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i doubt any startups were planning to launch the iPhone 5. in your eyes, what exactly have they announced that would cause someone to pivot?

• rdl 14y ago
  Various iOS 6 features: panoramic photos, photo stream, shared photo stream. Also the loyalty card market (passbook). Also, missing stuff: there's no NFC, so NFC payments are pushed out for another year in favor of scan-screen. iPod Nano pedometer kind of kills fitbit somewhat (or a new fitbit like product, including sleep monitors like wakemate). Arguably the sapphire crystal vs. glass lens for camera makes the market tougher for iPhone/iPod Touch cases. New iTunes + iTunes Match/iCloud features should hurt Pandora/Spotify type companies.
  • hbbio 14y ago
    Any serious founder(s) would have either attended WWDC or known from their network what was discussed there.
    • rdl 14y ago
      Many of the things released today were not in the WWDC iOS 6 talks or iOS 6 betas, or were not extended as far.
• majorapps 14y ago
  Unfortunately Apple have adopted a philosophy of rejecting any app that loosely competes with iOS native apps - we for example had an app rejected for allowing users to share apps on Facebook/Twitter... the reason given was apparently it didn't provide any additional functionality over the native app (even though it did!)