Wow, those are really interesting ideas! I'd love to see that happening as well! But as you said, you must reunite several companies around the big G (e.g. if there are different taxi companies in a city, they must all agree to use the same Google Service and Google Server because customers don't care which company they take as long as the taxi is cheap and nearby). I do think the world is going to be more and more like that : all connected altogether in real-time.
Nevertheless, for the moment I did not hear anything about such plans coming from Google. Maybe somebody else has got more information...? Regards, John On Nov 25, 2:19 pm, Sven Boden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
