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Apple is not facilitating the "purchase" of goods either digital or physical with one button on the iPhone. Bezos did outline the phone's specs, but the goal wa
by fumar 12y ago
Apple is not facilitating the "purchase" of goods either digital or physical with one button on the iPhone. Bezos did outline the phone's specs, but the goal was to show the audience how the phone can "see" the world around itself. The phone is the first consumer product to be aware of its surroundings. It uses the data to ease purchases for the user. MY Nexus 5 makes search easy with google now, voice commands, and chrome. But this phone will make buying easy, in theory. Like I mentioned above, I am not looking at this from the perspective of the smartphone market. As in will it do well or will tech bloggers like it. But, as in will the end user find it easier to purchase goods using the physical world as intent triggers.
- dublinben 12y agoThe iPhone is very cleverly designed to facilitate purchases in the iTunes and iOS App stores. You need to register the device with an account and credit card just to use it. If that's not a seamless consumer experience, I don't know what is.
- soapdog 12y agoThis phone allows you to point your device to basically anything "media" and buy it. Pointing the phone at the television, identifying the actor on TV and buying some movie is a very powerful feature for people interested in consuming media...