Re:Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding
by rdl on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @03:08PM
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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.
Re:Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding
by hbbio on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @04:45PM
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Any serious founder(s) would have either attended WWDC or known from their network what was discussed there.
Re:Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding
by rdl on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @05:08PM
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Many of the things released today were not in the WWDC iOS 6 talks or iOS 6 betas, or were not extended as far.
Re:Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding
by majorapps on Thursday September 13, 2012 @02:48AM
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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!)
in your eyes, what exactly have they announced that would cause someone to pivot?