sure about business plans, for the emergency services e.g. countries
hiring servers of google e.g. ...
Most of the things above integrate the phone in your physical
environment... you go to a train station, your phone shows you the
train schedule; you go to an airport, ...
Regards,
Sven
On 24 nov, 14:34, erkenoid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Sven,
>
> I am curious about what kind of business apps do you expect from
> Android?
>
> Regards,
> John
>
> On Nov 22, 12:47 pm, Sven Boden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Are there any plans for Google to provide more business-services on
> > the android-platform? And if so, which ones... I can lots of potential
> > for Google to anchor both themselves and the android platform.
>
> > Regards,
> > Sven
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