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Awesome, a smartphone app that allows me to communicate with people via voice. This might be exactly the killer app that mobile phones have been waiting for.

hawkice 12y ago
Killer feature request: a dual-streaming mode where I can talk and hear a friend talk at the same time. The future is gonna be AWESOME.
- jsmeaton 12y ago
  Whoa whoa whoa. FULL duplex?!
  - hawkice 12y ago
    That's what I'm imagining. I know the engineers figured out a way to get it to work walky-talky style where you can either speak or listen (but not both) two-way -- let's call that partial duplex -- but I think the new wave of innovating social mobile apps could really utilize the flat network design paradigm in this new way, creating a whole new way to communicate with friends that also opens doors for enterprise usage. I think this could really make the world a better place.
    - davedx 12y ago
      They should totally build it in Clojure and Erlang!
      - hawkice 12y ago
        The idea you'd know we're building it, and how? Absurd! Let's follow the example of the founder in question -- STEALTH it. Come on, that's how to have SUPER ADVANCED technology.
- blackstrype 12y ago
  "The Voxer application, for example, is capable of supporting full-duplex communication, allowing two (or more) participants of a conversation to engage in near real-time communication, similar to a synchronous telephone call. Participants are therefore required to select the PTT feature for the entire duration of the full-duplex exchange, which may be inconvenient after a certain period of time." http://www.google.com/patents/US20130295982 http://www.google.com/patents/US20130295982
tdicola 12y ago
Can we add some way to send short text messages too?
- junto 12y ago
  Yeah, Ok, if we must. I'll chuck it in as an appendix to the spec. Not that anyone will ever use it! I'll have to limit it to 160 characters though because I've only got 140 bytes to play with. It's not like you can write anything meaningful with 160 chars anyway! When the hardware gets better we'll write a proper text messaging implementation. Lol!
swartkrans 12y ago
WhatsApp and Line are multi-billion dollar companies that replaced a simple thing phones could already do. Laughing and making sarcastic jokes at something that makes voice mail better and easier with a nice UI by a proven competent individual is probably the wrong response to make, especially when the UI and features look pretty gangbuster. A little bit of polish and better ease of use can make whole lot of people happy and also lots of money.
- deleted 12y ago
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- akira2501 12y ago
  WhatsApp is highly price-competitive with the native offerings, particularly in the markets where it is most popular. It also benefits from wide cross platform and cross network availability. While the UI for Talko might be slick, there are already very similar and competitive offerings to Talko that operate on multiple platforms (e.g. Voxer) that have failed to take any market share the way Talko apparently hopes to. If they're going to be successful, it will boil down to marketing more than anything.
  - blackstrype 12y ago
    I agree, powerful marketing will make the difference -- seeing as Voxer is essentially the same product.
downandout 12y ago
I had the same thought when I first saw Uber. "I have the number for XYZ taxi/limo service programmed into my phone. What's so special here?". To the vast majority of people, a better interface for doing something they already do is itself a killer app. Ask a teenager how often they email their friends. They'll laugh at you. Why? Because Snapchat and Instagram are better interfaces for communicating the things they want than traditional email. Talko is arguably a better interface than most professionals use for many aspects of communications, so they have at least a reasonable chance of success.
woah 12y ago
Hardy har har

hawkice 12y ago

Killer feature request: a dual-streaming mode where I can talk and hear a friend talk at the same time. The future is gonna be AWESOME.

jsmeaton 12y ago
Whoa whoa whoa. FULL duplex?!
- hawkice 12y ago
  That's what I'm imagining. I know the engineers figured out a way to get it to work walky-talky style where you can either speak or listen (but not both) two-way -- let's call that partial duplex -- but I think the new wave of innovating social mobile apps could really utilize the flat network design paradigm in this new way, creating a whole new way to communicate with friends that also opens doors for enterprise usage. I think this could really make the world a better place.
  - davedx 12y ago
    They should totally build it in Clojure and Erlang!
    - hawkice 12y ago
      The idea you'd know we're building it, and how? Absurd! Let's follow the example of the founder in question -- STEALTH it. Come on, that's how to have SUPER ADVANCED technology.
blackstrype 12y ago
"The Voxer application, for example, is capable of supporting full-duplex communication, allowing two (or more) participants of a conversation to engage in near real-time communication, similar to a synchronous telephone call. Participants are therefore required to select the PTT feature for the entire duration of the full-duplex exchange, which may be inconvenient after a certain period of time." http://www.google.com/patents/US20130295982 http://www.google.com/patents/US20130295982

tdicola 12y ago

Can we add some way to send short text messages too?

junto 12y ago
Yeah, Ok, if we must. I'll chuck it in as an appendix to the spec. Not that anyone will ever use it! I'll have to limit it to 160 characters though because I've only got 140 bytes to play with. It's not like you can write anything meaningful with 160 chars anyway! When the hardware gets better we'll write a proper text messaging implementation. Lol!

swartkrans 12y ago

WhatsApp and Line are multi-billion dollar companies that replaced a simple thing phones could already do. Laughing and making sarcastic jokes at something that makes voice mail better and easier with a nice UI by a proven competent individual is probably the wrong response to make, especially when the UI and features look pretty gangbuster. A little bit of polish and better ease of use can make whole lot of people happy and also lots of money.

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akira2501 12y ago
WhatsApp is highly price-competitive with the native offerings, particularly in the markets where it is most popular. It also benefits from wide cross platform and cross network availability. While the UI for Talko might be slick, there are already very similar and competitive offerings to Talko that operate on multiple platforms (e.g. Voxer) that have failed to take any market share the way Talko apparently hopes to. If they're going to be successful, it will boil down to marketing more than anything.
- blackstrype 12y ago
  I agree, powerful marketing will make the difference -- seeing as Voxer is essentially the same product.

downandout 12y ago

I had the same thought when I first saw Uber. "I have the number for XYZ taxi/limo service programmed into my phone. What's so special here?". To the vast majority of people, a better interface for doing something they already do is itself a killer app. Ask a teenager how often they email their friends. They'll laugh at you. Why? Because Snapchat and Instagram are better interfaces for communicating the things they want than traditional email. Talko is arguably a better interface than most professionals use for many aspects of communications, so they have at least a reasonable chance of success.

woah 12y ago

Hardy har har