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Over the past few months, the surge in laptop users at Panera Bread seems to have increased 10 folds. It was only when I saw someone whoop out one of those cisco land line voip phones did I realize that Panera Bread has been transformed to an office space. Combine this with people losing jobs by the boat load, don’t be surprised if you go to Panera next month and every table has someone working on a laptop. This presents a business opportunity for Panera. Since I have been running a virtual company for about 3 years now, I have been a frequent user of Panera’s free wifi. But am not sure how they can sustain this unless the duration people use the wifi is offset by the food they purchase. While most times I don’t buy a lot, there are days when I get their early in the morning and essentially have breakfast and launch there. But even with this, there could be an opportunity for Panera to create a premier membership for people who are working their. Maybe something like for a monthly membership fee, workers get a faster broadband and free complementary drinks and snacks. Who knows, am interested to see how this plays out.
April 05, 2009 in Big Money Business | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
March 15, 2009 in Gx5 Products and Services, iPhone, iPhoneRingToneMaker | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
According to Melinda Gates in a recent Vogue interview
"There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household. But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids."
Oh Please Bill Gates!! if you want your family members not
to use the iPhone, build a better one. Windows Mobile 6 and 6.5 are so outdated
that it is borderline irresponsible for any father to put his family members
through the pain of using them.
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Based on chatter and a few people I have spoken to, I think the new Palm OS with regards to third party apps will pick up where Apple left off with web apps. While everyone slammed Apple for initially introducing web apps as the primary mode of 3rd party apps on Mobile devices, the idea has a lot of merit, but Apple botched this idea badly. I think Palm will show the full potential and actually do it the right way.
There are 4 reasons why web apps make sense as 3rd party apps for Palm.
1. Web tools are now sophisticated enough to create apps that match and exceed anything you can do on most native apps. You might think that is a bold statement but really it's not. If the new Palm OS supports the flash player then you can do pretty much anything, including 3D.
2. Relying on Web tools, Palm can go from 0 to a bazillion developers immediately without having to have their own platform. There are already well over a million bona fide Flash developers out there, so if the OS supports Flash and all the other web standards, then you automatically have all those developers with no learning curve, no sdk, with apps ready from day 0.
3. They can provide the necessary hooks to make these apps completely robust. I think this is where Palm can shine, by providing all the necessary apis that allow web apps to communicate with the core of the device’s OS. If you noticed in the first ever presentation of Apple’s web apps for the iPhone, they demonstrated how a web app can access the device's local contact database. This held promise that they would give developers more access( gps info, phone apis, etc ), but it seemed Apple just got consumed by the whole native app movement that they stopped working on this. Palm will exploit this too the fullest. They will also do things like caching and offline mode to further make web apps run more efficiently.
4. The Apple app store proves that web apps are very viable. I estimate that 80% of the apps in the app store should not be native apps. They should be web apps if Apple had just provided additional apis for web apps. All those $.99 apps can all be web apps. Another good example of this is how ESPN and Facebook have approached the iPhone. Facebook, which originally was a web app, has jumped on the native app bandwagon. Well, that app is absolutely not necessary as a native app if Facebook had the right apis. On the other hand, ESPN has stuck with the web version for its website/App, they could have easily created a native app, but even with no Flash, they have used other web tools to create a robust site/app.
January 04, 2009 in Flash, Tech Talk | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
For those of us that have stood by Palm with hopes of revival and even held on to our Palm Stocks that are now pretty much worthless, Jan 8, 2009 will seal our fate. How ironic is it that in Vegas, Ed, Ruby and Co. will be putting all the chips on the table. While am no Ed Werder, some unnamed sources tell me Nova won't disappoint, so the question now is: How FANTASTIC is it?
December 15, 2008 in Big Money Business, Tech Talk, Treo | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Combine the fact that T.O. is known for telling the truth and Deion won’t risk his reputation lying on behalf of T.O and even Mooch, T.O.’s one time nemesis seems to side with T.O., you gotta wonder what Ed Werder was thinking. Like I said it before, ESPN’s NFL coverage has become total garbage.
December 15, 2008 in Sports | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
When Juggernaut Adobe, which the last time we checked was making healthy profits fires 600 employees, it has you thinking Damn!!!. And then of all employees to fire, they go and fire one of the most hardworking former Evangelist. If these executives have ever seen Mike Downey put in work at all these conferences year after year, they would not have enough courage to fire him. But instead, they sit sterilized in some board room, look at the numbers and slash slash slash till they are right.
December 04, 2008 in Flash | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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