{"id":441,"date":"2011-10-12T21:29:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T01:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=441"},"modified":"2011-10-12T21:29:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T01:29:24","slug":"ios-5-apple-taking-over-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/ios-5-apple-taking-over-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 5:  Apple Taking Over the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just upgraded my iPad to iOS 5 &#8212; wow!\u00a0 There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ios\/features.html\">lots of stuff<\/a> in there.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s most interesting are features that Apple&#8217;s pulled in from their app ecosystem. This is great for users (Apple gets to cherry-pick the best ideas). \u00a0But it&#8217;s risky for app developers who can <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2011\/08\/14\/its-all-fun-until-you-become-an-os-feature\/\">see their hard work turn into free features<\/a>,\u00a0and then deeply integrated in a way that only Apple can do.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m making a running list of who&#8217;s impacted:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Instapaper.<\/strong> \u00a0Safari how has a &#8220;Read later&#8221; feature, and a nice &#8220;reader&#8221; mode that defeatures Web pages, showing only the content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Web advertisers.<\/strong> \u00a0The Reader mode presents text content beautifully, free of ads. \u00a0I was wondering when we&#8217;d see a main-stream browser with an ad stripper.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Twitter.<\/strong>\u00a0 Deep iOS integration pushes Twitter further into utility space. \u00a0More tweets will flow through Apple-controlled UIs, moving Twitter closer to being just a tweet packet router.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wunderlist (and all the other task managers).<\/strong> \u00a0Apple can do a TODO list like no other, with location based reminders and voice input (presumably coming with Siri).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wireless carriers.<\/strong> \u00a0iMessage (Apple&#8217;s response in part to BlackBerry Messenger) is an end-run around text messaging. \u00a0It looks like it can work on email handles as well as phone numbers, so kids can start using it with their iPods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 24px; font-size: medium;\">Long term, I see threats to: \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Dropbox (and all other file sharing companies).<\/strong> \u00a0File sharing is begging to be an OS feature, and iCloud (and Amazon&#8217;s Cloud Drive) are moving in that direction.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Laptops.<\/strong> \u00a0You can now (finally!) activate and use an iPad without a PC, making it a compelling Internet device for users with no other computer.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just upgraded my iPad to iOS 5 &#8212; wow!\u00a0 There&#8217;s lots of stuff in there. What&#8217;s most interesting are features that Apple&#8217;s pulled in from their app ecosystem. This is great for users (Apple gets to cherry-pick the best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/ios-5-apple-taking-over-the-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}