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Originally Posted by samkim
In that analyst meeting, Jeff talked about putting the user in the center... and about power and control... He said it would be transformational (I forget the exact word he used) just as the first Palm Pilot and the Treo were. He said it's not about the currently trendy topics like location-aware apps. There are basic user needs that are still left unfulfilled.
Increased bandwidth, increased memory, increased computing power, just aren't revolutionary enough, I think.
I think it's going to be about a lot of stuff talked about before that we're still waiting for...
User authentication - opening doors, access to PCs, starting your car
Commerce - wireless point-of-sale purchases, person-to-person payments
Control - programming your TiVo or your thermostat, checking your security cameras or whether the laundry is done
We should be able to do all of this with our phone/devices... eventually.
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And this is precisely why a merger of PalmSource and Access makes sense. The Japanese are well ahead of America in linking household appliances, transit fares and Point of Sale to your phone. We're still stuck with 3 inch square, hard white plastic dashboard-mounted, view-obstructing RF cards to pay bridge tolls (which took quite a while to get different bureaucratic fiefdoms in the same metropolitan area to accept).