Juan, What's the app you are building?
take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz +91-9840348914 http://androidrocks.in - Android Consulting. On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:29 PM, jtaylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Jan 23, 3:21 am, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Simple question; > > > > Developers are developing, apps are getting out there, so what would > > they get for the $5m? > > > > At the moment I can't see the money buying anything useful, so I can't > > see it happening. > > > > Al. > > I believe there are two parts to the answer. One is that OHA is > getting Innovation. $5m can make Innovation pop up really quickly. > > Along with that however, is that you have to have the potential for > Innovaton. ADCI gave us a couple good innovative Apps. Quite frankly > that innovation has run out of steam. Right now there are no more > innovative apps that one can create with Android. There are only so > many things to do with the Barcode. So there won't be Innovative Apps > coming from ADC II at this time. > > Why no more Innovative Apps? Because there's no Identity and Device-to- > Device communication. With those two things combined with Location > Android would most definitively take off so that they could run that > Cool commercial. :) The reason is because those things enable > Mashups! > > You CANNOT really do Innovation with Location without Virtual > Contacts. And you need Virtual Identity (outside of regular contacts) > for that. And you need Device-to-Device even just for a basic level of > communication. Once we have these coupled with the full knowledge that > soon they will be in the hands of millions and then billions, then the > skies the limit for Innovative Apps. Then you can have an app called > "Genie-ology" which will identify strangers who are related to you > because each one of you has put in his geneology graph into the phone. > Frighteningly Cool! ..All enabled by the concept of Virtual Contacts. > > And the App I'm building for ADC II Alone can make Android Take off. > > - Juan T. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
