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Originally Posted by Ronald Epstein
One of the iPhone rumors that has been floating around
is that the new phone will have videoconferencing capability.
Could you imagine calling someone and having a video
conversation both ways on your iPhone?
If this is true it will be the single biggest "killer app" in the
phone industry --- surely one that will make people ditch their
Blackberrys.
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There are all kinds of possible "killer apps" now that the SDK is out. Imagine ALL the implications of using the iPhone as a portable barcode scanner with a direct Web connection. How much is the universal remote industry worth? With the right software on the iPhone, wave goodbye to that entire industry. Yes the Kindle is more suited to book reading. But how many people are going spend the money and cary yet another
ugly device with them. Just a good PDF/text reader plus access to the file system combined with Google books will capture a bigger share of the market. Portable video game industry? The iPhone and its accelerometer plus super sharp touch screen, Bluetooth for additional controllers and a faster processor than the PSP? Another area where it can dominate.
Now think of all the other killer apps that people will come up with when spending more than the three minutes it took me to write this post. 100,000 of them are frantically working with the iPhone SDK as wee speak. Say 1,000 of them have real talent and imagination. Then picture all that software goodness on devices both larger and smaller than the current iPhone, all running Mac OS Touch.
I still don't think that most people realize what a game changer the iPhone is. Seen today on Macsurfer:
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"Will You Recognize the Next Apple? Do you know how to spot tomorrow's outperformers?" MSNBC 4/12
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Clearly the author of this article doesn't know the answer -- the next Apple is Apple -- name another company with more upside potential.