Re:Bump Technologies (YC S09): The Quest To Destroy The Busi...
by dgallagher on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @10:50PM
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That's true, and an excellent point.
If you go back to the days when Palm Pilots were the rage, you could beam your business card over the IR port on them. People still used biz cards, but two people who had a Palm didn't.
I'm probably a bit bias as I live in a city (Boston) that's littered with iPhones. Lots of people have them, including my friends. There is a mini-technology gap between people who have them and those who don't. If you're in the "iPhone crowd" something like this seems really cool. Otherwise, meh.
If this suddenly worked on every cell phone in the world tomorrow, not just iPhone's, you'd probably have a lot more people interested in it.
If you go back to the days when Palm Pilots were the rage, you could beam your business card over the IR port on them. People still used biz cards, but two people who had a Palm didn't.
I'm probably a bit bias as I live in a city (Boston) that's littered with iPhones. Lots of people have them, including my friends. There is a mini-technology gap between people who have them and those who don't. If you're in the "iPhone crowd" something like this seems really cool. Otherwise, meh.
If this suddenly worked on every cell phone in the world tomorrow, not just iPhone's, you'd probably have a lot more people interested in it.