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The two that stand out for me are NFC and app integration (intents). With Android Beam, NFC is a pretty cool way to share things. The only quirk is the positi

The two that stand out for me are NFC and app integration (intents). With Android Beam, NFC is a pretty cool way to share things. The only quirk is the positioning of the NFC chip by different phone manufacturers, which means bumping phones back to back doesn't always work and you need to slide a few cm up or down. Meanwhile, Intents is something which iOS developers would appreciate. Both Dropbox and Microsoft (Live) faced problems recently where their SDKs were found to be in violation of the iOS App Store. This resulted in third party developers being punished, by not being able to update their apps until the SDK issues were resolved, even if the update involved bug fixes or feature upgrades unrelated to the SDK.

2muchcoffeeman 14y ago
NFC makes no sense to me. Walking up to a person to share things!? We have the Internet. You can already share things with people faster with less effort anywhere in the world. You want me to get someone else to pull out their phone and tap it? Also pairing. You are pairing wireless devices. Which means you have a short range wireless network already. And you want to add another shorter range wireless network to pair? You can already leverage an existing technology. I can see uses for payments, and sharing information on things like museum displays. But this is not wide spread enough that it matters yet. I guess this is a chicken and egg problem. But maybe you can leverage an existing tech more? Completely agree with intents. Stupid that they don't have it yet.
- viraptor 14y ago
  There are still many places where you don't have reception and there's no wifi. For example, if you want to share a contact card with someone when visiting a new company (large building, blocking most of the cell signal), then simple short-range communication is probably going to be the easiest to setup.
- bitcartel 14y ago
  I think NFC makes sense in quite a few situations. For example, if there's no wifi or data coverage, or you don't want to share private data via a third party service like FaceBook or Twitter. Using NFC to pair devices for transfer is quicker than doing it manually. No need to navigate to the bluetooth settings page, search for device, enter pairing code, etc.

2muchcoffeeman 14y ago

NFC makes no sense to me. Walking up to a person to share things!? We have the Internet. You can already share things with people faster with less effort anywhere in the world. You want me to get someone else to pull out their phone and tap it? Also pairing. You are pairing wireless devices. Which means you have a short range wireless network already. And you want to add another shorter range wireless network to pair? You can already leverage an existing technology. I can see uses for payments, and sharing information on things like museum displays. But this is not wide spread enough that it matters yet. I guess this is a chicken and egg problem. But maybe you can leverage an existing tech more? Completely agree with intents. Stupid that they don't have it yet.

viraptor 14y ago
There are still many places where you don't have reception and there's no wifi. For example, if you want to share a contact card with someone when visiting a new company (large building, blocking most of the cell signal), then simple short-range communication is probably going to be the easiest to setup.
bitcartel 14y ago
I think NFC makes sense in quite a few situations. For example, if there's no wifi or data coverage, or you don't want to share private data via a third party service like FaceBook or Twitter. Using NFC to pair devices for transfer is quicker than doing it manually. No need to navigate to the bluetooth settings page, search for device, enter pairing code, etc.